The Random Revolution: Your Shuffle

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:48 pm

1) Dust 2...

Crap, I don't even like this song that much.

2) Opportunity

Getting better!

3) American Without Tears

ELVIS SHUFFLE! I like the one on the B&C Bonus disc better.

4) Nowhere Man - The Beatles

I'm so happy there are so many Beatles songs popping up on everyone's shuffles.

5) Suit of Lights

You must think my musical tastes are quite narrow...sometimes you just get lucky.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:24 pm

Guessed so.

Fishfinger king · Post by **Fishfinger king** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:13 pm

1. Whoops-a-daisy by Humphrey Ocean and the Hardy Annuals - off the Stiff Records box set. An Ian Dury influenced track - jolly music hall styled but very weak vocals. Mr Dury should have done them and then it might have been quite good.
2. Wait it out by Tift Merritt off Tambourine. Not the best track but rocky country and nice enough. She played the Arts centre here in sunny Norwich last year and was excellent.
3. Can't stand it by Wilco off Summerteeth. Top track off their best album. Darn good.
4. I like birds by Eels off Daisies of the Galaxy. Not the tippest-toppest track off a great CD but nice. Very popular in Norfolk I suspect, with all the twitchers, but I am not of that persuasion.
5. Honest with me by Bob Dylan off Love & Theft. I only got this a few months ago and think it's much better than Time out of mind. It swings.
That came out surprisingly OK.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:47 pm

1. New Jersey-Red House Painters
Great band, must get some of their albums, this is from the excellent Retrospective colection.
2. Tear Stained Letter-Richard Thompson
From the recent box set. Starting to get to like his voice, amazing guitarist.
3. Song Of The Mole- Mark Eitzel
From his current album Candy Ass, which gets better with every listen.
4. Have Love Will Travel-The Thing
Wonderful noisy stuff from the Rough Trade compilation Counter Culture 05.
5. (Too Many People Fall for the Same) Lies-Horse Stories
Got this album because I like the label, Loose, and it's a grower.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:20 am

Fishfinger King wrote

Very popular in Norfolk I suspect, with all the twitchers, but I am not of that persuasion.

explanation, please.

1. Quit Hollerin' At Me - John Prine. Not a fave, but it does have that great line 'they already think my name is Where In the Hell You Been.'
2. Big Big Love - Nick Lowe. A nice toe-tapper with that 50's double entendre thing. I can't picture him singing it with a straight face.
3. Invasion Hit Parade - EC. How the hell did that get on here?
4. Mixed Emotions - Stones. Love the video.
5. Get Right With God - Lucinda Williams. she's going to hell for that.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:37 am

mood swung wrote: 1. Quit Hollerin' At Me - John Prine. Not a fave, but it does have that great line 'they already think my name is Where In the Hell You Been.'

Not one of my fave Prine songs either but I do love the bluesy menace of the live version off On Tour.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:14 pm

Just To Keep You Satisfied - Marvin Gaye

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:50 pm

1. Time To Find Me (Afx fast Mix)-Seefeed
From the 26 Mixes For Cash compilation. These remixes work so well in random/shuffle sequences, they'd do my head in back to back
2. Snake Song- Emmylou Harris
From the great Townes Van Zandt tribute album Poet, too bad Elvis didn't contribute a cover.
3. Sunshine-Todd Snider
From his excellent East Nashville Skyline album, one of his better non-wacky tunes.
4. Love's Gone Bad-The Underdogs
From the Nuggets box. Like a blast of fresh air, uncompilcated guitar pop rock
5. Tu Traicion-Robert Wyatt
From a 1987 album from Claustrophobia featuring Robert on vocals. Heavenly, of course.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:17 am

Mike Boom wrote:Stepping Out Queen Pt 2 - Van Morrison

From the odds and sods collection the Philosophers Stone - as opposed to the more structured finished version on Into The Music I think. When he gets into a groove like this and goes all transcendental Van is unstoppable .You cant help but feel uplifted by this song and when he starts those vocal riffs, well , Im real real gone - with a little bit of hip action, just a little bit of hip for the trip - inarticulate speech of the heart indeed

It's actually the missing part of the original take. I guess it started as early as Astral Weeks (there's 10 minutes missing off Slim Slow Slider, for instance) but from Into The Music on especially, Van recorded really long improvised studio versions of everything. Even Bright Side Of The Road was almost fifteen minutes long before they edited it down to the record more fit as a single. Autumn Song (from Hard Nose The Highway) could have done with some editing; dunno why he chose that as the first uncut track to release. Common One is the only studio album without any edited takes, I think. Just goes to show how tight Van's bands have been through the years when an engineer can cut and paste like that without losing the flow.

I'll play later.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:47 am

That's dead interesting.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:13 am

It is very interesting - I would love to hear that 15 min Bright Side of the Road. There must be some very interesting out takes from Astral Weeks then. Bring on the boxed set!

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:54 am

God bless shuffle. This was a fun one:

Jesse - Julian Lennon
Soul Music - Curtis Mayfield
Country Darkness - EC & the I's
Reverence - Jesus and Mary CHain
Los Angeles - Frank Black
Willow Weep For Me - Dinah Washington
I Believe When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever - Stevie Wonder
Negative Attitude - Lloyd Cole
I'm Not Worried at All - Moby
I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
I Wanna Live - Ramones
Brand New Cadillac - Clash
I Don't Care - Orange Juice
Cold Water - Damien Rice
Tutti Fruitti - Elvis P
Transmission - Joy Division
Who Needs Love Like That? - Erasure
Last Time We Spoke - Eels
Close to you - Dionne Warwick
All the Dark Horses - Trash Can Sinatras

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:10 pm

Could somebody hurry up and send me an iPod so I can do this too?

Mechanical Grace · Post by **Mechanical Grace** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:24 pm

I hereby promise that if I win an iPod for some reason, and mine is still working, I will send it to you. For what it's worth!

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:10 pm

1. Falling In Love- Stan Getz
2. End Of The Rainbow- Elvis Costello
3. Windowlicker-Aphex Twin
4. Prophet- Albert Ayler
5. Starálfar-Sigur Rós

That was a headwrecker of a sequence.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:39 pm

Bulldog Skin - Guided By Voices
One Summer Dream - ELO
The Morning Fog - Kate Bush
Let Him Run Wild - The Beach Boys
Follow Me - Jason Falkner

Fishfinger king · Post by **Fishfinger king** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:50 pm

mood swung wrote:Fishfinger King wrote
Very popular in Norfolk I suspect, with all the twitchers, but I am not of that persuasion.

explanation, please.

Twitcher is English slang for ornithologist or bird watcher; Norfolk is an English hot spot for this. Obvious connection to the Eels song

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:57 am

there's obvious, and then there's obvious. Thanks.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:19 pm

1. Ooo Baby Baby- Smokey Robinson
2. We Can't Turn Back- Rodney Crowell
3. A Remark You Made - Weather Report
4. Brother - Nadine
5. Stormy Weather - Eric Dolphy

That was an easier listen. Is anyone else going to contribute? Maybe you are all luddites who are not up to all this mp3 thing. Believe me it's the best thing that can happen to any music fan.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:51 pm

Is anyone else going to contribute?

Ok, I've just found the random option so here goes:

Richard Thompson - Gethsamane - majestic

Arctic Monkeys - Settle for a draw - dodgy live recording

David Baird - Friday Neet (and we're Gannin' to the Toon) - Geordie rap from yester year

Nick Lowe - (I love the sound of) Breaking Glass - wonder if Bowi smiled

Brinsley Scwarz - Down in Mexico - less than convincing, but v. smilesome, latin feel

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:05 pm

The Kaisers - I Want To Be Your Driver - A retro beat group from Edinburgh, don't know if they're still around - a few really cool lps in the late 90's - early 00's - this is a Chuck Berry tune.

The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - One of the great punk anthems; never tire of it - released on Rocket to Russia and then again on later releases of Leave Home, replacing Carbona Not Glue....if that makes sense.

Elvis Presley - Lover Doll - Not one of the King's better known tracks - from the film King Creole.

Johnny Moore and Karl Bryan - Parapinto - A ska instrumental from - don't know much about this one, where these guys in the Skatelites?

Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues) - The father of country music. My wife hates yodeling.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:01 pm

1. Elvis Costello & Bill Frisell - Love Field I love this one, the guitar sound is very close to perfection. Serves the lyric so much better than the GCW version. Wonderful mix of harmony and tension in the delivery.

2. Amy Rigby - That's The Time A touching song about being loved, I think. This works better in context though; in between a lot of selfdepracating and cynical songs of hopeless love this is a welcome change of mood. In fact, it's so sentimental you start to suspect it's a dream of unconditional love rather than the real thing. Even more so considering it follows (Last night I was) "Dancing With Joey Ramone" on the excellent Little Fugitive record.

3. Dexys Midnight Runners - Thankfully Living In Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply Perfect party song. The falsetto parts are lots of fun and as always with Kevin, close to impossible making out the lyrics to for a non-native like me. The dramatic parts with minor chord horns and cow bell work very well too. Hard to sit still and write.

4. Django Reinhardt - You're Driving Me Crazy Gypsy genius indeed. I wish I had Django's fingers but more of them. This is how Willie Nelson unplugged would have sounded if he was on speed rather than weed. That's a mean fiddle player too, by the way. Don't have a clue who.

5. Lou Reed - Last Shot I'm a big fan of Lou's early eighties albums and this is one of my favourite songs about quitting the drink. Toasting the fact that you're getting straight reminds me of Iggy & Tom smoking in Coffee & Cigarettes ("Now that we've quit, we can have one!") Extremely funny and most likely largely improvised lyrics blessed with one of those perfect effortless three chord riffs Lou seems to be able to chuck off in his sleep. It's even a bit moving hearing him sing "When you quit you quit/But you always wish/That you knew it was your last shot" after having sung about "The Power Of Positive Drinking" and living "Underneath The Bottle" on his two previous albums. And Quine was great.

Thanks for the excellent choices, sweet iPod!

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:22 am

King Hoarse wrote: 4. Django Reinhardt - You're Driving Me Crazy ... mean fiddle player too, by the way. Don't have a clue who.

At a guess - Stephan Grapelli?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:41 pm

King Hoarse wrote:as always with Kevin, close to impossible making out the lyrics to for a non-native like me

Us too!

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:32 pm

Ok, so I'm a little late to the party. Just got my first iPod last night so I don't have much loaded on it yet and the songs may not reflect my overall taste in music (disclaimer before I hit the shuffle button). Here goes:

1. The First Time - U2........I'm not even sure I know this song.

2. David Watts - The Jam.....not bad

3. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of - U2......hmmm

4. Lazy Mornin' - Gordon Lightfoot.......from my dad's collection

5. Tart - Elvis Costello.........probably my favorite from WIWC