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| 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.


1. Sonny Stitt - “Home Free Blues”
ReplyDelete2. 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”
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.
Delete160GB ipod classic results:
Delete1. 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
Bobby Darrin - You're The Reason I'm Living
ReplyDeleteThin 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
Ernie and Bert!
DeleteHey, no judging!
DeleteWho's judging? Happy to see them here.
DeleteThe first few songs what popped into my 'ead ..
ReplyDelete"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!!
Organic shuffle works too!
Delete1. Guy Clark "Sis Draper"
ReplyDelete2. 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"
This is from shuffle on my computer played through our "sound system," such as it is
DeleteEvery 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?"
Delete(NB use of "I'm like" to show I'm down with the kids)
RIP Jon Dee --Muzak McM
DeleteDitto Mink and Marvin
DeleteJon Dee was an old and dear friend from the late seventies and I miss him keenly.
DeleteWhat was Edward Kelly like to roll a spliff with?
Deleteeverything he touched turned to gold, #amirite
DeleteWhy, just driving tonight with my iWhatever on random:
ReplyDelete1. "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
Love Can't stop a train and Lilys
DeleteKenny Gonzalez - The Bomb
ReplyDeleteJoy 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
List of most played on Mac since Jan
ReplyDeleteMidnight 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
*cues up Idlewild South^
DeleteWell done Farq good listening.
DeleteBratia - balkan/jazz group from Barcelona
ReplyDeleteNicole 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
Jethro Tull - Flight from Lucifer
ReplyDeleteKate 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’.
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".
DeleteELP 'Bo Diddley'?
DeleteQue ?
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DeleteFanny, An 'unreleased at the time outtake'?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzq5l__20Io&list=RDTzq5l__20Io&start_radio=1
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.
ReplyDeleteFrom a playlist which is both in iTunes, shuffle, and Finder, click.
ReplyDeleteFlame-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
I'm listening to La Nouvelle Frontière on YewChewb as we speak - c'est groovy!
DeleteNiartes Hornpipe is actually from Sea Train's first album. Story (actually true) here:
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2024/12/it-crawled-from-outta-th-crawlspace.html
‘Objects Of Appalling Significance’ - The Slinky
ReplyDeleteA 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…
The appalling significance lies in its being always upside down on th' IoF©
DeleteCue Diana Ross in 3…2…1…
Delete♫Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round and 'round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me inside out
And 'round and 'round♫
Ferrets are slinkies with skin and blood. Owned 2 briefly because they poop 4xs their weight every damn day.
DeleteGood to have something in common with your pets,
DeleteIntegration Grooves: The A&P Song
ReplyDeleteNino 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
"Basement Days" - Mark Erelli
ReplyDelete"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
The Rainmakers - Government Cheese
ReplyDeleteMax 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
Rainmakers...I need to pull that back out for a listen.
DeleteHi, iamjethro! There's an FM live show by the Rainmakers at https://mega.nz/file/PFJknT5Z#HP8R981eLzsRtxAmqw8LAc9jlbs6E905Gcx1Rkmwd80
DeleteFrom REAL Shuffle Player, the next tracks coming up.
ReplyDeleteCrooked 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
I only have to see the word "Spirit" and it sets me off on a listening binge.
DeletePerfidia - the Ventures
ReplyDeleteDevil 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
Who else here is familiar with the Tikiyaki Orchestra?
Delete*crickets*
DeleteRetro 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
DeleteEleanor Bigsby is a great title. I've never owned a guitar with a Bigsby, though.
DeleteAbsolutely larvely!
DeleteFrom my iTunes on my desktop drawing from approx. 30,000 - the next 10 in the queue to play:
ReplyDelete1. "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.
Pastures of Plenty - Dave Van Ronk
ReplyDeleteMisery - 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.
I still have only myself as a randomiser/shuffler -
ReplyDeletePeter 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'
On shuffle, out of 137,298 tracks, here's what the player came up with. Not bad, really:
ReplyDelete1. 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)
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
ReplyDeleteWow. Him, and Blind Blake, when I'm in the blues mood.
Deletefun....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.
DeleteAction Strasse - SAHB
ReplyDeleteUncle 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
Howdy Partner,
ReplyDeleteIt'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.
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!
DeleteThat 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
Dead. Link.
Delete... and so what do we do when we want something? Hmmm?
DeleteOkay, I'll play too...
ReplyDeleteELO - 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
Let Nothing Come Between You - Warren Zevon
ReplyDeleteP.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...