1 - Pry, To - Pearl Jam
2 - Say I - Alabama ( I hd no idea we had that CD)
3 - Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
4 - One Fine Day - The Offspring
5 - Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and others
6 - Loney Girl - Pink
7 - I Drive a Yugo - Left Wing Fascists
8 - Four Days - Counting Crows
9 - Hey Ladies - Destiny’s Child
10 - Grease - Frankie Valli
“Beat That My Heart Skipped,” by Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip
“Leanan Sidhe,” by Boiled in Lead
“I Remember California,” by REM
“End of the Line,” by The Offspring
“Gemini Dream,” by The Moody Blues
“Mari Mac,” by Great Big Sea
“The Way I Am,” by Eminem
“Whispers in Blindness,” by Ace of Base
“Pictures at an Execution,” by The Kissers
“All Good Soldiers,” by Bad Religion
Too Hot to stop - The Bar-Kays
Come Pick me up- Ryan Adams
Ghostwriter- RJD2
Shelter- Ray LaMontagne
Long Ride Home- Patty Griffin
Reading- Matt Pond PA
Isn’t This a Lovely Day- Stacey Kent
Buring- The Whitest Boy Alive
Play with Fire- The Rolling Stones
Scarlett Johansson- The Teenagers
Velouria - the Pixies Sleepy Maggie - Ashley MacIsaac The Ballad of Chasey Lain - the Bloodhound Gang Straight to Video -** Mindless Self Indulgence** Eple - Royksopp Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder Holiday In Cambodia - the Dead Kennedys Volcano - Pig Music is the Victim - Scissor Sisters Golden Brown -** the Stranglers**
Chattanooga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller
Perfect Night - Various, Trigun the 1st ST
Ants - House of Freaks
Adieau - Cowboy Bebop ST
Long Beach Nightmare - Puffy Ami Yumi
Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke
The Well and The Lighthouse - Arcade Fire
Farewell Blues - Glenn Miller
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home - Nat King Cole
Merry Go Round - The Replacements
Not a good shuffle, way overrepresents the anime ST and Glenn Miller.
Up, Bustle & Out - Emerald Alley
Bettye Lavette - How Am I Different?
The Kills - No Wow (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Sinkdred - Set It Off
St Germain - Pont Des Arts
The Dandy Warhols - Godless
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement Vol 1
Echo and the Bunnymen - What If We Are
Luscious Jackson - Down to Earth
Blackalicious - Deception (catchy hook on this one… it’ll be stuck in my head for the next week)
Why yes… I do have rather random music tastes. What gave it away?
(Awesome… #10 is Herbie Hancock - Rockit… I’d totally forgotten I had this track for some odd reason)
I’ll do mine AV Club Random Rules style, with a blurb for each song, cuz I keep waiting for them to ask me to do one and they never do.
Old Shoes & Picture Postcards - Tom Waits
I always thought his first album was his best. The other stuff I hear from him
seems a lil too out there for my tastes. His songs on this album are tight,
focused, and well written. This is one of my favorites.
No Complaints - Beck
IMO, the best song on his weakest album.
The Good Things - Holly Golightly
It took a bit for this song to grow on me. Now it’s my favorite on the album,
barely beating out Virtually Happy.
Freeway Time in an LA County Jail - Sublime
This is from the posthumous acoustic album, and I think this version is better
than the one on Robbin’ the Hood. You just have to set it so it cuts off
couple minutes of babbling at the end. I think Sublime is criminally
underrated, and personally I blame the awful song Date Rape.
Waiting Room - Fugazi
Probably the quinissential Fugazi song.
Knowledge - Operation Ivy
For ska-punk, nothing beats Op Ivy. Not much ska to this one, but still one
of their best songs. Green Day did a fun slow bouncy version of this.
3 Legged Animals - Califone
Man I love this album, and this is the best song on it. These guys create such
a dense, interesting sound out of mainly acoustic instruments, I assumed they
used a bunch of studio gimmicks to make it work. Then I saw them at live
and they pulled it off on stage, and I was even more blown away. Get their
album Roots & Crowns. just trust me.
The Missing - Ministry
A classic off of The Land of Rape and Honey, a really good album for its
time but it hasn’t aged well.
Fender Bender - Kid Koala
Such a wonderful song - just a simple hook repeated that KK dresses up with
some random samples. I saw him DJ a show with Dan the Automator and came
to the conclusion that I am not meant to watch DJs in a concert like setting.
They were fantastic but a lotta people just stood around watching instead of
dancing. Felt weird to me.
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
What can you say, who doesn’t like Johnny Cash?
Make it right - Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
Heaven’s Earth (Matt Darey Remix) - Delerium - Heaven’s Earth (single)
Peakin - Bleachin - Everyone loves you everything’s free
Soldier’s poem - Muse - Black holes and revelations
Without fear - unknown (must have been a random download on my part) - Karmacode
Cirith Ungol - Howard Shore - LOTR: Return of the King soundtrack
Confide in me - Kylie Minogue - Confide in me (single)
Target - Embrace - This new day
Grow for me - Little shop of horrors soundtrack - various
Strange world - Push - Euphoria volume 6 (a trance compilation)
Why blame Date Rape? I doubt 10% of the people who know Sublime know that song. It’s not awful in my opinion, either. It’s got a good sound, it’s funny, and the bad guy gets it in the end (pun intended.) If I was going to “blame” their underratedness on a song it’d probably be ‘Wrong Way’ or ‘What I got’, since those are two of their most popular, and they’re relatively disposable pop songs compared to the rest of their body of work.
A quick aside about their underratedness . . . I was a fanatical Sublime fan as a teenager. The second-half of the 90s. I wore out multiple copies of their tapes and CDs and paid $30-$50 a pop for their bootlegs in the days before file sharing. They were my Beatles; I thought they could do no wrong. I’ve got to say, though, I’ve revisted a few of their albums in the last year and I don’t think they’ve held up very well. Maybe it’s me - maybe I’ve changed or maybe I devalued them by listening too much, or maybe they just weren’t as good as my teenage mind thought they were. I’ll probably never know. I try to avoid them now though because I want to preserve that fond memory of them. I associate every one of their albums (and songs) with fun things I was doing while listening. They were the soundtrack of my life from roughly age 14 to 19.
Maybe it’s a good thing I’ve grown out of the music I listened to in high school. My dad still listens to Pink Floyd every goddamn day. It drives my mom up the wall.
This may get embarrassing. There’s a lot of stuff in my library that I’ve been meaning to clean out…
[ol]
[li]Go Home Productions – “Nightbeatle”[/li]One of the best mashup artists, from his “greatest hits” album
[li]Autechre – “Clipper”[/li]An MP3 that a coworker gave me
[li]Stratotanker – “Yeah II”[/li]A bargain-bin find, bought for its stylish album cover
[li]Lonbobby – “Brown Boxes”[/li]A SongFight artist covering a song from another Songfight artist
[li]sonofsupercar – “Red Flag”[/li]Another SongFight song! I have only a dozen or two in my collection…
[li]Coldplay – “A Whisper”[/li]Got the CD as a gift. The song annoys me; is it in a five-beat time signature or something?
[li]Portishead – “Pedestal”[/li]Maybe this won’t be embarrassing after all…
[li]Hem – “The Beautiful Sea”[/li]Another one from a coworker
[li]The Kleptones – “Anything New”[/li]Another of my favorite mashup artists. Some of his creations (including this one) combine two songs so seamlessly that I can’t tell that they weren’t originally together
[li]They Might Be Giants – “Hypnotist of Ladies”[/li]One of my favorite bands, although I don’t have their last couple albums
[/ol] #11 was from the same TMBG album.
That wasn’t bad at all. No Dora the Explorer, no Manowar…
Ugh. I could write 1000 words on why I hate that song. Basically it boils down to this: that was the first song of theirs that got national attention. It was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and where I was growing up, all the dumb jocks latched on to them and the song as like a “see, we aren’t just dumb jocks, we are enlightened men” sort of anthem, which led to their fanbase having a disproportionate number of dumb jocks. That was how it happened in my area at least. Anyways its not a horrible song, but the lyrics are beyond simplistic, reducing a complex issue into the most absolute black & white “look the bad guy was punished!” terms. It turned me off of them at first, which is a shame cuz 40oz has so many better songs.
There may be something to this. I made a mix of theirs for my SO and she liked it OK but it didn’t jump out at her, and we have pretty similar tastes in music. Im willing to accept the possibility that their sound is a little dated, but I think their best songs still hold up.
A Kiss Before I Go - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Roses - Red Red Meat
No Hard Times - Jimmie Rodgers
Naked Cousin - PJ Harvey
Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Billy Bragg & Wilco
I Live For You - George Harrison
Beautiful People And A Bridge Troll - Patton Oswalt (Not really a song)
Living For The City - Ike & Tina Turner
Troubbble - Stephen Malkmus
Capitol I - Andrew Bird
Tilly & the Wall - Shake it Out
The Fratellis - Vince the Lovable Stoner
Belly - Slow Dog
Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire
Regina Spektor - Samson
Concrete Blonde - Still in Hollywood
Oran ‘Juice’ Jones - The Rain*
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn
MC Frontalot - I Hate Your Blog
I was about to jam you and flat blast both of you. But I didn’t wanna mess up this thirty-seven hundred dollar lynx coat. So instead… I chilled
This Is How We Do Things In the Country – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Skin After Skin – Soilwork
Here, There, and Everywhere – The Beatles
Stranger By the Minute – Porcupine Tree
Mercy – Paradise Lost
Roter Minrock – Die Aerzte
Damnation (Interlude) – CunningLynguists
Think Locally, Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
Underworld – Anathema
Movement One (Songs of Immigration in Voi-la Minor): God-like
This is from my laptop library, which is a bit smaller than my full–might explain the double-representation of Gogol Bordello.
And again, this time from iTunes’ Party Shuffle:
[ol][li]“You Oughta Know”, Alanis Morissette[/li][li]“Riding on the Rocket”, Shonen Knife[/li][li]“Ciega Sordomuda”, Shakira[/li][li]“My Baby Portable Player Sound”, Pizzicato Five[/li][li]“Naked Eyes”, Luscious Jackson[/li][li]“Gettin’ in the Way”, Jill Scott[/li][li]“Karen by Night”, Jill Sobule[/li][li]“Sweet Lullaby”, Deep Forest[/li][li]“Lose My Breath”, Beyoncé[/li][li]“Summerisle”, Mediæval Bæbes[/li][/ol]
