The first ten songs I have cued up on Random Shuffle on iTunes - and a snapshot of my current musical tastes - are:
Ritzville, Mudhoney
Piano Fire, Sparklehorse
Walk and Talk, The Velvet Underground
The Man With The Black Moustache, The Monochrome Set
Sunday Girl, Blondie
Warszawa, David Bowie
Which Will, Nick Drake
Eager Beaver, Stan Kenton
For Those About To Rock {We Salute You}, AC/DC
Top Of The Pops, The Rezillos
No masaging the playlists to look hipper, now, but care to share your musical snapshot with the rest of the class?
Some Schumann song, sung by Kathleen Ferrier
Public Enemy, Bring That Beat Back
Mu-Ziq - Sick Porter
Schnittke - String quartet no. 2
Mahler 5, second movAement, Karajan
Scelsi - Anahit
Pulp - Disco 2000
Bill Hicks - part of a bootleg
An episode of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
Debussy string quartet, first movement
JS Bach - suite no.6 in D Major (BWV 1012)
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig
Love - Live and Let Live
Nightmares on Wax - Pudpots
Big Black - Casimir S. Pulaski Day
The Beta Band - Inner Meet Me
Aphex Twin - Track 13
The Orb - Traumvogel
Led Zeppelin - In my Time of Dying
Blondie - The Tide is High
Not from an Ipod, but the first ten items on a randomised winamp playlist of all music files on my media partition.
Okay, I’ll play. No itunes, though, so using foobar200 I get:[ul][li]Somethin’ Else - Eddie Cochran[/li][li]Stardust - Frank Sinatra[/li][li]Third Time Around - Hank Mobley[/li][li]Caro Nome (from Rigoletto) - Giuseppe Verdi (and now it’s bugging heck out of me that I don’t know who the singer is)[/li][li]New Slang - The Shins[/li][li]Elephant Woman - Blonde Redhead[/li][li]Miracle (from Lawrence of Arabia) - Maurice Jarre[/li][li]Girl - Beck[/li][li]A Night In Tunisia - The Quartet[/li]I Don’t Wanna Grow Up - Tom Waits[/ul]
Stabat Mater: Quando Corpus - Poulenc
All or Nothing at All - Frank Sinatra
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Aiken Drum - The King’s Singers
Love Me Do - The Beatles
Annie Laurie - The King’s Singers
Blue Bubbles - Don Byron
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy Collins
In the Highways from “O Brother Where Art Thou”
They Call the Wind Maria - Kingston Trio
Keane – A Bad Dream
David J – This Vicious Cabaret
TV on the Radio – I Was a Lover
VNV Nation – Standing (Motion)
Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On
Cocteau Twins – Rilkean Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts
Thom Yorke – Cymbal Rush
Adam and the Ants – Deutscher Girls
Lovage – Anger Management
“Rockin’ in the Free World” - Pearl Jam and Neil Young
“November Rain” - Guns 'n Roses
“Pieces” - Sum 41
“Inside the Speaker” - Zombie Nation
“Oh Girl” - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” - Green Day
“Say it Ain’t So” - Weezer
“Favorite Things” - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
“So Close” - Evanescence
“Orange Crush” - R.E.M.
Little Hitler- Nick Lowe
At Last- Neko Case
Velouria- Pixies
I Can’t Help It- Johnny Cash
Edam Anchorman- Super Furry Animals
Feel- Syd Barrett
Wading Through A Ventilator- The Soft Boys
So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky- Grandaddy
Girls on TV- Be Your Own Pet
Bless You- John Lennon
“Sixpounder”, Children of Bodom
“On Rich and Poor”, Amorphis
“Ghost Ship (Voyage)”, Shadow Gallery
“The Infernal Ceremony”, Naglfar
“Red War”, Probot
“Rainbow (The Resurrection)”, Orphaned Land
“Viking Slayer”, Cruachan
“I Sleep With The Emperor”, Virgin Black
“Suction”, Godflesh
“People Like Us”, Talking Heads
All right. All my iTunes songs, accumulated over the past two years. No cheating…
“My Life is Starting Over Again,” Teenage Fan Club
“The National People’s Scare,” Wolf Parade
“Je T’aime (moi non plus),” Sven Vath and Miss Kitten
“Honey Bunny,” Vincent Gallo
“Suite 2 D Minor,” Ill Courante
“A Lack of Color,” Death Cab for Cutie
“Airport (Ramps and Runways),” The Cinematic Underground
“Play Some D,” Brassy
“Last Caress,” The Misfits
“Pretty Girls Don’t Cry,” Chris Isaal
(I love The Onion’s Random Rules piece. Especially when musicians listen to their own stuff on their iPods)
“A New Day Yesterday” - Jethro Tull
“The Dreaming” - Kate Bush
“That Is Rock & Roll” - The Coasters
“All This and More” - Procol Harum
“Boys” - The Beatles
“Doing That Scrapyard Thing” - Cream
“Von der Schönheit” - Gustav Mahler
“Nobody’s Car” - Jethro Tull
“Watermelon Man” - Herbie Hancock
“Messages from Sophia ‘There’s More Kitties in the World than Just Mia Mo-Tutti’ by Lisa and Dorothy” - Lisa Germano
Boney M, Rasputin
Juanes, Sonador
Amuro Namie, All For You
Oingo Boingo, I’ve Got to Be Entertained
Final Fantasy X soundtrack, Summoned Beast Battle
Animaniacs, The Presidents
The Cruxshadows, Love & Hatred
Talking Heads, Uh-Oh Love, Comes to Town
The Brilliant Green, Bye! My Boy!
UNDER17, Mail Me
N.I.B - Ozzy Osbourne and Primus
Teenage Girl - Presidents of the United States of America
Tell The Truth - Eric Clapton
This Note’s For You - Neil Young
The End of the World - John Mellencamp
Who’ll Stop The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Watching The Wheels - John Lennon
No Reply - The Beatles
I Loved Another Woman - Paul Wood
Unfortunately, my playlist makes me look hipper than I actually am.
I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Ute Lemper
He Lost Her on the Subway – Ada Jones
Fido is a Hot Dog Now – Billy Murray
Rhapsody in Blue – Paul Whiteman
The Best of Everything – Johnny Mathis
The Theme from “The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield”
I’m the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas – Sophie Tucker
Too Much Mustard – James Reese Europe
Ma! He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me – Gus Visser and His Singing Duck
Roxanne – from the “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack
Buell Kazee: “The Wagoner’s Lad” Library of Congress Folk Recordings Les Baxter: “Zambezi” Tamboo! The Ritual of the Savage Moistboyz: “Adios Amigo” I & II The Swingle Singers: “Allegro from Sonata No. 14 K333” *Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? * Lee Morse: “Don’t Even Change a Picture on the Wall” Lee Morse: A Musical Portrait (1925 - 1951) Marilyn Manson: “God Eat God” Holy Wood Csokolom: "Pink Panther Theme/Pink Legenyes/Legenyes A Minor " Ludo Luda: Fools Fancy Zap Mama: “Abadou” Zap Mama Del tha Funkee Homosapien: “Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo” The Elektra Years Plush: “Soaring and Boring” More You Becomes You
“Is this music?” Teenage Fanclub
“Over” A Perfect Circle
“Help Us/Save Us/Take Us Away” KMFDM
“Pushit” Tool
“Kingdom (live)” VNV Nation
“Best Things” Hate Dept.
“Not Track 5, Not Chainsaw Juggling” Mitch Hedberg
“Crapage (live)” Front 242
“Danger is the Shame (remix)” Iris
“The Hand that Feeds (live)” Nine Inch Nails