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Deep Purple, “Fireball”
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America, “Daisy Jane”
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The Kinks, “Do You Remember Walter?”
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Overture to “HMS Pinafore” by Gilbert & Sullivan
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“Feel a Whole Lot Better” by Tom Petty
- Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
- All the Love in the World - Nine Inch Nails
- Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
- Wake Up - Korn
- The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
Stained/Shake - Kristin Hersh, Live Stockholm
6’1" - Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
Ride it On - Mazzy Star, She Hangs Brightly
You Can’t Always Not Get What You Don’t Want - Tracy Bonham, Down Here
Kool Thing - Sonic Youth, Goo
Ummm…it started a bit angry-chick, but Sonic Youth redeemed it at the end. Was tempted to manually slip in a Ramones track so you wouldn’t think I’m a total wuss…
January Friend- Goo Goo Dolls
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her- Simon and Garfunkel
A Woman’s Worth- Alicia Keys
Unworthy- Cheryl Wheeler (a random, funny song I found for free on Amazon)
The Luckiest- Ben Folds
I cheated a bit-- two songs I hardly ever listen to, and usually skip if they come up on shuffle, cropped up in the middle of those 5 (Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Wind by Cat Stevens, both of which I only have because I own the soundtrack to Almost Famous.
My MP3 player’s in the other room. I don’t feel like getting it, so I’ll post the songs in my PC library. (Cued up in WinAmp - 6642 tracks)
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence
Tiki God - PUSA
Wuthering Heights - Pat Benatar
I Got the Six - ZZ Top
Shake It Up - The New Cars
- “On the Beach,” Jack Logan (so far so good)
- “I Luv I Jah,” Bad Brains (would have preferred something tough like “Sailin’ On,” but at least it’s Bad Brains)
- “Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy),” Jim Croce
- “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (Bootleg acoustic version),” The Beatles. (“Bootleg acoustic version” saves it.)
- “Rednecks,” Randy Newman.
Total songs: 905.
By the way, Berke Breathed’s AV Club “Random Rules” bit is hilarious: Link
My nano currently has 354 songs on it.
The first five to shuffle up are:
- Photograph by Def Leppard
- How’s It Going to Be by Third Eye Blind
- Dream Operator by Talking Heads
- Angel by Aerosmith
- Dancing With the Moonlit Knight by Genesis
1st five random out of 4,156
Basie’s at Night - Sadao Watanabe
F.D.R. in Trinidad - Ry Cooder
Guitar Man - Sherman Robertson
Accentuate the Positive - Dr. John
I’m the Zydeco Man - Rockin’ Dopsie
Mine’s not too bad. Kind of eclectic.
She Moves Me - Muddy Waters
I don’t listen to too much blues, but I love Muddy Waters. (If you haven’t seen the Family Guy imitation of Muddy Waters, I suggest you do)
Hey Saturday Sun - Boards of Canada
Calm, slow music. Ambient is really the only electronica I really like.
Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
If you haven’t heard this song, you probably haven’t been listening to radio for the past year and a half. Good song, good album. Not my favourite song on the album, but still good.
Santeria - Sublime
I used to love Sublime, until I started listening to things other than their top hits. Santeria’s still one of my favourite songs ever.
Let’s Dance - the Ramones
I have the entire Ramones discography. Enough said.
The next 5 songs are the embarassing ones. I’m glad I don’t have to go through those.
That’s out of 4553 songs.
- Badlands- Bruce Springsteen
- I’m Yours, You’re Mine- Morphine
- You Know I’m No Good- Amy Winehouse
- One Night In Bangkok- Murray Head (from Chess)
- Sakkijarven Polka- The Oulu Hotshots- A Finnish language polka by a band from Wisconsin.
Not horribly surprising- I’ve got 1503 songs and 204 Springsteen songs and 94 Morphine/Mark Sandman songs.
My Heart Will Go On - A New Found Glory: Screw what you think about Celiene…this kicks Roddy-Piper-out-of-bubble-gum amounts of ass…
Don’t Beat My Ass With A Baseball Bat - Goo Goo Dolls: Hey, did you know that before they discovered movie soundtracks, the Goo Goo Dolls were one fricking awesome band?
Fucked - Less Than Jake: I think we can add this one to the “Songs You Won’t Hear On American Idol” thread…
The Salt In My Tears - Martin Briley: Man, this song always makes me wish I was breaking up with someone when I hear it. Really, has there ever been a better “screw you” song? Ever?
Get The Fuck Out - Skid Row: See two songs up…
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“Dear God (Oh My God)” by Shootyz Grove. This is a cover of Dear God by XTC, though not all the words are the same. It’s not bad.
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“River” by Robert Downy Jr. Yet another cover. And one of a mere 4 Christmas songs on my hard drive year round, making odds of just 1 in 1029 of landing on one. I loved this scene in Ally McBeal, for the record.
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“Your Woman” by Whitetown. One. Hit. Wonder.
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“Check” by Zebrahead. Rapcore. Not my favorite of their songs, but I like it.
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“Do You Sleep?” by Lisa Loeb. 12 years later, I still really like this song.
OneCentStamp utters a quick atheist’s prayer that nothing truly embarrassing pops up
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Ramones, “She’s The One”
Ah, one of my five favorite Ramones songs. Great start. -
Buzzcocks, “Ever Fallen In Love?”
I swear I do have some music on here that wasn’t recorded in 1978. -
Celtic Frost, “Inner Sanctum”
Maybe my favorite band. You know, if you didn’t know who CF was, and picked up their music thinking they must be Irish, you would probably be in for a shock. -
David Bowie, “Modern Love”
Man, I love this song. Never fails to make me smile and want to get up and dance. -
The Replacements, “Left of the Dial”
Whoo-hoo! I made it without any of the cheesy stuff coming up! Doing this on my iPod is like playing Russian Roulette…with three rounds chambered.
These are always fun… here goes:
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End of the Century - Blur
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The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope - Bloodhound Gang
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Here We Go - Jon Brion
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Atom Tan - the Clash
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Bumblebee - Bambee
Oh, man. I totally thought I was doing well, or at least all right, and then Bumblebee shows up. :smack:
Guilty, guilty, guilty pleasure.
OK, I’ll play. I have a feeling these will come up *very *Broadway oriented. Let’s see:
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All I Ask of You (reprise): Hugh Panaro. From a performance of The Phantom of the Opera.
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Where You Are: Vanessa Williams from the Kiss of the Spider Woman revival recording.
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The Attack on Rue Plumet. From a recording of Les Miserables on Oct 18, 1990.
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Wandering Child: Peter Karrie, from a recording of Phantom of the Opera, Dec 6, 1997.
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The Black Pearl: Score by Klaus Badelt from the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.”
Shadowtime - Siouxsie & the Banshees
I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Learning to Fly - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Dark Time - October Project
Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers
I could use to take that second song out of rotation until the holidays…
Only a mere 502 songs on my player right now and it’s about half full (4 gig Sansa)
here goes…
1.Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring (so far so good)
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Shostakovich Symphony 5 - Mvt 2 (Haitink with the Concertgebouw, again, good times)
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So Percussion - June (new Percussion ensemble, fascinating stuff! good!)
4 The Band w/Joni Mitchell - Cyote (again, not bad!
- Allman Brothers - Crazy Love (woo)
fewf. that was pretty harmless,
Im glad Jordan Knight never came up
I’ll play …
- Ben Gibbard - Steadier Footing (acoustic live)
- Depeche Mode - Here is the house (live 1990)
- Portishead - Mourning Air
- Erasure - Home (Union Street version)
- Imperative Reaction - Judas
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Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not), Joey Scarbury
Part of a TeeVee Tunes album - 14th Street, Rufus Wainwright
- O Lawd I’m on My Way, William Warfield (from Porgy and Bess)
- Veni, Veni, Venias, by Carl Orff (from Carmina Burana)
- Summer Night on the River, by Delius
'Cause it’s good?
I get:
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: …And In Every Home
Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear
Booker Ervin: Number Two
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: Ed Ora Io Domando Tempo Al Tempo Ed Egli Mi Risponde… Non Ne Ho!
Antônio Carlos Jobim: Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba)