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15 April 2011
Shuffle, anyone? It's cloudy and cold outside and I'm in a procrastinate-y mood. Let's shuffle, shall we? Bonus question: how many tracks are you pulling from when you shuffle?
189 tracks - I recently took out a bunch of stuff, and I'm glad because I count nine out of ten of these tracks as highly enjoyable:
1. Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
2. The Last Time - Gnarls Barkley
3. Spicy McHaggis Jig - Dropkick Murphys
4. Love Like a Sunset Part 1 - Phoenix
5. One for the Cutters - The Hold Steady
6. Future 40's (String of Pears) - Syd Straw - this is the one I'm abmivilent about
7. Face the Facce - Pete Townshend
8. Extacy - Rusted Root
9. Power - Kanye West
10. Are you Drinking with me Jesus - Jello Biarfra & Mojo Nixon
I'm currently at 1,836 tracks on my computer (which I've had for about 5 months). This increases anywhere from about 10 to 50 a week, depending on what I feel like ripping or buying.
And my ten for today:
1) Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery
2) Mission of Burma - The Ballad of Johnny Burma
3) Aesop Rock - Winners Take All
4) Dead Kennedys - Chemical Warfare
5) Super Chron Flight Brothers f/ Johnny Voltik - 100 Ft. of Cold Dirt
6) Mr. Lif - Iron Helix
7) Fugazi - Bad Mouth
8) Cloak/Dagger - Hollywood Hills
9) Common - Testify
10) Willie Heath Neal - Alabama Highway
Since I cleared out a bunch of music on my phone to make way for photo-taking, I'll shuffle the whole collection on my PC, which is just over 25,000 tracks right now:
1. The Eyes - Brian Eno & David Byrne
2. Kingdom of Shades - Add N to (X)
3. 26 Ghosts III - Nine Inch Nails
4. One Touch - LCD Soundsystem
5. Dog-Faced Boy - Eels
6. The Grid (edit) - Philip Glass (from Koyaanisqatsi)
7. Legacy - The Art of Noise
8. Sink the Seine - of Montreal
9. Instant Weight Loss - Sparks
10. Steam - Peter Gabriel
Damn, that was all over the place, and ended with a really disappointing Peter Gabriel song. Overall not a bad mix for a Friday afternoon, though.
1. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Children Get Together (1971)
2. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me (1965)
3. The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol (2010)
4. The Meters - Can You Do Without (1975)
5. Cold Crush Brothers - Cold Crush (1988)
6. Keith Murray - Get Lifted (1994)
7. Harmonic Sounds Band - Untitled Studio Moves (196?)
8. The Congos - Fisherman (1977)
9. The Clientele - Harvest Time (2009)
10. Ray Charles & Milt Jackson - Cosmic Ray (1957)
Allyrann - Pete Seeger
When I First Came to Town - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Better Than You - Swans
Ghetto Defendant - The Clash
Gutterfly - Jackdaw
Blood Wedding - Black 47
Penetration in the Centerfold - Devo
Chelsea Hotel - Lloyd Cole
Antonin Artaud - Bauhaus
Winter Lady - Leonard Cohen
10,828 songs, iPod almost full again, I had to delete some to fit the newest additions on this morning (Thao & Mirah, Lamb live at Koko, and ... hmm, something else).
The next ten songs were such a departure from the first set, I just had to share them:
1. Latin American Deaf Squad - Hillbilly Death Camp (2010)
2. The Memphis Goons - See Her Face in the Mirror (197?)
3. AA Bondy - World Without End (2007)
4. Moccasin - Above the Sound (2006)
5. El Rego et Ses Commandos - Djobime (196?)
6. Jeremiah Jae - Stones Passage (2011)
7. Emmanuelle Parrenin - Topaze (1977)
8. Sugar Pie DeSanto - She's Got Everything (unreleased, 196?)
9. Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues (1929)
10. Prince Buster - Shaking Up Orange Street (1967)
1. Alright Guy - Todd Snider
2. Angeline - The Jayhawks
3. This Old Guitar - Neil Young
4. The Big Reprise - Catie Curtis
5. Crackity Jones - Pixies
6. Speaking with the Angel - Cry Cry Cry
7. Porchlight - Neko Case
8. In These Arms - The Swell Season
9. Where'd the Motherfucking Cheese Go - Ween (thanks iconomy)
10.Covered For You - Amy Ray
(3028 Songs on the iPod. . .and I have a bunch on my work computer and a whole different set on my home computer and the 3 devices have some songs in common but a lot not in common.)
Wow, phlogiston- that's from one of my all-time favorite albums, and one that I hardly ever find that other people know about, much less listen to. Very cool!
1. The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol
2. Gillian Welch - April The 14th (Part 1)
3. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
4. Grateful Dead - Peggy-O
5. The Black Angels - Telephone
6. John Mellencamp - Easter Eve
7. The Damnwells - She Goes Around
8. Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
9. R.E.M - Every Day Is Yours To Win
10.Yo La Tengo - We're An American Band
1. Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
2. Kim - Sonny Rollins
3. Jeepers Creepers - Django Reinhardt
4. Thunder Peel - Beck
5. The Feeling Keeps On Coming - Isaac Hayes
6. Four Leaf CLover - Old 97's
7. Jazz Pour Dadine - Nicola Conte
8. Bulldog Front - Fugazi
9. Seen How Things Are Hard - Elliot Smith
10.Let The Train Blow The Wistle - Johnny Cash
25,348 tracks (laptop rather than my iPhone this time. I did not collect all of these so when I put it on shuffle, I sometimes discover music I've never heard of before.)
1. Dwight Twilley -- Doctor
2. Tapes'n'Tapes -- Just Drums
3. Barry Adamsom -- Deja Voodoo (WTF? I have no idea what this is nor why I have it.)
4. Dale Watson -- Down At The Corner (At A Bar Called Kelly's)
5. Dan Sartain -- Cobras, Pt. 3
6. The Fall -- Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- Red Right Hand (Ick. Poo. Yuck. I fucking hate Nick Cave's faux-country Southern-manque period. More Birthday Party/Grinderman, plz thx.)
8. Thelonious Monk -- Humph
9. Johnny Cash -- Memories Are Made of This
10. Alicia de Larrocha -- Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 309: III. Rondeau: Allegretto grazioso
Right Way to Hold a Spoon - Massive Attack
banana co - Radiohead
Dream Awake - Frames, The
Sunday - Orbital
Alice Mae - R.L. Burnside
Melve - Autechre
Weep For - Toshihiko Sahashi
Jokin' Georgia Rag - Georgia Jokers
No Name #2 - Elliott Smith
Uh, Zoom Zip - Soul Coughing
12,236 tracks. I've had to delete a few hundred in recent weeks b/c my hard drive is completely full.
1. Death by Chocolate-- Swinging London
2. Adventures in Stereo-- This Day
3. Bill Moss-- Sock it to 'em Soul Brother
4. Minus Story--Will I be fighting?
5. Shonen Knife--Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner
6. Mon)Tag--Time Difference II
7. The Bluetones--Sleazy Bed Track
8. Moody Blues--Gemini Dream
9. Rabbit--Sleepwalking
10. True Love Always--I can only see you smile
I think I got them all--I was on the phone for part of this. :)
I had to start with a song because I've been listening to the Nerdist podcast on my iPod, but out of 587 tracks, I got these on my shuffle through:
1. "Cantina Band" - The Star Wars Special Edition soundtrack
2. "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" - The Pogues
3. "Positive [Extended Version]" - Ranma 1/2 Closing Themes soundtrack
4. "Come to My Window" - Melissa Etheridge
5. "Given to Fly" - Pearl Jam
6. "Seven Years" - Norah Jones
7. "Royal in the Afternoon" - The Whitlams
8. "After the Storm" - Mumford & Sons
9. "London, You're a Lady" - The Pogues
10. "No Friend of Mine" - The Sparkles (from Pebbles Vol. 1)
Honeychain ~ Throwing Muses
Song #1 ~ Fugazi
In the Heart of Distant Horizons ~ Steve Roach
Jacqueline ~ Franz Ferdinand
This Night ~ Dirty Three
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere ~ Who
An Ending (Ascent) ~ Eno 'n' pals
Spot the Setup ~ Loud Family
Devil Song ~ Camper Van Beethoven
Catholic Girls ~ Zappa
Dire Straits - So Far Away live
Inker & Hamilton - Dancing Into Danger
Cracker - Hey Brett (You Know What Time It Is)
Miguel Rios - A Song of Joy
Afro Celt Sound System - Inion / Daughter
Broken Social Scene - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Dan Bull - Blocked
Sublime - Santiera
Cousin Silas - Capsule Retrieval
Houston Person - Everything Happens to Me
This is pulled from my MP3 player, which I'm in the process of rebuilding the tunestack - currently at 2,162 songs.
1. the COLOURFIELD - Colourfield (Virgins and Philistines 1985)
2. CABARET VOLTAIRE - Big Funk (Drinking Gasoline EP 1985)
3. ADVERTISING - Lipstick (Advertising Jingles 1978)
4. MELANIE C - Go (Northern Star 1999)
5. VAN HALEN - Jamie's Cryin (Van Halen 1978)
6. the CURE - Doubt (Faith 1981)
7. GUIDED BY VOICES - Closer You Are (Alien Lanes 1995)
8. JOAN ARMATRADING - Eating the Bear (Walk Under Ladders 1981)
9. VAN HALEN - And the Cradle Will Rock (Women and Children First 1980)
10. PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Mr Jones (live at Tuts in Chicago 1980)
I have 11,637 "music" tracks, including lots of random sound files, several books with many chapters, comedy albums and shows, and a few podcasts that seem to have been poorly tagged.
My mix:
Adele, Crazy for You
The Carter Sisters, No Telephone in Heaven
Nina Simone, Tell Me More
... Skipping Chapter 7 from a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe Book on tape ...
Michelle Shocked, The Hep Cat
Dr. John, Let's Make a Better World
The Be Good Tanyas, Waiting Around to Die
The Statler Brothers, Half a Man
Nina Simone, Four Women
...Skipping a sound clip from Arrested Development...
Peter Gabriel, Red Rain
Marty Robbins, El Paso City
1. The Police - Message in a Bottle
2. Coldplay – Spies
3. Pink Floyd – Hey You
4. George Thorogood & The Destroyers – What Do You Want?
5. Rocky Horror Show – Science Fiction Double Feature
6. Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell
7. Hunters and Collectors – Where Do You Go?
8. Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face
9. The B-52s – Quiche Lorraine
10. Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do?
Taken from my iPad, with 5,252 tracks as a subset of about 6,500 on my PC.
Trying this again, but there's so much old time radio that it's hard to pick out the music.
1. Lonely In Your Nightmare -- Duran Duran
2. Sweet Island Music -- Glenn Medeiros
3. I Know What Boys Like -- The Waitresses
4. Somebody -- Depeche Mode
5. That Old Black Magic -- Louis Prima & Keely Smith
6. Hopelessly Devoted To You -- Olivia Newton John
7. All My Love -- Patti Page
8. Desafinado -- Stan Getz & Charlie Bird
See, that's 8 out of 25, and the rest is all talk. Refresh . . .
9. Dear Hearts And Gentle People -- Bing Crosby
10. So Long -- The Nylons
The total number of, er, "songs" is 2095. I really gotta figure out a way to get those old time radio shows out of itunes -- I don't listen to them through itunes anyway.
1. Brad Barr - Bouba's Bounce
2. Marisa Anderson - Singing in Many Voices
3. Town and Country - Sun Trolley
4. Bob Dylan - A Fool Such As I
5. Hallelujah Joe - The Prodigal's Return (The Things I Usta Do I Don't Do No More)
6. Herbie Hancock - Far Out
7. Barbara McNair - For Once in My Life
8. Relentless - Metal Workshop Pt. 1
9. Mainer Band - Johnson's Old Gray Mule
10. Antibalas - Indictment
From my PC iTunes library, currently at 46,548 songs.
Always nice to run into another Swans fan, Postcards. Various Gira projects made up a good portion of the soundtrack to my teen years, for good or ill.
1. Cecil Grant - Nashville Jumps
2. Rush - The Spirit of Radio
3. The Byrds - One Hundred Years From Now
4. Johnny Cash - The Long Black Veil
5. Wanda Jackson - Long Tall Sally
6. Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
7. Canned Heat - Amphetamine Annie
8. The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion
9. Talking Heads - Found a Job
10. Talking Heads - Heaven
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