We're Going to be Friends - White Stripes (yaay)
Such Great Heights - Postal Service
mOBSCENE - Marilyn Manson (a bit different, there.)
To the End - My Chemical Romance
Taxi Driver - Gym Class Heroes

Not bad, although it does make me look like a shameless scene kid.

Wild Thing by Jimi Hendrix
Ebay (Parody of "I Want It That Way") by "Weird Al" Yankovick
Basket Case by Green Day
Promises by The Buzcocks
Rime Of The Anchient Mariner by Iron Maiden

You Could Easily Have Me - Metronomy. RIFF!!!
Start To End - Sons And Daughters. Mellow Scots #1 - a lot of the stuff from 'Love The Cup' is a lot more slow and steady than the tunes on my personal fave 'The Repulsion Box', but it's good. It's aaaaall good.
Easily Fooled - Pavement. Live version. The Zenmeister likes the Pavement live cuts...
Go Out And Get 'Em Boy! - Wedding Present. The Present brought out a boxset called 'Registry' containing classic stuff and odds 'n' ends. I bought it for my wife for her birthday the year we got married. See what I did there? It's damn good gear, I must say.
Dory Previn - Camera Obscura. Mellow Scots #2 - you cannae go wrong with the Obscura.

Yes, I see what you did there Inky. A wedding present of "Wedding Present". Very good. I'm sure Dave Gedge would be proud of you. I, however, didn't do anything so cheesy on my wedding year. Largely because I've pretty much covered their history as it is.

Anyway, here's my shuffled-up bunch, before I go for the train:

Moby - South Side. I like this one, as it happens.
The Jam - Going Underground. Another fine tune.
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love. And another good one! Can we keep this up, I wonder?
Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love. How many times has this been remixed and re-released? About 34, by my calculations. The original is still the best one in my view. And alas, this isn't it.
Simply Red - Thrill Me. Now, do I confess to the whole of Matazonia that I like this song?

Well, this is the first time I've used my media centre to shuffle music (but only cos I've just figured out how to shuffle on it) and it's turned out okay on the whole.

Oooh, and my new media streamer just arrived too! To think, if I'd got the earlier train, I'd have missed it!

Wet Thursday quartet plus one:

Judy Garland - Anything You Can Do. Annie, get your gun.

Sisters Of Mercy - Body And Soul. This is the unmixed, unproduced bootleg version from the equally bootleggy album "Some Boys Wander By Mistake".

New Order - Angel Dust

Jamiroquai - King For A Day

The Mission - Heat. I often wonder why these guys get tagged as "The Mission UK". I didn't realise there was another one. I've seen the same with The Chameleons as well. But oddly, not The Charlatans, who do exist as entirely separate groups either side of the Pond.

Very Faith No More. And yet not.

Thursday lunchbreak fivesome:

This Is It, Forever - Hood. Woo. Cheerful...
Yeah (Crass Version) - LCD Soundsystem. A bit more upbeat, there
Meat Grinder - Madvillain. Yay for weird-hop
Surprise! You're Dead! - Faith No More. Hah! Nice coincidence. Or was it?
Loud And Clear - Longpigs. Much underrated in the Britpop fallout. 'Mobile Home' is a corking album.

On a Friday lunchbreak tip:

Slow Hands - Interpol
Whisper Firing Line - Cable
The End - PJ Harvey
How To Be So Real - Jim Noir
The Way That She Really Is - Mark Mulcahy

That'll do nicely.

What comes between fear and sex? Why, my Monday morning fünf, that's what!

The Kooks - Ooh La

Papa Roach - Dead Cell

Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Jane's Addiction - Obvious

Paolo Nutini - It Must Be Love. More in the mould of the Labi Siffre original than the Madness cover, which is no bad thing.

Not too shabby. And sunshine as well, so it's all good.

Tuesday fivesome:

Clan of Xymox - Creature. The Clan's "Creatures" album is my favourite one, so having this one come out is completely fine by me.

Neneh Cherry - Beastiality

Bloodhound Gang - A Lapdance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying. Offensive lyrics to a backbeat of the "Casio Bossanova". One of those songs where you know you shouldn't laugh, but you just can't help yourself.

Lydon / Leftfield - Open Up. Funny to think that, at one time, Johnny Rotten would've spat on bands who peddled dance music and called them "a bunch of c***s"...

Tori Amos - Parasol

Today's randomry:

Double Flash - Leftfield
Hoodoo - Muse
11:11 - Hanzel Und Gretyl
Flyer Antics - Abdominal
Half Of What - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

I think that's redeemed me after my morning pop shame.

Sunday at 2 in the morning:

1. Fallen Horses - Smash Mouth

2. Fall Away - The Fray

3. Politik - Coldplay

4. Green Onions - Booker T and the M.J.'s

5. Toccata in D Minor - Bach

Yay.

TUNE! But it's the MGs, not MJs. Feh - brilliant tune whatever the band name.

Sunny Sunday fivesome:

Graveyard Girl - M83
Ta Douleur - Camille. Still my favourite track from 'Le Fil'. It's against tough competition, mark you.
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
Oscar See Through Red Eye - Boards Of Canada
Get It Faster - Jimmy Eat World

Yeah, it's wonderful. Thanks for the fix up.

Purple Haze - Hendrix Experience
Under Cover of The Night - Rolling Stones
Le Deluge - Prelude - Saint-Saens
Shape Shifter - Lene Lovich
Adagio, Brandenburg Concerto no.1 - Bach

Well, that was fun. Now I'm listening to thunderstorm. Rave.

Random saturday:

Black Sheep Boy - Paul Weller
Tears From The Compound Eye - Boards Of Canada
A Sentimental Song - Cotton Candy
afx237 v.7 - Aphex Twin
The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti

Poison - Alice Cooper
Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
Family Guy
You Shook Me All Night Long (Live With A Bunch of Random Riffs) - AC/DC (One of my favorite songs lately. Totally awesome. Best version ever)
Into the Snakepit- Slash's Snakepit
Ohne Dich - Rammstein (Another awesome song)

Monday lunch five:

Hi Mewn Socasau - Euros Childs
Light The Match - Mirah
Too Many Late Nights - The Family Cat
Street Crab - Helmet
Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Langegan

The Animal - Steve Vai
Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
Temple of Love - Shebang
Boss Of Me - They Might Be Giants
Changes - David Bowie

Five for a nearly-finished day:

stud - Autechre
Esperandote - Rika Muranaka. Better known as the music from the bad ending of the original Silent Hill. Wailing Spanish lament. Brilliant.
One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five
I Hate Rock N Roll - Jesus And Mary Chain
A Song To Pass The Time - Bright Eyes

Waiting for it to be 1:45 five:

The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Bring It On Home - Led Zeppelin
The Crush Of Love - Joe Satriani
Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
American Jesus

..12:37... One more then.

Legend of Zelda - System of a Down (No idea why that's on here other than because it's by SOAD. I think I've played Zelda.. once..)
Rock 'N' Roll Highschool - The Ramones
The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Anarchy Camp - NOFX (and woah that's loud. iPod headphones resting on the desk, volume turned up halfway, and it's really loud..)
For Those About To Rock We Salute You - AC/DC

..Are we actually supposed to listen to the songs when we do this?

Is it cheating to put iTunes on party shuffle so I can see what the next songs will be before they happen?

Appleseed Cast - Hidden Track [The End of the Ring Wars]
David Bowie - Into the Labyrinth
Alkaline Trio - Sadie
God is an Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright
From Autumn to Ashes - No Trivia

3 out of 5 I have seen live!

snoo - so long as you don't cheat and skip the naff ones, no.

Pre-shift thursday five:

This Wicked Tongue (Peel Session) - PJ Harvey
Worthless Heart (Demo) - Jellyfish
Guero Canelo - Calexico
Ruled By Secrecy - Muse
Sex Farm - Spinal Tap

Hah! Nice comedy ending.

Corks! Bit of eighties there dude.

My random five:

Five Star - Another Weekend
Bros - I Owe You Nothing Ru-oh!
Tiffany - I Saw Him Standing There God, you can HEAR John Lennon spinning in his grave when you play this song. In fact, you can also just make out Paul Macca jumping into his and doing some pre-death rotations too. This song is THAT bad!
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Fortunately, this song makes up for the last one.
Desireless - Voyage Voyage

Although, realistically, this isn't that random. It's hard to do random tracks from a cassette. Anyone with sufficient age and a back-catalogue of eighties compilation albums would possibly recognise this as the latter end of the first side of the eighth Hits album. Which is what I'm currently churning through Audacity in order to get rid of more stuff. Although from this bit of the list it's hard to see why I'm bothering...

Oh god, the mention of Scritti Politti made me cringe. Have either of you listened to his offerings of White Bread Black Beer (or something like that)?

It is gash. Total and utter gash.

And talking of 80s music, I was watching Grosse Pointe Blank last night (yes I watch late night movies on the Beeb.) and it has an amazing soundtrack. Like... all my love of the 80s, rolled up into one little ball of awesome.

(Here's where I have to admit to not ever seeing it before >_<)

I don't have a random selection today. I have no mass of music in an HD at the moment, so it's records and CDs for me.

As it happens, Daria, I haven't. To be honest, following Green's career path wasn't one of my priorities in life. I dare say that most people felt the same way; if not put off by his thin, wispy vocal which pretty much limits his vocal scope, then the very fact he calls himself "Green" should do it. And what about the vague imagery: How does someone's flesh and blood become the word? How exactly does Aretha Franklin pray? Answers on a postcard please...

Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love I absolutely love this song, especially the trumpet solo
The Beatles - I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
Kenny G - The Look Of Love That's the second time Kenny G has come up in my shuffles for this thread. I only have a few tracks, and they aren't even mine, honest.
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross Ooooooooooooooo. This makes up for the previous track.
Dr. Feelgood - Milk & Alcohol

Been a while...

Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorillaz
My Wall - Sunn O)))
Nearer Than Heaven - Delays
Download - Super Furry Animals
Ask - The Smiths

More!

Put The Lights On The Tree - Sufjan Stevens
Hetero Scum - The Sugarcubes
Rapture - Blondie
One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five. I do have other Ben Folds tunes, you know...
Paris - Tacks, The Boy Disaster




Only 'The Boom Boom Bap', which I thought was OK.

So far as Scritti Politti goes, I have a whole three tracks - the aforementioned two, and 'Skank Bloc Bologna', which is great. I have no abiding interest in getting any more.

I haven't done this for a while... well, not properly, anyway.

Eels - Baby Genius
Franz Ferdinand - Faze Together
Whitesnake - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
Ultraviolence - Electric Chair
The Wonder Stuff - Maybe

Cripes! Has someone deleted all the crap music off my server? That was quite a decent haul!

Chris Spedding - Motor Bikin'
Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Rockin' My Life Away
Status Quo - Caroline
Iron Maiden - Into The Shadows The only song in this five released less than 10 years ago, and probably my least favourite of the selection.

Overall not bad but not any great tracks there

Let us see what this evening offers...

Appleseed Cast - Hello Dearest Love
i-Def-i - Kinetic
Feeder - Godzilla
Jack Off Jill - When I Am Queen
The Beautiful Mistake - Of Human Bondage

Interesting combo.

Oh poor neglected thread - I still love you...

Sneakman - Hideki Naganuma
Out Of Here - Corduroy
Girl - The Beatles
Pink Frost - Chills
Fade To Grey - Visage

A disturbingly 80s finish, but all good stuff.

Another one, why not?

Where Is The Line - Bjork
Credit In The Straight World - Young Marble Giants
After The Laughter - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Sour Girl - Stone Temple Pilots
Red Receiver - Sons And Daughters

Mmm, Young Marble Giants... I'm loving them right now.

Me again!

I Should Have Been A Tsin-Tsi (For You) (Demo) - Mew. Mmm. Nerdy. Better than the original, though, I think.
Beneath The Mire - Opeth. WOOOOAAAAGGGHHHH!!!
Tchaparian - Hot Chip
Cowboy's Orbit - Girls Against Boys
The New Pollution - Beck. I used to own this on single. Someone nicked it. That made me a saaaad panda.

Hmm... Completely bored and having P.E. in the computer lab. Gonna risk it I think.

The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Social Suicide - Bad Religion
Don't Stay - Linkin Park
Midnight - Joe Satriani

All good. And yay, the bell is going to ring.

A two-working-days-until-holiday five:

Exo-Politics - Muse
Nimrod's Son - Pixies
Rapture - Blondie
My Favourite Dress - The Wedding Present
Sylvie - Saint Etienne

Hmm. Not much from this decade, but no worse off for that.

Givin' it random:

Shack Up - Nouvelle Vague
No Cars Go - Arcade Fire. The 'Neon Bible' version. I prefer this version, but the original from the EP was cool too.
Crowning Of A Heart - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Podunk - Foo Fighters. Early B-side ahoy!
Walk Of A Gurl - Preston School Of Industry

A suspiciously cool selection. Perfectly random, I assure you.

To break up InKy's posts a bit...

Bear McCreary - Prelude to War (from BSG Season 2) I blame Paul for this, he spent time alone with my laptop and I ended up with piles of geeky soundtrack music. It's kinda nice and chilled though so I don't mind.
God is an Astronaut - When Everything Dies Less geeky, more chilled.
The Union Underground - Until You Crack Not chilled. Would it help to mention I can hear my dad listening to Dance of the Cuckoos in the kitchen in the background
The Eagles - After the Thrill is Gone I really like The Eagles, remind me of car journeys when I was little.
Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons Happy music! In the weird upbeat BSS sense of happy music...

Well, there was me thinking it was going to be a chilled selection, proves not to judge before the end of the second track!

(P.S.InKy, I am looking for Autumn driving to work playlists, any suggestions?)

Bundle Up - Forever the Sickest Kids (I love this.)
I bet you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
Yadda Yadda Bussiness Plan - AfterChristmas
Silver and Cold - AFI One of the few songs by them I like.
Colorblind - Counting Crows I love this so much. Great, sad, music.

Fool To Cry - The Rolling Stones
Forest Ninja (I Love The Sasquatch) - Billy Reid - excellent song
Dead Ringer For Love - Meatloaf - I don't care what you say, Meatloaf is awesome and always will be
Freedom's Prisoner - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Easy Skanking - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Nice to see people other than me posting here again. It gives me a warm tingle. Perhaps I just need the toilet...

snoo - I'm a life-long pedestrian, so driving tunes aren't really my thing. I'd say Broken Social Scene have got a good autumnal vibe, and Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' would be a good punt. I tend to get in the mood for Trail Of Dead in autumn too, especially 'Worlds Apart'.

Time for my randomness:

Pulp - The Night That Minnie Timperley Died. One of my favourite Pulp tunes, from their often-ignored swansong, 'We Love Life'
Joan As Police Woman - The Ride
Super Furry Animals - No Sympathy. Acoustic folk strum mutates into techno meltdown - what's not to love? Actually, 'Rings Around The World' would be good for autumnal driving...
Martina Topley-Bird - Too Tough To Die (XFM Session)
Joy Zipper - 2 Dreams I Had

Last five tracks (music box's on random)

Talkin' bout a revolution - Reel Big Fish (Cover of Tracey Chapman)
To know him is to love him - Amy Winehouse (Cover of Phil Spector)
Drip fed fred - Madnes (Off the Wondeful album)
Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi (Bringing the balls back to Eurovision)
Please forgive me - David Gray (erm... I like singin it )

Does It Offend You, Yeah?- Dawn of the Dead
TV On The Radio- Blind
Tom Vek- That Can Be Arranged
BARR- First
Delorean- No Name


Haha. Pretentious Indie music >_>

China Girl - David Bowie
Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Trip Around The Sun - Jimmy Buffett

Apart from Born To Be Wild all these songs make happy tingles in my pants, thank you itunes =)

I think I need more of that stuff. I've got a serious thing going for 'Song Is The Single' right now. TUNE!

Random time:

The Killers - Everything Will Be Alright
Richard Hawley - Darlin' Wait For Me
Muse - Soldier's Poem
ABBA - S.O.S.
Soundgarden - Kickstand

Well now, that list wasn't even slightly obscure. What happened to all my weird stuff?

God almighty, the next song is 'Move Your Feet' by Junior Senior. Have I accidentally deleted all of my left-field tunes of oddness?

Right, time for a monday morning random. Let's hope for a good turnout from Weirdtown...

Scheer - Nemesis (Demo Version). There never was another version, sadly... ;_;
Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream
Beck - Inferno
Cat Power - Could We
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

That's a bit more like it...

Billy Idol - White Wedding
Beautiful South - Tears
Brian Eno - Dreaming My Dreams With You
Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand
Pixies - Debaser

Pretty good selection

Random tunes of goodness:

Delicious Gory Fun - Hemdale
It's In Our Hands - Bjork
Brand New Colony - The Postal Service
A Century Of Fakers - Belle & Sebastian. I've had B&S in my head all day - mostly the refrain to 'The Boy With The Arab Strap'
American Idiot - Green Day

Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Rich Woman - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Papercut Moon - Rebel Minds - woo yeah, this was recorded live and there's a little bit of the singer talking to me before the song starts. fame at last!
Looking Lookin GAA - Polysics
Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham's XI - YES. what's not to like?

I Heard You Got Action - Pony Up!. I LOVE this song. It's cute and fun and just plain brilliant.
To Bid You Farewell - Opeth. Less cute and fun, but still good.
The Greater London Radio - Hefner. Cute and fun again. Be we having a theme?
Fannin Street - Tom Waits. Never knowingly fun or cute, Mr Waits, but definitely brilliant.
The Lucky One - Au Revior Simone. Fey and winsome - basically cute and fun with a hangover.

Wheeeee music!