Today, before we all hit “shuffle” on our iPods, computers, or whatever device we have for playing MP3s, and list the first ten tracks that come up, I want to talk about the embarrassing problem that is so humiliating, so secret, and yet so common. No, not back acne. That makes you a freak. I mean shit that sneaks into your MP3 collection.
We’ve all had it happen. You’re sitting around, listening to your iPod on “shuffle”, enjoying the fine sounds of Cibo Matto, the Hold Steady, and Le Tigre, when all of a sudden a song by John Mayer pops in. Or Phish. (For example. I’m not about to tell you what tragedies have popped up on my iPod.) You rip the headphones off, or perhaps fumble to skip the song before the suck leaks in and takes hold of your brain, and there’s only one question that pops to your lips: “How’d that get on there?”
No one knows. Some people theorize that the songs sneak on there by the force of your subconscious desire to hear that shit, which guides your hand to the iTunes store in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping or perhaps with the aid of alcohol. Reputable scientists deny this theory, however, pointing out that even sleepwalkers and drunks find John Mayer repulsive, perhaps especially sleepwalkers and drunks. Some suggest that your friends are fucking with you, downloading stuff behind your back, which is a good argument for not making your password easy to guess. And others think it’s the Unlistenable Crap Fairy, which you unwittingly invite into your life when you buy Apple products, a secret punishment the universe gives you for being a follower.*
However it happens, there is hope for your problem. Instead of skipping over the errant song, carefully slip the headphones off and punch the button on the iPod (maybe other MP3 players have this function) until you reach the ratings section. Give the song one star. When you get home, you can arrange the songs by star rating, and then delete everything with one star on it. Problem solved. Until the Unlistenable Crap Fairy strikes again.
Onto the random ten. Leave yours in comments.
- “Crime in the pale moonlight”—Flanger
- “Keep It Clean”—Charley Jordan
- “Faces”—The Hangman
- “Loose Cannon”—The Yoko Casionos
- “Your Red Watermelon”—Ally Ferguson
- “Army Song”—Abrasive Wheels
- “Pin”—The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Hanky Panky”—Rita Chao and The Quests
- “My Friends Are Getting Famous”—Screeching Weasel
- “Say Goodbye”—Gunmoll
The Yoko Casionos:
Update for the cat people. This is hysterical:
*I’m typing on a MacBook Pro, so hold your horses. This is self-deprecation.
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Wait… did someone kill the Crap Fairy?
I’m starting to get iTunes trained up. The ratings really do make a difference between rocking out to The Rosebuds and feeling horribly embarrased at Spacehog. Another thing is the number of plays. The more you play a song, the more likely it is to cue up.
I’ve been schooled in how to formulate a Smart Playlist, and I feel that the best thing for it is this:
Play songs where the stars are NOT 1 or 2 (don’t say greater than three because there might be some awesomeness you haven’t yet rated). Also, play songs where the last play date is more than X number of days ago (this prevents you from hearing the same song twice in whatever your arbitrary “ugh, AGAIN?” time is).
Unfortunately, you can’t mix-and-match, so you can’t tell iTunes “if it’s a five star, just keep it in the list all the time” but I’m definitely seeing iTunes adjusting to playing music I know I like.
My most embarassing problem? Progressive Rock group Kansas and 2004 Rock Hall of Famer Prince are treated as the same artist on my RCA MP3 player. I couldn’t delete Kansas unless I turned my player on. It was a mess. Nothing snuck on my player thus far.
On that note:
01. Stand by Me [03:28] — John Lennon
02. Shine On You Crazy Diamond [25:52] — Pink Floyd
03. Dream Gerrard [11:03] — Traffic
04. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer [08:22] — George Thorogood
05. Wearing and Tearing [05:30] — Led Zeppelin
06. Too Much Ain’t Enough [02:56] — Tom Petty
07. All Right Now [04:14] — Free
08. Josie [04:03] — Steely Dan
09. Sound Chaser [09:28] — Yes
10. Heavy Horses [09:00] — Jethro Tull
Bonus:
11. Good Friday [03:49] — Black Crowes
12. Southern Woman [07:56] — Marshall Tucker Band
13. Free Bird [demo] [11:11] — Lynyrd Skynyrd
14. Simply Irresistible [04:12] — Robert Palmer
15. I Can’t Tell You Why [04:53] — Eagles
16. Celebration of the Lizard [17:09] — Doors
17. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression [13:22] — Emerson, Lake & Palmer
18. Every Picture Tellsa Story [05:22] — Georgia Satellites
hmmm,
they are Spice Girl, Britney Spears, and Michael Bolton …
fesss up pandagon… you can’t hide it much longer. we know it.
Vanilla Ice? Some emo cheeseball?
See, I’ve never been ashamed of the stupid music I own “because it’s stupid.” I have Right Said Fred, I have a shit ton of cheezy 80’s pop (although even I have my limits), I have White Zombie. It’s the stuff like Spacehog, Cowboy Mouth, and other “wannabe alternabands” that I feel ashamed of.
Wow - I guess I really am an old fuddy-duddy now, what with my perverse desire to actually consciously choose what I music to listen to. I have totally never had anything even vaguely like that happen. It is not an issue you’re ever going to run into with 12″ LP records…
Amanda, you are fogetting that as an Insufferable Music Snob, you are allowed a pass on liking some absolute crap on the basis of your Music Snob credits, much like how Favre is allowed to cry due to his previously earned Manliness Points.
Yes, this is true. I have seen Justin Timberlake on many an IMS’ library, with the IMS believing they have earned enough “smug points” to be able to keep JT in their playlists without being the object of societal scorn.
Dunc, unless you engineer a strategic scratch so that the needle is catapulted over that one horrible song you hate.
Now, when I was younger and listening to tapes and not CDs and didn’t have the skip button, I do remember having to fast forward through some pretty horrible crap and being envious when friends had tape decks that would automatically stop at the breaks — It’s not a “kids these days” issue because there’s always been crap released to fill an album and there always will be. At least we have the ability now to declare that a particular song isn’t our favorite and not have to suffer through it again. When I buy an album on LP, it’s because I trust that it won’t have a song so offensive that I can’t just sit through it.
You forgot another primary reason that horrible crap ends up in your iTunes list: you hear it on a TV show or commercial one day and it gives you an earbug so intense that the only solution is to listen to the whole goddamned song just so it will leave your head.
And you can never delete it, because someday it might come back.
I must admit, I have a lot of unlistenable crap. This is because for a long time I just listened to videogame and anime soundtracks, a habit I sadly maintain to this day, as my Friday Random Tens may show.
I mean, for goodness’s sake, look at the first damn track in today’s random ten. It’s from Megaman X8! I’m pathetic.
1. “Final Battle with Lumine” - Capcom Sound Team
2. “Rollercoaster” - Sleater-Kinney
3. “The Day I was a Horse” - The Vaselines
4. “The Sunset” - Ennio Morricone
5. “This is Yesterday” - Manic Street Preachers
6. “Status Quo” - Throwing Muses
7. “Romantic Comedy” - Stars
8. “Rescue from Cloud City” - John Williams
9. “Jah Lion” - Todos Tus Muertos
10. “Cities” - Talking Heads
1. Galang - M.I.A.
2. Dog Eat Dog - De La Soul
3. Greek Song - Rufus Wainwright
4. Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo
5. The Consort - Rufus Wainwright
6. Fire - Aceyalone & RJD2
7. Noorie Gunjan - Bally Sagoo
8. Rock of Ages - Donna the Buffalo
9. Merchants of Soul - Spoon
10. Children Play With Earth - Arrested Development
My wife and I can always blame each other. In fact, I think that should be added to the wedding vows: promise to love, honor and blame each other for the lame songs in your iTunes Library.
Mustella, it’s actually a complex dance. The IMS is permitted to have some tastes that are traditionally considered repulsive, but they have to launch into an argument about how this band is actually really cool. It’s the reputation revitalization project. I’m still hoping that takes off for the Electric Light Orchestra.
Yes, this is true. I have seen Justin Timberlake on many an IMS’ library, with the IMS believing they have earned enough “smug points” to be able to keep JT in their playlists without being the object of societal scorn.
They need to keep up. JT has been a favorite of Pitchfork’s for at least two years now, so he’s so hip it’s sliding into passe. The “Dick in a Box” skit made liking JT semi-ironically something even non-Pitchfork readers will do, so really, he should enjoy his moment in the sun, because the hipsters will proably forsake him soon.
Irony loses its cachet once everyone tries to play along.
Proving the original point edition:
1. “Pink And Blue” - Outkast
2. “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” - Lounge Brigade
3. “ウルトラマン” - Ultraman the CD
4. “Live At Dominoes” - The Avalanches
5. “The Voice & The Snake” - Enigma
6. “All Is Full Of Love” - Björk
7. “Mother Tongue” - Dead Can Dance
8. “Nightclubbing” - Iggy Pop
9. “The Spy In The Cab” - Bauhaus
10. “Roses Are Red” - Aqua
Bonus Track: “Gratitude” - Beastie Boys
1. “Golden Years”, David Bowie
2. “Pinch Me”, Barenaked Ladies
3. “Peter Gunn”, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4. “Strange”, Built To Spill
5. “Gin And Juice”, The Gourds
6. “It Wasn’t Me”, Shaggy
7. “Wise Up”, Aimee Mann
8. “Anarchy In The U.K.”, The Sex Pistols
9. “Birth, School, Work, Death”, The Godfathers
10. “Hey Ladies”, Beastie Boys
I married the Unlistenable Crap Fairy. Fortunately we got separate computers so I have a lot fewer instances of this. Our car stereo got stolen too, so I don’t have to listen to the fourth opening to whatever anime he’s taken a liking to this week. I like FullMetal Alchemist as much as the next person, but the music just doesn’t do it for me.
My problem is that perfectly wonderful and hard to find music will disappear from my drive at random intervals. I lost an entire Young Dubliners album, are are not teh happy.
The prettiest things I post this week
Baden Powell -A lenda do Abaeté
27 Horas de Estúdio (1969)
http://www.moteldemoka.com/squashed/08unite.mp3
Burial - Unite
Box of Dub: Dubstep and Future Dub (Soul Jazz, 2007)
http://www.moteldemoka.com/squashed/AlendadoAbaete.mp3
My problem is not so much that I’m ashamed of what I have on here, it’s just that I never clear out any of the older tunes I used to listen to, and they don’t match up with the new ones.
It’s one thing is I’m shifting gears through Jonathan Colton, and They Might be Giants before hitting a Phil Collins “No Jacket Required” song, but cranking through Gorillaz and Go! Team before hitting a Madonna soft rock tends to strip the gears.
Discopathology - Noise/Girl
There’s No Such Thing As Aliens - Sparks
Art For Art’s Sake - 10cc
The Crank - The Creed Taylor Orchestra [Kenyon Hopkins]
Train Round the Bend [alt mix] - The Velvet Underground
Another [NYC 1979] - Public Image Ltd.
Grazing In The Grass - The Electronic Concept Orchestra
(untitled segue 4) - Die Trip Computer Die
#19 [Shell] - Instant Library Service
Drinking Wine Spodyody - Pere Ubu
Together - Silver Apples
Red Nettles - Virgin Prunes
BARTÓK: 10 Easy Pieces, Nº 9 - Finger study - Chris Breemer
Amanda Marcotte March 21, 2008 at 10:10 am
They need to keep up. JT has been a favorite of Pitchfork’s for at least two years now, so he’s so hip it’s sliding into passe. ”
Gah, p4k needs to be spanked for pulling that “we’ll we need to put some album that people’ve actually heard once in a whiel” gag.
I should have shut up about suggesting JT as a joke.
Next person talking about VAMPIRE WEEKEND will deserve a reallly annoying set of list. Kenny G. level of torture.
Oh, good grief. The whole point of the iPod is to conceal one’s taste for silly, artistically meritless music. I own the Archies, ABBA, and Wham! along with the Brandenburg Concertos and Dizzy Gillespie.
haydn60:
i’ve got just about everything the velvets ever made and “train comin’ round bend” may be my favorite. it’s just so out of character it’s delightful
Michelle Branch keeps mysteriously appearing on my Zune. And I somehow know all the lyrics and happily sing along (until someone comes up and asks “whatcha listenin too?” and I quickly flip to something by The Shins or Holly Golightly and sheepishly mumble about how cool the song I WASNT listening to is).
Boy, the prizes in cereal boxes have really gotten bizarre since I was a kid…
1. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - Tears, Tears, and More Tears
2. Radiohead - The Gloaming (etc blah blah blah pretentious crap)
3. Bob Dylan - Pledging My Time
4. Art Brut - Bad Weekend
5. Ima Robot - 12 = 3
6. Rufus Wainwright - Leaving For Paris
7. Elvis Costello - Hand In Hand
8. Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies - Laugh Track
9. Jay-Z - Moment of Clarity (Grey Album Remix)
10. Wilco - In a Future Age
I have a problem with old screamo and metal that I listened to as a teenager popping up over and over again - Thursday, System of a Down, even Jimmy Eat World. I swear to Dog that I’ve expunged it, and then I find it again.
Driving my Mom home from my brother’s place 2 weeks ago I had the iPod on shuffle.
After I dropped her off, the very next track was “Clean Filth” by Patton Oswalt.
Time to make a “Safe” playlist!
Y’all will remember that happened to me last week, when I wondered how the hell “Rebel Yell” got on my iPhone….
Today’s Random Ten, Seriously Awesome Edition:
1. Johnny Cash - “Get Rhythm”
2. Radiohead - “Optimistic”
3. Old 97s - “Designs on You”
4. Ozma - “Korobeiniki” [AWESOME!]
5. Johnny Cash - “Jackson” [ALSO AWESOME! I totally want to get married just so I can duet with a husband on this at the wedding]
6. Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Proud Mary”
7. Sting - “Fields of Gold”
8. Queen - “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
9. Radiohead - “Scatterbrain (Dead As Leaves)”
10. Green Day - “American Idiot”
Karen @21, my relationship with Dancing Queen is thoroughly summarized in this Ph.D Comic.
Also there is nothing wrong with Wham! NOTHING.
What is that ghastly image, anyway? Looks like a Weekly World News cover.
1. Friday I’m In Love - The Cure
2. How Can the Lark - Doug Burr
3. Maggie, With Green Eyes - Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks
4. Voices Carry (acoustic) - Aimee Mann
5. The Fool on the Hill - The Beatles
6. Old Friends - Simon & Garfunkel
7. Far Away - Mocha Lab
8. Summersong - The Decemberists
9. Nightswimming - R.E.M.
10. Running Mary - The Connells
Bonus:
Fix You - Coldplay (who likely moved past IMS acceptance level long ago)
I’m just grateful that there were no Ipods during my art-rock and hair metal phases.
1) Radiohead- “Reckoner”
2) Depeche Mode- “Never Let Me Down Again”
3) Peggy Lee- “Fever”
4) The Shins- “Gone for Good (Live)”
5) Nancy Sinatra- “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
6) The English Beat- “Mirror in the Bathroom”
7) Snoop Dogg- “Sensual Seduction (dirty)”
8) Radiohead- “House of Cards”
9) The Kinks- “This Time Tomorrow”
10) The Coasters- “Down in Mexico”
Oh, good grief. The whole point of the iPod is to conceal one’s taste for silly, artistically meritless music.
It only works if you don’t have a nosy dentist. I swear, whenever I wear my iPod at the dentist’s (which I have to do to keep my crippling dental phobia in check), he spends half his time trying to read the song titles upside-down.
It really does help, though. I was able to get through three root canals that way (fortunately, not all on the same day).
Ah:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/deadfairy.asp
Sorry if anyone’s illusions are shattered. Now I’m off to make a trap for the Easter Bunny.
“The Last Page” - Terry Bozzio & Billy Sheehan
“…Sudden Stars” - Stereolab
“In The Mouth A Desert” - Pavement
“The Needle Has Landed” - Neko Case
“Round Trip/Broadway Blues” - Pat Metheny
“An Mhaighdean Mhara” - Altan
“Feeling Gravity’s Pull” - REM
“Ayafrouk” - Abdelli
“Ginger Park” - 50 Foot Wave
“Captain Goodnight” - Golden Arm Trio
“My Baby’s Sweeter” - Sue Foley
“Sultan Williams” - Blaze
“Postcard Blues” - Cowboy Junkies
“Peligrosa” - Grupo Fantasma
1. “Trip Aces” — David Arnold & Nicholas Dodd
2. “Heavy Duty” — Spinal Tap
3. “Bizet: Carmen - Act 2: Vivat! Vivat Le Toréro” — Leontyne Price, Etc.
4. “Chasing UFOs” — John Williams
5. “Bring Out The Gimp/Comanche” — Revels
6. “Williams: Return Of The Jedi - Parade Of The Ewoks” — Erich Kunzel; Cincinnati Pops
7. “Main Title (Doctor Zhivago) — Maurice Jarre
8. “Allegro vivace (Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 21)” — Frédéric Chopin
9. “Original Of The Species” — U2
10. “Games Without Frontiers” — Peter Gabriel
i have some john mayer on my ipod. but i have the album because i and everyone else had it freshman year of college, so despite the actual music, it brings back a lot of good memories. it may have made freshman year woefully uncool, but alas.
and i also would love for electric light orchestra to be hip!
“Blame It on the Tetons” - Modest Mouse
“Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal” - They Might Be Giants
“Revolution Earth” - B-52’s
“This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” - Talking Heads
“Touch Me Fall” - Indigo Girls
“Can’t Buy Me Love” - The Beatles
“Polythene Pam” - The Beatles
“Dingle Regatta” - The Pogues
“Carol of the Bells” - Barenaked Ladies
“Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey” - The Beatles
Hm. A little Beatles-centric today.
Power supply done blowed up train a-comin blues edition.
1. “Spirits In The Material World” - The Police
2. “Sammy Come A Jail” - Venice Shoreline Chris
3. “Chump Change” - New Pornographers
4. “Bonzo Goes To Bitburg” - The Ramones
5. “Romancing With Lord Invader” - Lord Invader
6. “Sex And Dying In High Society” - X
7. “Repeater” - Fugazi
8. “One Hundred Punks” - Generation X
9. “Cry Blood Africans” - Burning Spear
10. “Sensei Breeze” - Junior Reed
Bonus: “Eighties” - Killing Joke
1 Humanwine “Script Language”
2 Sol Invictus “The Killing Tide”
3 Metrovan “Billion Year Half Life”
4 The Decemberists “The Bagman’s Gambit”
5 Macha “Now Disappearing”
6 Belle and Sebastian “If You Want Me”
7 Daisy Chainsaw “You Be My Friend”
8 Thom Yorke “The Eraser”
9 Tricky “Hell is Around the Corner”
10 TV on the Radio “Tonight”
Mandi, ELO is hip to me. But as you can tell, I am not quite the indie rock hipster that is the average Pandagon reader.
1) A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
2) Jericho - Joni Mitchell
3) Last of the Mohicans - Cotton Mather
4) Shouldn’t Be Ashamed - Wilco
5) They Don’t Know About Us - Dawn Eden
6) Tallahassie Lassie - The Flamin’ Groovies
7) Your Reverie - Kelley Stoltz
8) Stay With Me - The Faces
9) Ready, Steady, Go - The Meices
10) Don’t Talk About Us - Dom Mariani
1. Schubert, Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960, I. Molto moderato - Paul Lewis
2. The Big Time - Kiki & Herb
3. A Symetry - Valgeir Sigurðsson
4. Hopscotch Willie - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
5. Don’t Speak - John Dahlbäck
6. We Rule the School - Belle & Sebastian
7. Rzewski, North American Ballads: No 2 - Which Side Are You On? - David Jalbert
8. Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder: Schmerzen - Kirsten Flagstad
9. Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart - Marc Almond
10. Swimming - Sunset Rubdown
Bonus Track: Ya Man - Balkan Beat Box
the matthew show March 21, 2008 at 11:25 am
Ah: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/deadfairy.asp
Sorry if anyone’s illusions are shattered. Now I’m off to make a trap for the Easter Bunny.
She did put the original pic url (which says hoax slayer) kinda leaving too much hint.
but I thought at first it was really bad haloween chocolate.
Ah, the return of the Music Snob Edition, Vol. 123.
I guess I’ll rush out and delete all of my old Garth Brooks, .38 Special, The Fray, and of course I must eradicate all traces of the ultimate bane of music coolness: Journey.
Heaven forbid my Ipod isn’t littered with indie music rock Gods who eschew all commercialism to “keep it real.”
Yeah, Journey sold out, sold out millions of albums. Oh, the humanity.
I’m off for some shopping in my crocs at the Domain. I’ll be be-bopping to some Nickelback hoping the shuffle hits me with some Creed and an extra dose of Journey.
I usually find that the perceived cheesiness of a song stands in an inverse relationship to one’s enthusiasm for it. At least, that’s my escape plan whenever “Two of Hearts” comes on in public.
1. En Habit de Cheval - Erik Satie
2. Rondeau - Henry Purcell
3. River Man - Nick Drake
4. Little Animals - The Raveonettes
5. Californie - Air
6. Title Music (A Clockwork Orange) - Wendy Carlos
7. Zlute Kreslo - Tata Bojs
8. Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
9. Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
10. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
and the bonus: Things to Do Today - Big Black
Wait…ELO isn’t hip?
Don’t bring me down…rrrrrOOOOOOUUUSSSHHH!!!
Aw, beat out by the matthew show again… so I’ll add this- thank goodness for “cut and paste”!
Accroches-toi à ton rêve
Accroches-toi à ton rêve
Quand tu vois ton bateau partir
Quand tu sens ton coeur se briser
Accroches-toi à ton rêve.
No random stuff for me today; I’m too busy rockin’ out to Geeshie Wiley, a seriously hardcore guitar player who came from nowhere and recorded six sides of the most jaw-dropping acoustic blues in 1930 and 1931, and then disappeared again, and who is strictly awesome with awesome sauce. I am beginning to think Geeshie Wiley was really the entity Robert Johnson met at the crossroads.
And did I mention that Geeshie Wiley is a woman?
“Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”, Ian Dury
“Who Do You Love?”, George Thorogood
“Smile”, Lily Allen
“Just Can’t Get Enough”, Depeche Mode
“Behind The Wall of Sleep”, The Smithereens
“Baba O’Riley”, The Who
“Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out”, The Replacements
“Even Flow”, Pearl Jam
“Temptation”, New Order
“Sick Of It All”, Hard-Fi
Muchos gracias for that link Interrobang (even though it doesn’t quite work right). She does seriously smoke. I’d heard one of her songs via Honey, where you been so long and I’ve been looking for more.
Funny that I chose an edition referencing a spoof of sploe blues and didn’t get a single blues song in my random 10.
Godless Heathen, that Maeken Toranzu video was awesome! clearly I’m missing out on the best unlistenable crap in a big way.
I hope detroit techno isn’t making a big comeback and people start wearing orange and loud sparkle again.. eeeck.
Hypem list has been populated by electro-punk and remix for a good while now. This is the 80’s all over again.
btw. this is pretty fun ( no 21 right now on the list. Not a ranking. Hypem number never has any meaning, since any itchy big blog can plant it there.)
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir (Club-Club Version)
http://hypem.com/popular
1. “Circle of Cysquatch” – Mastodon
2. “Trainwreck” – Mastodon
3. “Into the Gates of Eternity” – Anu
4. “I’m Not Down” – The Clash
5. “Lose” – Dinosaur Jr.
6. “Some Weird Sin” – Iggy Pop
7. “Suicide Machine” – Hum
8. “Rise Above” – Black Flag
9. “Can’t Believe” – fIREHOSE
10. “Hollywood Babylon” - Misfits
Call Any Vegetable - The Mothers of Invention
Kiss My Ass Goodbye - 7 Year Bitch
Brink of Disaster -Lesley Gore
Knock’Em Out - Lily Allen
Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden
Country Girl - Olivia Newton John
What I’m Trying To Say - Stars
Gimme Brains - Bratmobile
Get It On - Grinderman
You’ll Get No More of Me- Hazel Dickens
1) Silkworm - Nerves
2) Dirty Projectors - The Highway is a Foggy Knife
3) Steve Earle - Now She’s Gone
4) The Music Man - Seventy-Six Trombones
5) The Like Young - Obviously Desperate
6) The Raincoats - Adventures Close to Home
7) Be Your Own Pet - Hillmont Avenue
8) Boyracer - Area 51 Revisited
9) The Replacements - I’m In Trouble
10) Angels of Light - Sunflower’s Here to Stay
About ninety percent of my mp3 player is Savage Garden, Darren Hayes, and Broadway showtunes. I apologise for none of it.
Here’s my random (duo) 10:
Brain Damage by Pink Floyd
Inevitability of Death by The Tragically Hip
Poison Moon by Elvis Costello
Milk by Garbage
See You When You’re 40 by Dido
Up To Me by Jethro Tull
Let’s Go Away For Awhile by The Beach Boys
Go Mental by The Ramones
Silent Night The Dickies
Crash and Burn by Sheryl Crow
51st Anniversary by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Promises by The Cranberries
What makes this hip thing difficult is that one’s never sure what is hip with different groups of people (my students versus my softball teammates for example). That’s why I only listen to static when I’m with other people.
My boyfriend had a moment like that when he discovered that Sesame Street’s “C is for Cookie” had somehow made its way onto his ipod. He assumed that I had something to do with it, and I accepted that it must have been my fault, even though I couldn’t remember downloading it. A few months later my brother reminded me that he had sent me the file ages ago.
1. Who’ll Stop the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. Glycerine – Bush
3. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
4. Stay Live – Trapt
5. Entr’acte – Phantom of the Opera
6. Megalomania – Muse
7. Counting the Days – Collective Soul
8. Why Don’t You Get a Job – The Offspring
9. I Believe In Love – Dixie Chicks
10. Like a Virgin - Madonna
futuristic racing videogame (Wipeout series) soundtrack edition (random playlist folder instead of random track shuffle)
10. Sasha - Xpander
9. Aphex Twin - Naks’ Acid
8. Chemical Brothers - Under the Influence
7. Luke Slater - Bolt Up
6. Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk 5
5. Future Sound of London - Papua, New Guinea
4. Propellerheads - Lethal Cut
3. Photek - C-Note (instrumental mix)
2. d. stein - Fresh X-Project (100% Pure Mix)
1. MKL - Control
Bonus: Orbital - Kittens
here’s to old KU friends:
1. The Delgados- “I Fought the Angels”
2. The Dandy Warhols- “You Were the Last High”
3. Ilya- “Annette”
4. The Fire Show- “The Godforsaken Angels of Epistemology”
5. The Meices- “That Other Good One”
6. Smart Went Crazy- “Bullfighter”
7. The Embarrassment- “D-Rings”
8. Ladytron- “P.A.C.O.!”
9. Swervedriver- “Deep Seat”
10. Lifter Puller- “Let’s Get Incredible”
Bonus: Black Eyes- “A Pack of Wolves”
Hipster feeding frenzy
Blood Red Shoes / Box Of Secrets (buy the album, support new indie band, if you like them)
http://no-datta.blogspot.com/2008/03/blood-red-shoes-box-of-secrets.html
Blood Red Shoes are a two-piece indie-rock band from Brighton, England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Red_Shoes
Vamos Embora Uáu - Jorge Ben
Hope - Descendents
Warring Ways - Will Kimbrough
Samba De Elegua - Nei Lopes
It’s Gonna Rain - Gentleman June Gardner
Tightly - Neko Case
Lock It Down - Bone Machine
Off The Grid - Beastie Boys
Bring On The Clowns - The Bees
Row My Boat - The Four Mints
here’s to old KU friends
Wither Sin City Disciples? Random Aztech? Dashboard Buddha? Homestead Grays? Danger Bob? Two Mile Death Plunge? Kill Whitey? Paw? The Mahoots? Ricky Dean Sinatra? The Wilmas? Arthur Dodge and His Horsefeathers? The What Gives!?
1. A Thousand Knives Of Fire - She’s Yours
2. Samuel Barber - Antony And Cleopatra, Act 3 scene 2
3. Jack Beeson - The Sweet Bye And Bye, Scene, The Lifeshine Radio Hour Memorial Service, And March-Trio
4. Todd Rundgren - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire II, The Fire of Mind - or “Solar Fire”
5. Harry and the Potters - Sectumsempra
6. Jonah Smith - My Morning Scene
7. R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter
8. Migala - El Ultimo Devaneo
9. Moby - The Rain Falls And The Sky Shudders
10. Gilles Binchois - Qui Veut Mesdire [Gothic Voices]
and 11. Piffaro
onna, quando pietosa/El travagliato/La gamba in basso e soprano/Amor è foco e ghiaccio
So should I be embarrassed most by 4, 5, 7 or 9?
Dear Andy Axel: Oh, yes. Oh, and I totally will roll in a pile of Vitreous Humor c.d.s/7″s, if I see them (oh, and I know why their not exactly L-Town . Just like some Embarrassment members, some former members will probably die in Lawrence. So, you’re from Larrytown? when? for once, something local (KC or Lawrence) did not pop up. odd.
Oh, god: PAW. Sheeit. going to gym. not need to get PAW stuck in head. former “love o’ my life”- Kill Whitey- he had a major thing for her- okay, so did a few “loves”. just looked her up- still hot, but not my type.
I’m partial to Get Smart!, myself. another way before my time.
um, yes: was d.j. at the shack- before KJ expanded their “on-air talent”. ha. major: playing old local music!
oh, and The What Gives? they can have my babies that I’m not planning on. So, you are a local/or have been: when?
oh, and yes: Em- totally ICT. me: moving my 31-yr.old ass to Eugene, OR in August. will lose my townie status at Replay, Taproom, Love Garden, et cetera.
oh, and DB was totally one o’ my gateway drugs in h.s.
Oh, and gotta love:Mate of State- oh, now they’re from “San Francisco”- b.s.! they’re a total Lawrence couple!
love from KC and the L-town( where I bought my wedding/engagement ring- and too many records) yesterday!
oh, saw Truck Stop Love (I know, I know- ICT) play the North vs. South thing, two years ago. memories…
R.E.M, definitely. heh. I think they are only good for one album, Murmur
This was the funniest and truest article I have read all week! I laughed and laughed because I know that the Unlistenable Crap Fairy EXISTS! It was good to get confirmation from someone else.
damnit. obviously meant “they’re”. should not burn candle at both ends. that’s it. dropping out of school now- a month before graduation!
First of all ELO is the shiznit, and I won’t hear otherwise.
I have alot of embarassing stuff on my itunes that i try to keep off of playlists that go on my ipod or that i play for company. occasionally one of the roughly 3000 indigo girls or dave matthew’s songs i secretly jam out to, shows up in public. at which point i scream, “How the hell did that get on my ipod!” and make a big show of skipping it or deleting it from the playlist. But one time a Jimmy Buffet tune showed up and I almost decided to delete my entire library rather than risk the unholy suckage of having to hear “Cheeseburger in Paradise” again. My brother must have slipped it in on me.
So here’s a random 10 from the embarassing private playlist that I keep:
Closer To Fine –Indigo Girls
Sowing the Seeds of Love –Tears For Fears
cant get you out of my head–Kylie Monogue
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)–Genesis
You need a man around here–Brad Paisley
Crush –Dave Mathews
She Makes me feel good–Lyle Lovett
Tear In Your Hand–Tori Amos
The Reflex–Duran Duran
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding–Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Hmm…It’s not all completely embarrassing. But the over all feeling is sort of milquetoast.
I have an iTunes playlist based off of the skip count - some things motivate me to delete them immediately (e.g. roughly half of the SXSW free tracks) but I’m not always sure about the rest and want to give them another try in case I’m in a harsh mood. Every so often I go through an nuke anything I’ve skipped it a lot more than I’ve played it (the play count only goes up if you listen to the entire thing).
I can’t use the excuse that it came with my ipod or anything else. Some of it I just happened to have and decided to burn, some of it I purchased and burned to play for my mom (who’s in the hospital) and some of it I actually searched out to prove it existed and figured I’d just save it.
I say this knowing that my crap is even more embarrassing than anyone else’s crap because I was actually a fan of bands that weren’t even popular or well respected in their heyday.
I suggest we all embrace the humiliating crap because, some times the major league shlock I have just makes me grin. . .and, yes, even, sing along.