20 random songs...

1- Blue Oyster Cult: “I’m on the Lamb, But I Ain’t No Sheep”
2- “Bydlo” from Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”
3- Dave Loggins: “Please Come to Boston”
4- Donnie Iris: “Ah Leah”
5- Sam Kinison’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
6- “The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze” from “The Mikado”
7- Billy Joel & Ray Charles: “Baby Grand”
8- Temptations: “Get Ready”
9-Enya: “Cursum Perficio”
10- Kiss: “Detroit Rock City”
11- Journey: “Girl Can’t Help It”
12- John Denver: “Matthew”
13- Was (Not Was): “Man vs. the Empire Brain Building”
14- Salty Dog: “Come Along”
15- Small Faces: “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake”
16- Dwight Twilley: “I’m on Fire”
17- Van Halen: “Ice Cream Man”
18- “Anatevka” from the original “Fiddler on the Roof” cast album
19- Pink Floyd: “One of These Days”
20- Aerosmith: “Uncle Salty”

Out of 3000 songs on iTunes.

  1. Josh Groban - Mi Morena
  2. “Weird Al” Yankovic - UHF
  3. Universal Hall Pass - Six-Step Dragon
  4. Mario Frangoulis - Here’s to the Heroes
  5. “Weird Al” Yankovic - UHF (I have two different versions)
  6. Splashdown - Running with Scissors
  7. Enya - Caribbean Blue
  8. Astor Piazzola - Revirado
  9. Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto no. IV in C minor–II. Allegro vivace
  10. The Two Towers - The King of the Golden Hall
  11. Patrick Fiori - On se pardonnera
  12. Notre-Dame de Paris - Phoebus
  13. Freezepop - Science Genius Girl
  14. Garou - Ton premier regard
  15. Frank Martin - Ballade for flute, strings, and piano
  16. Barenaked Ladies - Light Up My Room
  17. Songs for a New World - Just One Step
  18. Dar Williams - I Had No Right
  19. Verdi - Requiem–Agnus Dei
  20. Beethoven - Symphony no. 6–II. Andante molto mosso

1122 songs on the iPod, 3.4 days of music, 5.09 GB.

Hawk - Broadcast (which also happens to be my most played song, at 146 times)
She Just Wants To Be - R.E.M.
Hot and Bothered - Combustible Edison
Head Above Water - Hunters & Collectors
Just a Touch - R.E.M.
Cousin Mary (Alternate Take) - John Coltrane (from Giant Steps)
The Ballad of the One Eyed Man - Mark Seymour
Oil of Angels - Cocteau Twins
Exhuming McCarthy - R.E.M.
If I Ever Lose My Faith in You - Sting
World of Stone - H&C
Light Pattern - Bonobo
Star of the County Down - Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
All I Need - Daybreak
Give Up Your Love - Edith Frost
The Thinner the Air - Cocteau Twins
Strange Fruit - Cocteau Twins (from BBC Sessions, Disc 1)
Orange Crush - R.E.M.
Pick Up - Bonobo
Echo’s Answer - Broadcast

All in all, a pretty representative list, except for a complete lack of Stereolab.

Good and random choices by Winamp - Out of 1343 tracks

  1. Sludge Factory - Alice in Chains
  2. Good Morning - The Dandy Warhols
  3. A Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy
  4. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
  5. Pepper - Butthole Surfers
  6. My Generation - The Who
  7. Burned - The Dandy Warhols
  8. Ravers Damnation (Deepsky Remix) - Omar Santana
  9. Intergalactic (Olde Mixe) - Beastie Boys
  10. The Perfect Drug - Nine Inch Nails
  11. Celebrity Jeoprady (Travolta, Keaton, Reynolds) - SNL
  12. Cash On Delivery - Spinal Tap
  13. Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorillaz
  14. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
  15. Swamp - Talking Heads
  16. A Matter of Pride - The Tubes
  17. American Badass - Kid Rock
  18. Karn Evil 9 - ELP
  19. Daddy Drank - KitH
  20. Naked Eyes - Luscious Jackson

If we are not counting the comedy tracks then the next songs in the queue were:

  1. Give up the Funk - Parliament
  2. Somebody Got Murdered - The Clash

Out of a collection of 4680 tracks:

  1. Boston & St. John’s - Great Big Sea
  2. Blue Moon - The Marcels
  3. Son of a Son of a Sailor - Jimmy Buffet
  4. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
  5. Songs From the Wood - Jethro Tull
  6. It Ain’t Easy - David Bowie
  7. Ironbound/Fancy Poultry - Suzanne Vega
  8. Paperback Writer - Beatles
  9. Leaving of Liverpool - The Corsairs
  10. Lay a Little Lovin’ On Me - Robin MacNamara
  11. Health to the Company - Minstrels of Mayhem
  12. Senza Una Donna - Paul Young & Zucchero
  13. Wind In The Rigging - Seelie Court
  14. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
  15. She - Elvis Costello
  16. Vivere - Andrea Bocelli
  17. Convoy - CW McCall (blushing now)
  18. You’re The REason God Made Oklahoma - David Frizzell & Shelley West
  19. Praise You - Fatboy Slim
  20. Drowse - Queen

Well, I just received my 40 gb iPod, so I’m only halfway to getting my collection on there, but I want to play too. Out of 2143 tracks, I present to you…

  1. Yes – Roundabout
  2. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain (live)
  3. The Police - Can’t Stand Losing You (live)
  4. Soul Coughing - $300
  5. Phish - Destiny Unbound (live…I’m getting a lot of live tracks)
  6. King’s X – Power of Love
  7. Angelo Badalamenti – Sycamore Trees
  8. Phish - Fast Enough for You
  9. Rush – Double Agent
  10. The Police - King of Pain (live)
  11. King Crimson – Happy With What You Have to be Happy With
  12. Twinemen – Ronnie Johnson
  13. Blues Traveler – Girl Inside My Head
  14. Morphine – Super Sex (live)
  15. King’s X – Dream in My Life
  16. Fred - Poor Heart
  17. Body Count – Bowels of the Devil
  18. Govt Mule. Cortez the Killer (you guessed it-live)
  19. Morphine – The Night
  20. Jadf Fair & Yo La Tengo - Three Year Old Genius Graduates High School At Top Of Her Class

ultrafilter…when you clean out your player…you must leave Jaco’s “Come on, Come Over.” That tune is good for your health. You don’t want to get sick now, do you?

Day three.

  1. “There Goes My Gun” by The Pixies Live at the BBC
  2. “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” by The Arcade Fire from Funeral
  3. “When the World is Running Down (You Make the Best of What’s Still Around) (live in Sydney)” by the Police. Origin unknown.
  4. “Sparkle City” by Shuggie Otis from Information Inspiration
  5. “Forever in My Life” by Prince from Sign O’ the Times (Disc 1)
  6. “Iron Swallow” by Johnny Greenwood from Bodysong
  7. “DJ Swamp” by Beck live in Cologne, Germany, 2001 from Detsche Disco aka Fuck Me Harder, Beck!. This is his DJ’s solo spot in the set.
  8. “Southern Girls” by Frankie Beverley and the Mays
  9. “Peach” by Prince. A repeat from yesterday!
  10. “Diamonds and Pearls” by Prince from Greatest Hits, originally from the Diamonds and Pearls album.
  11. “Strange Relationship” by Prince from Sign O’ the Times Disc 2
  12. “Jimmy” by Bongwater from Box of Bongwater disc 1 originally from Double Bummer
  13. “Gypsy Eyes” by Jimi Hendrix from Electric Ladyland
  14. “Rock and Roll Part 2” by Bongwater from Box of Bongwater disc 1, originally from Double Bummer
  15. “You Got Me Hummin’” by Reigning Sound from Too Much Guitar
  16. “The Glory of Man” by The Minutemen from Double Nickels on the Dime
  17. “Beacon Sighted Through Fog” by The Minutemen from Post Mersh Vol. 1
  18. “Round the Bend” by Beck from Sea Change
  19. “Tension” by The Minutemen from Post Mersh Vol. 1
  20. “Down on the Street” by The Stooges from Fun House, the greatest album in rock and roll history!

From the “Randomness looks deliberate” department, the Bongwater song “Jimmy” (#12) ends with Ann Magnusen breathily whispering the name “Jimmy.” Then Jimi Hendirx’s “Gypsy Eyes” (#13) started. Eerie.

From the “What does my iTunes like today?” department, it looks like early Bongwater, The Minutemen, and Prince are the big winners today. Three Prince songsg in a row, even!

Out of 1230 tunes in RealPlayer (hey it’s my work computer, can’t get too carried away!)

  1. To Whom It May Concern - Lisa Marie Presley
  2. Better Luck - Scissors Sisters
  3. Flying Home - Ella Fitzgerald
  4. Work Song - Nellie McKay
  5. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend - The Magnetic Fields
  6. Sea Of Love - The Honeydrippers
  7. Mix Tape - Avenue Q OBC Soundtrack
  8. Peaceful World - John Mellencamp
  9. Encantamiento - Cafe Tacuba
  10. Jockey Full of Bourbon - Tom Waits
  11. What Is Love - En Vogue
  12. Rollin’ - Big & Rich
  13. Fantasy - Earth, Wind and Fire
  14. Lovin’ Man - Henry Lee Summer
  15. Wreck Of The Carlos Rey - Los Lobos
  16. Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
  17. Story Of My Life - Loretta Lynn
  18. Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
  19. Gone - Lisa Marie Presley
  20. There’s A Fine Fine Line - Avenue Q OBC Sountrack

Mark III

  1. Mika Nakashima - Will
  2. Fastball - Which Way To The Top
  3. Bif Naked - Tango Shoes
  4. FFVII - Anxious Hearts Remix
  5. Namie Amuro - Can You Celebrate
  6. AC DC - Who made who
  7. Morning Musume - The Peace
  8. The Offspring - Smash (which I ended a few seconds into the silence.)
  9. Fountains of Wayne - Stacy’s Mom
  10. FFVIII - Love Grows
  11. DVDA - Hell Isn’t Good
  12. FFX - Song of Prayer ~ Bahamut
  13. Morning Musume - We’re alive
  14. The Beatles - Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  15. Metallica - Fade To Black (Live)
  16. The Who - Squeeze Box
  17. Relient K - The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything
  18. Robotech - Invid Strike
  19. Voltaire - The Vampire Club
  20. Shonen Knife - Flying Jelly Attack

2 different Momusu
3 different Final Fantasy

Not too bad on the repeats this time around.

I’m doing a separate list from a different computer - this one has more downloads than the other computer.

Out of 1339 on WinAmp:

  1. Throwing Muses - “Delicate Cutters” [live]
  2. Barbara Manning - “Don’t Rewind”
  3. Belle and Sebastian - “My Wandering Days are Over” [live]
  4. Belle and Sebastian - “Dirty Dream #2” [live]
  5. Radiohead - “Creep”
  6. Luna - “Lost in Space”
  7. The White Stripes - “China Belle”
  8. Belle and Sebastian - “Lazy Line Painter Jane”
  9. The 6ths - “As You Turn to Go”
  10. The Tornadoes - “Telstar”
  11. Kate Bush - “There Goes a Tenner”
  12. The Buzzcocks - “What Do I Get?”
  13. The Dismemberment Plan - “Can We Be Mature?”
  14. The Stranglers - “No More Heroes”
  15. Handsome Boy Modeling School - “The Truth”
  16. Guided by Voices - “Game of Pricks”
  17. Spoon - “Everything Hits at Once”
  18. The Soft Boys - “The Pigworker”
  19. British Sea Power - “Tugboat” [Galaxie 500 cover]
  20. Belle and Sebastian - “I Fought in a War” [live]

Well, that’s a freaking lot of live Belle and Sebatian - I think it’s all from the same show, too. A pretty good mix otherwise, I think, though I had to skip a few songs at the beginning that one of my friends sent to me that I had never listened to before.

Out of 1801 tracks

  1. Collapsis - Automatic
  2. A Perfect Circle - Weak & Powerless
  3. Tori Amos - You Belong To Me
  4. Massive Attack - Special Cases
  5. Blur - On Your Own
  6. Ambulance LTD - Primative
  7. Possum Dixon - Emergency’s About To End
  8. Splender - Save It For Later
  9. Soul Coughing - St. Louise Is Listening
  10. Fun Lovin’ Criminals - Scooby Snacks
  11. The Von Bondies - C’mon, C’mon
  12. Susan Vega - Blood Makes Noise
  13. Cracker - Star (not be be confused with “Movie Star,” a completely different song)
  14. Angry Salad - 99 Red Balloons
  15. Howie Day - Falling In Love (sounds more like Ben Harper than him, hmmm)
  16. Big Pun and Incubus - Still Not A Player
  17. Bowling For Soup - 1985
  18. Marvelous 3 - Freak Of The Week
  19. Citzen Cope - Bullet And A Target
  20. Crash Palace - Evolution

All of which is totally unrepresentive of what I’ve listened to over the last month and more. Odd.

Out of 3464 (Albums in parenthesis if known) in iTunes:

Depeche Mode - Big Muff (Speak and Spell)
Spoon - Believing is Art (Girls Can Tell)
Tears for Fears - The Working Hour
Ween - Joppa Road (Chocolate & Cheese)
British Sea Power - A Little Electricity
The Olivia Tremor Control - The Princess Turns the Key to Cubist Castle
Jeff Mangum - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Live at Jittery Joe’s)
The Delgados - Favours (Hate)
Placebo - Centrefolds (Sleeping With Ghosts)
311 - Down
Pixies - All Over the World (Bossanova)
Apples in Stereo - Yore Days (Velocity of Sound)
Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th (On Avery Island)
Cake - The Distance (Fashion Nugget)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Jennifer (Strung Out in Heaven)
The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect (Castaways and Cutouts)
Spoon - Back to the Life (Kill the Moonlight)
Polysics - New Wave Jacket (Neu)
David Bowie - It Ain’t Easy (Ziggy Stardust)
Deerhoof - Tuning a Stray (Reveille)
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

This was fun!

  1. Bread - Diary
  2. Classics IV - Stormy
  3. Bread - It Don’t Matter To Me
  4. Herman’s Hermits - I’m Into Something Good
  5. Peter & Gordon - World Without Love
  6. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
  7. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Buy For Me The Rain
  8. Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II
  9. Mama Cass - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  10. The Doors - Love Me Two Times
  11. The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
  12. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
  13. The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
  14. The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
  15. The Lovin’ Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
  16. The Zombies - Changes
  17. Love Sculpture - Sabre Dance
  18. Apple - The Otherside
  19. The Mamas & The Papas - I Call Your Name
  20. The Wildweeds - And When She Smiles

Strathallans Lament - The Hugh Trowser Band
Sahra - Khaled
Rain - Patty Griffin
Rainy Night House - Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah - k.d. lang
Promises - India.Airie
They Never Met - Martin Mull and Melissa Manchester
Mad Mad Me - Wendy Waldman
Every Little Bit - Patty Griffin
Lordly Nightshade - The Incredible String Band
What I Get Paid For - Shawn Colvin and Neil Finn
Talkin’ at the Texaco - James McMurtry
Chin Up, Cheer Up - Ryan Adams
Walkin’ After Midnight - Patsy Kline
Windy and Warm - Doc Watson
Persuasion - Richard Thompson and Tim Finn
Lost in the Love of You - Livingston Taylor
Hot Summer Day - It’s a Beautiful Day
The Dog Song - Nellie McKay
New Dress - Jonatha Brooks & Neil Finn

This’ll be #2 for me in this thread.

[ol]
[li]The Old Dead Tree - All…[/li][li]Mercenary - Firesoul[/li][li]Sirenia - Sister Nightfall[/li][li]Apocalyptica - Sad But True (Metallica cover on four cellos, very cool stuff)[/li][li]Antimatter - Everything You Know is Wrong[/li][li]Black Sabbath - Paranoid[/li][li]Opeth - To Rid the Disease[/li][li]Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray, Part 7[/li][li]Novembre - Neanderthal Sands[/li][li]Blind Guardian - A Dark Passage[/li][li]Nevermore - Seed Awakening[/li][li]Meshuggah - Rational Gaze[/li][li]The Doors - Love Me Two Times[/li][li]Live - Graze[/li][li]Arch Enemy - Lament of Mortal Soul[/li][li]Spineshank - New Disease[/li][li]Iced Earth - The Reckoning (Don’t Tread On Me)[/li][li]My Dying Bride - Roads[/li][li]Spock’s Beard - East of Eden, West of Memphis[/li][li]Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Roses From My Friends[/li][/ol]

Now THAT’S a good list.

4408 songs, 12 days, 14.31 GB

Most of my music is from the 1920s to '50s eras. Get ready for a trip down a memory lane largely washed out by senile dementia.

Chloe - Kenny Graham Afro-Cubists
Something to Remember You By - Sam Lanin’s Dance Ensemble
Salt Peanuts - Bud Powell
My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii - Arthur Godfrey
Sugar Blues - Clyde McCoy & His Orchestra
Chasing Shadows - Georgia Washboard Stompers
You’re A Builder Upper - Harold Arlen with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra
There’ll Be Some Changes Made - Tom Coakley & The Moreing Sisters
With Love in My Heart - Ray Noble & His Orchestra
I Ought to Break Your Neck (For Breaking My Heart) - Roy Newman & His Boys
Droshky Drag - New Friends of Rhythm
Gather Lip Rouge While You May - Dick Himber & His Essex House Orchestra
WPA - Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers
There’s No You - Jo Stafford
Rhythm Steps - Herbie Kay & His Orchestra
Stay As Sweet As You Are - Art Tatum
Caldonia - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
I Never Had A Chance - Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra
**Amos 'n Andy: Lost in Lake Arrowhead ** - NBC show of 1936
Ain’t Cha Glad? - Isham Jones & His Orchestra

My favourite of theirs is their version of In the Hall of the Mountain King, personally, although all the Metallica covers are good, too.

I’ll be posting another list in an hour or two when I’ve gotten 20 played.

  1. Sloan - People of the Sky
  2. Gorillaz - 19-2000
  3. Mariza - O gente de minha terra
  4. Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me
  5. Unidentified punk version of Dust in the Wind
  6. The Brilliant Green - Day After Day (Cripes…WinAmp likes BuriGuri…not going to complain, but I WISH I had enough to explain why they’re coming up so much.)
  7. Little Shop of Horrors - Grow For Me
  8. Shonen Knife - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
  9. Witch Hunter Robin - Opening
  10. Mariza - Que Deus me Perdoe
  11. Puffy Ami Yumi - Be Someone Tonight
  12. Cruxshadows - Monsters
  13. Beck - Loser
  14. Arrogant Worms - History Is Made By Stupid People
  15. The Brilliant Green - Holidays
  16. Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
  17. The Cruxshadows - Tauschung
  18. Bowling For Soup - Suspicious Minds
  19. Angels of Venice & Carol Tatum - Night Spirits
  20. Fastball - Fire Escape

2 BuriGuri, 2 Mariza, 2 Cruxshadows…

Well, the list (now up to 80 songs…well…79 with that one repeat) is starting to become a fairly representative view of what I listen to…if not the proportions…

Been meaning to do this as it sounded like fun. I’m obvioulsy not in tune with the tastes on the board, but here it is anyway.

Riverdance Remix – Bill Whelan
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Peter, Paul and Mary
Pallin’ With Al – Squirrel Net Zippers
Torn – Mosaic Whispers (a cappella group)
Meant To Be – Squirrel Nut Zippers
Only Time – Enya
The Heart’s Cry – Bill Whelan
How I Saved Roosevelt – From Assassins by Stephen Sondheim
Hot Pork Sandwiches – Tanita Tikaram
Hi-Heel Sneakers – Jerry Lee Lewis
Never Known – Tanita Tikaram
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
Epiphany – Mass, Leonard Bernstein
Harry’s House/Centerpiece – Joni Mitchell
You’re No Good For Me – Rosie Ledbet
I Love The Heaven’s Solo – Tanita Tikaram
In Nomine Patris – Mass, Leonard Bernstein
Trope: Half of the People – Mass, Leonard Bernstein
Story of My Life – Loretta Lynn
Gladiator Theme: Now We Are Free – Enya

In my defense, I have two different recordings of Bernstein’s Mass, and only have maybe a 20 albums plus random songs loaded so far on my hard drive.

Are there parting gifts?

Out of something like 200 songs (I don’t have a lot of MP3s…):

1.) Savatage – Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12-24)
2.) Jon Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
3.) Sarah McLaughlin – I Will Remember You
4.) Avail – Mr. Morgan
5.) BtVS (OMWF) – What You Feel
6.) The Great Luke Ski – Luke Ski Mega Mix
7.) Bad Religion – Infected
8.) Savatage – Taunting Cobras
9.) Shawn Mullins – Lullaby
10.) Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities
11.) Idlewild – Self Healer
12.) Everlast – What It’s Like
13.) Alanis Morrisette – Uninvited
14.) The Offspring – Original Prankster
15.) The Firm – Star Trekkin’
16.) Loreena McKennitt – The Mummer’s Dance
17.) Chumbawamba – Farewell to the Crown
18.) Patti Smith – Because the Night
19.) Kályi Jag – Khelimasko Shavo
20.) Day of the Iguana – Game Over