Sayyy - ain't that pitcher vaguely familiar? Well spotted, subscribers! It's the iconic cover to The Lead Zeppelin's hit platter Presents! But did you know the original photo was snapped at th' IoF©'s famous Marina Restaurant, where menu choices are made for you by Al Gorithm, the Maître De Randomness? Of course you didn't, because I'm literally making this shit up as I go along! Haw!
But hey! It's the weekend, and what better thing do you have to do than to list the first five random choices made by your device of choice? I got nuthin', so I'll be getting this whole ball of wax rolling in the comments!
After The Dance - Bert Jansch and John Renbourn
ReplyDeleteYearnin' Learnin' - Earth Wind & Fire
Lyin' Eyes - Th' Eagles (I personally have no problem with these guys)
The Swimming Song - New Riders
Sansho Shima - Herbie Hancock
Good stuff
DeleteBert & John yipee yiyeah - a favourite, but BJ's (to his friends) fjrst album us the business dont you think
Swimming Song - is that the LW iii ( no relation to your goodself) song ? Never heard that version but do like his and also McGarrigle sisterly one.
My fave Bert album is Rosemary Lane. Yes, it's the LWIII tune.
DeleteIn a similar vein, a big nod of respect to the late Davey Graham and (in particular) his "Folk, Blues & Beyond" album. I also have a DG story that I could screed a screed on.
DeleteDG screed sounds interesting, picked up FB&B from a charity shop a few yrs ago, also the ep with Alexis Kofner with the original anji on it
DeleteFavourite BJ (as nobody ever called him)
Delete1. Bert Jansch - I don't think he ever topped his debut, but that' just me - bought it as a schoolboy, second hand from COB records mail order (any of you Brits remember them), influenced from a lad at school playing Anji on his guitar all the time. I then bought Jack Orion but it never had the same impact.
2. LA Turnaround - love the slide guitar from Red Rhodes - made me explore old wooly hat, as I think he's known round here
3. When The Circus Comes To Town - a later one that I rate highly.
4. Live ar the 12 Bar - a late one that to me is a pefect resumé of his work acoss all periods.
Bet you're all digging my detailed in depth reviews there.
Its a funny thing intit, why you have favourites. They are all personal to you and not necessarily what others would pick.
Yes, Bert's first is my Jansch go-to album.
DeleteHow about "Penguin Eggs" by Nic Jones? Tragic story - catastrophic road accident left him barely able to play and really screwed up his career.
Heard a lot about Penguin eggs, but never actually heard it...anyone?
DeletePicked up his first two albums as ine of those 2-Lps-on-1 Cd deals (though they had to throw two tracks off, early 73 minute CDs obliged), but I never really could get into Jansch. His folk is a little "dry" for my taste...
DeletePenguin Eggs.
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Dry, yes I can take that, it's probably why I skip 9yrs from his first album in 1965 to LA Turnaround and then 21yrs to the next two. But just to wet your whistle, with a hope of enticing you into more of his output, for one night only, I give you : The BJ Four, being my 4 goto tracks from his goto first album
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Oh and thank you kindly, Mr Shark, I will gladly give the Penguin Eggs a listen, cheers.
Ta for the eggs; here's the Noah's Ark Trap
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Stripes - Sneaker Pimps
ReplyDeleteLocusts - Broadcast
Mr. Eddy’s Theme 1 (Lost Highway OST) - Barry Adamson
Wild is the Wind - David Bowie
Bootsie’s Lament - Oneness of Juju
Jackie McLean - Saturday and Sunday
ReplyDeleteT-Bone Walker - Papa Ain't Salty
Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Lose
Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
Captain Beefheart - Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles
Brian Wilson: Good Vibrations (2021 solo piano)
ReplyDeleteDixie Hummingbirds: Holy Baby
Big Star: 13
LX Chilton: No Sex
Doc Watson: Columbus Stockade Blues
OK, it sounded less weird than it reads, but it was, tbh, a little weird... #6 on now is Lynyrd Skynyrd live Call Me the Breeze....uhm, ok, sure.
Nuthin' wrong with the Skynyrds, nyther. If I have a jones for a heads-down, no-nonsense mindless geetar meltdown, Free Bird works every time.
Delete100%...three geetars, no waiting. Everything else aside, helluva tune. As a teenage Duane Allman worshiper, the connection was was cool too. Their version of They Call me the Breeze is pretty fabulous.
DeleteSuch a great, great band. "Gimme Three Steps".
DeleteMe too! I still get excited when I hear Free Bird -- especially the '74 live Atlanta version that was released a few years ago
DeleteGive us yer randos, mebbe she'll turn up ...
ReplyDeleteCoco Lagos - Guajira Boogaloo
ReplyDeleteBruce Springsteen - Rosalita
Louvin Brothers - Kentucky
Clarence Williams - Zulu Blues
Keith Richards - 999
OMD - Isotype
ReplyDeleteRoger Miller - Half A Mind
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
Thin Lizzy - It'd Only Money
Nick Mulvey - Infinite Trees
David Bowie - Jean Genie
ReplyDeleteButterfield Blues Band - Work Song
Bob Wills - Mission to Moscow
XTC - The Disappointed
Jellyfish - Joining a Fan Club
Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards - The Little Red Monkey
ReplyDeleteThe Band - Life Is A Carnival
Willie Nelson - Something To Think About
Marie Celeste - Prisoner
Can - Halleluwah
From this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAviGOqtAqM to Can is probably the severest moodswing we're going to see.
DeleteSurely Farq you're too young to remember TIFH before June Whitfield?
DeleteRon?
Eth?
John D Loudermilk - Mary's Little Boy Child
ReplyDeleteNeil Young - The Last Trip to Tulsa
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
The Zombies - It's Alright with Me
Ryan Adams - Rocks
Mars Mechanics - Tardigrade Anthem
ReplyDeleteYes - Long Distance Runaround
Akira Ifukube - Princess Saruno I (Godzilla Soundtrack)
Minutemen - History Lesson Part II
Cannonball Adderley - Goodbye
It Must Be Your Breath - Mothers Of Invention
ReplyDeleteSecurity Check - Sophie Hunger
Bang, Bang - Ann Burton
Just You, Just Me - Sinne Eeg
I Cried For You - Billie Holiday
Alex Chilton - Thing For You
ReplyDeleteHergest - Arglwyddes Maes Y Fedwen (wtf?! sounds nice whatever it is)
Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy
Pavement - Range Life
Linda Ronstadt - Hurt So Bad
Not too shabby!
BTW, If anyone wants to gift me one of the original 12" obelisks as an XMas present that would be really swell! (They made 1000 individually numbered "objects" to promote the "Presents!" album -- I'd be fine with any of them really but number 666 would be preferred of course).
DeleteReproductions are fairly common at record shows. And yes, most are numbered 666.
DeleteI've got an obelisk especially for you, MrDave! Plygu drosodd, byddaf yn gyrru.
DeleteBased on the Welsh translation, "Bending over, I will drive," I'm not quite sure I want this gift but thank you for the offer?!?
DeleteMmm. Methinks there is some heavy editing being perpetrated in the name of randomness. Unlike my 5 absolutely, 112% guaranteed hand-picked by the Deity itself.
ReplyDeleteCat Stevens - I wish I wish
Mary Hopkin - (see I told you!) What's real?
The Tremeloes - You can't touch Sue
The Ruby Suns - Birthday on Mars
Dirty Pretty Things - The enemy
Mine aren't truly random; they're SORT OF random. I don't have Itunes. I have a flash drive with twenty-two 500 song folders...11,000 songs total. About 1/3 of the songs I don't know, the other 2/3rds were from books and lists of great singles ("100 Greatest Reggae Songs," "1001 Singles You Must Hear Before You're Pushing Up Daisies..."), plus recommendations from my wife, friends, and children. Time frame is 1918 to 2021, all genres are eligable for inclusion. So when it's my turn...I randomly go "Mix #6...songs 360 to 364" and put up what's there. So mine is SORT of curated, but I don't scan to find a "good run" of five songs in a row. It is whatever it turns out to be.
DeleteMine are similar - I have dozens of Spotify playlists, each with 100 songs that I love, like or admire. If on a subsequent listen they don't hit the spot I ruthlessly delete and replace. When I want to play this particular game I choose a randmon playlist, set it going on randmon play and randmonly type out what happens next . . . from playlist number 16 this time:
DeleteDennis Wilson - River Song
Dirk Powell - Break The Chains
Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow - Cruisin' (Surprisingly good, from a nice film.)
Joe Cocker - Jamaica Say You Will
Freddie King - Stumble
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Oh, and by the way A Fine Old English Noblemon, I remember COB Records very well - I used to visit them at their Porthmadog shop (still there I believe) 3 or 4 times a year to trade LPs. The deal was this - I would select from my collection some LPs I thought I wouln't miss * and present them to a chap behind the counter. Eventually he would say "i'll give you (eg) £18.73 cash or £24.17 in part exchange. I would toddle off and select £46.65 worth of records, pay the balance and eventually * regret every one I parted with, particularly Duster Bennett's "Smiling Like I'm Happy". What a mistake.
My experience with COB was all through the post, I think they advertised in the NME and if you sent them an SAE, they would send you a typewritten list of their stock, and you would then send a postal order (remember them) this would be about 1974/5. I never sold them anything, thank god. My big regret was the Great Post Punk Selloff of 1981, when I needed cash, and put most of my pre-punk records up for sale. I have spent the last 40 years scouring car boot sales and charity shops, trying to buy them all back, with some success, and more recently have of course sunk to the internet to at least get digital copies.
DeleteAFOEN, exitedly hurrying into COB in my early 20s, in the early 70s, (patient girlfriend-still-wife in tow) with a carrier bag of later-to-be-regrets in my hand was intoxicating . . . the smell of vinyl, damp and new musical pleasures galore was irresistible. Those days are gone.
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Went to COB a few times myself.
DeleteMy iphone is loaded with a genre based random "smart playlist" so no editing per se but certainly filtered to certain genres (which I attempt to standardise as I add them to my library). If I were to select a random selection of my entire library there would be a ton of jazz, easy listening, etc. along with the rock oriented songs I listen to on the go.
DeleteTwo-Ten, Six-Eighteen - Rod McKuen
ReplyDeleteManhattan Spiritual - Reg Owen
Mexican Divorce - Drifters
We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong
Send Me Some Lovin’ - Little Richard
Shake Some Action - Flamin' Groovies
ReplyDeleteShake Some Action - Michael Monroe
Shake Some Action - Cracker
Shake Some Action - Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents
Shake Some Action - Chuck Prophet
-Some guy who can't remember his google ID, nor how to randomize the five songs on his phone.
one of the better songs ever
DeleteHey, Mr TIll, this is a triffic, winning, thread-worthy idea from Mr Anonymous, isn't it? Is it? Yes, it is.
DeleteSelect a song: 5 versions, which is best? (Or, if there's no such thing as comparative best, which is your preferred choice?)
My song is "He'll have to go" written by Joe Allison, and maybe Mrs Allison, in a far off time. The contenders are:
Ry Cooder https://youtu.be/78Zfk2seVVQ
Bryan Ferry https://youtu.be/seI1kcgSb5o
Val Doonican https://youtu.be/IrNWxwYdWkw
Elvis Presley https://youtu.be/NIXo-t_-UU4
Nat Cole https://youtu.be/TYdwcWm2WLk
And my preferred choice is ...
...
...
https://youtu.be/XcyQkwYkjkU
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Coming up right after the "Your Top Five REO Speedwagon Tracks" thread!
DeleteOK, I can wait.
DeleteFor some inexplicable reason my song of choice for cover versions is My Babe,
DeleteLittle Walter
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
Clifford Scott (great sax - instrumental)
R Bernard & C Chernier (cajun version)
Ramsey Lewis
Plus countless others, with honourable mentions to Spencer Davis Group, same title, different song.
According to secondhandsongs.com, there are almost 90 recordings of "I Can't Stand The Rain" (written by Ann Peebles, her husband Don Bryant, and Bernard Miller). Here are five:
DeleteCarmel: https://youtu.be/D3qzjDonR3k
Cassandra Wilson: https://youtu.be/aRbwL3Fo4sA
Liela Moss: https://youtu.be/oLIr_74ah-k
Lowell George: https://youtu.be/wN1pDIse9jg
Missy Elliot: https://youtu.be/hHcyJPTTn9w
My favorite? The exquisite contralto of Ms. Cassandra Wilson.
Contralto dames give me wood.
DeleteI remember that old REO Spud-wagon hit: "In your Sweater, in your sweater"...
DeleteOne of these days I should really charge that I-Pod thingie that is awfully difficult to load with the tunes you like to participate in the games of all y'all...
ReplyDeleteIf you have an Android phone, download Musicolet, a totally no strings attached music player. And free. Does random, does everything. No ads, no Google.
ReplyDeleteWell, I may be thirty years or so younger than you, but when it comes to technology, I might as well be your graddad!
DeleteI don't use the Ipod much (and actually students are mocking it when they see it, which they almost never do ("Oh monsieur, I had one like that when I was ten years old"...yeah, fuck off, you little brat) but one of the greatest jedi mind tricks of all time was that Apple somehow convinced people that Itunes was an easy to use, fantastic software. it's a huge pain in the ass.
Oh, and that granddad thing: I use my mobile phone to, you know, phone. Very rarely. (I DO know how to type a text message, though very slowly and with no cool abbreviations like those damn kids these days...LOLZ RONFL...maybe?)
I use my phone almost exclusively as a music player, which it does superbly well. I make maybe one call a month, if it's a busy month. No texts, soshoo meeja, just music and audio books.
DeleteRONFL = Rolling Over Naked Farting Loudly?
DeleteProbably, Mr. Dave. You'd have to ask the young folks...
DeleteKATE bush running up the hill \
ReplyDeletearlo alice'sresturant
STEPPENWOLF SCREAMIN NIGHT HOG
hawkwind mirror of illusion
crawfish of love red mummy swamp
Simple Minds - Belfast Child
ReplyDeleteBread - Blue Satin Pillow
Inflatable Boy Clams - Skeletons
RX-101 - Floating Waves
Dep. Mode - Nothing (headcleanr rock mix)
A note to Greenockian - I doubt anyone here cares enough about what the other 4/5g© think to artificially come up with an "impressive" random list. Why bother, when you can just hit rando? The dizzying variety across these lists is testament to the music experience of the 4/5g©, and why I love these threads. My own lists are taken from the diminished pool of tracks on my phone, not the motherlode on my iMac, which tend to be mainstream/old friends. I don't care. Nobody should.
ReplyDeletePrince Far I - Deck Of Cards
ReplyDeleteThem - Just A Little Bit
Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites
The Figgs - The Go Getter
Cotton Mather - My Before And After
IDK how many songs are on my phone, but I put them all there at one time or another, so of course it isn't truly "random". The music player shuffles, but the deck was stacked.
PS to the Fine Olde English Noblemon: a few tunes later, "Gobbing On Life" by Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias came on, and I thought of ye.
DeleteAlways nice to be thought of, no matter what the song is. (Reaches for his box of singles, A for Albertos, ah this'll do "Thank You" oh wait a minute, just next to it its companion piece from the double single pack, not to be played on the radio, now which one should I select as an acknowledgement, decisions, decisions.....)
DeleteHowdy pardner,
ReplyDeleteThings are now a little quiet on th' ranch. A good friend and all around swell guy, Professor Pooperinsky has paid th' miss' and I a visit, and a good time was had by some. Mans' a tad on the dour side, but he can mix a mean gin and tonic. One tends to look aside from all his particulars, and well - two falls out'a three we're still arguing whether or not Stavrogin is a hero or anti hero. All th' while - tables are flyin', the miss' is holding a cast iron skillet trying to figure out to hit, chairs are knocked over, and th' ol' iPod is playing on random...and here are th' tunes;
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Rampant Generalities - Autosalvage
Egyptian Gardens - Kaleidoscope
Christmas Will Really Be Christmas - Lou Rawls
Shine On Brightly - Procol Harum
As ever,
Billy Gates of the Double X Ranch.
Well now! Autosalvage and the blessed Kaleidoscope one after the other!
DeleteFaces - Too Bad (bbc in concert)
ReplyDeleteHillbilly Soul Surfers - Cha Wow Wow
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Steve Hillage - Unidentified (Flying Being)
Cowboy Junkies - Why can't I be you (Cure cover)
World Saxophone Quartet - 'Amazing Grace'
ReplyDeleteRaoul Bjoerkenheim ao - 'Saturn'
Curlew - ST (1980)
Bronius Kutavicius - 'From The Jatvingian Stone'
Elliot Goldenthal? Brian Eno? - 'Force Marker' (from 'Heat' OST)