Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments.
- “Your Eyes Are Liars”—Sound Team
- “Run For Cover”—The Dells
- “Let’s Get Small”—Trouble Funk
- “Tennessee emmpp”—Silver Jews
- “No Comply”—The Studio
- “We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling”—Of Montreal
- “There’s A Ghost In My House”—R. Dean Taylor
- “She’s Gone”—NOFX
- “Murder Me Rachel”—The National (I haven’t decided if I hate this band or not. Probably.)
- “We’re All Stress”—The Illuminoids (a super huge mash-up based around Bowie’s vocals on “Starman”, which could make a music box sound awesome)
I’m trying to get all my videos from Vimeo now, because it’s just a lot better layout and quality than YouTube. Let’s see if lazy conformity takes over. It labels it for you and everything, so you don’t have to offend people who are at work or have dial-up and can’t watch videos but are dying to know what they’re missing out on. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as comprehensive, so it’s hard to find stuff.
of Montreal - “Rapture Rapes The Muses” - Debaser - Malmö, Sweden - May 5, 2007 from ofmontreal on Vimeo.
That said, this person had cool shit up.
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omigod I actually have my iPod here for once and can participate! I also seem to be the only pandagonner awake at this hour on such a crappy rainy day.
1. Panj Bindiyaan - DJ Rekha (featuring at least one person, whose name my iPod will not reveal for some reason)
2. Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliot
3. LeechWife - Rasputina
4. Five Years - Seu Jorge
5. House of the Rising Sun - The Be Good Tanyas
6. Rice Pudding - Sufjan Stevens
7. I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
8. Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
9. We Are Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes
10. Tell Mama - Etta James
OK, a cursory shuffle tells me I’m in serious need of some downloading, or at least a look-see at what CD’s I have that might not be uploaded to my iTunes, because I had to shuffle a lot to not get stuff from the same 4 or 5 albums.
1. Ballad of Forty Dollars - Tom T. Hall
2. Rollercoaster - M. Ward
3. Don’t Leave Home - Dido
4. C’Mon - Guster
5. 2:19 - Tom Waits
6. Sister Chatterlaine - Mocha Lab
7. Summersong - The Decemberists
8. Songbird - Rosie Thomas
9. Songs of Love - Ben Folds
10. Crazy (Instrumental) - Gnarls Barkley
Bonus:
The Guitar Man - Cake (or Bread?)
Hide your pens and lock your jaws edition.
1. “Big City” - Operation Ivy
2. “Eve Of Destruction” - Eve
3. “You Shook Me All Night Long” - AC/DC
4. “Ramblin’ On My Mind (Take 2)” - Robert Johnson
5. “Babylon’s Burning” - The Ruts
6. “Me & You Nuh Live So” - Johnny Osbourne
7. “Lonely Love” - Sophie
8. “Hot For Teacher” - Van Halen
9. “Take A Trip” - Toots & The Maytals w/ Bunny Wailer
10. “Attack” - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Bonus: “Blue Spark” - X
Baby Baby Baby - TLC
Faggot - Mindless Self Indulgence
*a whole bunch of mp3s that aren’t really songs*
At the Audition - A Chorus Line
Me and My Black Metal Friends - Atom and His Package
Beer Barrel Polka - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Beluga - Raffi
More, More, More - Andrea True Connection
My Little Needle - Alkaline Trio
Freedom Of Speech - Immortal Technique
Backstabbers - The O’Jays
What type of animal wins lots of contests?
A GIRAFFLE!
1. Two Knights and Maidens - The Crash Test Dummies
2. Standing on Higher Ground- Alan Parsons Project
3. Marching Bands of Manhattan- Death Cab for Cutie
4. By the Way, Not Even Then - Uncle Green
5. Crazy Life - Toad the Wet Sprocket
6. Crying - Don McLean
7. Try - Michael Penn
8. Leningrad - Billy Joel
9. Burden - The Connells
10. Fall On Me - REM
Bonus:
Supernatural Superserious - REM
(Just because you have to like any pop song that appears to be about the healing power of BDSM.)
For bonus points, try to guess the age of the poster by their top 10 list
Jonathan,
I do believe that’s the first time I’ve ever seen Raffi on a Friday Random Ten. I should get some Zamfir and make these things more interesting.
subfusc morning mourning mix
1. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
2. All I Need - Radiohead
3. Big Mess - Devo
4. Birthday Cake - Cibo Matto
5. We Never Sleep - Boredoms
6. All Tomorrow’s Parties - Velvet Underground
7. Lady Day - Lou Reed
8. Mean To Me - Billie Holiiday & Lester Young
9. Plastic Bird - Galaxie 500
10. Fall Of Another Year - Can
Bonus for transparent ghosts: Darn That Dream - Thelonious Monk
& a hat tip hit for the word o’ day folks on my homepage for ’subfusc’: What Can I Do? - Antony and the Johnsons
& 1 for books called “EEEE EEE EEEE”: Unitive Knowledge Of The Godhead - Om
& 1 for deutsch glitch: WoistdieStadt? - Oval
feeling indulgent today-missing people who still feel all around
D’yer Mak’er - Led Zeppelin
Perfect Circle - REM
It’s Tricky - Run DMC
Negotiation Limerick File (Handsome Boy Modeling School Makeover) - Beastie Boys
Pounding - Doves
We Be Burnin’ - Sean Paul
Tilted - Sugar
Whiskey Trail - Los Lobos
Starship Trooper - Yes
Look Back At Me - Trina (Featuring Killer Mike)
sorry, not top ten, random ten
You know what’s a fun game to play? Guessing someone’s age by the song playing when they lost their virginity.
1) “Victoria” - The Kinks
2) “Devil’s Haircut” - Beck
3) “Sunday Bell” - Audible
4) “Someone To Watch Over Me” - Frank Sinatra
5) “Wildwood Flower” - Bob Dylan
6) “Crazy” (Gnarls Barkley cover) - The Kooks
7) “Noise Annoys” - The Buzz Cocks
8) “Do You Really Want to Know?” - The Lisa Marr Experiment
9) “Defibrillation” - Damon & Naomi
10) “Polly” (Live) - Nirvana
Bonus: “Idea for One” - Audio Out Send
Bonus 2: “String Bean Jean” - Belle and Sebastian (’cause who can deny B&S a place at the table?)
Spin the wheel…
1. “1963″ - Rachael Yamagata
2. “A Little Respect” - Erasure
3. “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” - Neko Case
4. “I Fought in a War” - Belle and Sebastian
5. “Blitzkrieg Bop” - Ramones
6. “Head Like a Hole (cover)” - Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
7. “Missionary Man” - Eurhythmics
8. “Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
9. “I’m Looking Through You” - Beatles
10. “Here Comes the Summer” - Fiery Furnaces
And as for Amanda’s “fun game,” the album playing was Cowboy Junkies “Trinity Session”. Make of that what you will…
10 random out of 25,557 in there today . . .
1. “Missione Segreta” - Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai - O.K. Connery
2. “Solomon Grundie” - Eric Morris - Intensified! Original Ska 1962-1966
3. “The People In Me” - The Music Machine - Turn On
4. “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” - Dr. John - Mos’ Scocious: The Dr. John Anthology
5. “The Sheik Yerbouti Tango” - Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
6. “Something In Love” - Art Zoyd - Lost Sixties Delights Vol. 1
7. “All Men Are Liars” - Nick Lowe - Party of One
I’d never heard this song before, I think — some lyrics that caused me to have to stifle a big laugh (Sycorax is sleeping right now), made funnier with the recent RickRolling fad:
Well, do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly
He said I’m never gonna give you up or let you down
Well, I’m here to tell ya that Dick’s a clown
Though he was just a boy when he made that vow
I’d bet it all that he knows by now
(chorus) All men, all men are liars
Their words ain’t worth no more than worn out tires
Hey Girls, bring rusty pliers to pull this tooth
All men are liars and that’s the truth
8. “Necromancy/Grave In The Desert” - trailer soundtrack/Sebastian Peabody - Wavy Gravy: Four Hairy Policemen
9. “Tropical Hot Dog Night (live 1978)” - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - I’m Going To Do What I Want To
10. “Bullet Proof Lover” - Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers
bonus track: The Eternals - “Babalu’s Wedding Day” - The Doo Wop Box II vol 3: 1957-1960
Looks like I’m in agreement w/Ben Alpers on B&S seating…
Amanda,
Am I the only one for whom music is a distraction rather than enhancement during the special deed? I had no song, just…sounds.
You know what’s a fun game to play? Guessing someone’s age by the song playing when they lost their virginity.
While the experience was typical teenage heterosexual groping, the song playing was “Fist Fuck” by Dr. Know.
1. Dear Can - !!!
2. Piggies - The Beatles
3. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
4. Ballad of Accounting - The Delgados
5. ’s Wonderful - Ella Fitzgerald
6. Butterfly - Talvin Singh
7. Auf Achse - Franz Ferdinand
8. Ooh Baby - Bo Diddley
9. Wander I Go - Patti Smith
Totally Non-Random Bonus - I’m Good. I’m Gone - Lykke Li (Just saw her live. Total rockstar.)
Sorry if this comes up again.
01. Ain’t Even Done With the Night [04:40] — John Mellencamp
02. Hope/Faithless/Bravest Face/Good News First [17:36] — Rush
03. Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man/Heavy Music/Katmandu [live] [17:04] — Bob Seger
04. Lunatic Fringe [04:24] — Red Rider
05. Nasty Girl [07:50] — Vanity 6
06. A Quick One [09:09] — The Who
07. Heavy Metal [04:39] — Don Felder
08. Dear Mr. Fantasy [05:34] — Traffic
09. A Woman in Love [04:24] — Tom Petty
10. I’m Still Standing [03:03] — Elton John
Bonus:
11. Time/A Great Gig in the Sky [11:34] — Pink Floyd
12. Old Medley [live] [19:32] — Genesis
13. Working for the Weekend [03:42] — Loverboy
14. All I Wanna Do [04:34] — Sheryl Crow
15. In the Evening [06:50] — Led Zeppelin
16. Take the Long Way Home [05:08] — Supertramp
17. Shake Your Love [05:57] — Deborah Gibson
18. Long Long Way From Home [02:50] — Foreigner
I’m Gonna Crawl _ Led Zeppelin
It’s Not The End Of The World? - Super Furry Animals
Beautiful - Adrian Belew
John The Revelator - Gov’t Mule
Baby, We’ll Be Fine - The National
Nobody’s Baby - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
We Float - PJ Harvey
Defiant - Brian Eno/David Byrne
This Is Radio Clash - The Clash
Angels With Dirty Faces - Los Lobos
um…The National are awesome. Try ‘Alligator’ which I think is better than their current ‘Boxer’.
say no way to The National. It’s part of this “let’s make Bruce Springsteen something other than a chinny piece of musical crap” movement.
“You know what’s a fun game to play? Guessing someone’s age by the song playing when they lost their virginity.”
I don’t remember there being ANY music playing. Is that wierd?
The Jezebel Spirit, Eno and Byrne
Like Someone in Love, Bjork
The Affiliated, Dukes of Stratosphear
Crab, Weezer
Time for Livin’, Beastie Boys
Boy About Town, The Jam
China Girl, Iggy
Love Rollercoaster, Ohio Players
This is not America, Bowie
Count Me In On This One, Richard Buckner
Cover bonus: Lucifer Sam, True West
No music, but I bought Squeeze’s East Side Story the day I lost my virginity. That should give you a rough idea.
You know what’s a fun game to play? Guessing someone’s age by the song playing when they lost their virginity.
Wow, that game would definitely out me as being pretty damn old.
It was a Suzanne Vega song… the title escapes me at the moment.
A contemporary of mine had a more appropriate one which might give a better clue: Rod Stewart’s “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)”.
Neither one is in my ipod now, I notice…
Damn. Back to work, now.
OK. I’ll bite,
The sound that makes one go hmmm….(I wish I knew these songs, before having first one…….. at least the music would be great. mostly downtempo, slowcore, )
In approximate order, this is a rough compile. So definitely won’t work end to end. But the mood should be correct.
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day (Apollo [Atmospheres & Soundtracks], 1983)
Bill Laswell - The Elixer Of Love: Una Furtiv (Operazone: The Redesign, 2000)
DJ Krush - Danger Of Love (zen, 2001)
Medeski Martin and Wood - The Lover(Friday Afternoon in the Universe, 1995)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme De Yoyo (Les Stances a Sophie, 1970)
The Necks - Sex (Sex, 1989)
Tarentel - Two Sides Of Myself (Ephemera, 2002)
Bill Evans Trio - My Foolish Heart (Waltz for Debby, 1961)
Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Rainbow, 2006)
lunasigh - the multicoloured coral formations upon her skin (lunasigh, 2004)
Merzbow - Bondage Performances (Music for Bondage Performance)
The Bad Plus - This Guy’s In Love With You (Prog, 2007)
Air - Playground Love [Vibraphone Version] (The Virgin Suicides ST, 2000)
Björk - Hearts & Bones (internet release, 2001)
The Album Leaf - Brennivin (Seal Beach EP, )
Grace Cathedral Park - play delicate, desire quiet (in the evenings of regret, 2004)
The Album Leaf - We Once Were (Two) (An Orchestrated Rise To Fall, 1999)
Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (w/Strings) (Friday Night Lights OST, 2004)
oh, btw. That combination is distinctly Motel de Moka. I would know where a list come from that list above, by seeing unique combination of rare songs. heh…
hump away…!
random: I just was professionally insubordinate, edition (and it feels sooo good!).
1. Yelle- Je Veux Te Voir
2. La Peste- “Kill Me Now”
3. Fireside- “Not in My Palace”
4. Shotmaker- “Security”
5. Calla- “Keyes”
6.The Hard Ons- “Happy”
7. Mission of Burma- “Forget”
8. Joey Casio- “Features And Benefits”
9. Lowercase- “The Going Away Present”
10. Lifter Puller- “Sherman City”
“I feel amazing” bonuses:
Les Georges Leningrand- “Wunderkind #2″
Botch- “John Woo” mmm…. BOTCH…..
Experimental 10: not looking at the display screen to see what the song title is, or even who the artist is. The perils of downloading too much too quick.
1. Channel Z by the B-52s
2. New Millennium Homes by Rage Against the Machine
3. (unknown) by Combustible Edison
4. Lazy Day by the Flying Burrito Brothers (helped by the intro line “It’s a lazzzzzzzy day”)
5. (unknown) by Arrested Development (?)
6. Changes by Seu Jorge. Took me a minute.
7. April, Spring, Summer and Wednesdays by Status Quo
8. (absolutely no idea) by (absolutely no idea) [turns out it was I Hope I Never by Split Enz]
9. Disappointed by PiL
10. Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle [sp]
Hmm . . . I think Cowboy Junkies’ version of “Sweet Jane” was playing when I lost it. Or maybe The Smiths “There is a Light that Never Goes Out.”
1. Prosairesis — Heresi
2. Revenge — Quartz
3. Girls Got Rhythm — AC/DC
4. Plague Years — TAD
5. Insect — Hammers of Misfortune
6. Angle of Incidents — Van Der Graaf Generator
7. Defender — Manilla Road
8. Tron Man Speaks — Anti Pop Consortium
9. My Benefactor — Jucifer
10. Opening to the Sighs — Goblin (Suspiria Soundtrack)
Bonus:
11. Feed Me With Your Kiss — My Bloody Valentine
Coincidentally, MBV is my favorite sex-me-up music. I don’t’ know what that means.
The random XII
“Shag” - Critters Buggin’
“Dicipline” - California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto
“Ya Mal Eshsham” - Zein Al-Jundi
“Could We” - Cat Power
“Air Baracuda” - Theivery Corporation
“Heathen(The Rays)” - David Bowie
“Dangerous Curves” - King Crimson
“Gumbe” - Osibisa
“Central Park North” - Thad Jones
“Nothin’ Like Tomorrow” - Supreme Beings of Leisure
“Konono No.1″ - T.P. Couleur (from Congotronics2)
“The Professional” - Sleater-Kinney
1. “Technologic” - Daft Punk
2. “Love Removal Machine” - The Cult
3. “In the Evening” - Led Zeppelin
4. “Rock Candy” - Montrose
5. “Mercedes Boy” - Pebbles
6. “Girls” - Prodigy
7. “Creepy Crawler” - Zombie Girl
8. “What’s Happenin’ Sun” - Sir Mix-a-Lot
9. “Corporate Slave” - Snog
10. “Peaches” - Presidents of the United States of America
LOL, “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode
My actual vinyl random 10 is over at Tbogg, where I generated random numbers by flipping coins as the pioneers did. Nice lot of 0’s & 1’s below, too. I think you’ll especially like “Proximatics”, Amanda (from the industrial musical, The Bathrooms Are Coming!). It should have been next to “Miss Robot”!
cut up nonsense - Osymyso
Copped It - The Fall
ROCHBERG: Octet; A Grand Fantasia, 1, Declamando, tragico - The New York Chamber Ensemble/Stephen Rogers Radcliffe
Miss Robot - Oliver Onions
The Warmth of the Sun - The Beach Boys
Proximatics - American-Standard
Psychelectrodelica - Go Home Productions
Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos
#05 [The Size America Needs] - Instant Library Service
*afraid to reveal what was playing when she quote-unquote lost it, because it won’t reveal much about how old she is now, but will reveal way too much about how old she must have been at the time.*
The Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll album, and Mozart’s Jupiter symphony.
you are at least 38yrs old, younger than 45.
did I win anything?
Boys Wanna Fight • Garbage
Goodnight Loser • The V-Roys
Stories Of The Street • Leonard Cohen
Black Tambourine • Beck
Thirteen Men • Miss Ann-Margret
Meanest Man In Town • Maddox Brothers & Rose
Boy Or A Girl • Imperial Drag
Pale Green Stars • Everclear
I’ll Reap My Harvest In Heaven • Maddox Brothers & Rose
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) • Joe “Fingers” Carr/80 Drums Around the World
Ronelle • Joe, Marc’s Brother
Oy, virginity? I think it was T-Bone Burnett. The music, I mean, not the dude.
If I’d added that ,later, when I had to drive her home (we weren’t at the point where our parents knew and would let us sleep over at each other’s houses), the Cure’s Let’s Go To Bed was cued up on the car’s tape deck, it probably would have dated me even more.
Actually, I’m thirty-four. I don’t know how that skews how old I would appear to have been at the time I lost my virginity.
Blue Knoll was released in 1988, I was just using 18 yrs old as average when somebody has first sex.
so that put your first time at age 14. (I am a bit skeptic)
“the cure/let’s go to bed”, could put you older. But that album is very obscure, instead of radio play. I would say you were new wave album collector instead.
New wave album collector, actually. Also, The Cure and the Cocteau Twins were my girlfriend’s favorite bands. I’d just turned 19, actually.
you are 39 then, not 44. The blue Knoll hasn’t been released in 1983.