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Yes, subscribers! Tuesday is Random Day! It's that very special time of the week where you, th' Four Or Five Guys©, get to show how hip you are by listing the first five songs that randomly come up on your device in shuffle mode!
Of course you can lie, but at least tell us you're lying or the whole deal becomes a farce.
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth
ReplyDeleteSoft Machine - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
Cyrus Faryar - Medley: Bright Island/So We Sailed/On The Sea
Neil Young - I Believe In You
Harpers Bizarre - Poly High
(I'd definitely shoehorn in a little more diversity, and broads, if I was lying)
Airport - The Motors
DeleteSunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
So You Think You're in Love - Robyn Hitchcock
Fantastic Planet of Love - Marshall Crenshaw
shape of Things - Jeff Beck
Who are the Brain Police - Zappa/Mothers (from Freak Out)
ReplyDeleteFlower Song - The Meters (from Complete Albums 69-77)
Alone - Don Ellis Orchestra (from Electric Bath)
Ode To The Sea - Andromeda (from Definitive Collection)
Apart From The World - John Zorn (from Virtue performed by Julian Lage, Bill Frisell and Gyan Riley)
Care Free-Wm Penn & The Quakers
ReplyDeleteRael Naïve (Full Coda)-The Who
Linda Blair-Redd Kross
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)-Van Morrison
I'm Lonely-The Montells
Born Innocent or Teen Babes from Monsanto version?!! Born Innocent was definitely my favorite record in 1982 (still is an all time favorite) and I went to almost every show they played in LA county from 82-84.
DeletePrince & the Revolution - Movie Star (Comp)
ReplyDeleteRose City Band - Floating Out (Summerlong)
Zep - Immigrant Song (Live version)
Stereolab - Strobo Acceleration (Live Comp)
Hatfield & The North - Shaving is Boring (Top Gear 1974)
Joni Mitchell - Song for Sharon
ReplyDeleteBud Powell - Parisian Thoroughfare
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft
Bob Dylan - Joey
Handsome Dick Manitoba - Big Army Brass
ReplyDeleteBob Dylan - Mary of the Wild Moor
Gerry Rafferty - Still in Denial
Rolling Stones - Silver Train
Fantastic Negrito - Chocolate Samurai
Handsome Dick! - "To me, quantity is quality."
DeleteSeattle Sunrise - Bob James and Nathan East
ReplyDeleteUndecided Man - Magi
Sugar Sugar - Jimmy McGriff
Memories cant wait - Talking Heads
Sunday Mornin' - Kenny Drew
As I get ready for class, one of Alejandro Escovedo's innumerable covers of Foggy Notion is playing. But in class today we will be listening to:
ReplyDeleteFela Kuti: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
Bascom Lamar Lunsford: "I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground"
Chuck Berry: Johnny B Goode
Modern Lovers: Roadrunner
Sex Pistols: Johnny B Goode~Roadrunner
(why, yes, we are starting to Greil Marcus' _Lipstick Traces_)
Root that mountain down, professor!
DeleteCheap Trick - I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends
ReplyDeleteChris Stamey - Where Does The Time Go?
David Bowie - Dollar Days
The Auteurs - Land Lovers
Lucinda Williams - Doors Of Heaven
NRBQ - Here Comes Terry
ReplyDeleteNorman Greenbaum - Canned Ham
Old 97's - Designs On You
Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Jungle Brothers - Brain (feat. The Roots)
I see you...Old 97s are always fun. "Designs on You" is a great track. "Timebomb" is great track too...
DeleteThat was so nice, I did it twice:
ReplyDeleteYou Am I - Satisfied Mind
Kool Keith - Master Of The Game
New Pornographers - The New Face Of Zero And One
Cassandra Wilson - Seven Steps To Heaven
Keith Hudson - Part 1-2 Dubwise
Highway 51 - Bob Dylan
ReplyDeleteStreet Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones
The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles
Welcome To The Machine - Pink Floyd
And You And I - Yes
Although. to be honest, I prefer Bab's 5
ReplyDeleteJust the luck of the draw.
DeleteI just put iTunes on shuffle (something I never do), and that's what iTunes picked.
Iggy Pop/White Zombie: Black Sunshine
ReplyDeleteNick Cave: Kiss of Love
Devendra Banhart: Hey Mama Wolf
Husker Du: 59 Times the Pain
Alejandro Escovedo: Texas is My Mother
Evil But Kindhearted - Oliver Brown
ReplyDeleteNatty Burial - Lone Ranger
E.S.P. - Buzzcocks
Diddley Daddy - Bo Diddley
Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - Ramones
Billy Gates of the Double X Ranch here - let's see what the ol' 'player comes up with. Mind you it's all true, 'cause we here at th' ranch value honesty.
ReplyDelete"Hello, I love You" - The Doors
"White Cloud" - Tangerine Dream
"Raider" - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester
"Life In Review" - Don Sebesky
"Lumpy Gravy - Part I" - Francis Vincent Zappa
Billy's writing style, seems familiar from somewhere........
DeleteHe ain't me, Babs. Oh no no, he ain't me, Babs. Billy Gates is a long-time 4/5g© from the early days when it was Th' House O' Foam©, located in bosky downtown Vegas.
DeleteMojo Nixon & Skid Roper: "Gonna Eat Them Words"
ReplyDeleteThe Easybeats: "You'll Come Back Again"
Jethro Tull: "Aqualung"
Madness: "Shut Up"
ProjeKct Two (a King Crimson offshoot): "Contrary ConstruKction"
Just for fun I kept it going after the first five... up next was
DeleteButthole Surfers: "Sweat Loaf"
Sparks: "Suburban Homeboy"
Kippinton Lodge: "Rumours"
Rick Wakeman: "The Palais"
T Bone Burnett: "Kill Zone"
I carry a notepad in the car, and this week's notes include "put Suburban Homeboy" next to hip-hop on next mix."
DeleteThe Four Sections (Part IV) / Steve Reich, Works 1965-1995 / LSO, Michael Tilson Thomas
ReplyDeleteBillie's Blues / Billie Holiday, Intégrale Billie Holiday Lester Young 1937-1946
Bizarre Love Triangle / New Order, Singles
The Windows Up Above / Duane Eddy, Deep In The Hear of Twangsville
Tiger Lily / Blue Mitchell, The Cup Bearers
Probably good reason why I don't use this 'feature'
I use it in the car. Like listening to the best radio station in the history of best.
DeleteRescue Me by Fontella Bass
ReplyDeleteA Human Touch by Jackson Browne and Leslie Mendelson
Evangeline by Matthew Sweet
Headbender by Jimmy McGriff
For Someone I Love by The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
Lots of interesting leads here!
ReplyDeleteConclusive proof that th' 4/5g© are the beef in the burger o' hipness.
DeleteLa Guillotine De Magritte - Einsturzende Neubauten
ReplyDeleteDying Slowly - Tindersticks
If You See Dave - Stranglers
Exeunt Jeanette, Baby & Ghost - Ophelias
Virgins Anus Mantra Ray - Milovan Srdenovic JAR
Man, you 4/5g© are the greatest. I didn't even know there was such a thing as shuffle play. What a mind-bending concept.
ReplyDeleteMandate - C. Scott Blevins
Laugh at the Moon - Ritual Howls
It's Too Soon to Know - Irma Thomas
Rhythm is our Business - Snapped Ankles
Frankfurt 4 - Cul De Sac & Damo Suzuki
I see several folks tried it twice, but I'm just to chicken.
Tech Hint: The easiest way to put your device into shuffle mode is to give it a brisk side-to-side shake. This works for old-style record players, too.
DeleteWhat ya trying to do to me. I picked that sucker up to shake it but it weighs a ton. Now I threw my sacroiliac all outta whack. My hip bone dipped & my tailbone slipped, I've got a boogie-woogie fever of 110.
DeleteDid your ankles snap? Do you have great balls of fire? If so, you may be entitled to compensation for emotional distress and loss of consortium.
DeleteI think Clarence Pune may be sitting this one out because "shuffle" is something he does all the time.
ReplyDeleteHey, not ready for the limbo yet, but far from shufflin'.
Deletewhat a wonderful compendium....would make a helluva boxed set.
ReplyDeleteI Can't Quit her - BST (Al Kooper)
ReplyDeleteI concentrate on You - Fred Astaire
Twistible, Turnable Man - Andrew Bird
Tell Heaven - Rosanne Cash
Human Monkey - the Frantics
Sorry - the Easybeats
Sorry, one too many - next.
Elvis Costello - Two Little Hitlers
ReplyDeleteJulie Felix - I've Got Nothing But Time
Bruce Springsteen - Highway 29
BoDeans - My Hometown
Emily Capell - My Dad's a Smiths Fan
One thing I love about exercises in randomness like these is finding songs I would never have heard before..."My Dad's A Smith Fan" is going on the playlist and I'm passing it on to my 24 year old niece (and next door neighbor...) who is a Smiths fan. While her dad isn't a Smiths fan, I am, although I'm not moping about with gladiolas. :)
DeleteIf I had a shuffle this band'd likely turn up:
ReplyDeletehttps://iseehawksinla.bandcamp.com/track/turn-that-airplane-around
https://iseehawksinla.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-narcotic-place-i-reside
not far from a modern day Burrito Bros!
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ReplyDeleteWell, it clearly hasn't. There it is, right there.
DeleteIn Time - Jefferson Airplane
ReplyDeleteGet Free - Lana Del Rey
Roman Gardens - Kirsty MacColl
Love Makes You Ten Feet Tall(Demo Version)- The Velvet Underground
Amputations - Death Cab For Cutie
I did it from my iTunes library. A lot more content there. Still, nothing too weird:
ReplyDeleteFourth Avenue Blues - Slim Barton & Eddie Mapp (1929)
Love is Here to Stay - Johnny Hodges
Down in the Valley (live) - Solomon Burke
Blue Nocturne - The Sleep Eazys
Faith - Glen Campbell
I'd be interested in knowing what "device" the other 4/5g are shuffling from and the approximate number of songs in that database. I needed to curate (!) the songs on the iPod because I didn't want Christmas songs popping up on a shuffled summer playlist. I have far fewer songs on the phone although I use that more than the iPod these days. But I'm aware that if I'm shuffling on my phone there is much less opportunity for a delightful surprise.
DeleteI was a decades-long iPod fanatic until recently, when I bought a big fuck-off SD card for my Samsung phone, and downloaded Musicolet (shit name, crap logo, genius app). This is an ABSOLUTELY FREE app - no ads, no in-app purchases - that turns your phone into everything the iPod thinks it is. Don't take my word for it - download it fer nuthin' install it fer free, and shovel all your *cough* legally purchased LP records into it. I have 13,536 loaded so far, with plenty of space to spare.
Delete13,563 songs, not long-playing LPS.
DeleteFor those with an Android phone, there's a free app called Pulsar. You can fix tags and play by genre or create playlists, but it's even easier to move songs into folders on your SD card and just play the folder. It also has an equalizer. Just discovered how to shuffle. You can exclude folders (e.g., Christmas songs in summer).
DeleteI like to stream music while driving, but sometimes I'm in places where the wifi is no bueno, and Pulsar saves the day. IDK how many songs I gots.
All you modern age guys with your fancy modern equipment & your technobabel. My device is a 1951 Rock Ola jukebox model 442. But don't think I'm a Luddite. I had it converted to play CDs back in '98. It holds 240 CDs, average 12 songs per, so about 3,000 songs.
DeleteI just chuck the Brumalia disc on the fire after the holi-daze. The ole Ola is a heavy sucker though, so when FT3 suggested I shake it briskly from side to side, I tried it injured my back. I applied for compensation for emotional distress and loss of consortium as suggested by another 4/5g© but who knows if the RIAA'll pay up. Just in case, I've got a bevy of lawyers standing by.
oohh oohhh!! I know the answer to this one!! I use iTunes just for this purpose (otherwise it's foobar2000 all the way!). I choose to limit my iPhone library to rock based genres and save the jazz, easy listening, library, holiday, etc. genres for the computer or home hi-fi.
DeleteSo you make a "smart" playlist and choose the genres you want on you iPhone (genre contains 'rock' OR 'soul' OR 'indie' ...) based on how you have your music tagged. Set a song limit (I do 1500 at a time) and choose the default "random." Then for you iPhone Music sync settings in iTunes choose your Playlist to sync from. In a week or three, set the smart playlist song limit to "0" and then back to "1500" to get a whole new random selection matching your criteria and resync your phone!! That way you get a nice random selection of just the genres you want to rock on the go.
substitute 'iphone' for 'ipod' above -- I see you're using an ipod but the process is exactly the same
DeleteAt home I play CDs, vinyl, or listen on the computer. In the car, I have a 128GB flash drive with twenty-one 500 song mixes - 10,500 songs. I add another 500 every couple of months. I put some effort into not putting songs from the same decade right next to each other. It's also not a "my favorite songs" mix; about 20% to 25% is music I don't know at the time I add it. The idea was the way the old Top 40 worked: every week they added new "hit bound" unknowns surrounded by songs you already knew. Over time, songs that are super-annoying get replaced by new candidates. I've added a lot of genres in an effort to expand my horizons: hip-hop, jazz, 1920s and 30s pop/jazz. I'm currently adding in Latin Jazz...that 1960s boogaloo stuff like Willie Bobo. I didn't get my science fiction future...no vacations on the Rings of Saturn, no atomic powered flying car...but I can listen to just about everything I set my to tracking down...the only problem is time. I need another few centuries of listening time...hence my plan to transfer my brain to a vat of bubbling blue nutrient goo.
DeleteI do not have such a device..but I DO have flash drives that I listen to in the car...big 500 song mixes. So. Without peeking, I pick...mix #15....uh...songs 330 to 334. They are
ReplyDeleteWar On Drugs - Needle In Your Eye #6
Steve Goodman - City of New Orleans
Willie Nile - Vagabond Moon
Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Ramones - Suzie Is A Headbanger