Thursday, April 10, 2025

Return Of Randy Randomguy's Restroom O' Randomness! Dept.

Those with a tendency to suffer epileptic fits may want avoid looking at the above Foam-O-Graph© [above - Ed.]

Older readers may remember Randy Randomguy™, th' IoF© Randomness Representative. Then again, older readers may not have clue one what I'm talking about. Back in the days when th' IoF© was funny, Randy would show up randomly to ask you to list the first five, or ten, or seven and a half, tunes to appear on your device in shuffle mode. It was a rousing success, encouraging engagement and proving harmless amusement for maybe like oh I don't know, not very many, who's counting?

So I thought we'd see if there are enough of youse bums left to make this a worthwhile initiative. Oboy! Some fun, huh, gang?!

 

This post made possible thru basically not having much else to do now I fed the dogs.

46 comments:

  1. Here's my Top Nine Randos:

    In A Different Light - Bangles
    On Your Way Down - Little Feat
    Love Song Without Flute - Caravan
    Helpless - CSNY (how I hate this fucking song, btw)
    It Happened In Monterey - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
    Dark-Eyed Woman - Spirit
    That's How Much I Love You Baby (More Or Less) - HP Lovecraft
    Never Say When - The dB's
    Souvenirs - Django Reinhardt

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  2. Sam Cooke: Twistin' in the Kitchen with Dinah
    Frank Turner: Wessex Boy (Original Demo)
    Johnny Pearson: Chase That Man
    The Killers: The Man (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
    Charlie Haden & Hank Jones: Bringing in the Sheaves
    The Beatles: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
    Giant Sand: Shrine
    Eric Clapton with Sheryl Crow & Bonnie Raitt: Everything Is Broken (Live)
    Delbert McClinton: Settin' the Woods on Fire
    Shovels & Rope: Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues (Live)

    Not proud of all of these.

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  3. As usual, I do NOT have "random play" as I don't use a "shuffle" device. I have a flash drive in my car with an ever-increasing number of 500 song "mixes." So I call out....Mix #29! Songs 270 to 282! Show me what you got, baby!

    270 Vanilla - Sour Cream and Other Regrets
    271 The Morning Line - June Bugs In April
    272 John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch
    273 Paul Crane & the Overend Watts - Dypsomaniak
    274 Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's
    275 Carlene Carter - Do It In A Heartbeat
    276 Big Star - In The Street
    277 The Clash - Koka Kola
    278 Joe Ely Band - Brainlock
    279 Bob Dylan - Everything Is Broken
    280 Charlie Walker - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
    281 Cotton Mather - Last of the Mohicans
    282 Noel Coward - Has Anyone Seen Our Ship

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    1. This certainly qualifies as random in my book. I love listening to my phone music on shuffle in my truck - some of my best listening gets done there.

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    2. Using a flash drive in a car has problems. My last player would play the songs in order, but with a 999 song limit in a folder. The newer play ignores the file name and plays them in order of the metatag title. So these days, I just hit "shuffle."

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  4. fx Black Sabbath
    love is pleasin' Shirley Collins
    we'll all go together Tom Lehrer
    all you are going to want to do is get back there The Caretaker
    I walk out of there Frog Eyes
    ada jean Khruangbin
    star trek Maclean & Maclean
    anthracene Nick Cave
    cold blows the wind Ween

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  5. Alexis Korner - Hey Pretty Mama
    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Shadow of A Doubt
    The Who - Leaving Here
    Four Tops - Keeper of The Castle
    Ocean Colour Scene - Magic Carpet Days
    Bobby Freeman - Do You Wanna Dance
    Gordon Lightfoot - In A Windowpane
    Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
    Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
    Joan Armatrading - Love & Affection

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    1. Make an effort to be a come-with guy for once in your life, why don'cha, "anonymous"?

      (groovy randos, though but)

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  6. Boston - Amanda
    Devo - Ton o' Love
    Gin Blossoms - I Can't Figure You Out
    Jesse Powell and his Orchestra - The Walkin' Blues
    Neil Young- Roound and Round (It Won't Be Long)
    Deon Jackson - Love Makes The World Go Round
    Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
    Queen - We Will Rock You (Fast) Live Brazil 1981
    Homer & Jethro - The Battle Of Kookamonga
    Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here

    Lord knows what my selector is doing.

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  7. Easy - Sky Ferreira
    Ocean To Ocean - Tori Amos
    I wanna Be With You - The Raspberries
    Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast - Pink Floyd
    Is Anybody Out There? - Alan Price Set
    Hallelujah - Sweathog
    Poor Lazarus - Bob Dylan
    Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) -Procol Harum
    Happy Ever After - Julia Fordham
    Rampant Generalities - Autosalvage
    Answers Don't Come Easy - Leslie Philips

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    1. Oboyoboyoboy! AUTOSALVAGE!!!!!!

      https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2024/10/brian-blesseds-manly-shenanigans-dept.html

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    2. Also Tak, I was thinking of the other Leslie Phillips, see below.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162oggKn2hA

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  8. Today's random shuffle in my Model-T:
    1) I'm Not Talking - A.C. Newman
    2) Total Destruction to Your Mind - Swamp Dogg
    3) Hello to Life - The Toms
    4) Field of Ruins - Daniel Romano
    5) Five Foot One - Iggy Pop
    6) Wake the Dead - Chuck Prophet and His Cumbia Shoes
    7) Not Dark Yet - Tom Jones (live cover of Dylan tune . . . scoff if you must at the sound of an 86 year old covering an 84 year old, but this one is on heavy rotation)

    then I got where I was going. --Muzak McMusics

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    1. Don't believe me? Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3faJmvulA4

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  9. 7 most recent random songs to cross my stream
    1. Maria, Maria - Milton Nascimento
    2. Tua - Maria Bethania
    3. Toda Menina Baiana - Gilberto Gil
    4. Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt
    5. Winter in America - Gil Scott Heron
    6. How Glad I Am - Irma Thomas and Galactic
    7. Love High - Gabi Hartmann

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    1. Seen these guys? Rodrigo y Gabriella -
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBX_v1Po1Y&list=RDENBX_v1Po1Y&start_radio=1

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    2. I have - they performed last June in Fontainebleau, France at the Django fest. Great live act.

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  10. 3 Colin Newman - Not To
    7 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
    4 How will I know - Whitney Houston
    1The Ting Things - That's Not My Name
    6 Eulogie To Lenny Bruce - Nico
    5 Toots Thielemans -- Sesame Street Tune
    2 Rubber Bullets - 10CC

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  11. Howdy Pardner!

    When I told the Miss' (Willamina, for those who were wonderin') that there was another one of those random whatcha' listening to type of things she looked up from her bead work and said how do you get anything random coming out of the Wurlitzer we have out back in the barn. And I'm not ashamed to say I rightly didn't know. Well, before I was able to formulate a plan, the Miss' who's got more than some Ute in her - makin' her strong as an ox, and that jukebox was being shaken something like a plate of jello on the back of a angry bronco. No need to worry none. The boy, Billy Jr. is real good with his hands and that jukebox should be up and as good as new in no time. So I'm using the random function of the computer, no shaking needed.

    As ever,

    Billy Gates of the Doubble X ranch and the ten songs the computer selected.

    (Interlude) / Out Of The Morning / (Interlude) / They Call Me Traveler / (Interlude) / None For Me - Aaron Lightman
    Lou's 12-Bar Instrumental (1963/64 Demo) - Lou Reed
    Oh Yeah (7" Version) - Roxy Music
    Up The Hill Backwards - David Bowie
    Menace - Brian Eno
    A Gazelle - Mad River
    Revelation - The Don Robertson Trio
    If I Were A Carpenter - Leon Russell
    Sideways: Sideways Six - The Hope Blister
    Sleep Tight - Aorta

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    1. Billy, your trading card is in the shop right now. Frenched the headlights, shaved the door handles, and Pedro is buffing the fourth coat of the tangerine flake.

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  12. I don't have a randomizer thingy. My Butler, Forkbeard, was on the decks while I was in the sauna this morning, and he selected these:

    Tarheel Slim - Number 9 Train
    Del-Vikings - Come Go With Me
    Jesus And Mary Chain - Sometimes Always
    Buffalo Springfield - Rock And Roll Woman
    Carter Brothers - I Don't Care
    The National Gallery - Diana in the Autumn Wind
    Billy The Kid - Apron Strings
    Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
    Kinks - This Strange Effect
    Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
    Ravi Shankar - Tala Rasa Rang

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  13. Little Feat - Ferocious Morning
    Andy Partridge - Ghost Train
    Roxy Music - Chance Meeting (live)
    Jr. Walker - Shake and Fingerpop
    Nick Harper - Another Little Hit
    Wishbone Ash - You See Red
    Once and Future Band - Deleted Scenes
    Laurie Anderson - Blue Lagoon
    Wishbone Ash (again!) - Lorelei
    The Unthanks - Deep, Deep Down in The Silent Grave

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    1. Incense And Peppermints
      Little Bit O' Soul
      The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
      The Letter
      Heroes And Villains
      Reflections
      Let's Live For Today
      Darling Be Home Soon
      I Was Made To Love Her
      Pleasant Valley Sunday
      I'll Never Hear The Bells the Dells

      walking the dog i hit the 60's odds and ends button and i'm back to real am/fm radio

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    2. That's great walking the dog music, woody!

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  14. I should do this more often, intriguing selection:
    Downy - Paper Hats - Fine Time 2: A Tribute To New Wave
    Your Love Is Just Too Much - Gene Harris - The Three Sounds & Gene Harris Of The Three Sounds
    Die And Let Rush Live - Four One & Only's - Four One & Only's
    Mama Dee, Part 2 - The G.G. All Stars - Atlantic 1
    Amazon - João Donato - The New Sound Of Brazil / Piano Of João Donato
    Steeplechase - Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes CD3
    This Beautiful Day - Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys - No Pressure Radio
    Mais Qu'est-Ce? - Zap Mama - Sabsylma
    Crying Laughing - Reverend Baron - The Lagniappe Sessions :: Reverend Baron
    Dixie - Mel Brown - I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

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    1. You've made most of these up, you swine!

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    2. The swine part is probably correct, but I'm nowhere smart enough to have made up such a list!
      The only familiar names for me here were: The Three Sounds & Gene Harris, João Donato, Charlie Parker, Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys, and Zap Mama...
      Blame it on 'Genius Shuffle'!

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  15. Henry McCullough - Just Because
    Tim Bowness - Dark Nevada Dream
    The Teardrop Explodes - Poppies In The Field
    Nektar - The Dream Nebula Part 2
    Audience - Belladonna Moonshine
    Hoodoo Gurus - You Open My Eyes
    Epic Soundtracks - Jelly Babies (with Robert Wyatt)
    Jimmy Campbell - Half Baked
    Brendan Benson - Crosseyed
    Baader Meinhof - Meet Me At The Airport

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    1. I know Julian Cope gets a lot of love, but he's done nothing since the Teardrops that's quite as good, has he? Wilder is very definitely in my Top 247 Albums Of All Time.

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    2. He's a bit hit and miss for me, but Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill were two albums I bought and enjoyed upon release.

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  16. Bent Nails - Snarky Puppy
    Split Open And Melt - Phish
    Key West (Philosopher Pirate) - Bob Dylan
    Deadwood - The Nemotoads
    Goodnight - Galactic
    Alaskan Nights - David Schwartz - Northern Exposure soundtrack
    Messin' - Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
    Fox Squirrel - Muddy Waters
    Like A Rolling Stone - The Band
    Everyday I Have The Blues - Memphis Slim
    thanks

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  17. In the absence of any apparent shuffle function on my cheapo Argos MP3 player, the last few things I think I played were -
    1. Susie Ibarra and Denis Charles - Drum Talk
    2. Weather Report - Palladium
    3. Steve Lacy 4 - Morning Joy
    4. Brown, Salaman, Taylor - Spellweaving (Ancient Music of the Highlands)
    5. Ornette Coleman and Prime Time - Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
    6. 'The Dutch Street Musicians' - various music boxes and barrel organs
    7. Oliver Knussen w London Sinfonietta - Horn Concerto ao
    8. Matthew Welch - Ceol Nua
    9. Moritz von Oswald w Ordo Sakhna - ST
    10. Ry Cooder - bits of 'Southern Comfort' OST

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    1. Why not install Musicolet on your phone, like a reasonable human being? It's free, no ads, no internet snooping, just a fantastic app that turns your shitty old phone into an iPod-stomping music player. Then you can, if you're smart as your phone, load a 1TB sd chip-thingy into your phone with thousands of mp3 files on it. Then you can fix a bum gun to it and your life will be complete. But you won't, because YOU JUST DON'T LISTEN. *door slams*

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    2. I listened. I helped install Musicolet on my friends old obsolete tablet, now she has all her old cd’s available to play on there, and loves it.

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    3. I literally cannot understand people who don't use it. More than that - they fuel within me a burning hatred for the human race and their obstinate ignorance.

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    1. Getting our three remaining dogs into a tiktok-worthy pose is beyond me. They're pretty rubbish, anyway.

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  19. Ned Lagin Seastones December 75 version
    Ned Lagin Seastones February 75 version

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    1. Do you know somebody who wants to adopt a 4/5g©? Michael is skilled at basic motor functions, can eat hot food, and needs a nurturing environment. Contact Nurse Diesel at the Foam Home Security Wing™ for details!

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    2. ...mmmMMMMmmmmm...warm food.....

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  20. Oof, had to load the shufling device, it hasn't been in action in weeks...

    Here goes:

    Letter Never Sent - R.E.M.
    Straiht From The Heart - Little Feat
    Roosevelt Room -Conor Oberst
    That 70's Song - Cheap Trick
    Westward Wind - England Dan & John Ford Coley
    Coal Black Highway - Heartwood
    Frank And Jesse James - Warren Zevon
    Siva - Smashing Pumpkins
    What Now - Patty Griffin
    Last Child - Aerosmith

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    1. Little Feat seems to be ahead of the pack, and quite rightly too. The band that never gets old.

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  21. Michael Hurley
    Sammi Smith
    John's Children
    Red Krayola
    Tiwayo
    The Wipers
    Tymonn Dogg
    Les Rallizes Denudes
    Paul McCartney

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  22. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Nightmare Of Percussion
    Isleys - Harvest For The World
    Beach Boys - Fall Breaks And Back To Winter
    Association - Yes I Will
    Spirit - What Do I Have?
    Nils Lofgren - One More Saturday Night
    Zappa - Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
    The 'Oo - Can't Explain
    Family - Top Of The Hill

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  23. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Long Hard Book
    Pink Floyd - Blue Light (Instrumental)
    The White Stripes - Jolene
    Husker Du - Masochism World
    Mike Doughty - Super Bon Bon
    King Rock & The Knights - Scandal
    Os Mundi - It's All There
    Belle & Sebastian - A Century of Elvis
    Bryan Maclean - Claudia
    The Rolling Stones - Child of the Moon

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