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.

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

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*

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

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...

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

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...

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.

Ooo! baby!

/spam

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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*

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.

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*

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.

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...

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!!!)

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

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

*snigger*

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.

Well, if you insist...

1. The Benjamins - Sophia on the Stereo
2. Catch 22 - Point the Blame
3. Weezer - American Gigolo
4. The Dharmas - Three Miles High
5. The Used - Maybe Memories
6. Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
7. Dashboard Confessional - Remember To Breathe
8. AFI - Days of the Phoenix
9. Reel Big Fish - She's Famous Now
10. Incubus - Circles.

InKy... you're obviously a big music fan, so please allow me to direct you to the Matazone Audioscrobbler group.

Okay then, try again:

1) Green Day - Platypus (I Hate You)
2) The La's - There She Goes Again
3) OPM - Brighter Side
4) Simple Plan - Addicted
5) Dashboard Confessionals - Standard Lines
6) KoRn - Corners of My Mind
7) Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
8) Coldplay - Clocks
9) Sugarcult - What you Say
10) Apocalyptica - The Unforgiven

Okay, apart from 7, that was just embarassing

EDIT: Whoops, this is CheeseMoose accidentally posting on his sister's account

Modest Mouse - Sunspots
The Black Keys - Aeroplane Blues
The Shins - New Slang
The Black Keys - Hold Me in Your Arms
AC Newman - 35 in the Shade
Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself
Mindless Self Indulgence - Last Time I tried to Rock Your World
Cake - Comissioning a Symphony in C
Marilyn Manson - Thaeter
Modest Mouse - Woodgrain

1. Rilo Kiley - It's A Hit
2. System of a Down - Atwa
3. Presidents of the USA - Lump
4. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
5. Never Heard Of It - This Is Goodbye
6. Graveltrap - S-Teem
7. Feeder - Moonshine
8. Never Heard Of It - Build Me Up
9. I Am Kloot - Life In A Day
10. Never Heard Of It - Situations

Well, aside from the fact I'm not that much of a fan of NHOI, that's pretty good. I'm surprised none of ATD-I or their derivatives (TMV, Sparta, etc) appeared, though.. I have about 45 songs matching that description.

1) Rage Against The Machines - Killing in the name of
2) At the Drive In - Arc Arsenal
3) The Mars Volta - Eunuch Provovateur
(I'm not kidding, Steve!)
4) Dream Theatre - Spirit Carries On
5) Green Day - Hitchin' a Ride
6) AFI - Girl's not grey (Lucy's fault)
7) Radiohead - Creep
8) Tool - Intolerance
9) Synthetic Spirit - Summerdawn
10) Lost Prophets - Last Summer

Could've been worse

1) Good Bye Blue Sky----Pinkfloyd
2) Hello I Love you----The Doors
3) Blue And Yellow----The Used
4) Arise----Sepultra
5) Wading in The Velvet Sea----Phish
6) LoveSong----The cure
7) We Don't Die----Twiztid
8) Buena----Morphine
9) I'm blue----Eiffel 65
10) Soulfire----12 stones
And i feel like adding 5 more to my list..don't ask why..cuz i dont know.
11) Nymphetamine----Cradle Of Filth
12) Vivica----Jack Off Jill
13) Dark Side Of The Moon----Pinkfloyd
14) Unchained Melody----Dj Mystic (i ccant help it..it shows my inner raver..)
15) Them Bones----Alice In chains

Out of 2320 songs on iTunes...

1. The Flow by Darude (play count 10)
2. Wicked Town (Hedwig Version) by Various Artists from the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack (play count 5)
3. Stingy by Ginuwine (play count 0)
4. ZAN by Dir en Grey (play count 278)
5. Agnus Dei by John Rutter (play count 87)
6. Bad Blood by Various Artists from the Matrix soundtrack (play count 0)
7. MaxX Unlimited by -unknown- from Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix (play count 0)
8. Hard House Mix CD by DJ Irene (play count 0)
9. Only You by Sulk (play count 1056)
10. Maria Maria by Santana (play count 3)

Most my songs that I listen to have play counts over 300... and I've had the same music for at least a year. Erm, so, yeah. I don't listen to some of that stuff often. ^.^ And a good lot of my music has just been stolen from other people (like, I network with them and we trade music files, about 2 or 3 gigs worth at a time). So, that could account for the weirdness.

1. Evanescence - Whisper
2. Nirvana - All Apologies
3. John Prine (feat. Bonnie Raitt) - Angel from Montgomery
4. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Kaya
5. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
6. Coldplay - Warning Sign
7. Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
8. The Beatles - Fixing a Hole
9. Black Sabbath - Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots
10. Pixies - Gouge Away

Certainly shows my eccentricity, if nothing else...

I will play as I'm doing bugger all else.

1. August by Shooglenifty.
A band of Scots who play club-tinged celt-dancepop. Yeah, okay, but it's wicked, I promise. Their fiddler looks like Serj Tankian. Sort of. And he's also a wizard or something. This song is slow and mindful of it's vinyl-crackling beat and dubby bass, the banjo plucked so skillfully, with a superb violin melody that dips and weaves fluidly into a sparse arrangement of half-heard samples, instrument phrases and electronic wheezes before deftly picking up again and pulling the the band into line behind it. I love this. 'Tis perfect.

2. Black Holes In The Sand by Gravenhurst.
Spectral acoustic guitar music on Warp Records. Yeah, okay. Nick Talbot's bittersweet vocal harmonies are moved along on a neat four-four tom with expertly picked guitar and the occasional tempered squall of feedback. Haunting.

3. Omgyjya Switch7 by Aphex Twin.
A frantic mash of noise from Drukqs which deploys wonderful synth manipulation and beat-fracturing to cunningly disguise the fact that Mr. D. James isn't doing anything half as imaginative or original as he used to. Still fun, though.

4. Tried By 12 (Squarepusher mix) by East Flatbush Project.
Random playlists throwing up two Warp artists and a Ninja Tune track remixed by a Warp artist back to back. What fun. Excellent li'l spit chopped up and backed by Jenkinson's old drum 'n' bass trick of actually playing real drums and bass, and like the best of his old material, 'tis very jazz club. Then you got that wicked reeeewind and the whole thing kicks off again.

5. Manta Ray by Pixies.
One of my favourite Pixies b's, complete with "ooh ooh, yeah!"s and Kim Deal sweetly calling "it's alright!" while Black Francis simply yells it. I love Pixies. Don't you?

6. Faster by Manic Street Preachers.
Best. Manics. Ever.

7. Killing All The Flies by Mogwai.
I love Happy Songs For Happy People, and this is excellent. That vocodered vocal coming over like a heartbroken robot, singing in robot falsetto as the languid picked guitar phrase gives way to kidney-battering fuzz and great squalls of feedback in the finest of Mogwai traditions. Yeah, it's an old trick, but they do it so well.

8. Beep Street by Squarepusher.
I love the melody on this; it's so simple, kinda plaintive, sad. Set against the stuttering drum 'n' bass, it's perfect. One of my earliest memories of Squarepusher, and an enduring one.

9. Fixit Girl by Chris Morris.
From Blue Jam, this is seriously f***ked up. A man hires a four year old girl to dispose of the body of a man he's just killed. It's going to be a long night...

10. Don't Do Drugs by Danger Mouse & Jemini.
DM's choice of samples (a crackling 1940's dancehall, for example) and beats are inspired and Jemini's spit sits perfectly on the man's rhythm as he extols the virtues of narcotic substances and his willingness to share these virtues with anyone who's interested. And can pay.

Reminds me, must get some Mogwai..

Random playlist saaaays:

1. Krezip - More Than This [Awesome song]
2. Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain [Awesomer]
3. Foo Fighters - Disenchanted Lullaby [Good stuff]
4. Kaiser Chiefs - I Was Born To Be A Dancer [Oh Kaiser Chiefs, how I love you]
5. R.E.M. - Man On The Moon
6. A New Day's Enemy - Can't Escape [Woah, yay, great thingy]
7. System Of A Down - Pictures
8. Foo Fighters - Come Back [Second appearance, same album]
9. Def Leppard - Photograph
10. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks

I like all of this. Anyone have any complaints?

You're not wrong, buddy. 'Holy Bible' remains a classic - shame they tanked big-time shortly after... ;_;

Kicking it up random-style:

1. 'Touch Sensitive' - The Fall
2. 'Be My Enemy' - The Departure
3. 'I Remember You' - The Ramones
4. 'Joe's Head' - Kings Of Leon
5. 'Get Your Crayons Out!' - Preston School Of Industry
6. 'My Own Gauge' - 3 Colours Red
7. 'Babysize' - Scheer
8. 'Wish You Were Dead' - Scheer
9. 'Sweet Spots' - Fiery Furnaces
10. 'Hotel Yorba' - The White Stripes

I'm happy with that. Especially the Scheer double-header - I have almost all of their back catalogue on my 'puter, including B sides. I wuv them so...

I swear my playlist hates me and only does the stuff I normally don't listen to that much when I do this so here goes again.

1) Nightwish - Deep Silent Complete
2) Kasabian - Club Foot
3) Nine Inch Nails - No, You Don't
4) Something Corporate - Hurricane (Weather Patterns)
5) Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies
6) A Perfect Circle - Renholdër
7) Saves the Day - Nightingale
8) Tool - Pushit
9) Jimmy Eat World - Just Watch the Fireworks
10) Saves the Day - See You

hmm... better

*bump*

This is such a good thread, it deserves bumping. Plus (and perhaps more importantly) I have spent the last god-knows-how-many hours/days/weeks ripping every CD I own to mp3. And then I got myself an iPod and spent further time transferring it all over.

So, with almost 11 days of music ripped, I am fairly confident I have all of my CD collection as mp3 (although I am sure I'll find ones I haven't done yet, hidden in my car). Thus, I now feel that my addition to this thread will be as good as it can be.

I have used iTunes for this random playlist, and I will remind you that I have included everything I own (which therefore also includes any 'novelty' CDs that friends/relatives have bought me... hopefully these won't come up).

So... time for my random Top 10. The percentage figure after the artist shows what percentage of my total tracks are by this artist (i.e. Queen tracks make up 1.455% of the tracks I own):

1) Headlong - by Queen - 1.455%
I like Queen, and I own the three greatest hits albums. I don't really know this particular song though.

2) We Came To Dance - by Ultravox - 0.587%
I have one Ultravox album, which is a Greatest Hits album. Their tracks also appear on various compilation albums I own. 'Vienna' is clearly a classic song, that was robbed of its rightful place at #1 several years ago. As for this song, it's alright, but not a favourite.

3)Disco Nights (Rock Freak) - by GQ - 0.027%
The only song I have by this artist (who I've never heard of), and is from a compilation album of 80's disco tracks. Fairly meaningless song to me.

4)Play Dead - by Bjork with David Arnold - 0.027%
Again, from a compilation album. This is a song that has been played several million times on television in adverts and cheap television programmes. This song wouldn't normally get much play by me.

5)Spark - Tori Amos - 3.806%
I own more tracks by Tori than any other artist. This song is pretty good, and is from the album 'From The Choirgirl Hotel', which was the new album when I went to see her in concert for the first time. I'm happy to see Tori in this list.

6)Solid - Ashford & Simpson - 0.083%
Not a particularly good song. Relevant to me only in that it is from the 80's, which much of my music collection is from.

7)Everybody Hurts - REM - 1.315%
The 7th most common artist in my collection. I am not a massive REM fan, but I do like most of their music - namely their more recognised singles. A few years back, I went through a period when all I ever listened to was this song. Looking back, I had nothing to worry about at all, but I regularly felt as though I was "depressed". Turns out that this was just me being a teenager, and thinking that certain relationships were far more meaningful than they actually were. Needless to say, it hasn't spoilt my enjoyment of this song, nor REM.

8)Mixed Up World - Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 0.419%
*cough* Perhaps the artist in this list which I should be most embarrased about. This is just sheer, cheesy pop. And I know several trillion people that would happily see this young lady six feet under. This song isn't great, but there are some songs she's done that I actually quite like. Don't judge me! I see you... with your condescending eyes!

9)More Than A Feeling - Boston - 0.055%
I was just about to write, "I don't know this song". But I do actually, now that it has hit the chorus. Quite a nice song. Not much more to say about it.

10)I Am A Rock - Simon & Garfunkel - 0.559% (as a duo)
Not my favourite S&G song, but I do like a lot of their music. I also own Paul Simon's solo album, 'Graceland' - which, although I don't listen to that much anymore, I still really rather like.

So, all in all, not an awful representation of what I own or what I listen to.

Winamp says I have 4111 songs..

The randomizer thing gave me:

1. Freezepop - Emotions & Photons
2. The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (radio edit)
3. Nirvana - Come as you are
4. The Kovenant - Bizarre Cosmic Industries
5. R.E.M - I believe
6. Queen - I want to Break Free
7. Modest Mouse - Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
8. The White Stripes - This Protector
9. System of a Down - Lost in hollywood
10. Seabound - Contact

I haven't really listened to any of this in a while but its not too bad..

My Audioscrobbler

1) Bad Idea [original demo version] - Ben Folds
2) Incident at Isla Nublar - John Williams - Jurrasic Park
3) Emaline - Ben Folds
4) Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
5) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
6) Shine On 6-9 - Pink Floyd
7) You And Me - Lifehouse
8) Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
9) Time Warp - Rocky Horror
10) Jump Jive and Wail - Brian Setzer

1. Wake Up Time To Die - Pop Will Eat Itself
2. Clown - Korn
3. Phenomenon - Limp Bizkit
4. Peewagon - Papa Roach
5. Piggy - Nine Inch Nails
6. Eraser - Nine Inch Nails
7. Without a Face - Rage Against The Machine
8. Out Of Space - The Prodigy
9. Christianity - Skinny Puppy
10. [Untitled Track][spots] - Aphex Twin

I tend to listen to more electronic music than this would sugest

1. The Killers - On Top
2. Johnny Cash - We'll Meet Again
3. The Shins - The Celibate Life
4. Mindless Self Indulgence - Two Hookers
5. CKY - Don't Hold Your Breath
6. Kings of Leon - Genius
7. Cake - Carbon Monoxide
8. The Album Leaf - Eastern Glow
9. Johnny Cash - I Shall Not Be Moved
10. Freezepop - Robotron 2000

1) Skyclad - Catherine At The Wheel
Folk and Metal have never fitted together so well.

2) Matthew Good Band - Song For The Girl
The reason Canada exists in my opinion, Matthew Good Band was definatly the best thing to appear from there second only to milk in bags.

3) Mindless Self Indulgence - Daddy
How can you not like are dancey-punk bands on crack aimed at insulting everyone on the planet?

4) A Perfect Circle - Lullaby
Only in the collection because every Tool fan must have some APC.

5) Do Make Say Think - Anything For Now
My penis grows and extra inch every time I listen to these guys.

6) Jimmy Eat World - Blister
Blimey, haven't heard this in a while.

7) Iggy Pop - Baby
Mmm, sexy old men.

8) The Futureheads - First Day
No comment.

9) Rilo Kiley - August
Not so big on this band really, they're ok.

10) Pavement - Ed Ames

One word: Oy.


1. The Vegatable Song-Arrogant Worms

2. Calling All Angels-Train

3. The Wizard and I-Wicked

4. Swept Away-The Name

5. Helena-My Chemical Romance

6. SGT. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band-The Beatles

7. Somewhere I Belong- Linkin Park

8. Harder To Breath-Maroon 5

9. Save me-Unwritten law

10. These Boots Were Made For Walking-Nancy Sinatra

Hooray for the third time I've posted in this thread.

1) Pavement- Range Life
I've just recently started getting into Pavement, and quite like this song.

2) Tool- Schism
As the first Tool song I ever heard, Schism will always hold a special place in my heart. This does not apply to every bassist who spends ages playing that bass line over and over again, however.

3)Phish- Chalk Dust Torture
A lovely, Phish-y sort of song, and probably in my top 20 Phish or so. A song that will constantly make you wonder exactly how much a flagon of rice costs.

4)Foo Fighters- Lonely As You
My absolute favoritest song by the Foos yet. The harmony always makes me shiver.

5) Incubus- Drive
A bit played out, but one of my first Incubus songs, so as due I will never ever get it out of my head.

6) Sublime- Pool Shark
This song is terrible. I'm skipping it and re-doing number 6

6) the Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
I've never actually listened to this song all the way through.
(verdict: kind of repetitive, but OK)

7)the Sex Pistols- This is Not A Love Song
Noisy and rather pointless. Not a sex pistols song I listen to often.

8)Radiohead- In Limbo
This is the only Kid A song I don't know the lyrics to, or even the general melody. I don't know why; it's a wonderful song.

(after a moment or two)
Dear god the ending is creepy.

9) Jefferson Starship- Jane
Delightful. I love this band very much.

10) Cake- Satan is my Motor
Yum.

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
2. Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie
3. Skillet - Open Wounds
4. Incubus - Warning
5. Chevelle - The Clincher
6. Foo Fighters - Best of You
7. DJ Z-Trip - Walking Dead
8. Simple Plan - Untitled
9. A Perfect Circle - Passive
10. (H.E.D.) PE - Meadow

Thanks Hobbes, now I'm going to be replying to this thread far more than is necessary until it dies again...

All my music put into winamp, randomised and set to play on Random...

Foo Fighters - The One
I love the video, love Orange County but I don't listen to this as much as I used to.

The Starting Line - This Ride
I like the Starting Line, this is probably not something I should admit to but I'll happily listen to them if they pop up in my playlist but I don't really go out of my way to listen.

Feeder - Comfort in Sound
I love feeder, I've seen them live twice (although both times were at festivals) and they are awesome... Swim is my favourite album but I will happily listen to any of them, not heard much of the latest album though.

Feeder - Helium
I suppose I do have alot of feeder on my computer... hmm

The Lightning Seed - Lucky You
Awesome song... nobody can be sad when listening to this song!

Chevelle - Don't Fake This
I need them to come to England so I can see them live!!!

A Perfect Circle - Weak and Powerless
I like APC, I like Tool but I liked them individually before I realised that they both had Maynard (swoon)
I did actually skip Video Killed the Radio Star to get to this but that's because it was only a 30 second version of it... I have about 8 >_>

Adam Green - Choke on a Cock
My friend sent me Adam Greens latest album and I like it but I wouldn't listen to it with my parents around!

JJ72 - Serpent Sky
I love JJ72 and I got to see them at Download this year and they were awesome!!

Feeder - World Asleep
More feeder >_<

Powerman 5000 - The End is Over
No comment <_>

Nine Days - Absolutely (story of a girl)
I love this song... never heard anything else by nine days but I have adored this song for years

Tool - Pushit
I like Tool

That's probably more than 10 so ooops.

No problem, happy to be of service.

Because iTunes is a pain-in-the-donkey, I have again loaded all my mp3s into WinAmp (man, it took its time!), and used its random function to provide the following 10:

1. The Simpsons - Homers Barbershop Quartet (Medley)
From a Simpsons compilation CD featuring songs from the show. It is good, only for sheer novelty factor. # Baby on board... #

2. Spandau Ballet - True
This song features six times in my CD collection - all on compilation albums. Recently covered/remixed/sampled/somethinged by some artist-or-other. Despite how truly cheesy this song now is, I have to admit to liking it... and makes me wish I had been old enough in the 80s to have been smooching at school discos to this

3. Space - Now She's Gone
I do not know this song at all. It's a B-Side to 'Ballad of Tom Jones', a single which I believe my sister bought for me. I don't know anything else by this band.

4. Special AKA - Free Nelson Mandela
Obviously of political significance, but I don't know the song at all. From a 'Greatest Hits of the 80s' compilation.

5. Steve Arrington - Dancing In The Key Of Life (LP Version)
From an 80's disco greatest hits album. The song's title is familiar, but the song itself is fairly new to me. It's surprising just how many songs in my CD collection I don't actually know.

6. Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
From a Genesis greatest hits album. This is a strange shop, that doesn't really sound particularly 'Genesis' at all - with stupid spoken parts. Sounds best sung by a group of drunks... # I knoooow what i liiiike, and i liiiike what i knoooow #

7. Eurythmics - You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
I have two versions of this song. One is the above, the other is Annie Lennox performing it solo, live. It's a good song that, melody-wise, sounds reasonably upbeat, but lyrically sombre. Good video too.

8. Prince - Purple Rain
From 'The Very Best Of...' CD. I don't really like Prince's speech parts in any of his songs, so it affects my enjoyment of this song. However, the sung parts in this are really quite good. And I think this is actually a really good song, and I was only thinking the other night how it would sound so much better if the spoken parts were also sung.

9. Jessica Simpson - Did YOu Ever Love Somebody
The evils of compilation and/or soundtrack albums.... NO FURTHER COMMENT.

10. Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Perhaps my favourite Genesis song. It's fun and amusing. I like it. A song that featured regularly when I was about 8 or 9, because it was on a 'Now' compilation that my neighbour owned which we also listened to together. I think that is probably why I like it.

So... Genesis twice, huh? And they only sing 0.4691% of the tracks I own. I wouldn't say that the above tracks feature particularly regularly in my own chosen playings. Having said that, though, I probably would choose to listen to tracks #10, #8, #7, #2 and perhaps #1 for a laugh.

Second go
1 Aphex Twin - Girl Boy Song
2 Suicide Comando - Mordfabrik
3 glc - Manifesto
4 Nine Inch Nails - I Do Not Want This
5 The Prodigy - Mindfeilds
6 Wumpscut - Logic of War
7 The Shaman - Ebeneezer Goode
8 Skinny Puppy - Chainsaw
9 KMFDM - Revenge
10 Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

1. CKY - All Power To Slaves
2. The American Analog Set - The Kindness of Strangers
3. Cake - Frank Sinatra
4. Ramones - California Sun
5. Weezer - Fall Together
6. The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
7. Mindless Self Indulgence - Cocaine and Toupees
8. Johnny Cash - If We Never Meet Again
9. Weezer - Slob
10. Tiger Army - Cupid's Victim