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It's Saturday! [Friday - Ed.] And what do we do on Saturday? That's right - stampede into the Romper Room O' Randomness like it was Black Friday at Honest Irv's Adult Video's And Sex Toy XXXchange (walk-in's welcome)!
Join in the heady excitement by setting your device of choice to rando shuffle and show everybody the first five to play! No cheating - artificially massaging your playlist to make it more impressive to a bunch of people you've never met may have the opposite effect - and anyway, who gives a flying fuck?
Oboy! Some fun, huh!? Here'e my Top Five Randos:
ReplyDeleteSnowbound - Donald Fagen
The Swimming Song - New Riders
Deportee - Da Boids
Footprints In The Snow - Tomita
Ode To The Owl - Harvey Mandel
(Nothing too challenging or unexpected here.)
Lou Pride - Midnight Call
ReplyDeleteFreddie King - You Can't Hide
Phoebe Snow - All Over
Beastie Boys - A Year And A Day
Miles Davis - There's No You
Creeper Lagoon - Dreaming Again
ReplyDeleteEarth and Stone - Wicked Have Fe Dress Back
New Pornographers - Up In The Dark
Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine, And You Need To Be Nicer
Ken Boothe - You're No Good
Wow, Creeper Lagoon. Their Take Back the Universe...record had a big impact on me during a tough time. Too bad I don't hear about them much. They were very good.
DeleteCreeper Lagoon played a reunion show five years ago, for a lucky audience who evidently feel the same way about them that you and I do. You can stream or buy a recording of that show here:
Deletehttps://nyctaper-official.bandcamp.com/album/creeper-lagoon-live-at-mercury-lounge-aug-10-2017
Thanks. I'll check that out.
DeleteChet Baker Quartet - Russ Job
ReplyDeleteMidnight Confession - The Grass Roots
Mellow Out - The Crusaders
The Ballad of Me and My Friends (live) - Frank Turner
Third Journey - Nick Cave / Warren Ellis (from Wind River soundtrack)
All The Gold in California - Gatlin Brothers
ReplyDeleteGravy Waltz - Steve Allen
Midnight Oil - Charlie Blackwell
Persuaders Theme - John Barry
You’re Looking Good - Dee Clark
Oh yes Persuaders theme, one of my favorites, however I watched an episode recently, it was awful, I loved it as a kid. Also my randomiser has come up with music from another favorite tv show of similar vintage.
DeleteYou're right, Bambi, The Persuaders doesn't stand up as a show. Neither does Man From U.N.C.L.E -- which had it's great theme updated every season or so. I've collected a lot of TV themes, many of them British. If you're after something in particular, maybe I have it.
DeleteAnyone remember "I Spy"?
DeleteAnd "77 Sunset Strip"?
"I Spy" had multi-racial stars, which was significant for its time, plus great theme music.
DeleteAnd what about The Champions, with gorgeous Alexandra Bastedo? Maybe it's just the campy spy/international secret agent stuff that looks weak - I still enjoy the early series of Star Trek, and Batman, and the Monkees, the Munsters, the Addams Family, Phil Silvers ... Columbo, and the underrated Harry O ... a lot of it is still good.
DeleteYes, The Champions, and of course The Avengers and Mrs. Peel.
DeleteMuch later I enjoyed Minder. Harry O was excellent, too.
Thanks for the offer Clarence, if I can think of any I'll let you know.
Deletebtw I've put workupload of mp3's of the UFO tv library music by Barry Gray ripped from vinyl below (See Fanny B comment)
I've still got six hours of Thursday left, so I'm not sure what's going on, but in the meanwhile:
ReplyDeleteGun Club - Sex Beat
Miracles - A Love She Can Count On
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better
Tommy James - Draggin' the Line (mono single version)
T. Texas Tyer - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
It behooves me to say that thus far, mine is the least interesting selection. I can only assume youse bums is cheatin' bums.
ReplyDeleteHere's me shuffled playlist. I always love that function.
ReplyDeleteElectric Light Orchestra - So Fine
The Shoes - Burned Out Love
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
XTC - Another Satellite
Alice Cooper - Be My Lover
The Shoes are in the stacking system, waiting to land.
DeleteHowdy pardner',
ReplyDeleteLittle quiet here at the ranch so I'll play along;
Hot Poop - The Mothers of Invention
Calling For Vanished Faces - Current Ninety Three
From variation on a theme of Hey Mr. Policeman - Family
Krystalize - The Mystic Astrological Crystal Band featuring Steve Hoffman
Aguirre III - Popol Vuh
As ever,
Billy Gates of the Double X ranch.
Dude!
DeleteLet's hear it for The Mothers!
DeleteDon't know about it being Saturday - only just Friday here. Talk about getting ahead of yourself!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the randomly generated and, thankfully, unembarrassing 5 are:
Byrds - Absolute happiness
David Bowie - Hole in the ground
Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack - You are my heaven
Miles Davis - Alone
The Skids - Subbotnik
Yeah, if only, buddy. That's what being retired in Siam gets you, loss of all time (and place?) while some of us are still hustling to bring home the bacon...
ReplyDeleteFound my random playing device, so for the big premiere in Randy Randomguy's Romper Room we have:
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver - Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Dust - All In All
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Jimmy Webb - P.F. Sloan
The Shins - The Past And Pending
Never heard of Jason Isbell until now. What a great track - thanks to you or your random generator!
DeleteJason Isbell is the best songwriter of the last decade, bar none.
DeleteGlad me and my old I-pod Nano could be of service...
Hey, you - OBG. I'm no more retired now than I've ever been. And living out here cost me more than an air ticket.
DeleteDoes that mean you never worked? Oh, wait, so it's a double secret probation retirement - sorry, bud, you doing UFO watching over the Mekong got me confused there for a second.
DeleteI'd define "working" as doing something you don't like, just for the money. So in that sense I've worked maybe twelve months - one of your Earth years - at most. Everything else was just something I could do already and enjoyed (writing, drawing). I still do that, but I get paid nothing. My career prospects today are the same as they ever were.
DeleteSo, when's the first Farq Art exhibition here on the Isle of Foam?
DeleteDon't be such a tease.
Castle Rock - Barefoot Jerry
ReplyDeleteBeat It On Down The Line - Grateful Dead (Pacific Coliseum 22 June 1973)
Two for One - Grant Green
Flee As A Bird - The Secret Sisters
Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Laurel and Hardy with the Avalon Boys
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Partial to your abracadabra
ReplyDeleteBarry Gray - The long fingers of tragic coincidence (from UFO TV soundtrack)
The Enid - Albion Fair
Mercury Rev - Down poured the heavens
Isotope - Cowshed shuffle
I caught Mercury Rev in Paris, some time in the 'nineties. I was a longtime fan (from their now unlistenable early incarnation with David Whatsisname). At the old music hall/boxing venue in Montparnasse, a crumbling gothic theatre, and they blew me away. Truly great rhythm section, for one thing, which was a surprise, and total star quality from Jonathan Whatsisname, a cross between E.T. and Judy Garland in Edwardian velvet. And a light show!
DeleteMercury Rev is pretty much the definition of mood music. They set it, but you also have to be in it.
DeleteI saw them in the noughties, and likewise I was really impressed, one of those bands you have to see live. Yes a theatre is the place to see music, I won't go to these massive music warehouses again, and that includes if Neil Young came to Europe again. Last time I saw Neil Young I was watching the screen most of the time.
Delete"Barry Gray - The long fingers of tragic coincidence (from UFO TV soundtrack)"
DeleteAny idea which episode(s) of possibly my fave TV series this is from? Or was it used repeatedly to denote a certain vibe?
Fanny B, I don't know the episode, but I have mp3's of about 40 minutes of the UFO tv library music by Barry Gray ripped from vinyl, but sound is great.
DeleteWorkupload below, hopefully (I'm having a f* up day)
https://workupload.com/archive/3QLtXTRu
Dancing Flowers - Albert Ayler
ReplyDeleteHot Pants - Enzo Scoppa
Pleasure Boat Music - Akira Ifukube
La Resa Dei Conti - Flasket Brinner
Naval Aviation in Art - Zappa
Finally got VLC to properly randomise -
ReplyDeleteSonny Boy Williamson II - I cross my heart
Shangri-Las - Train from Kansas City
Wynonie Harris - Keep Talkin'
10 cc - Marriage Bureau Rendezvous
Jerry Lee Lewis - I'll Find It Where I can
VLC can do everything if you ask it nicely. Yesterday it cleaned behind the cooker.
DeleteCulture - Natty never get weary
ReplyDeletePatrik Fitzgerald - Banging and Shouting
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Zoot Money's Big Roll Band - Let's Run For Cover
Eddy Raven - Island
ZZ Top - La Grange
ReplyDeleteGod of Shamisen - Fifth Column attack
Lil Thompson & Tampa Red - Rent House Shuffle
Pat Martino - El Hombre
Animal Collective - Doggy
... that moment when La Grange kicks in ...
DeleteI saw her standing there Little Richard
ReplyDeleteI don't like you Bo Diddly
That's none of your business Chuck Berry
the same thing Muddy Waters
Sevirge The Stranglers
That was four guys having a conversation until the Stranglers showed up.
DeleteTrying to Make It - The Johnsonaires
ReplyDeleteDing-Dong Blues - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
It's a Cold Summer - The Orioles
Strange Feeling - Sugar Pie DeSanto
You Do Something to Me - Illinois Jacquet
I want to be called Sugar Pie Desanto from now on.
DeleteYou got it, shug.
DeleteDoghouse Roses - The Fermi Paradox
ReplyDeleteSpirit - Ground Hog
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Kenneth Williams - The Australian Outlaw
Van Morrison & The Chieftains - My Lagan Love
Lucinda Williams: Changed the Locks
ReplyDeleteAlejandro Escovedo: Can't Put You Down
Dah-veed Garza: Discoball World
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Wisdom
Kelly Willis: Whatever Way the Wind Blows
I promise I did not hit teh ATX button, I just got lucky...
Yay, another list / more data:
ReplyDeleteParanoid - Black Sabbath
Haha, no, I made that up as a little "more data joke". Haha.
You are so beautiful - Billy Preston
One Tongue - Hothouse Flowers
Debris - Simply Red
Bak Gardiner - Sigvart Dagsland
Soul Kiss - Joe Jackson
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
I liked Bak Gardiner when he played sax with the Mothers.
DeleteNo, no, no, you has got confused again. Bak Gardiner is a groovy song; Sigvart Dagsland is not a mother but he is godfather of the daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway. Everybodies kno that.
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
https://youtu.be/WZxnnTYfLYY
DeleteI liked Biz Gardiner, too.
DeleteBuzz off.
DeleteNews From Babel 'Late Evening'
ReplyDeleteHenry Threadgill Sextett 'Off The Rag'
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 'Monitor'
Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Group - 'I Remember You'
Elliott Goldenthal - Main Titles (from 'Heat')
"Sit back and enjoy the real McCoy..."
DeleteDunno if the Banshees ever topped that LP. Brilliant, shining and nasty.
It's Saturday afternoon here in Japan...
ReplyDeleteAre You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Things Go Better With Coke #1 - The Bee Gees
Sitting By The Window - Moby Grape
Walking To School - Kursaal Flyers
TV Hype - Jim Pons (Mothers)
Went out to clean the shop and heard;
ReplyDeleteGolden Years - David Bowie
Walk in the Shadows - Queensryche
Phizzy Pop - Lazy Cain
I Gave Up Good Morning Darling - Red Steagall
Asylum of the Insane - Movie Spot Mid 60's