You know the rules by now: set your mp3 player to shuffle, list first ten that come up! If you don't like music, list the first ten things that come into your head! If you can't count, tell us your favourite colour!
Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Carrot Top.
HOKAYYYY!!!! Let's get the fun started, gang! WOO-HOO!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCanterbury Music Festival - Girl Of The Skies
ZZ Top - Manic Mechanic
Neil Young - War Song
Captain Beefheart - China Pig
Primal Scream - Don't Fight It, Feel It
Spirit - Caught
Steely Dan - Jazz Outro
Byrds - Psychodrama City
Crusaders - Sweet Revival
Zapp (phew! thought he wasn't going to show) - Australian Yellow Snow
(a)
DeleteA friend of mine was a dj at a local station when War Song was released. The owner of the station was a huge Nixon supporter and banned the song. My friend had another job lined up, and on the last day on the air, he played it on repeat for over 20 minutes before they bounced him off the air. For the uninitiated, the song was written in support of George McGovern's ill fated 1972 POTUS campaign.
DeleteAt 13-14 I worked the old Gestetner machine at his Berkeley HQ and that summer and fall worked my ass off going door-to-door in BRLA for McGovern--that was a hoot, lemme tell ya--and in 1980 landed a job with him about 6 months before he lost his Senate seat. He was a wonderful fellow. He, a former professor, also wisely advised me to go back to school, clearly having figured out (correctly) I was not cut out for that kind of politics.
DeleteTrue fact (best kind), a local Klan leader who lived a few houses up our street told me he voted for McGovern "because Lincoln freed the slaves." You can't make that shit up.
Yeah. Its funny how stupidity sometimes works out for the best (but rarely does it produce that result).
DeleteREM - Moon River
ReplyDeleteEd's Redeeming Qualities - Drivin' on 9
Plimsouls - I Can't Turn You Loose
J Mascis - Every Morning
Lissie - Cuckoo
Marlee MacLeod - Mata Hari Dress
California Guitar Trio - Pipeline
Ray Scott - Lily White Mama, Jet Black Papa
The Cookies - Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)
Robert Fripp - Under Heavy Manners
Not a set conducive to writing, but it's been fun/ny
Rolling Stones-Miss You Live in Texas 78
ReplyDeleteAmy Winehouse - Love is a Losing Game
Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills and Far Away
Culture Club - It's A Miracle/Miss Me Blind
Ronnie Milsap - It Was Almost Like A Song
Gary Moore - Bad For Your Baby
The Frantics - Ti Kwan Leap
2PAC - How Do You Want It
Dave Edmunds - Pick Axe Rag
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel
I can live with it.
First cds I can see from my chair
ReplyDeleteKing Crimson- RED
A certain ratio- Force
Meat Puppets- Too high to die
Eno/ Budd- the plateau of mirrors
The Wake- Here comes everybody
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Neo geo
Brothertiger- Paradise lost
Gregory Porter- Be good
Midlake- Antiphon
Sylvian/Fripp- damage
Bat
Duke Robillard - Stapled to the Chicken's Back
ReplyDeleteEric Dolphy - Hat and Beard
Jai Uttal - Raghupati II
Roger - Fonk Wars
IF - Fibonacci's Number
Michael Leonard Witham - Miss LA
Sapho - Sans Aveu
Suicide Twins - Twisted Inner City Blues
Ernest Tubb - Driving Nails In My Coffin
Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life
Two Beads at the End - Minutemen
ReplyDeleteGimme Gimme featuring Kenny Knots - Mungo’s Hi-Fi
Slip Inside this House - Primal Scream
I’m in Love with a Girl - Big Star
Darkside - Spiral Tribe
Party - The Tapes
Cheraderama - The Legendary Pink Dots
Suspicion - Colourbox
Carmel Dub - Meat Beat Manifesto
Rich, White, & Republican - Root Boy Slim
Yo! Primals!
DeleteDoing a 13th Floor Elevators number, nonetheless
DeleteAs it happens, just came in from my car where my mpwhat'sit was playing at a decent volume (c'mon, wake the kids, shake the fireflies):
ReplyDelete1) Any Trouble - "Turning Up the Heat"
2) "Not Dark Yet" - Tom Jones (live)
3) "What Goes On" - Bryan Ferry
d) "25 Reasons" - Red House
5. "'Til the Drugs Kicked In" - Scott Kempner
VI. "Coal Train Robberies" - Elvis Costello and the Imposters
7. "Hard Road" - True Believers
8. "Disappointed Man" - Freedy Johnston
#9 - "Overnight Sensation" - They Might Be Giants
Ten: "WPLJ" - The Four Deuces
--Muzak McMusics himself
1. Sonny Stitt - Home Free Blues
ReplyDelete2. Benny Carter - Blue Star
3. Chuck Berry - Oh Baby Doll
4. Duke Ellington - Silk Lace
5. Chick Corea - Matrix
6. Joni Mitchell - Yvette In English
7. The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
8. Patricia Barber - Winter
9. Quincy Jones - I Never Told You
10. Paul Simon - Gumboots
Blue Sky - ahh Dickie Betts, bless your heart and soul. FT3
DeleteOccasional visitor for quite some years, never noticed those posts, not sure my collection is made for this...
ReplyDelete1 - Count Lasher - Calypso Cha Cha Cha (2:51)
2 - The Black Mambazo, Zeph Nkabinde - Idolofiya (2:32)
3 - Uncredited - Along Came Jones (8 Top Hits (Allegro Elite 4150)) (2:51)
4 - Sweet Inspirations - Slipped And Tripped (2:58)
5 - Nutone - Set Me Free (4:46)
6 - maoen - milkbone (3:56)
7 - Kyeremateng Atwede & Kyeremateng Stars - I Go Die For You (5:23)
8 - Eddie Lund et son Orchestre Tahitian; Neti Et Fati - Pata Uta U ( Patautau ) (3:17)
9 - Kate Tempest - People's Faces (5:19)
10 - Mood - Another Day (3:10)
Any collection is made for this - even pmac's Mexican music. There's been a few posts like this - search for Randy Randomguy in the state=of-the-art luxe search box I installed at great expense but never gets used.
DeleteWupes - typo: should be "except", not "even". Apologies to all.
DeleteApology excepted.
DeleteRose City Band - Wildflowers
ReplyDeleteHiromasa Suzuki - Hayabusawake
Fleetwood Mac - Searching For Madge
Satan’s Empire - Soldiers Of War
Rory Gallagher - Voodoo Blues (live)
The Unthanks - Died For Love
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Steve Hackett - Every Day (live)
Ry Cooder - The End Of Violence
Samurai - Maudie James
Chip Taylor - Used To Be A White Boy
ReplyDeleteCake - War Pigs
Cat Power - Angelitos Negros
Abbey Lincoln -Blue Monk
The Persuasions -- Another Night With the Boys
Asleep at the Wheel - Walk on By
The Byrds - Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia -Da Birg Song
Deniece Williams - Free
Mink DeVille - "A" Train Lady
Alice Babs - Take Five
is that ten ???
woody
Shriekback - Nemesis
ReplyDeleteOvel - Textual
Lynne Arrinal Trio - The Eyes Have it
Muffins- She wears her dead mother's hat
George Benson - Love all the hurt away) - (with Aretha Franklin)
Duke Ellington - Jolly Holiday
Cockney Rejects - I'm not a fool
Marvin Gaye - Right On (Detroit Mix)
Henry Cow - Halsteren extension 3
The Nice - Diary of an Empty Day
1. War - Where Was You At
ReplyDelete2. BB King - Please Accept My Love
3. Mumford & Son - Little Lion Man
4. Ryan Adams - When the Stars Go Blue
5. E. John/John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through The Night (live)
6. Mozart - Piano Concerto 21 in C
7. Miles Davis - Ascenseur
8. Graham Parker - Passion is No Ordinary Word
9. The Beau Brummels - She Reigns
10. Gene Clark - In A Misty Morning
Hermeto Pascoal - Brazilian Adventure
ReplyDeleteRod Stewart w Helicopter Girl - Don't Come Around Here
Erkki-Sven Tuur - Passion
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself
Stanley Clarke - North Sea Jazz Festival 1980
Art Zoyd - Rheims 1982
Annea Lockwood - Tiger Balm
Edward Vesala - Nan Madol
Everyman Band - Zurich 1982
Wake Me Up to Drive - Big Thief
ReplyDeletePrelude to a Kiss - Kenny Drew Trio
They Can't Take That Away From Me - Charlie Parker
Love in Outer Space - L'Rain
Utopian - Liza Anne
Dos Gardenias - Buena Vista Social Club
Body and Soul - Django Reinhardt
Samba de Flora - Airto & Flora Purim
#facepalm - James Ilgenfritz
Loose Joints - This Mortal Coil
Esse E O Nosso Black Brother - Gerson King Combo
Falling Man - Blonde Redhead
~Jon in California
ps
Request: can we play this game here every day?
Why in tarnation not? Just keep adding another rando-sample to these comments whenever you feel like it!
DeleteCalexico - Crystal Frontier
ReplyDeleteTirez Tirez - Somebody Tell Me
Sonny Clark - Lover
Mark Isham - The Chosen
Alfredo Rodriguez - Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado
Culture - Holy Mount Zion
Elvis Costello & Friends - Radio Sweetheart
Ian Dury and The Blockheads - What a Waste!
Chrissie Hynde - Always on My Mind (feat. Rufus Wainwright)
X - Beyond And Back (Live)
Too late Brother. Little Walter
ReplyDeleteThird Rate Romance. Amazing Rhythm Aces
Common people Pulp
Couchemal CC Adcock
Sitting on top of the world. Willie Nelson
Alone again or. Love
Always waiting. Michael Kiwanuka
Long long time. Linda Ronstadt
After Dark. Tito and Tarantula
Nobody cept you. Waterboys
Todd Rundgren - Real Man
ReplyDeleteThe Special's - Pearl's Cafe
Phish - Dirt
Rocky Horror OST - I Can Make You A Man
Ella Fitzgerald - Easy To Love
Widespread Panic - Tall Boy
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
Badfinger - Baby Blue
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Hi-De-Ho
Corb Lund - Five Dollar Bill
ReplyDeleteElectric Swing Circus - Renegade Soundwave
Wynonie Harris - I Feel That Old Age Coming On
Wilson Pickett - Don't Fight It
Alan Lorber Orchestra - Mas Que Nada
Four Tops - You Keep Running Away
Lefty Frizzell - I Love You Mostly
Johnny Wright - Hello Vietman
The Summer Holiday - Forest Hills
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Plus....a Roman dodecahedron!
ReplyDeleteIt's yours to take home!
DeleteHowdy pardner!
ReplyDeleteThe Miss, the boy, and I decided that it was too damn hot to stick around the ol' ranch. Well, this was more the Miss's idea. I'm more of a homebody, and the boy is happy hanging out back in the canyon and getting into all sorts of adventures and such. Though he keeps coming back with these spent isotope rods. We keep telling him to leave them where he found them; nothing glowing from noon till morning can't be good for the indoors. But the boy don't listen, means well - just a tad thick around the cranium. Early last month, the Miss looked over at me during breakfast and said, "Roman Holiday," and that was it. I said to her, " We got tons of videotapes out back, but I don't think we have that one. Why don't we watch Myra Breckenridge, after all, Rex Reed is dead?" She wouldn't hear of it, said Roman Holiday again, and that was it. So here we are, in the land of pizza's that keep leanin', and some pretty rude hand gestures. But I don't let that bother me none, everybody talks with their hands at some point.. I'm even learnin' the numbers they have out here! Attached is what the ol' iPod came up with.
I) Fever - Eno and the Winkies
II) 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones
III) Satellite Of Love - Lou Reed
IV) Ugly Mascara - Graffiti
V) Workshop Of The Telescopes - Blue Öyster Cult
VI) The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire (BBC Radiophonic Music)
VII) Translucent Carriages (alternate take) - Pearls Before Swine
VIII) Nothing, Part 14 - Pink Floyd
IX) Empire / Appearance - Brian Eno
X) Magical Mystery Tour (movie mix) - The Beatles
As ever, Billy Gates of the Doubble X ranch. Ciao!
*tamps dottle from pipe into fire grate* Y'know, back in the Old Days, comments of this sterling quality were thick on the ground here on th' IoF©. Of course, we attracted a collegiate crowd back then, gentlemen for whom scholarly discourse was ever leavened by the yeast of wit. Not like the slobs we get today with their cue chalk fingers and hats pushed back.
DeleteRed!!
ReplyDeleteWhy, you - for two cents I'd ...
DeleteHaven't listened to a streaming device in quite awhile, since I finally have my vinyl apparatus back to snuff. But, here's a random sample of cuts from vinyl that I have been listening to:
ReplyDelete1. Djavan - Oceano
2. Michel Legrand - Round Midnight
3. Gil Evans - Nobody's Heart
4. Fanou Torracinta - Fast Rag
5. Cesaria Evora - Morabeza
6. Blossom Dearie - Just One of Those Things
7. Rascals - How Can I Be Sure
8. Teddy Edwards - Together Again
9. Stacey Kent - Bookends
10. Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
AIMEE MANN I Should Have Known (Live 1994)
ReplyDeleteRUMER Pizza And Pinball (Live)
PETER LACEY The Last Pierrot
EVERYBODY’S SO GLAD Gimme Some More
PHIL SEYMOUR Didn’t Want To Have To Do It
THE UNDERTONES His Good Looking Girlfriend
PAVLOV’S DOG Fast Gun
BERGEN WHITE Take Time To Love
FLEETWOOD MAC Woman Of 1000 Years
RON SEXSMITH Many Times
The Elois--Hush Your Mouth
ReplyDeleteThe Spizzles--Brainwashing Time
Rick Nelson--Evil Woman Child
John/Yoko/Elephant's Memory Band--Give Peace A Chance (at Jerry Lewis Telethon)
Al Stewart--The Ear Of The Night
Heaters--Dali
The B-G System--I Get My Ticket
Sarah Bethe Nelson--Out Of My Reach
Bill Withers--Let It Be
Mott The Hoople --The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll
In the hope that today's rando-sampling will be less lamestream than my first, and leave the impression that I'm a pretty hip connoissieur of all that is hi-toned in the music department:
ReplyDeleteHis Bobness of Dylan - Early Mornin' Rain
Walt Becker - This Moody Bastard
It's A Beautiful Day (and how I love this band) Galileo
Shoes - Someone Finer
Lemon Twigs - Leather Together
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangles (ugh)
Manassas - Johnny's Garden
Burning Spear - Rocking Time
Francis Cabrel - l'Encre De Tes Yeux
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
The title of that Stones song says it all, Farq...
DeleteI have a later-generation iPod, and it is the best music player I’ve had because of the software. The battery has largely gone kaput, so it only works when constantly plugged in to recharge; it lives with a Bose clock-radio that no longer plays CDs. Together, they are still useful … but they aren’t always the focus of my music listening and don’t include much of the lovely recordings I’ve discovered through blogs like this.
ReplyDeleteI had occasion to use the system today, though, while squeezing lemons. Here’s a bakers’ dozen:
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Here Come The Girls – Ernie K-Doe
Justice In The Streets – Richard & Linda Thompson
Morgenblätter (Op. 279, J. Strauss Jr.) – Peter Falk, Vienna Volksoper
Some Other Guy – Dave Edmunds
Running Down The Road – Arlo Guthrie
Six Point Nine – Dave and The Generators
In The Heat Of The Summer – Judy Collins
Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends – Phil Ochs
(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone – The Monkees
Undignified – The Love Marines
Ooh, Las Vegas – Cowboy Junkies
Dave and The Generators, and The Love Marines are both local bands from about thirty years ago, and I’m really tickled that they both showed up in my shuffle through the past!
D in California