Your Random Playlist, What lurks? Dare you admit? Options

[Industrial Kybos...]

I often suspect that many of us here - myself included - try to make themselves sound more interesting by discussing only the more obscure or better-quality strands of music that we choose to listen to. Surely, however, there is more on our playlists than the quality stuff.

Here's the plan, and it requires TOTAL honesty:

1. Make a random playlist using whatever software you store your lovely music on - I shall be using iTunes, being a damn dirty yuppie Mac-bitch.
2. Make note of the first ten songs that appear. Ten shall be the number, and the number shall be ten. No correspondance shall be entered in to.
3. Post those ten songs in this thread, perhaps with a little bit about why you say you listen to Sigur Rós and Miles Davis when you actually have a hard drive full of East 17 and Spice Girls.

Let the games begin!

First up, to show willing, my random ten for the day:

1. Why Don't You Do It For Me? - 22-20s
2. Güero Canelo - Calexico
3. Hanging On The Telephone - Scheer
4. Debaser - The Pixies
5. Long Snake Moan - P J Harvey
6. I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
7. Needles & Pins - The Ramones
8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
9. Aerodynamik (Kling Klang Radio Mix) - Kraftwork
10. Spiral Staircase - Kings Of Leon

Which just goes to show that I talk the talk and walk the walk. Hmm? No you didn't see Twisted Sister in there. Move along now.

[Moosh]

1) Money Talks - AC/DC
2) Out From Under - Incubus
3) Sexed Up - Robbie Williams
4) Thoughts of a Dying Atheist - Muse
5) 22 Acacia Avenue - Iron Maiden
6) Tribute - Tenacious D
7) Never Alone - Bif Naked
8) Take the Power Back - Rage Against the Machine
9) Cave - Muse
10) All These Things That I've Done - The Killers

My excuse is that most of the above is my sister's music and I only like 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9

[little_bear]

Well, seeing as I'm an ignoramus when it comes to computers I simply selected play all in WMP and took the first ten tracks that came up shuffled.

1. Feeling a Moment - Feeder
2. 40ft - Franz Ferdinand
3. Apache - The Shadows
4. Come Back Around - Feeder
5. We Will Rock You - Queen
6. Sunday, Sunday - Blur
7. Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
8. Mosh - Eminem
9. Frequency - Feeder
10. Buck Rogers - Feeder

Judging by the fact that I have all the Feeder albums on my PC, it's hardly surprising that four of them surfaced in that random play through.

*is a fanboy*

[Jaq]

1. Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Punk Cover (I don't know the artist, that's just what the artist column says it is)

2. Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand

3. There's Always Someone Cooler than you - Ben Folds Five

4. Narcolepsy - Ben Folds Five

5. Kids Will Be Skeletons - Mogwai

6. Karma Payment Plan - Modest Mouse

7. Even it Up - Heart (You love Joan Jett too, don't deny it)

8. Sparkling Diamonds - Moulin Rouge (I'm not sure if that's the real name of the song)

9. Song of Joy - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

10. Lord Anthony - Belle and Sebastian

Hmmmm... not too bad, I think a pretty good sample of what I like to listen to

[Industrial Kybos...]

10. Lord Anthony - Belle and Sebastian

Ahh, so Jaq likes teh 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress'. Word to your fey schmindie credentials. New album in May - hopefully it won't break their moderately unblemished record for quality folk-pop whimsy.

[Jaq]

10. Lord Anthony - Belle and Sebastian

Ahh, so Jaq likes teh 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress'. Word to your fey schmindie credentials. New album in May - hopefully it won't break their moderately unblemished record for quality folk-pop whimsy.

Thanks... I think

What exactly are 'fey schmindie credentials'? I only understood one of the words in that phrase...

[Novander]

1. Alkaline Trio - Sun Dials
2. Smashmouth - Walking on the Sun
3. Lacuna Coil - Distant Sun
4. Bayside - Existing In A Crisis (Evelyn) Demo
5. Something Corporate - If You C Jordan
6. Blink 182 - Voyeur
7. AFI - Triple Zero
8. Alexisonfire - Sharks and Danger
9. Hell is for Heroes - Kamichi
10. Supergrass - Lose It

[Forever Unknown]

1)Teo Leo & The Pharmacists - Me & Mia (love to my friend Pete for introducing me to this fabulousness, and I'm so pleased it came up first)
2) Green Day - Outsider
3) Flogging Molly - The Sun Never Shines (On Closed Doors)
4) Blink 182 - Feeling This (My Blink love is very little, but this song amazes me)
5) TV On the Radio - Mr Grieves
6) AFI - The Nephilim
7) Opeth - Silhouette
8) Guns n Roses - Oh My God
9) Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
10) Mr Bungle - The Holy Filamen

That could've been worse, actually...

[Industrial Kybos...]

Thanks...  I think

What exactly are 'fey schmindie credentials'?  I only understood one of the words in that phrase...

Hmmm. Not sure which word you understood. Anyhoo, 'schmindie' is a shortened version of a now little-used music journalism phrase, 'indie-schmindie', relating to any style of music in the indie canon that sounds like it is played by nice young men in chunky-knit jumpers and brown corduroy slacks.

It's a good thing. You are good. Relax. Look at the baby. Be calm.

[Jaq]

It's a good thing.  You are good.  Relax.  Look at the baby.  Be calm.

Ooo! baby!

/spam

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

1. Leg of Time - Bill Bailey
2. Freedom Fighter - Creed
3. Lucky You - Lost Prophets
4. Thank You - The Calling
5. Bleed Black - A.F.I
6. Who Am I - Smile Empty Soul
7. Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
8. Rock is Dead - Marilyn Monr....Manson
9. Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
10. While my Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (this was in as While my guitar gently _sleeps_ which confused the hell outta me....)

There should be a top 10 most listened to, all mine would be Nightwish, except number 9 which is comically enough, Greenday

[CommieBastard]

1. MC Hawking - Quake Master
2. Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
3. The Rasmus - In The Shadows
4. Snoop Doggy Dogg - What's My Name?
5. Syd Barret - Octopus
6. The Coup - 5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO
7. Placebo - Special K
8. The Cure - The Walk
9. The Rasmus - Playboys
10. Young MC - Know How

I regret nothing!

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

eep... here goes; added everything to my playlist and this is what happened:

Hell is for Heroes - Three of Clubs
Harry Webb & the Pots of Alabaster - MC Hammer
Simple Plan - Meet You There
Air - Talisman
Smash Mouth - Who's There?
Capdown - Time to Get Out
Trapt - Hollowman
Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
Cooper Temple Clause - Panzer Attack
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful

If you want to see what I listen to most then lookie at my Audioscrobbler http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/snoo

[mooooooooooopo]

Foo Fighter - I'll Be Coming Home Next Year
Lacuna Coil - Angels Punishment
Muse - Hysteria
CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings
The Locust - Solar Panel Asses
Emilie Authmn - Save You
Fire Fly - Dark Corners
The Locust - Psychic Sasquatch
Helmet - FBLA II
Mastodon - Seabeast

Ooh, could be far worse!

[gothictheysay]

So far, with the very large amount of music on my playlisy (but not all of it) placed on shuffle (which I don't trust)

1. Poison the Well - A Wish for Wings That Work
2. Black Sabbath - Tomorrow's Dream
3. Alkaline Trio - Mr. Chainsaw
4. David Bowie - Soul Love
5. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Angel of Music
6. The Beatles - Paperback Writer
7. System of a Down - Jet Pilot
8. John Prine - Grandpa Was a Carpenter
9. Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side (okay, wtf now)
10. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black

Yeah, I have some rather odd musical taste. Especially when trusting winamp on random.

[vicrawr]

Relient K - The One I'm Waiting For
Freezepop - get ready 2 rokk
The American Analog Set - Slow Company
Stellastarr* - My Coco
NOFX - Drop The World
Interpol - Untitled
Brian Eno - Needles In The Camel's Eye
The Black Keys - Girl Is On My Mind
Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug

[elphaba2]

Eep. OK, iTunes placed on shuffle.

And the first is.......
Bjork's Triumph of a Heart
followed in short order by Phish: Golgi Apparatus
Stone Temple Pilots: Big Empty
Radiohead: High and Dry
Incubus: Nebula
Reel Big Fish: F*ck Off Song/You Don't Know
Nightmare Before Christmas: Poor Jack
The Cure: Hello, I Love You (doors cover)
Jimi Hendrix: Stone Free
Muse: Stockholm Syndrome

Could have been worse. iTunes could've picked up my mom's Alicia Keys. *shudders away*

[Usurper MrTeapot]

1) Franz Ferdinand - Dark Of The Matinee
2) Slayer - Disciple
3) Pantera - Like Fire
4) Pink Floyd - Eclipse
5) Manowar - Army of the Immortals
6) Radiohead - Sit down, shut up
7) Muse - Suburn
8) Tool - Bottom
9) Tenacious D - Rock Your Socks
10) The Vapours - Turning Japanese

Not suprised the Pantera or Slayer came up, I've got their entire back catalogues but I hardly listen to any of it.
There was another 'song' which I skipped through. Mostly because it was a 3 second long voice recording of the word "ahhblaa" which I have in my media player for unknown reasons, if you really want it to be included place it under 6b).

Not a bad mix I guess, luckilly my cover of being a hardcore Polka music fan has not been blown.

[Daedalus]

1: Macy's Day Parade - Green Day
2: Hooker With a Penis - Tool
3: Take the Power Back - Rage Against the Machine
4: Gave Up - Nine Inch Nails
5: Signs - Creed
6: All for You, Sophia - Franz Ferdinand
7: Jimmy - Tool
8: Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
9: Everlong - Foo Fighters
10: Millionaire - Queens Of The Stone Age

That's not very embarrassing at all really (although I hardly listen to any Franz Ferdinand). Not that representative of all the music on my computer though.I'm sure there'd be far more dodgy things if I'd done this on my computer at home. A bit surprised that there's no SOAD on that list, considering I have 3 albums by them. Not at all surprising that NIN appeared twice, though. *fanatic*

[beleraphon]

1. Alien Sex Fiend - Black Rabbit
2. Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
3. Alishas Attic - Can't say sorry
4. KMFDM -Dogma
5. Seabound - Smoke (pain remix)
6. Assemblage 23 - Skyquake
7. Planet Funk - Chase the sun
8. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
9. Neuroticfish - All I say
10. No Doubt - Sunday Morning

Yeah, thats about right.

[Industrial Kybos...]

Don't think that posting once means you can't post again...

1. E=MC² - Big Audio Dynamite
2. Silence - Gomez
3. Well Whiskey - Bright Eyes (B side to 'Lua'... lovely)
4. Surly Girl - Aberfeldy
5. Combat Honey - The Wannadies
6. A piece of music from Final Fantasy 7 o_O
7. Surfin' Bird - The Ramones
8. Big Sur - The Thrills
9. March Of The Pigs - NIN
10. You And Me Song - The Wannadies

I have a lot of Wannadies on there, but so much bigger is my Ramones collection...

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

Don't think that posting once means you can't post again...

Yes, Sir!

This is taken from my current playlist that has 518 songs on it

1) Tool - Reflection
2) Tool - H.
3) Clearlake - Winterlight
4) Serafin - No Happy
5) Stone Sour - Get Inside
6) Saves the Day - Certain Tragedy
7) Tool - Stinkfist
8) Auf der Maur - Skin Receiver
9) My Chemical Romance - Give 'em Hell kid
10) Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

I don't listen to that much Tool... honest! I'm suprised no more NIN came up (seeing them in 11 days!!!)

[oxym0ronical]

1. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
2. Breaking Benjamin - Sooner or Later
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
4. Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow
5. Violent Femmes - Bad Dream
6. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
7. Loverboy - Almost Paradise <-- Don't ask =/
8. Foo Fighters - Everlong
9. Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie
10. Tool - Schism

[Industrial Kybos...]

7. Loverboy - Almost Paradise <-- Don't ask =/

Is that the one about pig and elephant DNA not splicing?

*snigger*

[elphaba2]

1) Queen- Killer Queen
2) Incubus- Priceless
3) Radiohead- Motion Picture Soundtrack
4) Talking Heads- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
5) The Beatles- Come Together
6) Black Flag- No Values
7) Tool- Ticks and Leeches
8) The Doors- Indian Summer
9) Arcade Fire- Haiti
10) Hot Hot Heat- One More Night With You

This is actually a relatively fair representation of what I listen to. If they must, let the tomatoes fly.