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01 April 2011

Your random playlist, April Fool's Day edition. You know the drill.→[More:]

Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
48th St. Collective - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Marissa Nadler - Bird on Your Grave (BBC Maida Vale, 2006)
Tin Hat Trio - The Clandestine Adventures of Ms Merz
Ernest Tubb - Wabash cannonball
54 40 - Baby Have Some Faith
Weirdomusic - Fiber, Ruler Of Pinakel
Burl Ives - Big Rock Candy Mountain
Dwight Yoakam - Suspicious Minds
Ameaba & Phil Conrad - Desperate Serenade
Unearth - Aries

post by: arse_hat at: 02:00 | 20 comments

Utah Saints - New Gold Dream
Outkast - True Dat
Dead Kennedys - We've got a bigger problem now
Pink Floyd - San Tropez
Rammstein - Asche Zu Asche
James Brown - I Feel Good
Super Happy Motivated Rock Band - Nothing For You
The Grateful Dead - Built to Last
Prince - Alphabet Street
Cult of Black Halibut - When All Becomes Clear

posted by TheophileEscargot 01 April | 05:21

Toy Dolls, 5440, and Tin Hat Trio?!? I like how you roll Arse!

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 April | 07:39

1. DURAN DURAN - Girl Panic! (All You Need Is Now 2011)
2. ELLIOTT SMITH - Amity (XO 1998)
3. the MEMBERS - Killing Time (Sound of the Suburbs collection)
4. SANTOGOLD - Creator (Santogold 2008)
5. SLY & the FAMILY STONE - If You Want Me to Stay (Fresh 1973)
6. CHEAP TRICK - California Man (Heaven Tongith 1978)
7. NICK LOWE - Man Of a Fool (the Abominable Showman 1983)
8. TELEVISION - Foxhole (Adventure 1978)
9. the KELLY AFFAIR - Last Summer (Welcom to...the Kelly Affair 1998)
10. MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS - Tombstone (Dystopia 2007)

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 April | 07:47

1. Social Distortion - I was Wrong
2. Palomar - The Snapper
3. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid
4. La las - There She Goes
5. Bad Religion - Television
6. Guster - Airport Song
7. Deerhunter - Twilight at Carbon Lake
8. The Damned - I Feel Alright
9. Groovie Goulies - Lookout, here comes tomorrow
10. The New Pornographers - Challengers

posted by stynxno 01 April | 08:50

I haven't done this for a while, and now I find that I have downloaded so many old-time radio shows that when I hit shuffle I hardly get any music. Let's all rock out to Dragnet!

posted by JanetLand 01 April | 09:16

This is from my last.fm library since my ipod is in my car and my itunes library is at home. So this may be slightly less random than usual . . .

stynxno -- yay Palomar!!

1. Four Tops -- Bernadette
2. Benji Hughes -- Baby it's your life --my old boss at the comic book store LOVED Benji Hughes and this song would play all the time. Eventually I went and bought it so I could listen at home too. :)
3. The Minders -- Hand me downs
4. Sun Kil Moon -- Lily and Parrots
5. of Montreal -- The Party's Crashing Us
6. Fruit Bats -- Lives of Crime
7. Work Clothes -- South Bronx
8. Jawbreaker -- Sluttering
9. Cat Stevens -- Sitting (I'm allowed to like Cat Stevens, dammit.)
10. Camera Obscura -- Let's get out of this country

posted by leesh 01 April | 09:25

1. John Ashcroft - Let the Eagle Soar
2. Sgt. Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Beret
3. Maria Callas - Smells Like Teen Spirit
4. John Wayne - Davy Crockett's Speech from The Alamo
5. Neil Young - Old Man River
6. PJ Harvey - I Feel Pretty
7. The House Republican Caucus Choir - Afternoon Delight
8. Bobby Goldsboro - Watching Scotty Grow
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks - Beat It
10. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey (I'm allowed to like Bobby Goldsboro, dammit.)

posted by danf 01 April | 10:17

I'm more concerned about the John Ashcroft song!

posted by leesh 01 April | 10:19

Wait, is this another April Fool's thing that I fell for? I HATE YOU, APRIL FOOL'S DAY.

posted by leesh 01 April | 10:26

I HATE YOU, APRIL FOOL'S DAY.

Won't say, either way.

posted by danf 01 April | 11:17

Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk
Less Than Jake - The Upwards War and The Down Turned Cycle
Green Day - American Idiot
Less Than Jake - Richard Allen George
Daft Punk - Recognizer (Tron Soundtrack)
The Aggrolites - Pop the Trunk
The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
The Beatles - Another Girl
The Beatles - Lovely Rita
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

posted by gc 01 April | 11:35

Joan As Police Woman - Anyone
Tricky - Contradictive
Nikki Sudden - Fall Any Further
The Wedding Present - Felicity
William Shatner - That's Me Trying
The Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara
The Hellacopters - Everything's On TV
Bob Marley Ain't No Sunshine
The Pink Mountaintops - Sweet '69
Lizz Wright - I'm Confessin'

posted by rollick 01 April | 11:37

I love Bobby Goldsboro, danf.

posted by JanetLand 01 April | 12:16

danf totally made me chuckle. I was hoping someone would do something like that.

Mine for reals:
1. Tom Waits - Down, Down, Down
2. Mr. Lif - Status
3. MF Doom f/ Kurious - ? (yes, that's the name of the song)
4. Black Diamond Heavies - Lose Yourself (not a cover of the Eminem song)
5. The Budos Band - Rite of the Ancients
6. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
7. GZA - Firehouse
8. Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
9. Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
10. Youth Brigade - Fuck You

posted by ufez 01 April | 13:39

100% real:

1. The Cure "Doubt"
2. The Damned "Plan 9 Channel 7" (one of my faves by them!)
3. Kirsty MacColl "Caroline"
4. Urge Overkill "Last Night/Tomorrow"
5. DEVO "Secret Agent Man (live)"
6. Das Damen "Click!"
7. Meat Beat Manifesto "The Tweek"
8. Sisters of Mercy "Something Fast"
9. Pink Floyd "Flaming"
10. DEVO "Head Like A Hole" (NIN cover)

posted by BoringPostcards 01 April | 13:51

danf totally made me chuckle. I was hoping someone would do something like that.

Beat It by Alvin and the Chipmunks is real. I am not sure I'll sleep as well, ever again, after finding that out.

posted by danf 01 April | 14:45

In the middle of a file migration, currently pulling from the hip-hop bucket. Lyrical content, if you listen be warned.

1. Fashawn - Strange Fruit ft. Common & John Legend - Dance through the misery and sorrow and fuck yesterday, I'm living for tomorrow.
2. Talib Kweli - So Low (prod. Shuko) - I'm breaking out of your artistic prison, listen,
I got my own demons what I'm supposed to do with yours?
3. Styles P - Switch My Style - While you trying to be king I'm steady shooting for ace.
4. Big Pun - The Dream Shatterer - Simple and plain, I'll explain it in layman's terms: if you came to learn how to make fire, I'm a make it burn!
5. Gang Starr - Code of the Streets - I can't work at no fast-food joint; I got some talent, so don't you get my point?
6. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You - T to the R-O-Y, how did you and I meet? In front of Big Lou’s, fighting in the street.
7. Nas - Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park) - A'ight fuck that shit, word. Word, fuck that other shit, you know what I'm sayin?
8. Tim Dog - I Get Wrecked (Ft. KRS-One) - Doggie doggie bo boggie fanana fanna fo foggie, me mi mo moggie, doggie!
9. Masta Ace - Alphabet Soup - One word that begins with "A" is "Ace"
10. Raekwon - Crane Style (ft. Busta Rhymes) - I’m a strong believer y'all know that I’m not the one to start with.

posted by Hugh Janus 01 April | 15:33

I'm gonna throw in a round two, since I'm sitting here with Compy 2010 listening to shuffle anyhow. So here goes:

1) The Immortal Lee County Killers - Love is a Charm
2) The Maldives - Time is Right Now
3) Fugazi - Exit Only
4) Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
5) Circle Jerks - Don't Care
6) The 1-4-5s - I Like To Rock
7) Cloak/Dagger - Runaways
8) The Black Lips - Again & Again
9) Aesop Rock f/ Cage and Breeze Brewin - Getaway Car
10) Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Whee! Friday night!

posted by ufez 01 April | 22:08

I so want The House Republican Caucus Choir - Afternoon Delight to exist.

My list:

1. Ray Charles, You Don't Know Me
2. The Wrights, You're the Kind of Trouble
3. Bruce Robison, 12 Bar Blues
4. Pat Boone (yikes!), The First Noel
5. Nina Simone, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
6. Hem, Jackson
7. Fine Young Cannibals, Love for Sale
8. Patty Griffin, Painter Song
9. Eddie from Ohio, Irish Dream
10. Nina Nastasia, Dumb I Am

Pat Boone. PAT BOONE! I have Xmas + Faves music on shuffle all December, how did this never come up in rotation before so I could 86 it?

posted by julen 01 April | 23:13

1. Greater White-fronted Goose: Stokes guide to birds
2. Johnny Cash, Send a Picture of Mother
3. Bob Marley, One Love
4. John Kabat Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners 9
5. Roxette, It Must Have Been Love
6. The Superplastic, Folk
7. Peter, Paul and Mary, I Dig Rock and Roll Music
8. Ella Fitzgerald, A Tisket, A Tasket
9. XTC, No Language in our Lungs
10. The Supremes, Stoned Love

posted by Stewriffic 02 April | 07:49

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