"Random rules": 10 random songs from your player

Originally Posted by shoreman1782

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Good Mojo stories! California Dreamer, are you in the music industry, somehow? You listen to a lot of stuff not often found outside of the CD collections of rock critics and those within a few years of an undergrad degree
Not sure if that's a compliment or not. I'm not in the music industry, or an undergrad. Far from it; I'm pushing 50 and work in an IT service company. I am very Catholic in my tastes, and I have very little interest in nostalgia. Most of the people my age that I know have barely moved on from the Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Beach Boys etc. I just figure I've heard everything from them that I ever need to hear, and I'm more interested in hearing new stuff. Kind of like preferring new books to endlessly re-reading old ones. Of course the random shuffle also gives a slightly skewed impression of my taste. I'm not a huge Jamiroquai fan, but the random shuffle seems to be. (I did go to their concert - with my teenage kids).

Originally Posted by California Dreamer

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Most of the people my age that I know have barely moved on from the Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Beach Boys etc. I just figure I've heard everything from them that I ever need to hear, and I'm more interested in hearing new stuff.
That's the way I feel these days about my old heroes like the Ramones, the Clash, the Replacements, the Smiths, Skynyrd, Springsteen, Motorhead, Hanoi Rocks, Johnny Thunders, etc. Love them to death, but there's only so many times I can listen to the same stuff over 20+ years without it losing its power. That's why I think there's a place for "derivative" bands like She Wants Revenge ... if you're really into **** like Joy Division, but you will stick a pen in someone's neck if you hear "Love Will Tear Us Apart" one more ******* time, then it's nice to have some new stuff to listen to.

I at least have to rotate the classics out every now and then. Usually within a year they're back in and they seem fresh again.

It helps if the artists also make the effort to move on. I quite liked Springsteen's reinterpretation of old Pete Seeger material a while back. OTOH, I won't be going anywhere near the Police reunion concerts. Yawn.

One of my favourite albums at present is by Editors. I loved the insult someone threw at them - "Brits trying to be Yanks (i.e. Interpol) trying to be Brits (i.e. The Cure)." There is a nugget of truth in that barb about how the musical torch gets passed on between geographies and generations that continues to be interesting each time. IMO, most people my age miss out on a lot that they would like, purely because they are stuck in an Oldies listening rut.

Today's list ...

1. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
2. Jesus, etc. - Wilco
3. November Has Come - Gorillaz
4. Sulky Girl - Elvis Costello
5. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
6. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
7. Behind the Wheel (Live) - Depeche Mode
8. Intro - Gorillaz
9. Paper Thin Walls - Modest Mouse
10. C-C (You Set the Fire In Me) - Tom Vek

Not very random. At least there was no Jamiroquai.

Here's a sunday morning random list:

Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
Transit Kings - Boom (Bombay)
The Dead Texan - Taco Me Manque
Andreas Resch - ../Requiem No. 3
The Walkmen - Hang on Siobhan
Susumu Yokota - I Close the Door Upon Myself
Dub Tractor - Wait
Explosions in the Sky - Magic Hours
Lali Puna - Don't Think
Animal Collective - Meet the Light Child

I am currently in music rehab, but much like Britney Spears I might just decide to wander out and get crunked up tomorrow.

Today: 1. AC/DC, Ain't No Fun 2. Hole, Mrs. Jones 3. U2 & Mary J. Blige, One 4. Pixies, Broken Face 5. Joy Division, In a Lonely Place 6. Killers, Smile Like You Mean It 7. Misfits, Horror Business 8. Get Up Kids, I'm a Loner Dottie a Rebel 9. Built to Spill, Broken Chairs 10. Alice Cooper, Muscle of Love So much for getting sick of the classics.

California Dreamer, it's definitely a compliment. A lot of people's musical tastes (including to some extent my own) are pretty static after their early 20s. I hope I can keep an open mind and not succumb to nostalgia after 30!

Misfits - Hybrid Moments
Jonny Greenwood - 24 Hour Charleston
MBV - Only Shallow
Ted Leo - Biomusicology (live)
Poni Hoax - Budapest (not quite sure where I got this--kinda sinister, dated sounding euro pop, but I think it's current)
Charlie Feathers - Nobody's Woman
Clap Your Hands etc. - Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)
Metric - Monster Hospital
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Phoenix - Long Distance Call

shore, nice list as always; my Misfits game is in pretty weak shape...

Fire [Live] - Jimi Hendrix
Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex
It's Too Bad - The Jam
Sing Me Back Home - The Flying Burrito Brothers
Exuberante - Dizzy Gillsepie
Fields Shorelines and Hunters - M83
When I Paint My Masterpiece - The Band
Holocaust - Big Star
Smash - Calexico
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young

Damn, iPod's hot today...I think it wants a number one seed...

Originally Posted by Bona Drag

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shore, nice list as always; my Misfits game is in pretty weak shape... Fire [Live] - Jimi Hendrix Cosmic Dancer - T. Rex It's Too Bad - The Jam Sing Me Back Home - The Flying Burrito Brothers Exuberante - Dizzy Gillsepie Fields Shorelines and Hunters - M83 When I Paint My Masterpiece - The Band Holocaust - Big Star Smash - Calexico Tonight's the Night - Neil Young Damn, iPod's hot today...I think it wants a number one seed...
If we switched iPods, I have a feeling neither of us would know whos is whos. (whose is whose? bad grammar).

My computer is in a strange love song/betrayal/murder/longing cycle. 1: The Cure - Fascination Street 2: Night Ranger - Sister Christian 3: AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames 4: Richard Cheese - Hot For Teacher 5: Rick James - Love Gun 6: Talking Heads - And She Was 7: David Bowie - Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed 8: Stereophonics - Caravan Holiday 9: Aesop Rock - Same Space (Tugboat Complex pt. 2) 10: The Toadies - Luck Be A Lady 11: Misfits - Runaway (Project 1950) 12: Eminem - Brain Damage 13: Al Green - One Night Stand 14: Danzig - Devil's Plaything 15: Dublin City Ramblers - O' Carolan's Draught 16: Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer 17: Smashing Pumpkins - Luna 18: Atmosphere - Smart Went Crazy 19: The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back 20: Queen - Killer Queen 21: The Beatles - Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite! 22: Misfits - Angelfuck 23: Blur - Coffee And TV 24: Ghostface Killa - Kilo (feat. Raekwon) 25: Cake - She'll Come Back To Me 26: Body Count - Cop Killer 27: Sarah Vaughn - You Stepped Out Of A Dream 28: Devo - The Day My Baby Gave Me A Suprise 29: Twista - Adrenaline Rush 30: AC/DC - Caught With Your Pants Down 31: Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet 31: Fiona Apple - Love Ridden 32: The Cure - Why Can't I Be You 33: The McCoys - I Got To Go Back (And Watch That Little Girl Dance) 34: Air - Venus 35: Justin Timberlake - My Love 36: Air - Sex Born Poison 37: The Coup - This One's A Girl 38: Al Green - Love And Happiness 39: Boom Bip - Want (Feat. Slug) 40: Marcy Playground - Coming Up From Behind. I'm gonna leave it at that...

1. Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
2. Monsters - Something for Kate
3. Jerdacuttup Man - The Triffids
4. So Says I - The Shins
5. Missing - Everything But The Girl
6. Ready to Roll - Rae & Christian
7. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie
8. Black Betty - Ram Jam
9. White Riot - The Clash
10. The Teacher - Big Country.

2: Night Ranger - Sister Christian

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Long live the '80s faux-metal rock ballad!

Originally Posted by Goblin

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That's the way I feel these days about my old heroes like the Ramones, the Clash, the Replacements, the Smiths, Skynyrd, Springsteen, Motorhead, Hanoi Rocks, Johnny Thunders, etc. Love them to death, but there's only so many times I can listen to the same stuff over 20+ years without it losing its power. That's why I think there's a place for "derivative" bands like She Wants Revenge ... if you're really into **** like Joy Division, but you will stick a pen in someone's neck if you hear "Love Will Tear Us Apart" one more ******* time, then it's nice to have some new stuff to listen to.

I at least have to rotate the classics out every now and then. Usually within a year they're back in and they seem fresh again.

+1 to all that; and Hanoi Rocks? F*** yes.

Originally Posted by JBZ

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Long live the '80s faux-metal rock ballad!

[off-key drunken screaming]
MOOOTOORRRINNNNNNG!!!
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
[/off-key drunken screaming]