I made a thread of this kind a while ago, and I feel that it's time for a revisit - partly because they've been doing this monthly on the rather excellent www.wordmagazine.co.uk site.
Simple rules - whatever you have your tunes on (your computer or an associated MP3 player - brand optional), give us a random selection. First five tunes out of the gates - no editing to try and look cool, on pain of a sound beating with a damp haddock.
Here's mine:
I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit) - Groove Armada (The Best Of Groove Armada)
Just Like You Imagined - Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile)
Put Me Out - Emtombed (DCLXVI - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth)
Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru - Gruff Rhys (Candylion)
We Are Your Friends - Justice Vs Simian (Esound Jun 06 - EMI Sampler)
And with that, I wipe the nervous sweat from my brow and thank my lucky starts that it didn't pick from my ABBA collection.
Next!
Full Version: The Random Factor
Everyone already knows you have a TON of ABBA, InKles.
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
the Smiths - Money Changes Everything (syuunote: Smiffs are bound to come up often, it isn't cheating - I just have their entire. discography.)
Evans Blue - Cold
Lit - Miserable
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Man, it missed all my gangsta rap.
(another syuunote: HOW do you RE-INVENT what cool is on a signature, InKy?!)
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
the Smiths - Money Changes Everything (syuunote: Smiffs are bound to come up often, it isn't cheating - I just have their entire. discography.)
Evans Blue - Cold
Lit - Miserable
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Man, it missed all my gangsta rap.
(another syuunote: HOW do you RE-INVENT what cool is on a signature, InKy?!)
Okays, heregoes:
Coldplay - Talk
Amon Tobin - Reanimator
Coldplay - Spies
Dream Theater - Never Enough
Harlem Underground Band - Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba <<lolz
Those are from my computer.
Coldplay - Talk
Amon Tobin - Reanimator
Coldplay - Spies
Dream Theater - Never Enough
Harlem Underground Band - Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba <<lolz
Those are from my computer.
QUOTE (syuu @ May 9 2008, 11:31 PM) 
Everyone already knows you have a TON of ABBA, InKles.
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
the Smiths - Money Changes Everything (syuunote: Smiffs are bound to come up often, it isn't cheating - I just have their entire. discography.)
Evans Blue - Cold
Lit - Miserable
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Man, it missed all my gangsta rap.
(another syuunote: HOW do you RE-INVENT what cool is on a signature, InKy?!)
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
the Smiths - Money Changes Everything (syuunote: Smiffs are bound to come up often, it isn't cheating - I just have their entire. discography.)
Evans Blue - Cold
Lit - Miserable
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Man, it missed all my gangsta rap.
(another syuunote: HOW do you RE-INVENT what cool is on a signature, InKy?!)
I don't have a ton... More like a hundredweight...
Nice to see some Jaxx on there. I got round to ripping 'Rooty' on the puter the other day, and now look forward to funky fresh fun.
(with regard to the sig, don't thank me, thank Half Man Half Biscuit, Britain's formost purveyors of lyrical genius)
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 10 2008, 10:42 AM)
(with regard to the sig, don't thank me, thank Half Man Half Biscuit, Britain's formost purveyors of lyrical genius)
Heheh, Vatican Broadside always makes me giggle...
Dizzee Rascal - Sittin Here (Boy In Da Corner only had a few great tracks, but they rocked. Old school like Happy Shopper!)
Sabastian Boaz - Heart Error (I have a lot of weird techno, I found a torrent for an indie record label that had released its whole back catalogue under Creative Commons. This guy's worth checking out)
The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another (anyone else disappointed by Icky Thump? Apart from the title track, it was a bit of a let-down)
Eels - I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (not my favourite Eels album, this, but it ain't bad)
GoodBooks - Beautiful To Watch (never actually listened to this until now, I ripped it off a friend. Good stuff, though! Kinda poppy rock, toe-tapping fun.)
Sabastian Boaz - Heart Error (I have a lot of weird techno, I found a torrent for an indie record label that had released its whole back catalogue under Creative Commons. This guy's worth checking out)
The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another (anyone else disappointed by Icky Thump? Apart from the title track, it was a bit of a let-down)
Eels - I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (not my favourite Eels album, this, but it ain't bad)
GoodBooks - Beautiful To Watch (never actually listened to this until now, I ripped it off a friend. Good stuff, though! Kinda poppy rock, toe-tapping fun.)
QUOTE (Spussy Cat @ May 10 2008, 11:50 AM)
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 10 2008, 10:42 AM)
(with regard to the sig, don't thank me, thank Half Man Half Biscuit, Britain's formost purveyors of lyrical genius)
Heheh, Vatican Broadside always makes me giggle...
Funny you should say that, given that I've just popped that track on a compilation for one of the forumites here present. It's a little short, but it gives me a good strong belly laugh every time.
Who the f@cking hell are Slipknot?
QUOTE (CommieBastard @ May 10 2008, 12:35 PM)
Dizzee Rascal - Sittin Here (Boy In Da Corner only had a few great tracks, but they rocked. Old school like Happy Shopper!)
Sabastian Boaz - Heart Error (I have a lot of weird techno, I found a torrent for an indie record label that had released its whole back catalogue under Creative Commons. This guy's worth checking out)
The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another (anyone else disappointed by Icky Thump? Apart from the title track, it was a bit of a let-down)
Eels - I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (not my favourite Eels album, this, but it ain't bad)
GoodBooks - Beautiful To Watch (never actually listened to this until now, I ripped it off a friend. Good stuff, though! Kinda poppy rock, toe-tapping fun.)
Sabastian Boaz - Heart Error (I have a lot of weird techno, I found a torrent for an indie record label that had released its whole back catalogue under Creative Commons. This guy's worth checking out)
The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another (anyone else disappointed by Icky Thump? Apart from the title track, it was a bit of a let-down)
Eels - I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (not my favourite Eels album, this, but it ain't bad)
GoodBooks - Beautiful To Watch (never actually listened to this until now, I ripped it off a friend. Good stuff, though! Kinda poppy rock, toe-tapping fun.)
F@CK ME!!! It's Commie!!! How the devil are you, Komrade? I should've known this thread would get you out of hiding.
I thought 'Icky Thump' was OK, but they'll probably never outdo 'White Blood Cells' in my eyes.
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 10 2008, 12:44 PM)
F@CK ME!!! It's Commie!!! How the devil are you, Komrade? I should've known this thread would get you out of hiding.
I thought 'Icky Thump' was OK, but they'll probably never outdo 'White Blood Cells' in my eyes.
I thought 'Icky Thump' was OK, but they'll probably never outdo 'White Blood Cells' in my eyes.
It was that thread in Daft, actually, that Pat pointed me to, but I do love the Media. Though knowing me, I suppose it's a wonder I didn't head straight for Issues and start chucking my weight around.
I'm getting by - how are you, InKy? Like I said in Daft, you'd been gone for ages even before I left, and that was a year or two ago.
I shall answer your questions in the Daft forum, to save an almighty raft of spam killing this poor young thread. Oh yes indeed.
Ending the deviation...
Remy Zero - Glorious #1 (The Golden Hum) awesome for dancing around in ones underwear to
LostProphets - A Thousand Apologies (The Fake Sound of Progress)
Air - Radio #1 (10 000Hz Legend) what is it with #1's?
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (The Downward Spiral)
The Appleseed Cast - A Place In Line (Low Level Owl: Volume 2)
Remy Zero - Glorious #1 (The Golden Hum) awesome for dancing around in ones underwear to
LostProphets - A Thousand Apologies (The Fake Sound of Progress)
Air - Radio #1 (10 000Hz Legend) what is it with #1's?
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (The Downward Spiral)
The Appleseed Cast - A Place In Line (Low Level Owl: Volume 2)
From my iPod:
Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin
Don't Stay by Linkin Park
Devil's Slide by Joe Satriani
Infinite Dreams by Iron Maiden
Anarchy in the UK by The Sex Pistols
Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin
Don't Stay by Linkin Park
Devil's Slide by Joe Satriani
Infinite Dreams by Iron Maiden
Anarchy in the UK by The Sex Pistols
Woah. Here we go:
Hate Me - Blue October
Right Through You - Alanis Morrisette
Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Rest Stop - Incubus (This may not be the actual name of the track - the cd I uploaded most of my incubus from, for some reason, named all of the tracks incorrectly.)
Not so bad. It, at least, didn't tap in to any of my country music...heh.
Hate Me - Blue October
Right Through You - Alanis Morrisette
Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Rest Stop - Incubus (This may not be the actual name of the track - the cd I uploaded most of my incubus from, for some reason, named all of the tracks incorrectly.)
Not so bad. It, at least, didn't tap in to any of my country music...heh.
Well, I'm still working on my essay, so I guess I'll distract myself again with random music!
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Walking On The Moon (Lovecraft-themed band, here covering the Police)
The White Stripes - I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (what's with all the White Stripes? I've only got two albums out of a music library of four thousand songs... still, this is a good one)
Modest Mouse - Blame It On The Tetons
Daft Punk - Teachers
Scott Matthews - White Feathered Medicine (I don't know who this is or why it's on my computer)
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Walking On The Moon (Lovecraft-themed band, here covering the Police)
The White Stripes - I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (what's with all the White Stripes? I've only got two albums out of a music library of four thousand songs... still, this is a good one)
Modest Mouse - Blame It On The Tetons
Daft Punk - Teachers
Scott Matthews - White Feathered Medicine (I don't know who this is or why it's on my computer)
Yay Commie!!!! Come back and procrastinate with us!! All is forgiven!
*grin*
Pigface - Magazine
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Behind The Sun (Damon Albarn has to date made three albums concentrating on the topic of his own navel)
Skunk Anansie - Infidelity (Only You) (blast from the past! My past, I mean.)
The Cure - Closedown
Nena - 99 Luftballoons (ah, the first bit of terrible cheese to show up here!)
Pigface - Magazine
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Behind The Sun (Damon Albarn has to date made three albums concentrating on the topic of his own navel)
Skunk Anansie - Infidelity (Only You) (blast from the past! My past, I mean.)
The Cure - Closedown
Nena - 99 Luftballoons (ah, the first bit of terrible cheese to show up here!)
Blue Oyster Cult - Burning for You
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
Yui - Life
Spoon - Nefarious
Snoop Dogg - Vato
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
Yui - Life
Spoon - Nefarious
Snoop Dogg - Vato
Really, my essay's coming along great. Nearly hit four thousand words, which is my upper limit...
Rush - Different Strings
Ministry - Hero
The Cure - Icing Sugar (so much Cure!)
Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat (oh! Oh! This is serendipitous - Jaq sent me this song years ago, telling me I'd like it. And I did. That's my story.)
Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone (killer track, but the Crystal Castles remix is even killerer. Check it out, I beseech you!)
Rush - Different Strings
Ministry - Hero
The Cure - Icing Sugar (so much Cure!)
Modest Mouse - I Came As A Rat (oh! Oh! This is serendipitous - Jaq sent me this song years ago, telling me I'd like it. And I did. That's my story.)
Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone (killer track, but the Crystal Castles remix is even killerer. Check it out, I beseech you!)
Eugh. Ton of math Homework. So I'm doing this instead?
Colorblind - Counting Crows (I'm in love with this song, for sure.)
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
It's Not a Fashion Statement it's a Death Wish - My Chemical Romance
Cosmopolitain Blood Loss - Glassjaw
My iPod likes older music today, it seems.
Colorblind - Counting Crows (I'm in love with this song, for sure.)
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
It's Not a Fashion Statement it's a Death Wish - My Chemical Romance
Cosmopolitain Blood Loss - Glassjaw
My iPod likes older music today, it seems.
In a departure from the normal in this thread, I'm not actually procrastinating anything, but here goes anyway.
Cyclops - Bruce Dickinson (First time I've ever heard this. It's okay)
Oh Well Part 1 - Fleetwood Mac
The Longest Day - Iron Maiden (Not much of a surprise, I have literally hundreds of maiden tracks on here)
What Have You Done - Within Tempation (Ahh, I love this, and haven't listened to it in a while)
Ghost of the Navigator - Iron Maiden (>_> told you there was a lot of maiden on here)
Cyclops - Bruce Dickinson (First time I've ever heard this. It's okay)
Oh Well Part 1 - Fleetwood Mac
The Longest Day - Iron Maiden (Not much of a surprise, I have literally hundreds of maiden tracks on here)
What Have You Done - Within Tempation (Ahh, I love this, and haven't listened to it in a while)
Ghost of the Navigator - Iron Maiden (>_> told you there was a lot of maiden on here)
Ok, so it's not totally random, per se, as I made a playlist to work to. But it's on shuffle 
Chihiro- Sleeping When I Leave
Final Fantasy- Your Light Is Spent
Two Gallants- Steady Rollin (I remember when I first heard this on 6music streaming from my computer wayback when in 2006. I loved the line "I shot my wife today- dropped her body in the 'Frisco Bay")
Pavement- Cut Your Hair
Camille- Ta Douleur
Chihiro- Sleeping When I Leave
Final Fantasy- Your Light Is Spent
Two Gallants- Steady Rollin (I remember when I first heard this on 6music streaming from my computer wayback when in 2006. I loved the line "I shot my wife today- dropped her body in the 'Frisco Bay")
Pavement- Cut Your Hair
Camille- Ta Douleur
Good morning, America! And everyone else, I guess.
2 Many DJs - Skee-Lo: I Wish (A Capella); Maurice Fulton Presents Stress: My Gigolo; The Breeders: Cannonball (mash-up titles don't half get long)
Faithless - We Come 1 (choooon!)
Freezepop - Tenisu No Boifurendo (so silly)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave (not moving away from the silliness here)
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath (I sang this last time I did karaoke. Good struff)
2 Many DJs - Skee-Lo: I Wish (A Capella); Maurice Fulton Presents Stress: My Gigolo; The Breeders: Cannonball (mash-up titles don't half get long)
Faithless - We Come 1 (choooon!)
Freezepop - Tenisu No Boifurendo (so silly)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave (not moving away from the silliness here)
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath (I sang this last time I did karaoke. Good struff)
The Fall - 'There's A Ghost In My House'
The Fall - 'Totally Wired'
The Fall - 'C.R.E.E.P.'
The Fall - 'Contraflow'
The Fall - 'How I Wrote 'Elastic Man''
'Amazing!', I thought. Right up to the point I realised I was only randomising my Fall collection.
Try again, idiot.
Supergrass - 'Pumping On Your Stereo'
Belle & Sebastian - 'It could Have Been A Brilliant Career'
Hopper - ''Cause I Rock'
Pere Ubu - '30 Seconds Over Tokyo'
Katzenjammers - 'Cars'
The last tune is stunning - a steel drum instrumental version of the Numanoid classic. Top banana.
Fixed that for you.
Daria - nice selection. I'd be fascinated to find out what other gems are on that playlist.
syuu - Finally! Your gangsta roots come to the fore! Let us waltz together to 'Dancing Queen'.
The Fall - 'Totally Wired'
The Fall - 'C.R.E.E.P.'
The Fall - 'Contraflow'
The Fall - 'How I Wrote 'Elastic Man''
'Amazing!', I thought. Right up to the point I realised I was only randomising my Fall collection.
Try again, idiot.
Supergrass - 'Pumping On Your Stereo'
Belle & Sebastian - 'It could Have Been A Brilliant Career'
Hopper - ''Cause I Rock'
Pere Ubu - '30 Seconds Over Tokyo'
Katzenjammers - 'Cars'
The last tune is stunning - a steel drum instrumental version of the Numanoid classic. Top banana.
QUOTE (CommieBastard @ May 11 2008, 09:03 PM)
Nena - 99 Luftballoons (ah, the first bit of brilliant cheese to show up here!)
Fixed that for you.
Daria - nice selection. I'd be fascinated to find out what other gems are on that playlist.
syuu - Finally! Your gangsta roots come to the fore! Let us waltz together to 'Dancing Queen'.
Goodbye - The Coral
What If God Smoked Cannabis? - labeled as by Weird Al but I don't think it is
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Live at Helsinki, not the best version of this song)
I Just Wanna Have Something To Do - The Ramones
Deer Dance - System of a Down
I'm starting to worry, I've done this twice and nothing embarrassing has come up.
What If God Smoked Cannabis? - labeled as by Weird Al but I don't think it is
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (Live at Helsinki, not the best version of this song)
I Just Wanna Have Something To Do - The Ramones
Deer Dance - System of a Down
I'm starting to worry, I've done this twice and nothing embarrassing has come up.
I have just moved house, and in the process did a very painful thing - I ripped all of my CD collection onto a hard-drive and gave the originals to charity. Yikes.
This does mean that my mp3 collection is now over 100GB, spans 15+ years of music collecting and 130 years of recorded audio (I've got Edison in my collection). It's going to be an eclectic mix once I get my PC at home online again.
Currently I'm at work, so I would put the iRiver on random but that would lose my place in the audio book I'm listening to. You'll just have to wait to see what delights manifest themselves in my random list.
In the meantime - what's an easy way of getting random tracks in Winamp, other than enqueing my gazillion albums and then setting it to randomise them?
Nice to see you Commie!
This does mean that my mp3 collection is now over 100GB, spans 15+ years of music collecting and 130 years of recorded audio (I've got Edison in my collection). It's going to be an eclectic mix once I get my PC at home online again.
Currently I'm at work, so I would put the iRiver on random but that would lose my place in the audio book I'm listening to. You'll just have to wait to see what delights manifest themselves in my random list.
In the meantime - what's an easy way of getting random tracks in Winamp, other than enqueing my gazillion albums and then setting it to randomise them?
Nice to see you Commie!
Frightening Lives--Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew
Dogs Were Barking--Golgol Bordello
Official--Pharoahe Monch
All My Stars Aligned--St. Vincent
Your World--Common
(iPodded)
Wow, apart from the last, undeniably sappy track, I think my music came off pretty cool. Gracious that could have been worse.
Dogs Were Barking--Golgol Bordello
Official--Pharoahe Monch
All My Stars Aligned--St. Vincent
Your World--Common
(iPodded)
Wow, apart from the last, undeniably sappy track, I think my music came off pretty cool. Gracious that could have been worse.
Architecture in Helsinki - Wishbone (I started on this one on purpose I guess)
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Säh - I'm So Wasted In My Reeboks
Folk Implosion - Easy
Sycamore Smith - Honey Creeper
In Flames - My Sweet Shadow (just because Wishbone was on purpose)
Yeh
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Säh - I'm So Wasted In My Reeboks
Folk Implosion - Easy
Sycamore Smith - Honey Creeper
In Flames - My Sweet Shadow (just because Wishbone was on purpose)
Yeh
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 12 2008, 12:06 PM)
Daria - nice selection. I'd be fascinated to find out what other gems are on that playlist.
Jack and Jeff Lewis (New Old Friends and Moving), a whole load of Regina Spektor, Thom Yorke's Eraser, some tracks off Camille's new album Music Hole (it's f***ing amazing, I might add) and TV On The Radio. Chilled out summery music to work to
QUOTE (elphaba2 @ May 12 2008, 05:37 PM)
All My Stars Aligned--St. Vincent
I love St Vincent!
I got to see her support The National the last time I saw them in November. She was gooooood. Now I've finished work, I'll do a proper random 5:
Rubicks- Bicycle Boy
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue
Funki Porcini- Carwreck (Squarepusher Mix)
System of A Down- Chic 'n' Stu
Shipping News- (Morays Or) Demon
Although this is actually's Wytu's HD of music, so I'm not sure if I should have included Rubicks and Funki Porcini, having never listened to them...
With that in mind, another two are:
Beirut- Postcards From Italy
Thomas Dolby- She Blinded Me With Science... hehehehehe
QUOTE (Daria @ May 12 2008, 06:20 PM)
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 12 2008, 12:06 PM)
Daria - nice selection. I'd be fascinated to find out what other gems are on that playlist.
Jack and Jeff Lewis (New Old Friends and Moving), a whole load of Regina Spektor, Thom Yorke's Eraser, some tracks off Camille's new album Music Hole (it's f***ing amazing, I might add) and TV On The Radio. Chilled out summery music to work to
Just stunning. My cap is well and truly doffed to your superior taste.
Another random 5:
Honey - Marine Girls
Moon Occults The Sun - Espers
I Need All The Friends I Can Get - Camera Obscura
I Know (Deptford Daze remix) - Shortwave Set
National Express - Divine Comedy
Not much to be said about that little lot...
65 Days of Static - The Fall of Math
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
Atom and his Package - Going to Georgia
Melissa Ferrick - Happy Song
Gnarls Barkley - Necromancer
Hmm
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
Atom and his Package - Going to Georgia
Melissa Ferrick - Happy Song
Gnarls Barkley - Necromancer
Hmm
Boston - Augustana
Warning - Incubus
Fall Away - The Fray
Meant to Live - Switchfoot
Come Together - Joe Cocker (From the Across the Universe soundtrack, which I am in love with.)
Not bad. I am still shocked at the lack on embaressing music. Where's my Fergie collection?
Warning - Incubus
Fall Away - The Fray
Meant to Live - Switchfoot
Come Together - Joe Cocker (From the Across the Universe soundtrack, which I am in love with.)
Not bad. I am still shocked at the lack on embaressing music. Where's my Fergie collection?
For my ride into work today (since I've gotten here actually)
Dressy Bessy - Live To Tell All
Moving Units - Submission
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Bjork - An Echo, A Stain
The Broken Family Band - Hitting Woman
(I like this randomness)
Dressy Bessy - Live To Tell All
Moving Units - Submission
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Bjork - An Echo, A Stain
The Broken Family Band - Hitting Woman
(I like this randomness)
Lunchbreak 5!
Circling Girl - Cocteau Twins
Some Things Come From Nothing - Super Furry Animals
Rock This Town - Daniel Johnston
Flowery Noontide - Espers (again? I've only got two of their albums...)
Strange Invitation - Beck (being a heavily string-enhanced version of Jackass, culled from the second disc of the recent Odelay re-ish)
All in all, a fairly swoony, ethereal selection for me to eat instant noodle snacks to. I'll settle for that.
EvilSpoon - nice to see some Sufjan there. Also, a spot of Dressy Bessy is rarely a bad thing.
Circling Girl - Cocteau Twins
Some Things Come From Nothing - Super Furry Animals
Rock This Town - Daniel Johnston
Flowery Noontide - Espers (again? I've only got two of their albums...)
Strange Invitation - Beck (being a heavily string-enhanced version of Jackass, culled from the second disc of the recent Odelay re-ish)
All in all, a fairly swoony, ethereal selection for me to eat instant noodle snacks to. I'll settle for that.
EvilSpoon - nice to see some Sufjan there. Also, a spot of Dressy Bessy is rarely a bad thing.
Always a good game, often with interesting results. Like these...
Abydos by Sir Richard Bishop
Let It Fall by Lykke Li
June Bug by Melvins
The Unthinking Majority by Serj Tankian
Moses? I Amn't by Mogwai
Abydos by Sir Richard Bishop
Let It Fall by Lykke Li
June Bug by Melvins
The Unthinking Majority by Serj Tankian
Moses? I Amn't by Mogwai
QUOTE (Doctor Doom @ May 13 2008, 06:38 PM)
Always a good game, often with interesting results. Like these...
Abydos by Sir Richard Bishop
Let It Fall by Lykke Li
June Bug by Melvins
The Unthinking Majority by Serj Tankian
Moses? I Amn't by Mogwai
Abydos by Sir Richard Bishop
Let It Fall by Lykke Li
June Bug by Melvins
The Unthinking Majority by Serj Tankian
Moses? I Amn't by Mogwai
Melvins and Mogwai? That's a playlist with teeth, alright. Luvverly.
Photoshop is taking forever to open up all my pics for my portfolio so....
Here, There and Everywhere by the Beatles
Boundary by Grinspoon
Hey Mama by The Black Eyed Peas
Walk This Way by Aerosmith featuring Run D.M.C
Shallow Bay by Breaking Benjamin
Here, There and Everywhere by the Beatles
Boundary by Grinspoon
Hey Mama by The Black Eyed Peas
Walk This Way by Aerosmith featuring Run D.M.C
Shallow Bay by Breaking Benjamin
QUOTE (LoLo @ May 13 2008, 06:53 PM)
Photoshop is taking forever to open up all my pics for my portfolio so....
Here, There and Everywhere by the Beatles
Boundary by Grinspoon
Hey Mama by The Black Eyed Peas
Walk This Way by Aerosmith featuring Run D.M.C
Shallow Bay by Breaking Benjamin
Here, There and Everywhere by the Beatles
Boundary by Grinspoon
Hey Mama by The Black Eyed Peas
Walk This Way by Aerosmith featuring Run D.M.C
Shallow Bay by Breaking Benjamin
What, no 'Masochism Tango'?
Rather than just critique your selections (my plan for what promises to be a dull night at work on the graveyard shift), here's some of mine:
Rocks - Primal Scream
Dear City - The Last Town Chorus
The Biz Vs The Nuge - Beastie Boys
Cannonball - The Breeders (oooooh yes!!!)
Death Valley '69 - Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch
Well, that makes no sense at all as a list. Yet I like it.
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 13 2008, 11:09 AM)
What, no 'Masochism Tango'?
It's on there somewhere, just didn't come up on the random...now if you would like me to make my list look cool then I could fake my random.
I am extremely bored and so I'll browse my music in 5 per chunks until I get a B-52s song.
The Appleseed Cast - E to W
The Smashing Pumpkins - Silverf*ck
Gary Jules - Falling Awake
Beulah - Cruel Minor Change
Toad the Wet Sprocket - High On a Riverbed
Hellogoodbye - Two Weeks in Hawaii
Year of the Rabbit - Hold Me Up
Benton Falls - Tell Him
Chris Richards - Don't Forget About Love
Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
Straylight Run - The Tension And The Terror
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Corporal Brown
Porcupine Tree - The Creator Has a Mastertape
Nathan Johnson - The Magnet Song
I Am the World Trade Center - Inside Your Head
Ben Folds Five - Lullabye
The Levellers - Knot Around the World
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
The Appleseed Cast - Shaking Hands
Hotel Lights - The Mumbling Years
Deerhoof - Matchbook Seeks Maniac
Arctic Monkeys - Cigarette Smoker Fiona
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
Of Montreal - Natalie and Effie in the Park
Straylight Run - A Slow Descent
Sufjan Stevens - Conjunction of drones simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens ...... Eh, eff that
Deerhoof - Whither the Invisible Birds?
Crash Test Dummies - Just Shoot Me, Baby
Maestro Echoplex - My Eyes Are Disconnected From Head Is Disconnected from My Body
The Beatles - Let It Be
Tin Hat Trio - Big Blue House
Kate Havnevik - Kaleidoscope
Hotel Lights - Anatole
Portishead - All Mine
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
the pAper chAse - Off With Their Heads!
(Finally)
The B-52's - Party Out of Bounds
The Chevelles - Girl God
The Broken Family Band - Mess Around
The Decemberists - O Valencia
The Appleseed Cast - E to W
The Smashing Pumpkins - Silverf*ck
Gary Jules - Falling Awake
Beulah - Cruel Minor Change
Toad the Wet Sprocket - High On a Riverbed
Hellogoodbye - Two Weeks in Hawaii
Year of the Rabbit - Hold Me Up
Benton Falls - Tell Him
Chris Richards - Don't Forget About Love
Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
Straylight Run - The Tension And The Terror
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Corporal Brown
Porcupine Tree - The Creator Has a Mastertape
Nathan Johnson - The Magnet Song
I Am the World Trade Center - Inside Your Head
Ben Folds Five - Lullabye
The Levellers - Knot Around the World
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
The Appleseed Cast - Shaking Hands
Hotel Lights - The Mumbling Years
Deerhoof - Matchbook Seeks Maniac
Arctic Monkeys - Cigarette Smoker Fiona
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
Of Montreal - Natalie and Effie in the Park
Straylight Run - A Slow Descent
Sufjan Stevens - Conjunction of drones simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens ...... Eh, eff that
Deerhoof - Whither the Invisible Birds?
Crash Test Dummies - Just Shoot Me, Baby
Maestro Echoplex - My Eyes Are Disconnected From Head Is Disconnected from My Body
The Beatles - Let It Be
Tin Hat Trio - Big Blue House
Kate Havnevik - Kaleidoscope
Hotel Lights - Anatole
Portishead - All Mine
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
the pAper chAse - Off With Their Heads!
(Finally)
The B-52's - Party Out of Bounds
The Chevelles - Girl God
The Broken Family Band - Mess Around
The Decemberists - O Valencia
Nice tune to finish on, Spoon - perhaps my favourite from 'The Crane Wife'. Maybe 'Yankee Bayonet'...
Rain Wizard - Black Stone Cherry
6:00 - Dream Theatre
You Could Be - Guns N' Roses
All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn
I am totally out of the loop on the music all you young kids are listening to nowadays. I don't even recognise the names of most of the bands in this thread.
6:00 - Dream Theatre
You Could Be - Guns N' Roses
All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn
I am totally out of the loop on the music all you young kids are listening to nowadays. I don't even recognise the names of most of the bands in this thread.
Rape Me - Nirvana
Dead Wrong - The Fray
The Words We Say - Straylight Run
First Day of my Life - Bright Eyes
Don't Let Me Get Me - P!nk
I don't recognize most of the music in this thread, either. But that is most likely because of my limited musical knowledge, not so much not bein' a youngun' anymore.
Dead Wrong - The Fray
The Words We Say - Straylight Run
First Day of my Life - Bright Eyes
Don't Let Me Get Me - P!nk
I don't recognize most of the music in this thread, either. But that is most likely because of my limited musical knowledge, not so much not bein' a youngun' anymore.
Frou Frou - Psychobabble
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
Samantha Fox - Touch Me (>____>)
the Smiths - This Charming Man
the Dust Brothers/Fight Club - Who is Tyler Durden?
The varied musical tastes on here are CRAZY. Such variety.
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
Samantha Fox - Touch Me (>____>)
the Smiths - This Charming Man
the Dust Brothers/Fight Club - Who is Tyler Durden?
The varied musical tastes on here are CRAZY. Such variety.
Matazone is good at music!
I did two--there's my oh-goodness-failed-the-road-test-let's-look-up-NY-bike-laws shuffle:
Emperor X- Move to Paris
Iron Horse- Ride the Lightning oof there is the embarassing there it is
Incubus- Clean
Pharoahe Monch (ft Busta Rhymes)- The Next Sh*t
Radiohead- Just
...and my let's-get-over-it-and-make-delicious-food shuffle:
Iron & Wine- Love and Some Verses
Ella Fitzgerald- You'll Have to Swing It
Luciana Souza- Saudade Da Bahla
Bright Eyes- We Are Nowhere and It's Now
David Bowie- Fame
I did two--there's my oh-goodness-failed-the-road-test-let's-look-up-NY-bike-laws shuffle:
Emperor X- Move to Paris
Iron Horse- Ride the Lightning oof there is the embarassing there it is
Incubus- Clean
Pharoahe Monch (ft Busta Rhymes)- The Next Sh*t
Radiohead- Just
...and my let's-get-over-it-and-make-delicious-food shuffle:
Iron & Wine- Love and Some Verses
Ella Fitzgerald- You'll Have to Swing It
Luciana Souza- Saudade Da Bahla
Bright Eyes- We Are Nowhere and It's Now
David Bowie- Fame
Now this is something I wasn't planning for... I've got all my music stashed on a server, some 940 albums, and some of it is awful. Let's hope I can get a sufficiently random selection without hitting any Bob the Builder.
Okay, on goes the stream player... all tracks... shuffle mode on. Aaaaaand play!
Status Quo - Down Down
Pink - Respect (not a cover of the Aretha Franklin one, sadly)
Whitesnake - Now You're Gone
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
NIN - A Warm Place
Okay, that could've been a lot worse...
Okay, on goes the stream player... all tracks... shuffle mode on. Aaaaaand play!
Status Quo - Down Down
Pink - Respect (not a cover of the Aretha Franklin one, sadly)
Whitesnake - Now You're Gone
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
NIN - A Warm Place
Okay, that could've been a lot worse...
Ok, so here comes pretentiousness!
My five right now, starts out with Ave Maria sung by Nellie Melba and has violin by Jan Kubliek, from a 1904 gramophone record that I ripped to MP3. It's all fuzzy, but this ghostly voice creeps through and it makes me want to cry.
Next up:
Call Me by Blondie
Eclipse by Pink Floyd. This song has musical rainbows- seriously, the organs sound like rainbows shooting through space and the woman'sbellowing singing is just incredible. It's also a perfect end to a near perfect record.
The Circumstance by ...Of Sinking Ships. I love this song: they're a band Wytu got me into and he said he used to just listen to this song over and over whenever on a train or travelling anywhere. I've also got into the habit because it's so perfect for that- the drums sound like a train click-clacking on rails and the guitars sound like you're looking out of the window at fields and trees going past.
Get Into The Groove by Madonna. I f***ing love Desperately Seeking Susan and I have no problems about freely admitting my love for this track. Get up on your feet, yeah step to the beat!
My five right now, starts out with Ave Maria sung by Nellie Melba and has violin by Jan Kubliek, from a 1904 gramophone record that I ripped to MP3. It's all fuzzy, but this ghostly voice creeps through and it makes me want to cry.
Next up:
Call Me by Blondie
Eclipse by Pink Floyd. This song has musical rainbows- seriously, the organs sound like rainbows shooting through space and the woman's
The Circumstance by ...Of Sinking Ships. I love this song: they're a band Wytu got me into and he said he used to just listen to this song over and over whenever on a train or travelling anywhere. I've also got into the habit because it's so perfect for that- the drums sound like a train click-clacking on rails and the guitars sound like you're looking out of the window at fields and trees going past.
Get Into The Groove by Madonna. I f***ing love Desperately Seeking Susan and I have no problems about freely admitting my love for this track. Get up on your feet, yeah step to the beat!
QUOTE (syuu @ May 13 2008, 11:12 PM)
Samantha Fox - Touch Me (>____>)
HAHAHAHAHA *snort* HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!
...
No really, very nice.
OK, here's some of mine for the morn:
Why Are People Grudgeful? - The Fall (hmm - very Fall-heavy week so far)
Sorry Entertainer - Calvin Johnston (cover from the Daniel Johnston 'Discovered Covered' comp - I generally prefer the originals, but this is good)
Lemonade - Beck (Mr Creative Zen is fond of the Odelay reissue. Good - so am I)
(Slip & Slide) Suicide - Kosheen (I always forget I own this...)
I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally - Nine Inch Nails
What a blitheringly miserable selection for such a sunny day. Nothing I dislike or am ashamed of - I just wish it was a little chirpier...
Daria - nowt wrong with being pretentious. That said, I'm a bit pretentious myself, so I would say that. The 'Ave Maria' vinyl sounds wonderful, though. And all from a woman immortalised in dessert form.
Sam Fox?? Good lord, there's a blast from the eighties all right. She became popular at the time when Stock Aitken Waterman really were alchemists and basically turned anyone into a pop star by using a polyphonic synthesiser and a vocorder. I think the conversation must've been something like this:
Stock: Well, we've been pretty successful so far, what with getting Mel and Kim another number one.
Aitken: Yes, and that bloke from Warrington with that voice. And getting some tiny Antipodean chick in the charts!
Stock: Yeah, not to mention those two annoying scouse bints!
Waterman: But I quite like Sonia.
Stock: No, Pete, I meant the Reynolds Girls.
Waterman: Oh, right. Sorry.
Aitken: Guys, we really are the modern day King Midas. Except there's three of us.
Waterman: I dunno guys, I think we still haven't got there yet.
Stock/Aitken: (together) What??
Waterman: We need a challenge. We need to get someone whose famous for something which isn't singing.
Stock: But we did that with Jason Donovan, remember?
Aitken: And Roland Rat.
Waterman: No. I mean someone who's famous for something ridiculous. Like getting their norks out in the Sun.
Stock: But surely... You don't mean...
Waterman: Yep!
Aitken: But she can't sing!
Waterman: And that stops us because?
Aitken: Oh yeah. Pat and Mick. I forgot.
Stock: Surely nobody's going to go for that! People won't buy her records because she has big boobs! Oh no, wait a mo, I forgot about Sabrina...
Waterman: Look, she'll be huge, and I don't mean in the mammary gland sense!
And thus Sam Fox's career turned to music. Then nothing for a quarter of a century until she appeared on Wife Swap with her manager and lesbian partner who looks old enough to be her grandmother.
Okay, delay tactics over, the server is now running again... here's Leo's lunchtime selection:
Jamiroquai - King For A Day
Jools Holland - Be My Guest
Katie Melua - Crawling Up A Hill
Adam Ant - Puss 'N Boots
Eminem - Criminal
Stock: Well, we've been pretty successful so far, what with getting Mel and Kim another number one.
Aitken: Yes, and that bloke from Warrington with that voice. And getting some tiny Antipodean chick in the charts!
Stock: Yeah, not to mention those two annoying scouse bints!
Waterman: But I quite like Sonia.
Stock: No, Pete, I meant the Reynolds Girls.
Waterman: Oh, right. Sorry.
Aitken: Guys, we really are the modern day King Midas. Except there's three of us.
Waterman: I dunno guys, I think we still haven't got there yet.
Stock/Aitken: (together) What??
Waterman: We need a challenge. We need to get someone whose famous for something which isn't singing.
Stock: But we did that with Jason Donovan, remember?
Aitken: And Roland Rat.
Waterman: No. I mean someone who's famous for something ridiculous. Like getting their norks out in the Sun.
Stock: But surely... You don't mean...
Waterman: Yep!
Aitken: But she can't sing!
Waterman: And that stops us because?
Aitken: Oh yeah. Pat and Mick. I forgot.
Stock: Surely nobody's going to go for that! People won't buy her records because she has big boobs! Oh no, wait a mo, I forgot about Sabrina...
Waterman: Look, she'll be huge, and I don't mean in the mammary gland sense!
And thus Sam Fox's career turned to music. Then nothing for a quarter of a century until she appeared on Wife Swap with her manager and lesbian partner who looks old enough to be her grandmother.
Okay, delay tactics over, the server is now running again... here's Leo's lunchtime selection:
Jamiroquai - King For A Day
Jools Holland - Be My Guest
Katie Melua - Crawling Up A Hill
Adam Ant - Puss 'N Boots
Eminem - Criminal
And that, I imagine, is exactly how the conversation went. Except they were also dressed in long robes, standing over the carcass of a freshly killed goat. They had to be getting help from somewhere...
QUOTE (Industrial Kybosh @ May 14 2008, 01:09 PM)
And that, I imagine, is exactly how the conversation went. Except they were also dressed in long robes, standing over the carcass of a freshly killed goat. They had to be getting help from somewhere...
I often wondered about that. I could never figure out how those three seemed to have their collective digits on the pulse of the record buying public. But then again, if your suggestion has any truth (and I suspect it does) then all they'd really need is a good supply of mountain dwelling ruminants. And robes. Can't forget those...
Thinking about it, for them to get hit records from such dubious talent, I can't help wondering if Rick Astley's disappearance was really because he didn't want to be famous any more...
Moosh's lunchtime listening:
Lookin' After Number 1 - The Boomtown Rats
Born in '58 - Bruce Dickinson
City Hall - Tenacious D
I Wanna Be Your Man - The Beatles
Bounce - System of a Down
Standing up for bands that everyone's heard of!
Lookin' After Number 1 - The Boomtown Rats
Born in '58 - Bruce Dickinson
City Hall - Tenacious D
I Wanna Be Your Man - The Beatles
Bounce - System of a Down
Standing up for bands that everyone's heard of!
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