The... Beatles? Sorry, doesn't ring a bell...

Why thank you, kind sir!

A far less toothy selection this afternoon.

Jesus Came From Outta Space by Supergrass
I Feel It All by Feist
Onsay by Fennesz
Mishto by Gogol Bordello
Banana Co by Radiohead

One of my favourite Radiohead bees there. Don't listen to that nearly often enough.

The 'head have got some great B-sides. I rather fell for the 'Paranoid Android' single, with 'Polyethylene Part 1 & 2' and 'Pearly*' - great tunes both. Also, props to the Supergrass - one of the most exciting live bands I've seen. Last time was in Leeds, where they were supported by the then-almost-unknown Libertines. Who were crap, incidentally.

5 for the hell of it:

After The Laughter - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Colonise The moon - Super Furry Animals (a B-side, as it happens, from my mighty SFA collection)
Chinaberry Tree (Red Version) - Mew (another B-side - I see a theme developing...)
Atomic - Blondie (...or perhaps not)
Flawed Is Beautiful - These Animal Men

The last one is from my wife's collection, but I still quite like them. They once wrote a song about my wife, as it happens - many moons ago, when she was a teenage tearaway in feather boa and glitter. She was quite the glam-punk, it has to be noted.

All Die Ganzen Jare - Die Toten Hosen
Get in the Ring - Guns n' Roses
Clouds Race Across the Sky - Joe Satriani
Rubina - Joe Satriani
I Won't Say [I'm in Love] - Hercules Movie

Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Trampled Underfoot - Led Zeppelin
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - GNR
Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani
Different World - Iron Maiden

Bicycle Race - Queen
She's Not There - Carlos Santana
We Will Rock You - Queen
Wild Thing - Jimi Hendrix
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

The Dream Is Over - Van Halen
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden
Jerk - The Buzzcocks
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

I'm surprised Green Day hasn't come up yet. Let's try one more.

Don't Believe a Word - Thin Lizzy
The Animal- Steve Vai
Punk Rock Song - Bad Religion
Patience - Guns n' Roses
American Jesus - Bad Religion

It would appear that Izzy likes to rock. And by rock, I mean rawk. No doubt AC/DC would salute you.

Well, it's half eight again, and I'm in work for another hour, already bored out of my mind (even bored enough to create my own MySpace - just look for Crawton Leek, where you will find... nothing, as yet). Time for a funky, fresh and firm five:

Judy Is A Punk - The Ramones (less bored already - result!)
Breaking The Girl - Red Hot Chili Peppers (a band that seem to be appearing on most people's random selections - perhaps we have found the secret bond that ties Matazonians together...)
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (oh, those Beatles...)
Plastic Creatures - EC8OR (ahh, bask in the joys of lo-fi digital hardcore)
The Everthere - Elbow (yes, syuu, you read that right - turns out they're not that dull after all)

When Biscuits Go Wrong - 7 Seconds of Love
Belly Button Window - Jimi Hendrix
Voices - Dream Theatre
Changes - David Bowie
Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe

Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me - Diane Schuur (This doesn't really count 'cos it was paused from earlier)
Schools Out - Alice Cooper
Procession of the Spirits - Joe Hisaishi (From Spirited Away soundtrack)
Flute Sonata mvt.2- Poulenc
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Eronel - Thelonious Monk

Well that's not too embarrassing at least but I'm going to stop listening to music now. It's late and so makes me nervous that I can't hear my surroundings...

Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers (The tie that binds, indeed)
Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek - Blue October
Soliloquy - Dropping Daylight
All At Once - The Fray
To The End - My Chemical Romance

Yum. That be some good music.

Bored. Thought I'd do this again.

Changes - David Bowie
Infinite Dreams - Iron Maiden
King For A Day/Shout - Green Day
Teenage Lobotomy - The Ramones
You Lied - Green Day

Sureshot -Yellowcard (heh, from a CD I got when I was like 9.)
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
Why - Joe Satriani
Kill Rock 'N Roll - System of a Down
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
Alles Aus Liebe - Die Toten Hosen
Us and Them - Pink Floyd
New Wave Jacket - Polysics (let's all hum the intro now...)
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day

What I Got - Sublime
The Idiot Son of an A**hole - NOFX
Whoops, I Od'd - NOFX (... I just got that that doesn't say "Odd")
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker [ ABC Single Version] - The Ramones
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Manu Chao--Welcome to Tijuana
Modest Mouse--Invisible
Allen Ginsberg--Track 07 (it's the poem about his father and ageing)

oh god, iPod crapped out. St. Ulcer hates those old ripped CD files. Redo:

Moldy Peaches--NYC's Like a Graveyard
the Misfits--She
the Fugees--Red Intro
Nick Drake--Horn
the GZA--Duel of the Iron Mic

Not bad, but mostly weird and short. St. Ulcer is in a weird mood--possibly low battery?

Edit @ Izzy--I was in high school when Yellowcard got big! That is weird I am so old oh man how weird.

Old?! Dude you're like 4 years older than I am.

iPod's about to die...
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie (Something in the back of my mind is saying I said I didn't like this song once and you guys all jumped at me... What thread was that... )
Beer Bong Song - NOFX (Heh.. N..O..F..X.. "You mean 'No Effects?' Huh. Oooooh.)
Moonsoon - Robbie Williams
Nice Guys Finish Last - Green Day
2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden

You kind of can't pretend that it isn't a big 4 years, though. In fifteen I will see your point and raise a hearty toast to it, pretending that 32 is the same as 28. Now, though, I feel like a positive dinosaur compared to you. Like I should be munching prehistoric lettuce off of your head.

*clears throat*

Pavement--the Killing Moon
Yann Tiersen--La Noyee
the Strokes--You Talk Way Too Much
Manu Chao--Clandestino
Black Kids--Hurricane Jane

Okay, here's my morning selection:

Madhouse - Like A Prayer Oh lord, how the hell did this horrid dance version of the Madge classic end up on the server?? Quick, pass the remote!

David Essex - If I Could. This is on his greatest hits album, but I don't remember it at all...

Gwen Stefani - Breaking Up. Random tail end album track.

NIN - Eraser. Sounds cooler on paper than it does as soundwaves, another album tail-ender.

The Offspring - Hit That


I wonder if going backwards plays the same tracks? Ooooh, no it doesn't, so here's the backwards playlist.

Coldplay - A Message

Oasis - A Quick Peep

Ministry - Never Believe. At last, one from the front end of an album, and I really like this one!

The Jam - David Watts. Ahhhh, an absolute classic! I wish I could be like him...

M People - Open Your Heart


You see, people, if you want random you need a collection which encompasses the tastes of a varying range of ages and spanning at least four decades. But make sure you have the whole NIN back catalogue to ensure you get at least one you want to listen to

Izzy- kudos on the Polysics
My five for this morning are:
Idioteque- Radiohead (I love this song- it's like the track should have been on Thom Yorke's Eraser)
Knock On Wood- Amii Stewart (I love a bit of disco)
Clair De Lune- Debussy (I hate Classical music. It infuriates me and actually makes me feel quite angry sometimes. I can understand its brilliance and appreciate it for its artistic value but... it just pisses me off. Debussy is an exception)
Glory Box- Portishead
Introduction- Voxtrot (I'm surprised Voxtrot haven't come up in any other Matazonian's list as of yet- I would have thought so many of you would like them!)

Once again, the above is from my MP3 player that is old, knackered and only holds 128MB of music. Yeahhh. I shun your iPod technology.

I also love 'Idioteque', Daria. But not as much as I love 'The National Anthem' - my fave 'Kid A' track, and one of my all-time 'head faves.

Five before I start work (later, inevitably, to be followed by five at lunch and five on the late shift - I'm becoming predictable...)

Painted Soldiers - Pavement
Dog Roses - Duke Spirit
Your Southern Can Is Mine - White Stripes
Judy Is A Dick Slap - Belle & Sebastian (best title ever...)
Today Tomorrow Sometime Never - Echobelly

It's almost like the last decade never happened...

Einstein-Rosen Bridge by Venetian Snares
Stronger by Kanye West w/ Daft Punk
Before I Knew by Basia Bulat
One Heavy February by Architecture in Helsinki
The Fox in the Snow by Belle & Sebastian

Well, that was a bloody odd one.

Filled with trepedation I approached my Zen:

Nice Dream - Radiohead
Ddevil - System of a Down
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Brain Stew - Green Day
Million Miles Away - Offspring

Which is all pretty respectable.

Drugs Etc. by Peter Cook & Chris Morris
The Bohm Site by The Focus Group
Les Os by The Unicorns
Rich by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
She's a Star by James

This is honestly the funnest thing in a while. Let's go!

Etude in C sharp Minor - Chopin (played by Dejan Sinaninovic, not my favourite performer of Chopin's etudes really...)
Chic 'n' Stu - SOAD
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones (Is that a flugel horn?!)
Reflets dans l'Eau - Debussy (played by Francois-Joel Thiollier)
La plus que lente - Debussy (again Thiollier)

Well that was fun.

Doctor Doom, with each post here you are becoming ever more my kinda guy. Belle & Sebastian? Chris Morris & Peter Cook? Venetian Snares? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? God bless you, sir.

Lunchy five:

Green Room Sex Kitten - Scheer (original version, rare as hen's teeth, and brilliant)
This Is The Sound Of Youth - These Animal Men (those guys again?)
In The Woods - Howling Bells
Mutherfuker - Beck (couldn't decide if that needed censoring - I'll leave that up to the mods... )
On Repeat - LCD Soundsystem

Nifty.

My "finished work" five for today:

Radiohead - My Iron Lung
The Shirelles - Baby It's You
The Wonder Stuff - Poison
Thirteen Senses - Gone
Green Day - Basket Case (the live version off Bullet In A Bible)

The last one should be credited to the audience though, they sing most of it.

Cat Power - Fool

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism (huge thing for these guys a couple years ago, bit lukewarm on them now)

nullsleep - mellophe (I think I mentioned all my weird techno? Yet more of it)

Mew - Special (this keeps coming up on random!)

A Silver Mt. Zion - Take These Hands And Throw Them In The River

A 'Special' random is always a good random. I've got a live version of 'Apocalypso' where they segue into 'Special' in the middle - that kept popping up on my randoms a while ago.

I like being liked! I approve also of your own listenings, Mr. Kybosh!



Last thing I listened to on my way home from work today was the Electric Heart Strike EP. I love Her Lazer Light Eyes so much.

Good to hear it, Doc! Ahhh - is there anything as satisfying as mutual approval?

Time, then, for my last five for a few days - make it count, Zen...

Akuma No Kuma - Sunn O))) & Boris (F@CK YEAH!!! Nice start - sprrrooooooooonnnnggg....)
Mr. Tough - Yo La Tengo (Ooh, sweet! 'I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Kick Your Ass' is a great album - at least as great as the title)
I Collect Coins - Mercury Rev (I don't listen to 'Deserter's Songs' enough, so yay)
Here (Alternate Mix) - Pavement (From the Luxe & Reduxe ish of 'Slanted & Enchanted' - I'm getting impatient for 2CD reissues of the other two albums...)
'Cause I Rock - Hopper (This track was on a few randoms ago! Feh. Good job it's flippin' lovely)

I will return to give unnecessary opinions about your music. You have not escaped my critical eye yet. It's the left one, by the way - the right one is my bionic eye.

*bows* Depending on what day it was taken from, I should be one of those voices. Green Day suck a bit nowadays, but that gig was damn awesome.
Yet still from my MP3 player:
1979- The Smashing Pumpkins
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out- The Smiths
The Eraser- Thom Yorke
Nur Ein Wort- Wir Sind Helden
You're My Flame- Zero 7

Mmmm... music

It's always good to be present at a recorded performance, it enables you to live it again and again. Unless it was the Oasis gig they did in CoMS a couple of years ago, I was just glad I didn't have to pay for the tickets I had because they didn't really get going until they did a frankly belting version of Rock & Roll Star, after which they left the stage. Rubbish.

Anyway, very quickly my morning five randoms, because I've got a lot of work on today...

Gorillaz - Last Living Sould
Pharrell feat. Gwen Stefani - Can I Have It Like That?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Jipp
Jimi Hendrix - Gypsy Eyes
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Blimey, a bit of RLYL slipped into the randomiser, and one I've not heard for a while too. I like it when that happens, especially when it takes away the taste of the previous track.

Good morning, shuffle-button.

Electioneering by Radiohead
Major Label Debut by Broken Social Scene
Let The Devil In by TV on the Radio
Peartree by Jonny Greenwood
January by Venetian Snares

My shuffle clearly favours the 'Ohead and Snares at the moment.



So good.

In a Young Man's Mind - The Mooney Suzuki
Menuet (from Suite Bergamasque) - Debussy (Pascal Rogé)
Autumn Samba - Big Beer Band
The Widow - The Mars Volta
Our Swords - Band of Horse

Ok I wanna do it again.

Every You Every Me - Placebo
Toccata - Debussy (Francois-Joel Thiollier)
Prelude (from Suite Bergamasque) - Debussy (Pascal Rogé)
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins (Does no one else think it has an uncanny resemblance to a Placebo song.. just can't think which)
The Clairvoyant - Iron Maiden

I may have too much Debussy here.

The Great Communicator by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
(this song is weapons great awesome)
Wait For You by Hadouken!
(this kinda sucks)
Perfect Speed by 13 & God
(a perfect song from a perfect album by a perfect collaborative band)
Humming by Portishead
(this is pretty good, so much better than anything on Third, which is a detestable bumgrape of an album
Soil by System of a Down
(aaahzhahfha, this is so funny!)

I'm pretty sure it was the second day, because on the DVD Billie's like "And remember, the second day is always better than the first!"

In school right now and don't want to get my iPod taken away, so... Will edit this and add in music later.

*edit*
Here we go
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Baby, I Love You - The Ramones
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
We're A Happy Family - The Ramones
Paradise City - Guns n' Roses

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Here it is, Leo's five for Friday lunchtime (albeit a bit late) from his extensive collection:

Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden. Not one of my faves, to be honest.

Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl. This sh*t is bananas

Prince - Adore

Two Witches - Irresistible. Golly, the darkwave stuff just keeps popping up...

The Fratellis - Doginabag


And going backwards again, just for the sheer pesky heck of it:

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right. Hellfire, a complete classic, straight off the bat! Can this continue?

Alanis Morissette - Baba. Seemingly not. Oh well, moving on.

Donny Osmond - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do). Yes, the Hall & Oates classic being covered by that perennial Peter Pan-esque favourite with the inexplicably good teeth. If I look half as good as he does when I hit fifty I'd be a happy guy. Hell, I'd settle for that now, and I'm 13 years shy of that target... Anyway, good tune badly covered. Moving on.

The Mission - Grapes of Wrath. I like this song, for some reason. Dunno why, because the lyrics are utter garbage.

Stevie Wonder - Fingertips, parts 1 & 2. Eleven year old Stevie Wonder in action!

Yes - Quartet (argh, don't know wtf all this Yes is doing on my PC)
Bauhaus - Silent Hedges (bit more like it. A must-play at every goth's funeral)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (I keep pretending not to like this song, you know, to stay cool)
The Long Blondes - Big Infatuation (love these guys)
Christian Death - The Drowning (omg goth)

Smile Lines - Incubus
Be Youself - Audioslave
Not Myself - John Mayer (Hah!...that made me laugh, sorry)
Slit Wrist Theory - 36 Crazyfists
Wake Up - Alanis Morrisette

Not bad, not bad at all.

Little Queen of Spades - Eric Clapton
Wade In The Water - Eva Cassidy
Four Until Late - Cream
Hawaii - The Strokes
Karate - Tenacious D

This is a surprisingly summer-evening bunch. Good stuff.

Okay, here's Leo's five to kickstart the week...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
The Hives - Main Offender
The Rasmus - First Day Of My Life
The Beautiful South - Bell Bottomed Tear
Foo Fighters - Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup Is Running

Ah, what a nice line-up to go along with the pleasant surprise of hearing Loser on the radio this morning

It's Monday morning!

Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly (I love this song)
The Beatles - We Can Work It Out
Dream Theater - The Silent Man
The Ramones - Indian Giver

eh, quite a nice wake up selection.

Hey everyone! It's Leo's lunchtime quintet:

Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie. Oh my GOD, I used to love this song! When it was the mid eighties and I was fourteen

RHCP - Don't Forget Me
GZR - Prisoner 103
Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind
The Flaming Lips - My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

Trick For Treat by Neon Neon
(The standout track from the disappointing Stainless Style)
Marriage of Days by Eyvind Kang
(Gorgeous little bit of music. Who'd have thought Mike Patton could sound so sweet?)
Losing Touch by My Vitriol
(Remember them? No? Losing Touch was my summer anthem for 2001. Still ace.)
Dance Lesson by Hadouken!
(I should probably delete most of the Hadouken! songs off my iPod.)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place by Radiohead
(In Rainbows is bloody brilliant, innit? I love the helmet-cam clip Adam Buxton did for this song.)

Wütend Genug- Wir Sind Helden. I can't say I'm a fan of German music- any kind of German music, but Wir Sind Helden are brilliant. Just awesome. And their lead singer is cute
Ghost Mountain- The Unicorns
Daughters Of The SoHo Riots- The National
Sit Down Synth- Chow Chow
Thieves Oh Glorious Thieves (Fucking Twee Version)- VivaL'AmericanDeathRayMusic


Mmm. Music!
EDIT- Oh man, Paul Newman's Eyes by Dogs Die In Hot Cars just came one. I DO wish I had Paul Newman's eyes, as everyday would come with some surprise.

Falling down - Muse
In The Fade- QOTSA
Space Monkey - Placebo
Chopin's Etude in A minor, the number and opus escapes me, it's just called 'Track 2'
Prelude to the afternoon of a faun - Debussy

That was quite a good list. Especially the last piece, revolutionary genius.

Crazy Bitch- Buckcherry
D is for Danger- Arctic Monkeys
Ding Dong Song- Gunther
Dirty Little Secret- All American Rejects (Hate this band very much.)
Do Da Da- Green Day

That is not a shuffle, that is just the Ds on your music player!

Exit Does Not Exist- Modest Mouse
Swim - Ani DiFranco (probably one of the better weird ani difranco songs out there, I think)
The Charlie Manson Blues - Flaming Lips
Orubaba - Angelique Kidjo
Track 08 - Dinosaur Jr. (I need to put titles in)

Texas Downpour - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Riot - Three Days Grace
Baby I Love You - Areatha Franklin
Yadda Yadda Business Plan - Afterchristmas
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

Whoah. Talk about variation.

Leo's tuesday morning five:

Half Man Half Biscuit - I Left My Heart In Papworth General
New Order - As It Is When It Was
U2 - Mysterious Ways
Echobelly - Give Her A Gun
Tori Amos - Original Sinsuality

It's amazing what an oddball mix I can get out of my server. I suppose it's because I'm not restricted to the contents of my generic MP3 player.

Afternoon five:

Faithless - Insomnia. Oh yes!!
Trivium - A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
Foo Fighters - Big Me
Curve - Blindfold
Pendulum - Plasticworld

What will the soundtrack to my biology revision be?

Jailbird - Primal Scream (Can you listen to Primal Scream and not be happy? No.)
Rasputin (Extended version) - Boney M
Behind Your Eyes - Nine Black Alps (Did anyone watch a video called Spider when they were young? And remember the little hamster who was scared for some reason and had a little song in the dark? This song is so much like that.)
Tales From the Forest of the Gnomes - Wolfmother
Bransle de Bourgogne - Poulenc

This has all slowed down a bit. What's up, have all of you exhausted your generic MP3 players??

Here's my Thursday five:

Queen - My Melancholy Blues
Tenacious D - Dio
Bobby Darin - Nature Boy
PWEI - can you Dig It?
The Prodigy - Fire (Sunrise Version)

Marry Me- St. Vincent
The Boy Looked At Johnny- the Libertines
How Many Mics- The Fugees
Yellow Raspberry- Xiu Xiu
Dig for Fire- the Pixies

One Glass of Water - The Bees
Arabesque no.2 - Debussy (Francois-Joel Thiollier)
The Thin Ice - Pink Floyd
Love You Madly - Cake
Proof - I Am Kloot

What a mixture of moods.