I've been singing "Love You Madly" all day. Must be something in the water.

Casimir Pulaski Day- Sufjan Stevens
It's 5 - Architecture in Helsinki
Intermission- Think Differently Music (it's twenty-three seconds...I'm going again)
Tired - LCD Soundsystem
Can't Stop Us - the Casualties (I haven't listened to this album at all, my brother put it on for me. Sounds like kind of run-of-the-mill punk rock)
Surprise Surprise- X (their eighties stage! Bordering on country-punk, I love this stuff. Goofy and happy as hell.)

My iPod is alive!

One - Metallica
One Big Rush - Joe Satriani
A Certain Shade of Green - Incubus
The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - James Baskett

The Number of the Best - Iron Maiden
Explosivo - Tenacious D
Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
Chic 'n' Stu - SOAD
Oh My Gosh - Basement Jaxx

Ah, what a funny ending.

Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Playing for Keeps - Matchbook Romance
Mad as Rabbits - Panic at the Disco
Vienna - The Fray
Hey Now! - Oasis

Yay.

My bad...I'll shuffle this time.

Going to California by Led Zeppelin
Us and Them by Pink floyd
Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N' Roses
Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses
99 Luftballons by Nene

Really bored...lets do another one!

Hellraiser by Ozzy Osbourne
Big Bang by Bad Religon
Boredom by The Buzzcocks
Ich will SpaB by Markus
Man On the Edge by Iron Maiden

Bankrupt on Selling - Modest Mouse
The Daily Planet - Love. Hmm, I've never heard this or heard of this. Sounds like late 60's. Tolerable, happy stuff.
Illegal Tender - Louis XIV
The Dope - Dandy Warhols
Stop Frontin' - KRS-ONE

I like how there's always one bizarre hip-hop track in my shuffles. KRS-ONE is crazy angry.

Eli's iPod is synced to mine, and he's forbidden from deleting my songs, so he's decided to label the play lists "Good Music" and "Bad Music"... Not related but humored me. Anyways.

Holy Smoke - Iron Maiden
All Along the Watch Tower - Jimi Hendrix
Caught by the Fuzz - Supergrass
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
American Idiot - Green Day

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile Blues
Killer Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (From the We Will Rock You soundtrack)

Interrupted for joint skype conversations with syuu, becky, oni and frog

Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) - Bob Marley
Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake
Meo Blodnasir - Sigur Ros
Wonderboy - Tenacious D
Ding - JDA (It's actually my friend singing 'ding' at different tones and layering it.)

Galileo and Scaramouche - Under Pressure
Phil Lynott - King's Call
The White Stripes - I Wanna Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart
Grease Movie Cast - Grease
Iron Maiden - Brave New World

Two out of five from musicals... you'd never know I was a poof.

Back on the forums five!

The Game Is Not Over - T.Raumschmiere feat. Miss Kittin (great start - stomp 'n' fuzz with hatstand vocal)
I Am The Walrus - The Beatles (an oldie, but a goodie)
Deus Ibi Est - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Long Tall Sally - 5678s (lofi Japanese rock'n'roll, baby!)
A Time To Be So Small - Interpol

That'll do for me, oh yessir.

Another five, damnit!

Oklahoma Stomp - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra (funky... jazzy... interesting)
Length Of Love - Interpol (them again?)
Post-Paint Boy - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (from an album I really should listen to more)
Shea - Scheer (a track that started an obsession - I now own every last thing this band ever put out, and it's all fantastic)
Karma Police - Radiohead

Twenty Years - Placebo
To Myself I Turned - Lacuna Coil (effort...)
Everybody In The Place - The Prodigy
And absent soloist for Mozart's Concert Rondo
Vegetable - Radiohead

Fun.

Caught Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Down, Down, Down - Joe Satriani
Hell On high Heels - Motley Crue
Sympathy For The Devil - Guns N' Roses
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (I LOVE this song!)

Woo, in school and didn't get caught doing this. Skuh-illz.

Polysics - XCT
The Eagles - Hole in the World
Hyades - Buried in Blood
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well Part 2

Not a bad selection

Nightmares on Wax - Cruise (Don't Stop)
Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower
Stereophonics - Jealousy
Voltaire - Goodnight Demon Slayer
KMFDM - Ultra

Using iTunes party shuffle with my full playlist, which is usually what I do at work. It came out quite eclectic.

Six Shooter - Queens Of The Stone Age
Organ Doner - DJ Shadow
Islands - Cat Power
Closure - Hood
Some Jingle Jangle Morning (When I'm Straight) - Mary Lou Lord

Varied, to say the least...

I'm on a lunch break from taking finals.
So I need some music!

Billy - James Blunt
Not the Doctor - Alanis Morrisette
Into the Night - Santana
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Dana Fuchs
These Hills - Iris Dement

Ah...yeah, my guilty pleasure music came out there...twice.

Let's do this.

April in Paris - Thelonious Monk
Colossal - Wolfmother
Wade in the Water - Eva Cassidy
Merchants of Soul - Spoon
The Beginning - 28 Days Later Soundtrack

Sonata Arctica - Ain't Your Fairytale
The Who - Heaven And Hell
7 Seconds Of Love - Wrong Bananas
Pink Floyd - Money
Polysics - Black Out Fall Out

Eh, not any of my favourites

Let's do it again. Things are less than interesting.

La Soirée dans Grenade - Debussy (Ah, one of his best, imo)
Everybody's Everything - Santana
Haemoglobin - Placebo
You Only Live Once - The Strokes
It's Hard Work - Joe Hisaishi (from Spirited Away soundtrack)

This is a reasonable average of my music collection.

Vacuuming and put my iPod on shuffle. I give you--faire les menages ecoutant la musique

1) Biirdie on Morning Becomes Eclectic ---ohh, this is fantastic. KCRW is a radio station in LA, and they have a program called Morning Becomes Eclectic and it makes me wee my pants. Biirdie are this balance between trite and important and really terrific to listen to while lying on the carpet because your back hurts from bending over the vacuum. (sample lyric: "L.A. is Mars, where the wind blows money and stars")
2) Starship Trooper - Yes ----if nothing else, to make me get off the carpet and stop finding everything so damn meaningful
3) Circa 1762 - Pavement ---- Crunchy as hell. Pavement when they thought that everything sucked and besides the 7/11 was out of orange soda and 40-ounces.
4) Juan Loco - Rodrigo y Gabriela ---- Nice momentous guitar-pick-attacks. I was surprised when these two got famous. I suppose it was only a matter of time.
5) Shankill Butchers - the Decemberists ---- excellent. great timing, iPod. I'll just go off to bed now.

Nice tunes, and a fair description of grumpy-era Pavement.

Morning five:

Run On - Moby
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths
Like This With The Devil - Emtombed (heh heh heh - pure no-nonsense rawk)
Blackout - Boris
Midnight In A Perfect World - DJ Shadow

Quite a moody selection. Maybe the Pavement grumpiness is catching.

It's been a few days since I did this... so here's my Friday Five!

New Order - Everything's Gone Green. Classic New Wave tuneage!

Garbage - Fix Me Now. Obscure arse-end of album track. Not a good one.

U2 - Gloria (live version from Under A Blood Red Sky). Ah, listening to U2 live is a reminder of the fantastic leg of their Vertigo tour in Manchester. Damned expensive but worth every penny to watch the lads do a three hour set covering their entire career, right from New Years Day. But not this song. Oh well, there you go...

Queen - Lily Of The Valley. Obscure track from album Sheer Heart Attack. The song which gives this album it's title being on the News Of The World album. Obviously

The Housemartins - Over There. Classic tune from the best thing to come out of Hull since the M62

Release - Unsane (from a Relapse Records sampler - shouty and satisfying)
Sue Me Jack - Pavement (a Disc 2 of Slanted & Enchanted Luxe & Reduxe special)
Swing It - Cathy Davey (one of my ex-colleagues is mad about her - he often forgets that it was me who introduced him to her work, the fool...)
Black Eye Purple Sky - Therapy? (from the almost-as-good-as-Troublegum album Semi-Detached)
Revol - Manic Street Preachers (why oh why are they so utterly toss nowadays? This is brilliant!)

EDIT - in a moment of continuing Welshness, the track that followed the Manics was 'Costa Rita' by erstwhile Gorky's Zygotic Mynci frontman Euros Childs. Lovely.

I know what you mean, bud. Shame, really. Perhaps James Dean Bradfield is going the same way as Paul Weller. Shame, really.

Anyway, going for a follow-up five, just for the pesky heck of it. That and the fact the music player went all quiet...

Extreme - Colour Me Blind. I used to like this band years ago, but now they sound so derivative. And far too much like a poor man's Kiss.

Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem. Ah, good old Brian, love him or hate him, you have to admire someone who gives his songs titles like this in the face of just about everyone saying all his songs are, well, irresponsible hate anthems.

Wedding Present - Blue Eyes. This was from their ridiculous notion of releasing a single in every month of 1992, and then plonking the contents of said singles onto two albums, "Hit Parade 1" and, rather expectedly, "Hit Parade 2". The fact that only two of the songs charted at all kind of makes a mockery of the process. None of the A sides were anything approaching the quality Dave Gedge was capable of, and all the B sides were covers, none of which were as good as the deliciously angry version of the Beatles' "Getting Better", a rare example of a Beatles song being done better by someone else.

Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles. Apparently the number of bikes in Beijing. Thanks for the trivia, Katie.

Eurythmics - Aqua. This is the joy of shuffle play, hoiking out random tracks from albums I've not listened to for ages. Or in this case, ever.

Lawks. For a minute there, I thought the last one was a song by Aqua. Mockery narrowly averted, sir.

On the topic of Paul Weller, his last-but-one album is actually pretty good. It has songs that rock a bit and everything.

And fair play, too. If there were any Aqua on the server it'd be the kids' doing. I think I told them the CD wouldn't read, hence it's absence. However, the fact that neither the Tweenies nor Bob the Builder have appeared yet is something of a miracle.

However, it'd be mildly amusing if Aqua did a song called "Eurythmics". But only if we forgot the small detail of Nick Lowe doing an album called "Bowi" in response to David Bowie's album "Low". And let's face it, forgetting these two legends for the sake of a one-hit wonder kiddie band is just not on the cards.

...and a good album it is too. The Nick Lowe one, that is.

Granted. Which reminds me, I need to beef up my Rockpile collection.

Anywho, boredom insists I do this again.

Elvis Presley - All Shook Up. Bless my soul!

Dido - Honestly OK. Drum machine and samples shamelessly plagiarised from Saint Etienne. A fact made more annoying by the fact that Dido would have no career if Eminem hadn't done the same thing to her. That and I like Saint Etienne. Should be renamed "Honestly rubbish". Leo is feeling particularly caustic today...

Faithless - God Is A DJ. Can't beat a good bit of techno, and this definitely fits within those parameters. If God were a DJ, this would be on his set, no question.

Marilyn Manson - Dance Of The Dope Hats (remix). Blimey, our Brian makes a second appearance! This is an old one of his and on listening to this remixed version I can't quite decide if this inspired, or was inspired by, Ministry. Meh, they were all inspired by Einstürzende Neubauten...

Joy Division - Dead Souls. Classic. Spawned a generation of Manchester bands who tried to pull off the same mix of cool and musical genius. Only the Stone Roses ever really managed it.

I like this game. I'll have another go xD :

America - A Horse With No Name

Aaron Goldberg - OAM's blues

Karsh Kale - One Step Beyond

Humble Pie - Get Down To It

Rod Stewart - Young Turks

Hmm, not too bad.

Would that be from 'Smells Like Children'? First Mags album I bought, closely followed by 'Antichrist Superstar', which is still my fave.

More five:

Devilution - High On Fire. From the same Relapse sampler as before - also satisfyingly shouty.
California Soul - Marlena Shaw. Pure summer in tune form - one of my all-time favourite songs.
Point And Shoot - Yo La Tengo. Every collection needs a bit of YLT.
Find My Baby - Moby. My Creative Zen seems quite keen on 'Play' of late...
Loaded Mama F - The Driven. One of my sadly-overlooked Irish rock acts that I will gladly bang on about for hours to any willing listener. Often unwilling ones too.

Yes, it would Inky. It's one I've not listened to for a good while.

Since I'm here:

The The - Global Eyes. Good lord, I forgot I had this album! Usually when I choose The The I go for "Soul Mining", which I absolutely adore, definitely Matt Johnson's finest hour. Nice track, some good wordplay from someone I wouldn't expect any less of.

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle. This is the Hot Tracks Mix from "Substance Abuse", an album I find quite irritating because it's got all these people buggering about with tracks that really don't need any messing with, and largely making matters worse. This one is bad, not because of needless extra samples but because they keep resampling the opening. Give me the original, every time!

Foo Fighters - February Stars. Guh, Dave Grohl doing slow ballady stuff. Not that this should be an issue, but when you put it up against, ooh, "Stacked Actors", "Monkey Wrench" or "Breakout" you know where their strength lies.

Alphanex - Planet Hoskins. Ah, now here's a bit of ambient techno, although I'd argue it's a touch too fast to be truly ambient. Suspect the "Hoskins" in this track has nothing to do with Bob Hoskins.

Bodyrockers - Dignity. Pounding electro-rock, definitely needs volume. Much better than you'd expect.

Breathe Later - Abdominal. DJ Format's MC-in-chief - unmatchable flow.
Better Living Through Chemistry - Queens Of The Stone Age
Olsen Olsen - Sigur Ros
I'm Good - DJ Format. Hmmm... coincidence?
Knots - Pete And The Pirates. One of my favourite albums of the year so far.

Rosalie by Thin Lizzy
Paralyzer by Finger 11
Cannon Rock by JerryC
Different World by Iron Maiden
Ding Dong Song by Gunther

Bored...Let's go again.

Sick of Me by Green Day
316 by Van Halen
2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden
The Seperation of Church and Skate by NOFX
Ramble On by Led Zeppelin

Brainstorm by The Arctic Monkeys
Raining Blood by Slayer
Mind Storm by Joe Satriani
Mr. Tambourin e Man by Bob Dylan
Anarchy Camp by NOFX

Rockstar by Nickleback
Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
Don't Believe A Word by Thin Lizzy
The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin
I Am the Walrus by The Beatles

I want to be on TV by Green Day
Oh Shit! by The Buzzcocks
Ride byb Joe Satriani
You Could Be Mine by Guns N' Roses
Icky Thump by The White Stripes

Okay, my "new" laptop with 10gb of my dad's music on it. Let's have a look:

Robbie Williams - Millenium
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Neal McCoy - Hillbilly Rap
Louis Armstrong - When You're Smiling
Charles and Eddie - Long Tall Sally

Well I'm pretty sure most of them won't come up in this thread again.

I'm tired and should go to bed but really can't be bothered...

Love Has A Diameter - Biffy Clyro
Funeral Face - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Lipan Conjuring - Tool
Metropolis - Dream Theater
Still In Love Song - The Stills

Wow, five songs I very rarely listen to... although The Stills is great for driving around on those sunny days where it just feels good and you don't notice the annoying repetitiveness so much!

Heaven Is A Truck - Pavement. A live version from the Wowee Zowee spec ed.
A Century Of Fakers - Belle & Sebastian.
Good Friday - Cocorosie
Hide U (John Creamer & Stephane K Remix Edit) - Kosheen. Not sufficiently different to the original to warrant its continued presence here - I'll be deleting this one shortly, I feel...
My Aunt Edna - Bonnie Koloc

Apart from Kosheen (love the track, am indifferent to the mix), it's a bit of a lovely, whimsical, relaxing start to the day. Nice.

Okay, Leo's monday morning mix.

Gomez - High On Liquid Skin
Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman No Cry
Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Ultraviolence - Death Of A Child
Papa Roach - Last Resort

No woman? Bad day?? Death of a child??? Last resort???? Holy crap, I hope it's a random selection and not a prophecy...

Mines is pretty unpredicatable, 7250+ songs with all different genres...

Heaven - The Rapture
Tribute - Tenacious D
Mama Kin - Guns 'n' Roses
Over You - Daughtry
Universe - Alien Ant Farm

Well that saved my day, could have been a lot worse, some cheesey rave or rap possibly.

You'll be fine, so long as you don't get high on liquid skin...

That was a very tight random selection, but it does happen...

Here's another five from my collection of some 19000+ tracks:

Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack. Opening track on one of the angriest albums I own, still sounds fantastic even after all these years.

Audioslave - Be Yourself. Ah, it's RATM with Soundgarden's singer...

The Rasmus - Funeral Song

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me. Classic.

Queen - Body Language (1991 remix). You know how every established artist sooner or later churns out a genuinely awful album? Well, for me, Hot Space is that album for Queen. And this remix, from the CD release of said album, is even more awful than the original version.

The Beatles- I Need You
Jack & Jeffrey Lewis- Had It All [City And Eastern Songs is one of my favourite Jeff Lewis albums, and has some brilliant tracks on (espesh Moving)]
The National- Daughters Of The SoHo Riots [One of my favourite National tracks, not only because of memories attached to it but because it makes me cry. Repeatedly. Almost as much as Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen]
Mother Mother- Dirty Town [a new love of mine after hearing Touch Up and finding out their lead singer is, in fact, a man. Seriously.]
Oh No! Oh My!- Women Are Born In Love [for a song whose only lyrics are "women are born in love" and "babababa", it is surprisingly brilliant]


MmmMMm... Music.

Coming to the end of an early shift, and feeling tired. Lift my spirits, my little box o' tricks...

Comment (Live) - Wilco. 'Kay. Mellow start...
Velvy Blood - Urusei Yatsura. That's more like it!
I Wanna Get High - Cypress Hill. Hmmm...
Talk To Me - 60ft Dolls. Ahh, good - big shameless guitars.
Y Teimlad - Super Furry Animals. Beautiful, but really not what I need right now.

Sod it. I might just sleep for the next two hours. No-one will notice...

Go on then, one more to break the tedium and then must finish what I'm working on...

Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket

Missy Elliott - Joy. If I was in cheating mode I'd pretend this one didn't come up. But I'm not, so here it is. Definitely one for the delete pile.

Nirvana - Curmudgeon. From the With The Lights Out collection of everything swept up off the cutting room floor in order to flog the corpse of Kurt Cobain just once more to see if any more cash falls out of it. Now leave the man alone, for heaven's sake!

The Beautiful South - Manchester. From Northenden to Partington, it's someone from Hull singing about Manchester, and how it's always raining. Yeah, I know that already, thanks Paul

Paramore - Franklin. Well, it had to happen sometime, one of my teenage daughter's collection sneaks onto the list...

Finished for the day. All that remains is to wait for my wife to finish and help me carry home the 40 bottles of lager bequeathed unto me by my co-workers - part birthday present, part earnings for being so damn good at my job (modesty, thy name is Kybosh...)

In celebration of this fact, a final five for the day:

Biotech Is Godzilla - Sepultura. RAAAAAH!!! Blast from the past there...
Joys - Final Fantasy. From the reliably weird David Shrigley album 'Worried Noodles' - well worth checking out if you have an unusually high oddness tolerance.
Dory Previn - Camera Obscura. Just too lovely...
Yeah (Pretentious Version) - LCD Soundsystem. I still can't get enough of either disc of the self-titled album.
Don't Ever Think (Too Much) - The Zutons. 'Who Killed The Zutons?' was an album that totally blindsided me - I'd shrugged it off as just another bunch of indie chancers, but with each consecutive play on the Music Zone stereo, I fell for it more and more. Top album.

Woohoo, my 'brain-hurt' five for today:

Mercy, mercy, mercy - Pete Gaylord (An arrangement for sax quartet and rhythm)
Hurt - NIN
Plug It In - Basement Jaxx
English Summer Rain - Placebo (Actually the best song. I've also done multiple sports acro routines to this...)
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses (Cannot stand this song. It's far too dull, and it's not even as if there's subtle excitements, it's just plain dull.)

Fun fun.

First break five!

My Body Is A Cage - Arcade Fire. A suitably maudlin start for my early shift woes.
Come On! Let's Boogey To The Elf Dance! - Sufjan Stevens. Woefully unseasonal, but still great.
04/27/05 - Fantomas. Sometimes all you need is noise. Now with added sleigh bells, to maintain the Christmassy feel.
You Know What You Are? - Nine Inch Nails. Oh really? What am I, Trent? And so's your face...
So Easy - Eagles Of Death Metal

Oh, build a bridge and get over it!

My Tuesday Trio plus Two:

Sigur Ros - Hjartao Hamast
Eels - Climbing To The Moon
New Model Army - Get Me Out
Eddy Grant - Can't Get Enough Of You. Crikey, electric reggae, just the cure for a damp June morning!
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Last break five!

Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Re-Fix) - Gorillaz. I actually prefer this mix, personally.
Into The Frost Of Winter - Opeth. Ahhh, the early, noisy stuff.
Soda Dreamer - Queen Adreena. I used to listen to this all the damn time. It's still good.
Blood For Blood - Machine Head. Where were these tunes yesterday when I needed them?
Cannon (Instrumental) - Scheer. Brilliant end to a pretty noisy list.