OKAY THEN

1 - Star Trek Original TV soundtrack - The Trouble with Tribbles Suite: For the Star Trek show like oh god, 4 years ago now? TV production music is somehow very soothing when cooking.

2 - Stephen Trask - Angry Inch: Off the Hedwig And The Angry Inch OST. I think the movie version of this came out when I was juuuust leaving High School. Rock musical about botched sexual reassignment surgery? My world, it was rocked.

3 - The finger Of Fear - Ren And Stimpy Production Music : I hope I don't give the impression my entire day is musically narrated by 50s-style orchestration but that is KIND OF TRUE.

4 - Jaquelin - Franz Ferdinand : Bought the album, have literally listened to it twice. It's an okay song. Eh.

5 - The Revolution Medley - Kiki And Herb: Wow it's Drag Queen day today apparently. Kiki And Herb's gimmick was that they sang alt.rock/grunge/hip hop classics in the style of cheesy lounge acts while basically having an emotional meltdown on stage. It totally works.

6 - Elmer Elevator - Krave: Strange spacey cover of Japanese punk rock with lots of mixed in sound from 60s sci-fi? Yeah this is the most 90s thing ever.

7 - The Barracuda! - The 5.6.7.8s: See above, but now it's Japanese Surf Rock!

8 - City Of New Orleans - Aldo Guthrie: For the New Orleans show. Kept it around cause it's nice.

9 - My Sharona - The Knack : Don't you judge me.

10 - Radio Raheem - Steroid Maximus: Found via digging into the Venture Brother's albums. Ambient instrumental trip-pop-sound scape-thing. Like chase music to the gritty 70s crime movie set in Istanbul that never existed.

A-Ha - Angel In The Snow
Neutral Mile Hotel - Two Headed Boy
NIN - 24 Ghosts III
Neko Case - Knock Loud
The Who - I Like Nightmares
Alabama Shakes - Goin' to the Party
Canadian Squires - Leave Me Alone
Andrew Bird - Yawny at the Apocalypse
Johnny Lion & The Jumping Juwels - Devil Woman
The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans

1. Kashiwa Daisuke - Travel Around Stars "88" is a record full of simple, sweet piano tunes, played in a kind of artless fashion, a sort of music I shy away from -- I dig complicated classical and jazz pianer musix -- but I like this guy from other stuff he's done. Too bad there wasn't a single of it on YouTube, the digest version will have to suffice for now.
2. Aoki Takamasa - mnd-sng02 Aoki's contribution is the ninth and best release in Stroboscopic Artefacts' Monad series. Though sparse, there's something to it.
3. Jatoma - Ma10as Jatoma is a secret conclave of veteran Danish producer Tomas Barfod and two teenagers, Tomas and Mads, on the Kompakt label. Their debut record ranges from ambient drones to some pretty hot dancefloor stuff.
4. Moderat - Nasty Silence Moderat is the collaboration of Modeselektor and Apparat, both Berlin-based techno stars. I love Moderat; everything they've done is good.
5. Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Remix) Nosaj Thing, AKA Jason Chung, based in LA, has produced tracks for hip-hop artists including Kendrick Lamar and Kid Cudi.
6. Hayes Carll - Willing to Love Again Aside from Dwight Yoakam, I'm not such a fan of male country singers with sonorous voices. Guys like Hayes Carll, however, I love to death.
7. Seaworthy - Map in Hand Pt. 2 These guys are from Australia. I love the field recordings they mix into everything. Sometimes they record tracks outdoors or in abandoned industrial buildings to get just the right atmosphere.
8. Bon Iver - Holocene Yes, Bon Iver, the Kanye West of indie folk. What's not to love?
9. 13 & God - Beat on Us I was listening to this record for the fourth or fifth time before I thought, Is that the guy from The Notwist? Yup, Notwist and Themselves, together at last.
10. Fudge Fingas - It's the Music Electronic music from Glasgow. Turn up that bass and have a good shit.
*BONUS* Betty Everett - I've Got a Claim on You Another One-derful standout.

Sure! I'm always up for a shuffle. Multi-tasking though, so no links, sorry.

1) The Coup - My Murder, My Love (2012)

2) Dillinger Four - Shiny Things Is Good (2000)

3) Morphine - The Saddest Song (live)

4) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (live in Manchester)

5) Swingin' Udders - You Haven't Seen Yourself in Years (from a split they did with Youth Brigade in '99)

6) A Tribe Called Quest - Luck of Lucien (1990 - holy crap, really? Ugh.)

7) John Doe - Moonbeam (2011)

8) Prince - Endorphinmachine (This is BoPo's fault ;)

9) MDC - Dick for Brains (1982)

10) The 1-4-5s - Can't Stop the Rock (they seem to *always* pop up when I'm participating in these threads)

Big Mama Thornton - Wade In The Water
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Für Elise
The Guess Who vs. MSTRKRFT - American Justice (Lobsterdust Mashup)
Matisyahu - Live Beatbox on Jimmy Kimmel
REM - Swan Swan H
New Cool Collective - Movin' on Out
Minutemen - Viet Nam
Radio Birdman - Monday Morning Gunk
Viva Voce - Wrecking Ball
The Rezillos - I Wanna Be Your Man

Every day I'm (manually) shufflin'. After my time in the radio business cringing over the music combinations made by the early automation equipment, I prefer to keep a little control over my audio programming. So, my NOT-random collection:

Buddy Holly - Everyday
Bob Marley - Jammin'
(especially intentional after hearing them both on the Achewood animation clip)

The Beatles - Run For Your Life
(after reading a particularly loaded -and poorly written- article about how awful an asshole John Lennon was, I had to listen to this to assure me there was some truth to it)

The Wombats - Backfire At The Disco
(stripped down British -not Australian- post-punk band named after one of my favorite animals)

Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness
(a '60s antidote for modern cynicism with maybe the largest quantity of different musical hooks and lyrical cliches in three minutes in the history of pop music)

Stan Freberg - I've Got You Under My Skin
(Some Dr.Demento-fodder is manditory; Radio satirist Freberg made some good bucks in the '50s releasing his (per)versions of performers ranging from Elvis to Lawrence Welk to this big band standard that descends into chaos in 2 minutes)

The Nazz - Hello It's Me
(Todd Rundgren's ubiquitous hit, performed years earlier by his first band, and he's not even the lead singer)

Polysics - Mr. Roboto
(J-pop Devo revival band does a semi-cover of Styx - what's not to enjoy?)

Joan Armatrading - Drop the Pilot
(if all you know about Joan is her "L-Word" soundtrack song, you missed over two decades of total coolness)

Camper Van Beethoven - Stairway to Heaven
(I have a frighteningly large collection of Stairway to Heaven covers, so one is at least 5% likely to show up in a semi-random collection)


(bonus material: a 'keyword search' medley..)
Ultravox - The Voice
Moody Blues - The Voice
Disturbed - Voices
Manhattan Transfer - Hear the Voices
And One - Second Voice
'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
October Project - A Lonely Voice
Yes - Nine Voices
Barenaked Ladies - Sound of Your Voice
Elvis Costello - A Voice in the Dark

I prefer to keep a little control over my audio programming. So, my NOT-random collection...

That's a good way to start a thread about a list of songs you like and that you think others might like to listen to. I do that every now and then.

In this thread, it's like walking out with a baseball and bat during a soccer match and hitting grounders at people's feet. Games are more fun when everybody plays by the same rules.

I'm not trying to be a cantankerous bastard (it may just come naturally). In fact, I think it would be fun to start a ten-song music selection tradition on metachat, and I would definitely participate. It could even be thematic, like photo Fridays (though not necessarily weekly). I would really like that.