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10 random tracks on your media player

Once again, and playing by the rule not to duplicate an artist. Also skipping podcasts...

1. The Beatles, "Lady Madonna," Magical Mystery Year (Purple Chick bootleg)
2. Elbow, "Grounds for Divorce," The Seldom Seen Kid Live at Abbey Road
3. The Bonzo Dog Band, "No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In," reunion single
4. Belle & Sebastian, "I Could Be Dreaming," Tigermilk
5. The Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil," The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus
6. Enya, "Caribbean Blue"
7. Coldplay, "High Speed," Blue Room EP
8. Dream Academy, "This World," Dream Academy
9. George Harrison, "Crackerbox Palace," Thirty-Three and a Third
10. The Traveling Wilburys, "Handle With Care,' Volume One

One oddity, I had Elbow's "Grounds for Divorce" come up again between 9 and 10. Specifically, it was a live bootleg of "Grounds" from an Elbow gig I saw live in DC last month.
 
Another 10 songs

The Air Near My Fingers - The White Stripes
Son Et Lumiere - The Mars Volta
Mad Man - The Hives
Being Followed - Rocket Science
Look Inside America - Blur
Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens Of The Stone Age
Better Than - The John Butler Trio
The Caudal Lure - Karnivool
Minus - Beck
Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine


I'll post my top 10 artists later. There must be a short cut, as I'm not gonna calculate it.
 
Today's random:

1. "Magical Mystery Tour" - The Beatles
2. "Homebreakers" - The Style Council
3. "Let's Get Lost" - Elliott Smith
4. "Hem Of Your Garment" - Cake
5. "Pie Jesu" - 岩崎琢
6. "Old Shoes" - Tom Waits
7. "Barcelona" - Rufus Wainwright
8. "Super Trouper" - ABBA
9. "Fakin' It" - Simon and Garfunkel
10. "Jealous Guy" - John Lennon
 
Today's random ten:

1. "Beautiful Loser" --Bob Seger
2. "The Ballad of Johnny Butt" --Sublime
3. "Open Arms" --Journey
4. "The Longest Time" --Billy Joel
5. "Mandy (Acoustic)" --Barry Manilow
6. "I Don't Want to Live Today" --The Ape Hangers
7. "Sympathy for the Devil" --The Rolling Stones
8. "All for You" --Sister Hazel
9. "Sex Type Thing" --Stone Temple Pilots
10. "How High the Moon" --Charlie Parker
 
This thread makes for interesting read -loads of stuff I need to look into :)

Here's my 10 random pieces, read as follows:

Track Number
Track Name
Artist(s)
Album​

1
2860
Moscow Nights
Soloviev-Sedoy - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Mark Elder
Last Night of the Proms 2006

2
4953
War Stories - Niska
Greg Edmonson
Firefly - The Complete Score

3
3378
a) Activated Artifact b) Under Outside Control c) Launch the Fighters d) The Vorlon Legacy e) Ivanova Arrests Dr. Trent
Christopher Franke
Babylon 5: Thirdspace

4
9135
Set Your Phaser for Fuck
Warp 11
Boldly Go Down On Me

5
7264
Music With Changing Parts
Philip Glass
Music With Changing Parts

6
5117
Crichton's Wedding (Look At The Princess Part II)
Guy Gross
Music from the Original Soundtrack Farscape

7
1668
Indietro, Cani!
Ricciarelli-Domingo-Hendricks-Raimondi-Karajan
Puccini: Turandot

8
7061 Every Sperm Is Sacred
Monty Python
Monty Python Sings

9
3594
She Was Mine
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Complete CCR Box CD1

10
8314
Let's Go Home - Finale
Stu Phillips
The Stu Phillips Anthology: Battlestar Galactica - Disc 1
 
Well, why not: let's see what the iPod offers today...

1: 'Another Girl, Another Planet' - The Only Ones
2: 'Centrefold' - The J Geils Band
3: 'Hey Ya' - Outkast
4: 'Radar Love' - Golden Earring
5: 'The Ecstasy Of Gold' - Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly score)
6: 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' - Bob Dylan
7: 'Happy Together' - The Turtles
8: 'Hot Fuzz Suite' - David Arnold (Hot Fuzz score)
9: 'Ch-Check It Out' - The Beastie Boys
10: 'Bow Thruster Room' - Mark Mancina (Speed 2 score bootleg)

More movie scores, but damn - that's an even more random mix than before.
 
  1. X, "Nausea," Los Angeles
  2. Billy Currie, "Step Forward to Seven Stars," Still Movement
  3. Dubstar, "Cathedral Park," Goodbye
  4. Broadcast, "One Hour Empire, The Future Crayon
  5. Ella Fitzgerald, "Remember," The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
  6. Klimek, "for Zofia Klimek & Gregory Crewdson," Dedications
  7. Wale, "The Bmore Club Slam," The Mixtape About Nothing
  8. Deaf Center, "Asia," Neon City
  9. Grouper, "You Never Came," Cover The Windows And The Walls
  10. Jori Hulkkonen and John Foxx, "Dislocated (Album Version)," Dislocated EP
 
With over 8,500 tracks in my ipod library, I'm not going to run out of material for this thread anytime soon.

"Melodies of St. Kilda / Southern Cross" - MASTER'S APPRENTICES
"I'm the Light" - BLUE CHEER
"Show and Tell" - AL WILSON
"The First Cut is the Deepest" - THE KOOBAS
"O.D.'d on Life Itself" - BLUE OYSTER CULT
"Life in the Fast Lane" - THE EAGLES
"She's Always a Woman to Me" - BILLY JOEL
"Kingdom Come" - SIR LORD BALTIMORE
"Fire on the Mountain" - THE GRATEFUL DEAD
"Cannonballs" - TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES
 
1. Judas Priest-"Freewheel Burning"
2. Led Zeplin-"Immigrant Song"
3. Power Symphony-"Way of the Sword"
4. Three Days Grace-"Animal I Have Become"
5. Aya Hirano-"God Knows"
6. 9mm Parabellum Bullet-"Wanderland"
7. Jem-"24"
8. Kamelot-"Moonlight"
9. Metallica-"The Unforgiven"
10. Within Temptation-"Final Destination"
 
One more time...

  1. Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Circle," A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  2. John Foxx and Robin Guthrie, "Luminous," Mirrorball
  3. Ladytron, "I'm Not Scared," Velocifero
  4. Modeselektor, "The Black Block," Happy Birthday!
  5. Lalah Hathaway, "One Mile," Self-Portrait
  6. Phuturistix, "551 Blues," The Roots of Dubstep
  7. The Pretenders, "Up the Neck," The Pretenders
  8. Bat for Lashes, "Glass," Two Suns
  9. The Primitives, "Way Behind Me," Pure
  10. Horsepower Productions, "To the Beat Y'All," In Fine Style
 
Helmet - Better
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Thrice - Helter Skelter (Beatles cover)
Faith No More - Caffeine [Live]
In Flames - Bottled [Live]
Guillemots - Last Kiss
Soulfly - Blood Fire War Hate
Incubus - Let's Go Crazy (Prince cover)
Gorillaz - Stop the Dams
36 Crazyfists - Sad Lisa (cover)

3 songs in 10 covers? Crazy.
 
1. Howard Shore "The Mirror of Galadriel" LOTR: FOTR: The Complete Recordings
2. Toby Keith "Yesterday's Rain" Pull My Chain
3. Rascal Flatts "What Hurts the Most" Me and My Gang
4. Chris LeDoux "Cadillac Ranch" 20 Greatest Hits
5. Lonestar "Everything's Changed" From There to Here: Greatest Hits
6. Vince Gill "I Still Believe in You" Souvenirs
7. Trace Adkins "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing" Greatest Hits Vol. 1
8. Original Broadway Cast "Written in the Stars" Aida
9. Garth Brooks "Face to Face" The Chase
10. John Williams "Luke and Leia" Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Special Edition

Duplicates skipped: Lonestar (1)

I've got quite a few from greatest hits collections on this list. There are very few artists from whom I purchase regular albums, and there are even fewer that convince me to buy them from the start. Greatest hits packages give me the songs that I want most or help me collect the best of an artist's early work.
 
1.Goatwhore-Alchemy of the Black Sun Cult
2.White Zombie-Creature of the Wheel
3.Alchemist- Lose your Life(featuring Snoop Dogg)
4.Sepultura-Stronger than hate
5.Butthole Surfers-Goofy's Concern
6.track 9 from Captain's Peril by William Shatner as read by the author.:rommie:
7. Wu-Tang Clan-Shame on a nigga
8. Toxic Holocaust-Death from above
9. Mercyful Fate-Desecration of souls
10. Nocturnus-Neolithic
 
01) Expolosion-Pt. 1 Rob Zombie Presents Frankenstein

02) Ring of Fire Social Distortion

03) Let Me Kiss You Morrisey

04) Aria Lisa Gerrard/Michael Gambon

05) I Want To Break Free Queen

06) Unforgettable Nat King Cole

07) God Is A Girl Groove Coverage

08) Monkey Gone To Heaven Pixies

09) Don't Call Me Baby Madison Avenue featuring DJ Dan

10) Hung Up Madonna
 
HappyDayRiot said:
NCC1701 said:
My personal favourites from Take a Look are Right Now and Y'all Want a Single, which are the first and last tracks on that album incidentally, the 10 songs in the middle are kinda 'meh'.
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Hahahaha I hate those two most of all!
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Guess our tastes are slightly different, time to start flaming each other, as internet etiquette dictates :p

I've tried listening to Serart, but it's a bit too arty farty for my tastes :lol:
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Yeah I bought Serart when it came out and never really liked it much. The only ones I do like are Cinema, Leave Melody Counting Fear and Facing the Plastic, which are naturally the only ones Serj is singing properly on. I love that man.

Aerials SOAD's best song to date? Nah, that'd be Peephole :techman:
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Close, but no cigar!

Time for round three:
1. Esper - Hitoshi Sakimoto (from Final Fantasy XII)
2. Somebody Told Me - The Killers (from Hot Fuss)
3. She's Leaving Home - The Beatles (from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
4. Dumb - Nirvana (from In Utero)
5. Du Hast - Rammstein (from Sehnsuch)
6. Flying Battery Zone Act 1 - Sonic Team (from Sonic & Knuckles)
7. I'll Be Damned - D12 (from D12 World)
8. Rya Wolves - Brian Tyler (from Children of Dune)
9. Star Wars Main Title and the Arrival at Naboo - John Williams (from Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
10. Johnny B. Goode - Marty McFly and the Starlighters (from Back to the Future)
 
ITL said:
Steve Roby said:
John Foxx and Robin Guthrie, "Luminous," Mirrorball
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Now that sounds like an interesting pairing!
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Oh, yeah. I've been a fan of both for a long, long time. Been a busy year for both of them, too -- Foxx has had four new albums so far and has some remastered reissues coming out very soon; Guthrie has a solo album, Carousel, and two or three EPs.

Here's what I wrote about Mirrorball at the world's least read and most sporadically updated music blog (i.e., mine):

Having heard the albums Foxx and Guthrie recorded (separately) with ambient musician Harold Budd, I expected an instrumental album with layers of piano, synth, and Guthrie’s distinctive reverbed guitar sound. So it came as something of a surprise to hear Foxx singing on several songs on this album.


The end result is something like the Cocteau Twins’ album Victorialand crossed with Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project. While this is the warmest, most melodic, most accessible of Foxx’s three albums so far this year, it’s not quite pop music. When Foxx sings, he draws, as he did on Cathedral Oceans, on the sound of traditional church music, going so far as to sing in something that sounds at times like Latin, Italian, or Spanish, but isn’t. It’s like the invented language the Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser often used, and it adds an evocative, distant sense of mystery even to songs like “Estrellita,” the song that stands out as the one most likely to appeal to people who’ve never heard of Foxx or Guthrie.


Guthrie’s guitar playing and sound have always evoked descriptions like atmospheric or ethereal, and that’s certainly the case here. He provides his usual restrained and delicate touch, playing simple guitar lines with plenty of reverb, creating a paradoxically austere yet full sound. Foxx’s vocals work similarly, usually being treated with a bit of echo. Some songs add acoustic guitar, piano, or unobtrusive programmed percussion. There’s an emotional weight to the album; it’s not dry or abstract (unlike some of the D’Agostino/Foxx/Jansen album earlier this year). The words may not tell you what to feel, but you’ll find your own appropriate reactions. This is beautiful music.


You can see a video for “Estrellita” on Foxx’s Quiet Man blog. If you like it and order the album from Foxx’s preferred retailer, Townsend Records, you’ll get a download link for an exclusive extended version of one of the songs.

And today's ten:

  1. Jessica Bailiff, "Spiral Dream," Feels Like Home
  2. John Foxx and Louis Gordon, "Adult Concerns," Impossible
  3. Benga, "Night" (with Coki), Diary of an Afro Warrior
  4. Roy Orbison, "In Dreams," Blue Velvet soundtrack
  5. The Long Blondes, "Separated by Motorways," Someone to Drive You Home
  6. Raphael Saadiq, "Ray Ray Theme" (with Joi), Ray Ray
  7. Scorn, "Glugged," Stealth
  8. Estelle, "No Substitute Love," Shine
  9. Tuxedomoon, "Soma," Holy Wars
  10. Stereotyp, "Jahman," My Sound
 
1. Graham Parker, "Nobody Hurts You"
2. The Police, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
3. CCR, "Travelin' Band"
4. Brian Wilson, "I'm In Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop"
5. The Clash, "Tain In Vain" (live)
6. Dionne Warwick, "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"
7. Steely Dan, "The Boston Rag"
8. The Who, "Young Man Blues" (live)
9. Rancid, "Daly City Train"
10. The Untouchables, "I Spy (For the FBI)"
 
"Mother Nature's Son" -- John Denver
"After The Thrill Is Gone" -- Eagles
"Red Vines" -- Aimee Mann
"Laser Show" -- Fountains of Wayne
"Fly From Heaven" -- Toad The Wet Sprocket
"On The Wings Of A Nightingale" -- Everly Brothers
"Look What You've Done" -- Bread
"Soul Meets Body" -- Death Cab For Cutie
"Gone To The Movies" -- Semisonic
"That Is Why" -- Jellyfish
 
1. Sixx:A.M. "Life is Beautiful"
2. Stan Bush "The Touch"
3. Eiko Shimamia "When the Cicadas Cry"
4. Stabbing Westward "Sometimes it Hurts"
5. KMFDM "Black Ball"
6. Within Temptation "Jilian (I'd Give My Heart)"
7. Spineshank "Forgotten"
8. Red "Breathe Into Me"
9. Judas Priest "Ram it Down"
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Higher Ground"
 
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