"Random rules": 10 random songs from your player

First 10 on my iPod Shuffle today.

(Class of '72 BTW, for those of you feeling your age ...)

1. Voila L'ete - Les Negresses Vert
2. Daughter (Live in San Diego) - Pearl Jam
3. No Way Back - Foo Fighters
4. Brand New Colony - Postal Service
5. She's Got Ambition - Starky
6. Hide U - Kosheen
7. New Year's Day - U2
8. Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
9. Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
10. Poor Boy - Split Enz

ok lets see what we got here...

1. Gangsta gangsta - NWA
   
2. Fever - Ella Fitzgerald
   
3. Nightswimming - REM
   
4. My Hero - Foo Fighters
   
5. El Scorcho - Weezer
   
6. Remedy - Black Crowes
   
7. Zephyr song - Red hot chili peppers
   
8. One step closer - Linkin Park
   
9. Gas in my car - Skankin Pickle
   
10. Stand by me - Pennywise

Id say this list - more than the others Ive posted which had some doses of weird n random, is a pretty accurate reflection of the contents of my iPod.

I had to miss the Thermals show at the last minute... family stuff. So no stalking opportunities for me or Bona Drag.

Gas in my car - Skankin Pickle

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1. Skankin Pickle - Turning Japanese (Vapors cover)
2. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
3. Tribe - Luck of Lucien
4. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Withering Heights
5. People Under the Stairs - Sunroof
6. Beck - Guero
7. Frank Black - Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover)
8. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
9. Boards of Canada - Triangles and Rhombuses
10. Velvet Underground - Run Run Run (Scepter Studios mix)

Today:

1. Big Back Forty, Count to Ten
2. Jesus and Mary Chain, Sometimes Always
3. Placebo and David Bowie, Without You I'm Nothing
4. Big Back Forty, Just What I Need
5. Roxy Music, Dance Away
6. Johnny Thunders, I Only Wrote This Song for You
7. Smashing Pumpkins, Annie Dog
8. Roxy Music, Love Is the Drug
9. Kill Hannah, They Can't Save Us Now
10. Smashing Pumpkins, Perfect

I drastically pruned my current playlist, so there's more artist duplication on this list. Kind of a fluke in the case of Roxy Music and Big Back Forty, as I don't have *that* much Roxy Music, and Big Back Forty only put out one album. I do have a fuckton of Smashing Pumpkins, though.

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

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I had to miss the Thermals show at the last minute... family stuff.

So no stalking opportunities for me or Bona Drag. 1. Skankin Pickle - Turning Japanese (Vapors cover) 2. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire 3. Tribe - Luck of Lucien 4. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Withering Heights 5. People Under the Stairs - Sunroof 6. Beck - Guero 7. Frank Black - Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover) 8. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog 9. Boards of Canada - Triangles and Rhombuses 10. Velvet Underground - Run Run Run (Scepter Studios mix)
Shoreman- Great list! Who the **** are Skankin Pickle?

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

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I had to miss the Thermals show at the last minute... family stuff.

So no stalking opportunities for me or Bona Drag.

Too bad, man - hope it wasn't anything serious. The gig was a hell of a lot of fun, and the new songs really stood out, in part because more people knew them (and I'm def not some OG Thermals fan or anything) and sang along, and in part because they're really remarkable tunes and represent a true progression. Of course, with the exception of a handful of those new songs, they basically have one and a half speeds - fast and slightly faster - so the pacing wore you down a little. Two other (very minor) issues: the touring guitarist limped out on crutches and had to play sitting down, which sort of toned down the rawk factor (to his credit, though, he still turned in a pretty high-energy performance); and they closed with an incredible one-two punch of "Pillar of Salt" and "Returning to the Fold", which had everyone singing along and would have been a perfect coda, but then they came back out and blasted through two sort of sound-alike older numbers for the encore which weren't nearly as powerful.

Still, a fantastic, high-energy show, all in all; I would pay twice as much to see them again, and I'm even more certain now that TBTBTM was the best record of 2006. Anyone in FL, AL, TN, MO, IN or OH, they doing a run of shows with the Hold Steady beginning next week, which will be the most rockinest bill you'll see this year.

Sorry, I ramble and I'm boring - now back to your regulary scheduled randomness...

First 10 on my iPod shuffle today:

1. Linger, The Cranberries
2. November Has Come, Gomez
3. 1979, Smashing Pumpkins
4. They Ride, The Twilight Singers
5. Somebody Told Me, The Killers
6. Found My Rosebud, The Thrills
7. Favourite Thing, The Replacements
8. New Slang, The Shins
9. Season of Hollow Soul, k.d. lang
10. Anything U Want, Rae & Christian


BTW, do any of you note that "random" isn't very random on an iPod? Out of 3,000 songs on mine, New Slang has popped up twice in 3 tries.

Originally Posted by California Dreamer

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BTW, do any of you note that "random" isn't very random on an iPod? Out of 3,000 songs on mine, New Slang has popped up twice in 3 tries.

Someone who knows stats better than me could probably explain how this is an entirely possible "random" outcome...otoh, I sometimes wonder if iPod adjust randsom based on your listening patterns; not sure how this would work, though...

Anyway:

I Miss You [Live] - Bjork
Hateful - The Clash
Bitter Sweet - Roxy Music
Stormy Weather - Billie Holiday
Knock, Knock - The Humane Society
I Hung My Head - Johnny Cash
Why Don't We Do It in the Road - The Beatles
You Ain't Tuff - The Uniques
The Weaker Agrument Defeats the Stronger - The Delgados
I'll Be Your Man - The Black Keys

Originally Posted by Alter

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Shoreman- Great list! Who the **** are Skankin Pickle?
1990s ska band from San Francisco

Originally Posted by m@T

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1990s ska band from San Francisco

Thanks. Just seemed curious to show up on two lists like that. I like Shoremans idea about the overlapped random lists.

Here's mine for today:

I Want To Help You Ann-\t\tThe Lyres\t
Melody Laughter (Live)-\t\tThe Velvet Underground\t
In the mouth a desert-\t\tPavement\t
Slept All Afternoon-\tJimmy George\t
Not Be Alright-\tMary Margaret O'Hara\t\t
New Pleasure-\tRichard Hell & The Voidoids\t\t\t
The Curse of Comfort-\tThe Thrills\t
Your Sweet Voice-\tMatthew Sweet\t\t
Waitress In The Sky-\tThe Replacements\t
Get A Grip-\tThe Stranglers\t
Let's Stick Together-\tBryan Ferry

I'm pleased beyond description to see the Replacements on multiple lists. Who would have thought Tommy Stinson would go on to work with Diddy and Axl?

If you like the Replacements and you haven't checked out Stinson's bands, Bash and Pop, and Perfect, you're missing out.

I can't track down Bash & Pop, but I'll certainly give Perfect a try.

Originally Posted by California Dreamer

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I can't track down Bash & Pop, but I'll certainly give Perfect a try.
I saw Bash and Pop in the parking lot of the University of South Dakota Business School, headlining the annual free "Rockfest" concert. Tommy Stinson was fucked up out of his gourd, and I got to listen to Midwestern sorority girls complaining that they'd never heard of these people.

I'll be picking up a copy of B&P's sole, long out-of-print album at some point in the very near future (my CD collection was stolen a while back and I'm just now rebuilding). When I do, I'll be happy to send along a copy if you like.

BTW, I lived in Morwell for about a year in the early 80s.

feeling a little punkrock tonight, so from the punk/ska playlist my ipod just served me...

1. Inner logic - Bad Religion
2. Box - Mustard Plug
3. I hate you - Reel Big Fish
4. Stand by me - Pennywise
5. Were only gonna die for our arrogance - Sublime
6. My own worst enemy - Lit
7. Not the same - Bodyjar
8. Bring me to life - Evanessance (great song, but shouldnt be in my punk folder though...)
9. She's got the look - Guttermouth
10. Veggicide - Guttermouth

Sweet & Lovely - Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Good Morning, Good Morning - The Beatles
A Singer of Songs - Johnny Cash
I'm Still in Love With You - Al Green
Beats to the Rhyme - Run-DMC
Scarecrow - Pink Floyd
Dumb Girl - Run-DMC
One More Heartache - Marvin Gaye
Poor Boy - Nick Drake
My Lady Story - Antony & the Johnsons