Thursday, April 16, 2026

Randy Randomguy's Rusty Refrigerator O' Randomness! Dept.

LEGACY FOAM-O-GRAPH© COURTESY SMUTSONIAN INSTITUTE® - How many Objects Of Appalling Significance do you recognise, readers?

Older readers,
which is you, may remember a regliar FoamFeature™ featuring Toxic Male Gazer Randy Randomguy? Or not. Anyway, Randy wants you to list your first ten, or whatever - first one or seven hundred and fifty-three would be jake because NOBODY CARES - songs on your listening device of choice set to shuffle.


Some of youse bums is too dumb to handle the technology, so you can join in the fun by listing the first ten songs you can remember. Or five, whatever. They don't have to be songs. First ten numbers from one to ten, anything. Just engage with the narrative here, okay?

Ed. [left - Ed.] sez: "Farq goes the extra mile to create wholesome content for you lousy freeloading bums, so the least you can do is help his internet initiative go viral by adding a comment, right? How hard can that be? I'M LOOKING AT YOU, FRANKIE FUCKNOSE!"

Well, no, the least you can do is nothing. You're good at that. But it will leave an aching void in your life; a sense of incompletion and underachievement that will cause you untold distress in the final moments of your life. "Oh noes!" you will croak, strapped to a gurney in a grimy service corridor of the Twilight Home as the Grim Reaper strides toward you, "I wish I'd joined in that random song list game on th' IoF©! NURSE! Is it too la- *kaffkaffkaff*" BONK.

Be a come-with guy. Cross the Rainbow Bridge with a light step.

Here's my top ten Rando songs as thrown up by Musicolet™ on a Samsung© entry-level device:

Dormant Love - The Shoes

See It Through - The Charlatans

Junkie Girl - Walter Becker

Ooh Mama Ooh - Moby Grape

Motherly Love - Frank Zappa

Heart Like An Open Book - Michael Franks

Born At The Right Tome - Paul Simon

Quelle Folie - The Sneakers

Back To You - The Flock

Jazz: Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold - The Bonzos


No surprises there, then. Primo lamestream Dad Rock, cut thick, the way you like it.

65 comments:

  1. 

1. Sonny Stitt - “Home Free Blues”

    2. Burning Spear - “Throw Down Your Arms”

    3. Ben Webster - “Charlotte's Piccolo”

    4. Duke Ellington - “Tang”
5.
    B.B. King - “You Upset Me Baby”

    6. David Bowie - “Slip Away”

    7. Joni Mitchell - “Yvette In English”
    
8. Cal Tjader - “Curacao”

    9. Django Reinhardt - “September Song”

    10. Walter Becker - “Surf And Or Die”

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    1. Thanks, Babs. May the shrinking violets be encouraged to participate by your engagement in the narrative. That's *two* appearances of Walt in *two* lists.

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    2. 160GB ipod classic results:

      1. Kinski - "Jetstream"
      2. Paco de Lucia - "Reflejo de luna (Granaina)
      3. Mac Gayden - "Colors of the Rainbow"
      4. Hector Zazou - "Veni"
      5. Maria Mazzotta & Raül Refree - "Lunidia matina"
      6. Vince Guaraldi - "Laughter in the Library (Arbor Day Edition)"
      7. Popol Vuh - "Spirit of Peace (Part 2)"
      8. Natacha Atlas - "Bastet"
      9. Kali Malone - "Arched in Hysteria"
      10. Rolling Stones - "Around and Around"

      Fun exercise, thanks!

      - Jon in Cali

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  2. Bobby Darrin - You're The Reason I'm Living
    Thin Lizzy - Fool's Gold
    Ernie and Bert (Sesame Street) - Guess The Animal
    The Dovells - Bristol Stomp
    Hoodoo gurus - When You Get To California
    Joe Cocker - Night Calls
    Roger Taylor - Where Are You Now?
    Dennis Gurley - Every Other Summer
    Sorrows - Silver Cloud (Demo)
    John Hiatt - Mr. Stanley

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  3. The first few songs what popped into my 'ead ..
    "You know you're only dreaming" Hawkwind
    "Peaches En Regalia" Zappa
    "The Red Telephone" Love
    "3rd Stone from the Sun" Hendrix
    "Show biz kids" Steely Dan
    "Bird song" Grateful Dead
    .. uh .. brain stopped working!! must be time for my meds!!

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  4. 1. Guy Clark "Sis Draper"
    2. Cannonball Adderly "Tango Tango"
    3. Lou Reed "Sweet Jane" (2006 live)
    4. Howling Wolf "Smokestack Lightning"
    5. The Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"
    6. Mink Deville "Spanish Stroll"
    7. Jon Dee Graham "Big Sweet Life"
    8. Rosanne Cash & Matt Berninger "Who Loves the Sun"
    9. Marvin Gaye "One More Heartache"
    10. New York Dolls "Personality Crisis"

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    1. This is from shuffle on my computer played through our "sound system," such as it is

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    2. Every time I play Roadrunner I'm like "THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER!" and then the next track plays and I'm like "what's on TV?"

      (NB use of "I'm like" to show I'm down with the kids)

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    3. RIP Jon Dee --Muzak McM

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    4. Ditto Mink and Marvin

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    5. Jon Dee was an old and dear friend from the late seventies and I miss him keenly.

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    6. What was Edward Kelly like to roll a spliff with?

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    7. everything he touched turned to gold, #amirite

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  5. Why, just driving tonight with my iWhatever on random:
    1. "Elephant Walk" - Big Lazy
    2. "Lily's Daddy's Cadillac" - Mink DeVille
    3. "Hard Road" - True Believers
    4. "Sorcerer" - Gabor Szabo
    5. "Syphilis and Religion" - Graham Parker
    6. "I Was the One" - Golden Palominos
    7. "So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo" - Richard Thompson
    8. "Can't Stop a Train" - The Derailers
    9. "Pulling Mussels From a Shell" - Squeeze
    10. something or other by Tinariwen
    ---Muzak McMusics

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    1. Love Can't stop a train and Lilys

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  6. Kenny Gonzalez - The Bomb
    Joy Division - Ice age
    Axemen - Johnny Cash's Monster
    Michael Waisvisz - Crackles
    Edgar Varese - Ionisation
    Crockett & Jones - Wet Handkerchief
    Loraine Ellison - Stay With Me
    Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
    Donald Erb - In No Strange Land
    Louis Andriesen - De Volharding

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  7. List of most played on Mac since Jan
    Midnight Rambler ( Nasty Music Mick Taylor in great form)
    Midnight Rider Allmans
    Because Dave Clark Five
    You'll be mine John Hammond /Duane Allman
    Planet of Love. Mandy Barnett
    Dancing the night away Amazing Rhythm Aces
    She's Fine. Baby Boy Warren
    When I paint my masterpiece Band
    If I fell. Beatles
    Mona. Bo Diddley

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  8. Bratia - balkan/jazz group from Barcelona
    Nicole Zuraitis - The Mirror (young composer, pianist, vocalist)
    Dr John - Gumbo
    Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
    Ray Barretto - Acid
    Joe Pass - Virtuoso
    Antonio Carlos Jobim - Inedito
    Stacey Kent - A Time for Love
    Gil-Scott Heron - Its Our World
    Eddie Palmieri - Sun of Latin Music

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  9. Jethro Tull - Flight from Lucifer
    Kate Bush - Experiment IV
    The Pentangle - Poison
    Gong- If Never I’m and Ever you
    Edgar Broughton - Hotel Room
    Bowie - Outside
    Elephant 9 - Solar Song
    Prince - I would die 4U
    Goose - Elmeg The Wise
    ELP - Bo Diddley

    mmmm, quite a prog heavy shuffle there, but that’s what came out.

    Seeing the Kant book on your ‘Objects Of Appalling Significance’ Foam-o-Graph (above) reminded me, if I remember correctly Kant hoped that perpetual peace could be secured through an international federation of republican states and international cooperation. Kant believed that true religion is grounded on morality, just sayin’.

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    1. Kant was in many ways "The Godfather Of Prog". He's regularly quoted on progarchives, and the Albanian prog band "Heronjtë e Paraardhësve" ("Ancestral Heroes") recorded a concept album based on Kant's "A New Elucidation of the First Principles of Metaphysical Cognition".

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    3. Fanny, An 'unreleased at the time outtake'?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzq5l__20Io&list=RDTzq5l__20Io&start_radio=1

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  10. i'm confused. having devices remeber for you is wors than ai music. i thought you meant just off the top of our heads ? i guess i am wron again.

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  11. From a playlist which is both in iTunes, shuffle, and Finder, click.

    Flame-Sky - Santana
    Niartaes Hornpipe - Blues Project
    Valentyne Suite - Colosseum
    I Want Candy - Strangeloves
    Drink, Drink, Drink - Mario Lanza
    Que j'aime de t'aimer - La Nouvelle Frontière
    Magic Bus - The Who
    It's All In The Game - Tommy Edwards
    Shame On The Moon - Bob Seger
    Working On The Road - Ten Years After

    another frankie

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    1. I'm listening to La Nouvelle Frontière on YewChewb as we speak - c'est groovy!

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    2. Niartes Hornpipe is actually from Sea Train's first album. Story (actually true) here:
      https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2024/12/it-crawled-from-outta-th-crawlspace.html

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  12. ‘Objects Of Appalling Significance’ - The Slinky
    A pre-compressed helical spring toy, that works by transferring energy from one coil to the next, with gravity pulling it down, while tension keeps the coils moving in a continuous, flowing motion. I remember as a little girl finding The Slinky fascinating for a good eight minutes, before boredom with a side trip to monotony set in. Then there was The Slinky Dog, possibly the worst toy ever.

    More fun than Immanuel Kant, though…

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    1. The appalling significance lies in its being always upside down on th' IoF©

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    2. Cue Diana Ross in 3…2…1…
      ♫Upside down
      Boy, you turn me inside out
      And 'round and 'round
      Upside down
      Boy, you turn me inside out
      And 'round and 'round♫

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    3. Ferrets are slinkies with skin and blood. Owned 2 briefly because they poop 4xs their weight every damn day.

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    4. Good to have something in common with your pets,

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  13. Integration Grooves: The A&P Song
    Nino Rota: Ricordo de Henriette
    Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Live ’65)
    Little Willie John: All Around the World
    Andy Partridge: Space Wray
    Fleetwood Mac: That’s Alright
    The Resurrection: Like the Way
    Bruce Springsteen: Linda Let Me be the One
    The 5th Dimension: Magic Garden
    The New Vaudeville Band: Winchester Cathedral

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  14. "Basement Days" - Mark Erelli
    "Call Me the Breeze" - JJ Cale
    "Low Down Payment Jam" - David Crosby
    "Parasite" - Robyn Hitchcock
    "Let Me Roll It" - Teddy Thompson
    "Slippery People" - Talking Heads
    "Quinn the Eskimo" - G. Welch and D. Rawlings
    "The Fox" - Gateway Singers
    "Here In Angola" - Al Stewart
    "Thirty Minute SMiLE" - Beach Boys

    These are from the player on my computer, which is not where I do most of my listening, but they *are* all songs (no intrumentals!) that I've listened to recently. I have an 80GB iPod that must be plugged in to recharge all the time, or it turns into a brick; that has a large selection of digitized LPs and CDs. I play it through a system with speakers in the living room of this house. More of my listening comes from two MP3 players that still can run off batteries; they're stocked with differing selections from said recordings, plus all the lovely files on the computer that I've downloaded from One Buck Guy, Babs, Farq, and Willard's blogs (among others). I am very grateful for all this, and I have tried to centralize my backups onto one SSD. It's an ongoing attempt to play catch up :^)
    D in California

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  15. The Rainmakers - Government Cheese
    Max Bailey - Delinquency Blues
    The Cars - Since You're Gone
    The Screaming Tribesmen - No Chance
    The Surfing Magazines - Locomotive Cheer
    Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
    The Kamikaze Sex Pilots - Sharon Signs To Cherry Red
    Reggae George - Fig Root
    Barbara Mandrell & George Jones - I Was Country When Country Wasn't Coool
    The Box Tops - You Keep Tightening Up On Me

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    1. Rainmakers...I need to pull that back out for a listen.

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    2. Hi, iamjethro! There's an FM live show by the Rainmakers at https://mega.nz/file/PFJknT5Z#HP8R981eLzsRtxAmqw8LAc9jlbs6E905Gcx1Rkmwd80

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  16. From REAL Shuffle Player, the next tracks coming up.

    Crooked Weather - Stoney Bay Blues
    David Gilmour - Dimming Of The Day
    Everly Brothers - No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile
    The Trade Winds - New York's A lonely Town
    Midnight Oil - When The Generals Talk
    Prelude and Ritual - Nick Mason & Rick Fenn
    The Bambi Molesters - A Gun For Ringo
    3 Balls Of Fire - The Ecstacy Of Gold
    Spirit - Fresh Garbage
    Tim Buckley - The Earth Is Broken
    Dion & The Belmonts - A Funny Feeling

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    1. I only have to see the word "Spirit" and it sets me off on a listening binge.

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  17. Perfidia - the Ventures
    Devil in Didguise - Burrito Bros
    Somebody To Love - the Ramones
    The Work Song - Tijuana Brass
    (What's So Funny About) Peace Love and Understanding - Brinsley Shwartz
    Ice Cream Man - Tom Waits
    Smile - Was (Not Was)
    Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line - Waylon Jennings
    Heaven - Rolling Stones
    Eleanor Bigsby - Tikiyaki Orchestra

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    1. Who else here is familiar with the Tikiyaki Orchestra?

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    2. Retro surf lounge act with TJB overtones. Outta Long Beach, California, I think. I like 'em! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Yv8cmzA74&list=RDG2Yv8cmzA74&start_radio=1

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    3. Eleanor Bigsby is a great title. I've never owned a guitar with a Bigsby, though.

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  18. From my iTunes on my desktop drawing from approx. 30,000 - the next 10 in the queue to play:

    1. "I Don't Believe You" - Bob Dylan
    2. "One Too Many Mornings" - Bob Dylan and George Harrison
    3. "Sea of Madness" - Neil Young
    4. "Better Make It Through Today" - Eric Clapton
    5. "Straight to Your Heart" - Van Morrison
    6. "Songs from The Wood" - Jethro Tull
    7. "Alison" - Linda Ronstadt
    8. "Tulsa Time" - Humble Pie
    9. "Man with an Open Heart" - King Crimson
    10. "I Can't Get Started" - Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

    If you take just the song titles, in order, they appear to tell their own little story. I'm sure the algorithm did not do that intentionally. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

    Also - there are many tunes folks have listed that I have never heard before - I am most intrigued by Geriatrix's listing of The Bambi Molesters - "A Gun For Ringo". I shall seek it out.

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  19. Pastures of Plenty - Dave Van Ronk
    Misery - Asleep at the Wheel feat. Marty Stuart
    Born and Raised (Reprise) - John Mayer
    I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Clifford Brown
    Sweet Black Angel - Pinetop Perkins
    New Frontier (Live from The Beacon Theatre) - Donald Fagen
    Hares in the Old Plantation - Waterson:Carthy
    Come Back Pussy - Dicky Williams
    Your Cheatin' Heart - Kelly Willis & the Fireballs
    Sufferin' Mind - Guitar Slim

    Weird that it picked folk, country and blues. I would have expected more pop, or stuff recorded in the last 10 years.

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  20. I still have only myself as a randomiser/shuffler -
    Peter Gabriel 'Secret World (live)'
    Tangerine Dream 'Raum'
    Pyrolator 'Ausland'
    Miroslav Vitous 'Remembering Weather Report'
    Arthur Lowe ao 'MrGreedy's Light Lunch'
    Alex North 'The Shoes Of The Fisherman'
    Miles (Davis) Leverkusen 1990
    Mike Sarne 'Dracula's Castle'
    Bela Bartok 'Allegro Barbarosso' (ie ELP unplugged)
    ZZ Top 'Tejas'

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  21. On shuffle, out of 137,298 tracks, here's what the player came up with. Not bad, really:

    1. Speak Softly -- Bit 'A Sweet
    2. Only You (And You Alone) -- Ringo Starr
    3. Overkill -- Popdudes
    4. Soul March -- Fatback Band
    5. I'm Not Always So Stupid -- The Wedding Present
    6. Smile -- Spiritualized (need a few minutes or weeks to come down now)
    7. Nine Feet Underground -- Caravan (and now a twenty minute break to actually listen)
    8. O Quam Suavis Est (William Byrd)
    9. Today -- Festival (nah, totally didn't remember this at all)
    10. Infinite Spirit -- Albert Ayler (perfect wrap-up but I think I need to lie down)

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  22. This is as good a place as any to post this. They found an unreleased shellac f a Robert Johnson record. Quality is stunning. Recorded in 1936. Great historical recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnNi8oPsrQ

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    1. Wow. Him, and Blind Blake, when I'm in the blues mood.

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    2. fun....at 16 I made a friend drive me over the (supposed) crossroads where 61 & 49 meet, but I was not brave enough to go at midnight....tbh, it felt creepy enough at noon.

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  23. Action Strasse - SAHB
    Uncle Meat live - FZ
    Yer Blues - The Beatles
    Village Of The Sun -FZ/Mothers
    The Windblown Hare - Looney Tunes soundtrack
    How Long Blues - Memphis Slim
    My Boy - Elvis at Stax
    Blu Rondo a La Turk - Brubeck
    He Said I Can - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
    Look What You Done For Me - Al Green

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  24. Howdy Partner,

    It's that time again to open the windows of the ol' homestead and let the cactus and Gila monsters get some of what's playing at the ranch. The Miss' looks forward to the music coaxing them out from under the rocks so she can wrastle' 'em and loser gets turned into a belt. No lie, she's been bitten so many times you'd think she's part Gila herself but no one is using her to hold up a size 35 x 30. Granted, she likes to lay low when it gets hot, and I often find her in the cellar - but I assure you she's 100 percent human, yes sir ree.

    This is what the ol' ITumes Jukebox came up with for me;

    Tom Dissevelt - Re-Entry
    Pink Floyd - (Bike, mono mix)
    Peter Zinovieff & Friends - Agnus Dei
    Brian Eno - 1/1
    The Byrds - Bad Night At The Whiskey (Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde acetate mix)
    High Tide - The Joke
    Moby Grape - It's A Beautiful Day Today
    David Jackman - Ways To The Sea
    Daughters Of Albion - Well Wired
    Spacemen 3 - Starship

    Hope the world's treating you nice in your part of the world, and if you have any grappling skills when it comes to reptiles and such, I'm sure the Miss' will be happy to tag team with you.

    As ever,

    Billy Gates of the Doubble X Ranch.

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    1. Always good to have you drop by, Billy. We have a gecko in the roof who crashes about catching mice, but he's either on vacation or stiff as an old shoe up there. The scariest lizards I ever saw (Monitors, I think) were at Lumpini Park in Bangkok, which grew to about ten feet or more, cruising the lakes and dragging their scaly asses up onto the grass for some sun. You never saw picnickers move so fast!

      That Byrds "acetate" is here, for those bums desirous of hearing it:
      https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/03/do-boids-is-da-woid-part-th-uh.html

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    2. ... and so what do we do when we want something? Hmmm?

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  25. Okay, I'll play too...

    ELO - In Old England Town (Instrumental)
    Tornados - Telstar
    Gosdin Brothers - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
    Hank Locklin - Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
    Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ
    Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
    Jerry Lee Lewis - What's Made Milwaukee Famous
    Go-Between - Streets Of Your Town
    Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - Kites
    Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

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  26. Let Nothing Come Between You - Warren Zevon
    P.F.Sloan - Jimmy Webb
    Calico Silver - Michael Martin Murphey
    Week On The Rag - Arlo Guthrie
    The Sexual Loneliness Of Jesus Christ - Jackie Leven
    Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
    Reason For Our Love - Ron Sexsmith
    Ashes And Wine - A Fine Frenzy
    Rangers - A Fine Frenzy
    Cold Hearted Wind - Ron Sexsmith

    Huh, some weird 'double features' at the end there, but that's what the machine came up with...


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