Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

The lights are all blinking red.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

So very ready.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

No one could have predicted…

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

In my day, never was longer.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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Hilts requests another “what’s on your Ipod?” I’ll start, I can’t remember how that works, if it’s what’s on your Ipod right now or what comes up when you shuffle, so I’ll mention both. Little Red Corvette is what was on my Ipod to start with and when I shuffled Windfall by Son Volt came up.

And Cleek has a new Name That Tune up.

Update. Okay, it’s the first *ten* songs that come up on shuffle.

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  2. 2.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    I think the deal was to hit “Shuffle” and write down the first ten tunes, no cheating. I’d play if I didn’t have get up out of this Comfy Chair to go find my iPod.

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    Black Hole – Be Your Own Pet
    shuffle brings
    Softest Tip of Her Baby Tongue – The Loud Family

  4. 4.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    Dude asked for the bands we’d seen on Facebook yesterday:

    The Allman’s twice with Duane, Tull, Commander Cody, Leon Russell with the Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart and Nicky Hopkins, Santana, Dead, Hot Tuna, the Airplane, Electric Flag, Country Joe and the Fish, Iron Butterfly, the Stones, the Boss, Petty, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Hugh Masekela, the Turtles, Janis Joplin. Johnny Winter, ELO, Little Feat, the the Amazing Rhythm Aces , Poco, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Alseep at the Wheel, Michael Martin Murphy, the Kinks, John Mellencamp, Rotary Connection. . . Gillian Welch, Tony Rice, Ernest Tubb, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, REO Speedwagon, Amboy Dukes, 4 tops, Parliment Funkadelic

  5. 5.

    Big Baby DougJ

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:

    Okay, then

    Windfall, Son Volt
    Oleo, Miles Davis
    Brown to Blue, Elvis Costello
    Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’, Journey
    Crazy, Patsy Cline
    Be My Husband, Nina Simone
    Low Spark Of High Boys, Rickie Lee Jones
    Santa Monica, Everclear
    Sea Shanty, Pogues
    The Way Young Lover Do, Van Morrsion

  6. 6.

    BD of MN

    when I opened up winamp on my laptop, (phone/music player is waaay over on the other side of the room) I got Dead Weather – 3 Birds and then The Replacements – Within Your Reach…

  7. 7.

    lamh34

    I’m an R&B and hip hop girl at heart with a little bit of pop music thrown in, so it’s no surprise that the first 5 songs that come up upon shufflin my IPhone are:

    OutKast – B.O.B.
    DeBarge- “Love Me In A Special Way”
    Maze & Frankie Beverly “Happy Feelins” Live in New Orleans
    John Mayer – Split Screen Sadness
    Jackson 5 – I want You Back

  8. 8.

    cleek

    shufflin from the full list is always dodgy.. but…

    beatles – tomorrow never knows
    sonic youth – hits of sunshine
    middle distance runner – the fury
    viva voce – high highs
    liz phair – elvis song
    sting – they dance alone
    steely dan – aja
    stones – dance pt1
    doc watson – windy and warm
    white stripes – jumble jumble

    ok. not terrible. it could’ve been embarrassing.

    (thx, doug, for the link)

  9. 9.

    Von Manstein

    Windfall is on mine too! But I don’t use shuffle, despite having an iPod shuffle, I either listen to full CDs in sequence or perhaps mixes, but carefully designed for a certain order. Also, I couldn’t listen to Oleo and Crazy in the same day, let alone in close sequence. It’s all about mood.

  10. 10.

    Alexandra

    Alrighty… since I’m pretending to work late here in London town:

    1. Faster – Janelle Monae
    2. Trimm Trabb – Blur
    3. Melt! – Flying Lotus
    4. Late Anthropocene – Brian Eno
    5. In Dust We Trust – Chemical Brothers
    6. Statue Of Liberty – Laurie Anderson
    7. Flying Away – Smoke City
    8. Johnny Cake – Harold Budd and Hector Zazou
    9. Wail (Alt Take) – Bud Powell
    10. Fan The Flame (Featuring Dan Marcus) – Big Bud

    Booyah.

  11. 11.

    Suffern ace

    Midnight juggnaughts – road to recovery is what comes up on shuffle. A “discovery download” from long ago. Not bad. Kind of groovy new wave 1990s Manchester ditty.

  12. 12.

    BD of MN

    Fine, 10 then:

    Dead Weather – 3 Birds
    Replacements – Within your Reach
    Mike Doughty – Down on the River by the Sugar Plant
    Metric – Gold, Guns, Girls
    Gogol Bordello – Pala Tute
    Bobby Darin – I’ll Be There
    Bob Mould – Underneath Days
    Arcade Fire – Ocean of Noise
    Big Bopper – Big Bopper’s Wedding
    Belle and Sebastian – I want the World to Stop

  13. 13.

    Tappen

    Black River Killer – Blitzen Trapper
    Level – The Raconteurs
    So Much Beauty in Dirt – Modest Mouse
    I’da Called You Woody, Joe – The Gaslight Anthem
    Mykonos – Fleet Foxes
    Too Soon – Hey Ocean!
    Idylls of the King – The Mountain Goats
    Boy With a Coin – Iron & Wine
    Shut the Club Down – Girl Talk
    what did my lover say (it always had to go this way) – Wolf Parade

  14. 14.

    Kristine

    Planet Earth–Duran Duran
    Calico–St. Etienne
    Lie in the Sound–Trespassers William
    All Sparks–Editors
    The Wrong Child–REM
    I’m Not Drowning–Steve Winwood
    Sukie in the Graveyard–Belle and Sebastian
    L.O.V.–Fitz and the Tantrums
    Take it All–Adele
    Jam for the Ladies–Moby feat. MC Lyte and Angie Stone

  16. 16.

    lamh34

    @cleek: oh no you didn’t throw in a little “Flashdance” soundtrack song over at you “name that tune” post. I love me some Flashdance. It pissed me off so much when Iread somewhere that there is supposed to be a remake coming down the pike! Ugh…enough with the remakes Hollywood!

  17. 17.

    Valdivia

    I can’t believe I am going to expose my shame here. Here it goes:

    Baja la Guardia, Santiago Cruz
    Can’t get enough of your love, Barry White
    Atlas, Fanfarlo
    As de Corazones, Chambao
    I’m Not in Love, 10CC
    How Deep is your Love, Bee Gees
    F***you, Cee Lo Green
    The Body Says No, The New Pornographers
    Clavo que Saca Otro Clavo, Patty Cantu
    Sick Muse, Metric

    God, that was hard!

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    Ok, a full 10:
    Big Day Coming – Yo La Tengo
    See No Evil – REM (Television cover)
    Early Morning Cold Taxi – The Who
    Central AC – We Are Scientists
    When the Lights Go Out – Black Keys
    Permanent Broken Heart – E
    Reaching for the Moon – Ella Fitzgerald
    Peace Love and Understanding – Brinsley Schwarz
    Orange Blossom Special – Johnny Cash
    Dakota – The Wrens

  21. 21.

    erlking

    Excellent.

    Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key–Billy Bragg & Wilco
    I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight–Richard & Linda Thompson
    The Wrong Band–Tori AMos
    Kodachrome–Paul SImon
    Billy’s Bones–The Pogues
    Tiny Fish for Japan–Stan Rogers
    Witch of the West Mer-Lands–Archie Fisher
    Racing in the Street–Bruce Springsteen
    Waitress in the Sky–The Replacements
    Redemption Song–The Chieftains & Ziggy Marley

  22. 22.

    aliasofwestgate

    Mocean Worker–Changes ft Herb Alpter
    Heartbeat–2pm (Japanese version)
    Message–Kotsuban ft Hatsune Miku
    Rolling Girl-wowaka ft Hatsune Miku
    Ai no Yuusha-tachi–Isao Sasaki (Ultraman themes collection)
    Is He Ready?–Mr Scruff
    Does It Still McFly-Star Trek XI OST Michael Giacchino
    Take A Fall-Hybrid
    Sign of Love–Immi
    Hibari no Kokoro–Spitz

    Yes, i listen to a lot of jpop and rock, and i just got my hands on a TON of Vocaloid stuff. Needless to say, that’s what Onpa, my zune wanted to play for me. *grin*

  23. 23.

    boss bitch

    EPMD – Strictly Business
    Prince – U Got The Look
    Usher – Lil Freak
    Chris Isaak – Baby Did A Bad Thing
    Beyonce – Single Ladies
    Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
    DJ Bam Bam – Bam’s Workout
    Mary J.Blige – Love No Limit
    Fatman Scoop – Celebrate
    DJ Bam Bam – Let Me Tell You

    This shuffled list doesn’t represent what I listen to every day. Not a day goes by where I don’t listen to Linkin Park.

  24. 24.

    aliasofwestgate

    Dammit, my list is in moderation! I can’t figure out WHAT wordpress doesn’t like.

    FYWP

  26. 26.

    birthmarker

    My short playlist-Unknown Legend by Neil Young
    My long playlist-Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins
    (Sort of two sides of the same coin there, I guess.)

    My Music List (Which includes a lot of my kids’ music, so a bit risky-El Presidente by The Game(I’m not familiar with this at all so I disavow)

  29. 29.

    NobodySpecial

    Temple Of The Dog – Hunger Strike
    Lonnie Mack – Back On The Road Again
    Jimi Hendrix – Sunshine Of Your Love
    Genesis – I Can’t Dance
    Queensrÿche – Lady Jane
    Earl King – Come Along With Me
    The Who – Happy Jack
    Robby Krieger – Brain Damage
    Nine Inch Nails – All The Love In The World
    Fleetwood Mac – Rattlesnake Shake

    This is from the iTunes, don’t have my iPod handy.

  30. 30.

    Suffern ace

    Ok ten then
    2 Mississippi John hurt – stagger lee
    3 Mahalia Jackson – walk in Jerusalem
    4 the Kinks – Animal farm
    5 gram parsons – still feeling blue
    6 Brahms – Dennis wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
    7 moussa diallo-Mali – Maninda
    8 spin doctors – little miss can’t be wrong
    9 something about a cello and Vivaldi
    10 Yundi li plays chopin- scherzo 2

  31. 31.

    Big Baby DougJ

    @Valdivia:

    Nah, the SNF soundtrack is awesome…and there may be those who find all 10CC to be a guilty pleasure but only Things You Do For Love is guilty for me.

  32. 32.

    kindness

    I can’t believe that song came up first.

    Monster Hash – The Toyes
    Rock & Roll Girls – John Fogerty
    Best of You – Foo Fighters
    Dirty Love – Frank Zappa
    Don’t Cha Stop – The Cars
    Oh Atlanta – Little Feat
    Hey Jude – The Beatles
    Little T&A – Rolling Stones
    Your So Good For Me – Humble Pie
    Twisted – Joni Mitchell

    @Big Baby DougJ: cool. a Ricky Lee Low Spark

  33. 33.

    jeffreyw

    Pride and Joy-SRV
    I Feel the Earth Move-Carole King
    Tell Me-The Fabulous Thunderbirds
    Cheatin’ On You-Taj Mahal
    B Movie Boxcar Blues-Delbert McClinton
    Do Right Woman, Do Right Man-Aretha
    Scuttle Buttin”-SRV
    Evil-Jeff Healy Band
    Dreamin’ At the Juke-Roy Rogers
    Lenny-SRV
    Steal Your Heart Away-Bonnie Raitt

  35. 35.

    Big Baby DougJ

    @lamh34:

    We should do an all musical movie thread sometime, with Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Sound Of Music, etc. I love that stuff.

  36. 36.

    Valdivia

    @Big Baby DougJ:

    Ok I agree. I have that soundtrack and I do listen to it a lot, I like pretty much all the songs.

    And I do think The Things you Do for Love is highly guilty :)

  37. 37.

    aliasofwestgate

    Thank you for getting me out of moderation! Man, i must be a lot younger than many of the regulars here because my playlist is a tad bit outlandish. ^^;;

  38. 38.

    Valdivia

    @Big Baby DougJ:

    Oh I would love that thread too. Love me musical movies.

    Flashdance with JLo isn’t she a little old for that role? Not to be ageist or anything.

  40. 40.

    South of I-10

    I Ain’t Drunk – Albert Collins
    Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard
    Seasons -Chris Cornell
    Love Removal Machine – The Cult
    Never Had No One Ever – The Smiths
    Hello Hopeville – Michelle Shocked
    De Camino a La Vereda – Buena Vista Social Club
    That Should Be Me – Justin Beiber (The 7 year old, I swear!)
    Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key – Billy Bragg & Wilco
    Attention – The Raconteurs

    Wow, iPod is confused!

  41. 41.

    Alison

    I’m such a nerd for these posts :)

    1. Paradise Place – Siouxsie and the Banshees
    2. Jezebel – Depeche Mode
    3. The State I’m In – Sinead O’Connor
    4. Pedestal – Portishead
    5. Corner Of Your Heart – Ingrid Michaelson
    6. Three MCs and One DJ – Beastie Boys
    7. Beautiful Way – Beck
    8. Red Right Hand – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    9. Lights – Scissor Sisters
    10. Let Me Sleep Beside You – David Bowie

    That Bowie track is off the Bowie At The Beeb double album which is fan-fucking-tastic. Lots of early stuff that I just adore – if you are even a bit of a Bowie fan, I highly recommend it.

  42. 42.

    Cat Lady

    Rolling in The Deep – Adele
    City Girl – Tegan & Sara
    City With No Children – Arcade Fire
    Me and Jane Doe – Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well – Mike Doughty
    Bohemian Like You – Dandy Warhols
    Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens
    Save It For Later – English Beat
    You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away – Todd Rundgren live at International Place in Boston
    Talk to Ya Later – The Tubes

    I love Fee Waybill.

    @Big Baby DougJ:

    Saw Rickie Lee perform that song live a year ago. She’s still got it all going on.

  45. 45.

    Alison

    @South of I-10: I still haven’t seen the movie (it’s on the list, though) but I got the soundtrack to Once because a friend raved about it, and Falling Slowly is one of the loveliest songs ever, IMO. :)

  46. 46.

    Dr Dave

    Where are all the jazz listeners tonight?

    Into the Dream Pat Metheny Imaginary Day
    Little Things That Count Chick Corea Elektric Band Beneath The Mask
    The World Keeps You Waiting New York Voices A Day Like This
    Orange Colored Sky Natalie Cole Unforgettable With Love
    Nebraska Bruce Springsteen The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Disc 1)
    Worlds Apart Bob James Grand Piano Canyon
    Busy Tonight The Nylons Rockapella
    Que Pasa (Trio Version) Horace Silver Song For My Father
    Love Is Stronger Than Pride Sade Stronger Than Pride
    Clockwork Alex De Grassi Windham Hill Records Sampler ’82

    (OK, I admit that I skipped over the Christmas tunes)

  47. 47.

    p.a.

    Oye Isabel- The Iguanas
    No Woman No Cry- Bob Marley
    R.D. Special- BeauSoleil
    My Indian Red- Dr. John
    Cabbage Alley- The Meters
    Robin and Marian- Nickle Creek
    Hate and War- The Clash
    Ball and Chain- XTC
    Oretown- The Pogues
    Let’s Stay Together- The Reverend Al Green

  48. 48.

    Lolis

    One of my favorite recent albums in Untitled by R. Kelly. That is a standby now. I mainly listen to indie rock/pop. My favorite lesser known bands are Givers and Twin Shadow.

  49. 49.

    mistermix

    1. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans – Billie Holiday/Louis Armstrong
    2. Game of Broken Hearts – Tarnation
    3. It’s only Divine Right – New Pornographers
    4. Evil – Interpol
    5. Keep on Runnin’ – Cat Power
    6. 1959 – Patti Smith
    7. The Needle has Landed – Neko Case
    8. Be Kind – Ryan Auffenberg
    9. Summertime – Girls
    10. Sweet – Lamb

  51. 51.

    chapmansfriend

    For You– Bruce Springsteen
    Oops! I Did It Again– Richard Thompson (yes, you read that right!)
    Read My Mind- The Killers
    Sunny Came Home– Shawn Colvin
    Outside Looking In– Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Safe– Travis
    Right In Time– Lucinda Williams
    Under The Milky Way– Grant Lee Phillips
    Happy– Rolling Stones
    Ashes Of American Flags– Wilco

  52. 52.

    Doc Neill

    Rip This Joint – The Rolling Stones
    The Hardest Mile – Dropkick Murphys
    Change Your Mind – The Killers
    Sliver (live) – Nirvana
    Long Black Veil – Mike Ness
    Best Day Until Tomorrow – The Real McKenzies
    Revolution – Flogging Molly
    Electioneering – Radiohead
    Long View – Green Day
    No Loot, No Booze, No Fun – The Tossers

  54. 54.

    hilts

    Doug,

    A trillion thanks to you! Threads on music and movies are a welcome solace from my fucked up situation.

    Refresher from the Original “What’s on Your iPod?”
    by ABL

    First rule – be honest! Don’t keep shuffling forward for cooler songs. (1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer. (2) Go to SHUFFLE mode. (3) Write down the first 20 songs that come up – title and artist.

    h/t balloon-juice.com/2011/06/24/whats-on-your-ipod

    My List

    1. Magnificent Seven – The Clash
    2. Third Stone from the Sun – Jimi Hendrix
    3. Gloria – Patti Smith
    4. Maple Leaf Rag – Scott Joplin
    5. Jungleland – Bruce Springsteen
    6. Blue Rondo a la Turk – Dave Brubeck
    7. Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
    8. Yer Blues – The Beatles
    9. Living for the City – Stevie Wonder
    10. Idiot Wind – Bob Dylan
    11. Underture from Tommy – The Who
    12. Darkness – The Police
    13. It’s Not My Place – The Ramones
    14. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times – The Beach Boys
    15. Heroin – The Velvet Underground
    16. Dreams – The Allman Brothers Band
    17. Freeway Jam – Jeff Beck
    18. Peaches in Regalia – Frank Zappa
    19. Salt of the Earth – The Rolling Stones
    20. In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

  56. 56.

    lamh34

    @cleek: ewww!! hell naw. still I feel more sick about the “Dirty Dancing” remake. That is sacrilege in my household!

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    @mistermix:

    7. The Needle has Landed – Neko Case

    The planes really do fly low over Spanaway. It’s on the approach for the C-117s going into JB Lewis-McChord.

  63. 63.

    lamh34

    Since this is a music thread, I found out what my seat assignments for the Adele show in Houston are. Me and my guest will be on the 3rd row from the stage 5 seats from end of aisle and only 3 seats from the center of the row!!! those are GREAT seats!!!!

    I can’t wait til October!

  64. 64.

    John

    Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
    Loveninjas – I Wanna Be Like Johnny C
    Bobby Morganstein – Mash Theme (Suicide is Painless)
    Seabear – I Sing I Swim
    No More Kings – Grand Experiment
    Mary’s Danish – I Fought the Law
    Bloc Party – The Prayer
    Ingrid Michaelson – Overboard
    Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction
    Cat Power – Troubled Waters

  65. 65.

    lamh34

    @Valdivia: Lord I had such a crush on Christopher Plummer…still kinda do actually.

    “Sound of Music” made this little Black girl want to learn how to dance the “Viennese Waltz” back in the day.

  66. 66.

    Paul

    Sweet Black Angel – Rolling Stones
    What Angels Say – Small Factory
    Lovebird Asylum Seeker – Tom Verlaine
    Bach: Goldberg Variations Variato 27 etc. – Glenn Gould
    Some Are – David Bowie
    Sound Manual – Ornette Coleman
    Auto Pilot – Queens of the Stone Age
    Big Sun Falling in the River – Richard Thompson
    Love in Mind – Neil Young
    Lowdown – Wire

  68. 68.

    PsiFighter37

    This is fun.

    1. D’espairs Ray – kisei -parasite-
    2. NOFX – Two on Glue
    3. The Ataris – If You Really Want to Hear About It…
    4. The Ataris – Song #13
    5. Foo Fighters – Live-In Skin
    6. Green Day – Holiday
    7. Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Dreams
    8. D’espairs Ray – Tsuki No Kioku
    9. Twilightning – Jester Realm
    10. Nirvana – You Know You’re Right

    Weird that I have almost 6,000 songs and I get 2 artists each with 2 songs.

  69. 69.

    jomo

    Sprawl II – Arcade Fire
    Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene
    First Few Desperate Hour – Mountain Goats
    Lousy Reputation – We are Scientists
    July Jones – The New Pornographers
    The Fool – Neutral Milk Hotel
    Victory Dance – My Morning Jacket
    Liquidation Sale – Shilpa Ray
    Infinity – The XX
    Red Football – Islands

  70. 70.

    Anya

    Okay, ten it is:

    Everybody Knows – Slow Loris
    Blue Night – Buxter Hoot’n
    Schubert,The Unfinished Symphony
    Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright
    The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
    House of Cards – Radiohead
    Crime of the Century – Me and Joan Collins
    (I Masturbate) A Little Too Much – Me and Joan Collins
    Regina Spektor – Samson
    Radiohead – Lotus Flower

  71. 71.

    Dennis SGMM

    Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My hand.

    Who gives a crap about the rest of what I listen to?

  72. 72.

    Bill Murray

    1. I’ll Come Running Back to You — Same Cooke and the Soul Stirrers
    2. Keep Yourself Warm — Frightened Rabbit
    3. Wonder No More — Bronze Radio Return
    4. Cold, Cold Spaceman — Love Kit
    5. When I’m Not — The Magnolias
    6. My Lonely Sad Eyes — Maria McKee
    7. Cynical Girl — Marshall Crenshaw
    8. Sheena is a Punk Rocker — Shonen Knife
    9. Misunderstanding — The Grapes of Wrath
    10. Ticket to Ride — Husker Du

  73. 73.

    B W Smith

    Just a Girl, No Doubt
    Daughter, Pearl Jam
    How Sweet It Is, Marvin Gaye
    Stay or Leave, Dave Matthews
    Diamonds on the Inside, Ben Harper
    21 Guns, Green Day
    Reba, Phish
    Badfish, Sublime
    Blackbird, Crosby, Stills, & Nash
    Fresh Garbage, Spirit

    I rarely shuffle. This was surprising to me. I usually get stuck on a band for while and play whole albums while I walk. I’ve been on an Allman Brothers kick lately. Today I was listening to Railroad Earth, getting prepped for their show in Athens in October.

  74. 74.

    Ripley

    Oneida – Brownout In Lagos
    Black Dice – Chicken Shit
    Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Korn Ring Finger
    Kings of Leon – King Of The Rodeo
    tUnE-yArDs – Real Live Flesh
    Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
    A3 – Mao Tse Tung Said
    Groove Armada – Look Me In The Eye, Sister
    Vampyros Lesbos OST – Countdown To Nowhere (no, really)
    LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends

    And on purpose, a little bit more 10cc love: Life Is A Minestrone. So’s my iPod.

  75. 75.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Invisible Sun – The Police
    Everybody Wants to Rule The World – Tears For Fears
    Catch The Rainbow – Rainbow
    San Jacinto – Peter Gabriel
    Raconteur Troubadour – Gentle Giant
    Up On Cripple Creek – The Band
    Friend of a Friend – Yes
    No One Together – Kansas
    Box of Rain – The Grateful Dead
    Barroom Hero – Dropkick Murphys

    Just as 70’s/80’s-rock-nerd as usual, ‘cept for the last bit. I generally keep it on shuffle all the the time, and am listening constantly, so these things are usually a preview of my next hour of listening.

  76. 76.

    Dr Dave

    @boss bitch:

    If you insist, the Christmas tunes I deep-sixed were:

    A Ceremony Of Carols- That Yonge Child Harry Christophers: The Sixteen Hodie- An English Christmas Collection
    The Christmas Song Mel Torme Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas

    Could have been a lot worse…

  78. 78.

    MGB

    I just got like 500 new songs from a friend of mine, and I’m on my home computer, so the shuffle is slightly really random

    I Do Because I Couldn’t Care Less-I-F
    Summer Eyes-The Young Gods
    Sychronicity II-The Police
    Like Dylan In The Movies-Belle & Sebastian
    I Miss You-Bjork
    U Should Know Better-Robyn
    Bahelorette-Bjork
    Stomping Grounds-DJ Skull
    Like a Tattoo-Sade
    She Will Always Be a Broken Girl-She Wants Revenge

  79. 79.

    DaveInOz

    In a lunchtime break in sunny Melbourne

    1. Tesla – Stealin’
    2. T.Rex – Rip Off
    3. Saving Abel – Contagious
    4. Hunters and Collectors – Everything’s On Fire
    5. Pink Floyd – One of My Turns
    6. Elton John – Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
    7. The Beatles – Polythee Pam
    8. Led Zeppelin – You Shook Me
    9. Pearl Jam – Who Are You
    10. Steve Winwood – My Love’s Leavin’

    Love the variety in the comments. And yes, I have some 10cc on here too.

  80. 80.

    Lolis

    1.) Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place
    2.) Kelis – Milkshake
    3.) Polly Scattergood – Other Too Endless
    4.) Adam Lambert – Mad World
    5.) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Home
    6.) Carrie Biell – Don’t You Blame Me
    7.) Bob Marley – get up, stand up
    8.) Weezer – I’m Your Daddy
    9.) Dead Confederate – The Rat
    10.) John Vanderslice – Sunken Union Boat

  82. 82.

    pragmatism

    From my phone:
    Broken social scene – cause=time
    Radiohead – packt like sardines in a crushd tin box
    Clinic – harmony
    My morning jacket – evil urges
    Jaydiohead – fall in step
    Alice in chains – again
    Mad season – long gone day
    Dj shadow – mutual slump
    Kings of Leon – taper Jean girl
    Jenny Lewis with the Wilson twins – rise up with fists

  83. 83.

    lamh34

    @Lolis: I was literally just watching the video for “Milkshake”. That song was a scorcher back in the day…still is.

  84. 84.

    ScottF

    Super Baby – Matthew Sweet
    Eric’s Trip – Sonic Youth
    If It Be Your Will – Leonard Cohen
    Spirit in the Night – Bruce Springsteen
    The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
    Rhythm Section Want Ad – They Might Be Giants
    Everywhere at Once – The Plimsouls
    On the Battlefront – dB’s
    Infinity Guitars – Sleigh Bells
    The Underdog – Spoon

    A couple of things here I forgot I even had on there

  86. 86.

    dubyabee

    Sometimes I get a kick out of these things:

    Savor – Santana
    Tusk – Fleetwood Mac
    Colour My World – Chicago
    Back on the Chain Gang – The Pretenders
    Wild Nights – Van Morrison
    Last Dance with Mary Jane – Tom Petty
    A Remark You Made – Jerry Douglas
    Subterranean Love Sick Blues – Bob Dylan
    Rastus Russell – Adrienne Young & Little Sadie
    Lonestar – Nora Jones

    Can you tell I’m probably twice as old as most of you?

  87. 87.

    jl

    Yeah, well, I guess we non ipod people are just left out.
    Fine with me.

    At this very moment, right now, as I type, I am listening to Pere Ubu’s Crush This Horn.

    You unhip old people, go drink your Zima.

    Which reminds me I gotta get on Wikipedia and find out what that stuff is. (Edit: change that to ‘was’. So, go drink your ‘malternative’ beverage of choice.)

  88. 88.

    existential fish

    1) Too much sorrow – The Greenhornes
    2) Bluest sky – Goes Cube
    3) On and On – Mustard Plug
    4) The World At Large – Modest Mouse
    5) Transformation – Alex Skolnick Trio
    6) Death to Vivek Kemp – The Happy Hollows
    7) Kate is Great – The Bouncing Souls
    8) Too Young (Zoot Woman Remix) – Phoenix
    9) Money to BUrn – The Management
    10) Through Any Window – Wisely

  89. 89.

    RL

    Smokey Joe’s Cafe – The Robins
    Take, Take, Take – White Stripes
    Bring It Back Gentle – The Desert Sessions
    Last Caress/Green Hell – Metallica
    War Pigs (live) – Black Sabbath
    Working Up A Sweat – Alice Cooper
    Goin Down South – North Mississippi Allstars
    Celebration Day – Black Crows with Jimmy Page
    Calm Like A Bomb – Rage Against the Machine
    At The Sound Of The Demon Bell – Mercyful Fate

  90. 90.

    xochi

    Is this representative? I don’t know.

    1. Abidan – Electric Masada
    2. Composition 23N – Anthony Braxton (Four Compositions [1973])
    3. Prelude Back Home – Rashaan Roland Kirk
    4. Forerunner – Ornette Coleman
    5. Regiment – David Byrne & Brian Eno
    6. Mount Harissa – Duke Ellington
    7. Cha Cha – Mulatu Astake & The Heliocentrics
    8. Cough, Coughed, Coughing – Melt Banana
    9. Dancing in the Dark – Cannonball Adderley
    10. Ballad – Muhal Richard Abrams

  91. 91.

    theBuyjaysus

    Os Mutantes-Dois Mil E Um
    Skip Spence-Little Hands
    Faust-It’s a Rainy Day,Sunshine Girl
    This Heat-Makeshift Swahili
    Big Star-Nightime
    Prince Jammy-Throne of Blood
    John Fahey-Jesus is a Dying Bedmaker
    Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby-Here Comes My Ship
    Gene Clark-Silver Raven
    Hackamore Brick-Oh!Those Sweet Bananas

  92. 92.

    hilts

    Okay, it’s the first ten songs that come up on shuffle.

    Doug,

    In my previous comment, I noted that ABL’s number was 20 for her thread, but I’ll yield to the consensus that formed after you stated that the number was 10.

    My 10 List

    1. Rock Around the Clock – Bill Haley and the Comets
    2. I Am the Walrus – The Beatles
    3. The Happening – The Supremes
    4. On the Run – Pink Floyd
    5. Passenger (Live Version from Dead Set) – The Grateful Dead
    6. Sing Sing Sing – Benny Goodman
    7. Green Grass and High Tides – The Outlaws
    8. The Song is Over – The Who
    9. Bodies – The Sex Pistols
    10. Simple Gifts – Aaron Copland

  95. 95.

    Comrade Kevin

    1. Rockupation – Mad Caddies
    2. Hateful – The Clash
    3. Worst Hangover Ever – The Offspring
    4. Black Curtains – Megadeth
    5. Sunless Saturday – Fishbone
    6. Roots Radicals – Rancid
    7. Tonto en la Lluvia – Maná
    8. I Wish I Were a Real Alaskan Girl – Marian Call
    9. Leave Mine to Me – Bad Religion
    10. Six Pack – Black Flag

  97. 97.

    Emma

    1.) Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte — Chicago Symphony
    2.) Solamente Una Vez — Agustin Lara
    3.) Evil Gal BLues — Aretha Franklin
    4.) Nightfall on Marsco — Runrig
    5.) Do I Ever Cross Your Mind? — Ray Charles & Bonnie Raitt
    6.) Mi Tierra — Gloria Estefan
    7.) The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship — Rimsky-Korsakov
    8.) Fanfare for the Common Man — Copeland
    9.) Wild Horses — Rolling Stone
    10.) Flaming Mamie — Koko Taylor

    and for a palate cleanser

    11.) Middle Age Blues Boogie — Saffire

  99. 99.

    Son of Prog

    The list doesn’t go along with my handle very well–that’s shuffle for you.

    1. Suffocation – “Come Hell or High Priest”
    2. Hour of the Shipwreck – “Soft Napalm Pillow”
    3. Magellan – “Gorilla with a Pitchfork”
    4. King Diamond – “Tea”
    5. Sir Millard Mulch – “And Now, the Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For…”
    6. Cloudkicker – “Everything’s Mirrors”
    7. Earth to Andy – “The Buffalo”
    8. Rush – “Half the World”
    9. Sonata Arctica – “The Power of One”
    10. Jaylib – “L.A. to Detroit”

    I’ve got a couple beers fermenting in the closet, but none to drink. There’s some awful flavored vodka in the freezer, but I don’t think I will ever be that desperate to drink.

  100. 100.

    BarbCat

    1. Paula Morelenbaum, Jaques Morelenbaum & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Chanson Pour Michelle
    2. Mozart: Oboe Concerto In C, KV 314 – 1. Allegro Aperto
    3. Dylan – Just Like A Woman
    4. 10,000 Maniacs – These Are Days
    5. Dwight Yoakum – When I First Came Here
    6. Ozomatli – La Misma Canción
    7. Cabaret – Louis Armstrong
    8. John Legend Feat. Kanye West – It’s Over
    9. Twin Peaks – Dale Cooper to Diane
    10. The English Beat – Best Friend

    I’m surprised there wasn’t some Rogers & Hammerstein in there, as bipolar and ‘senior’ as my Music Library is.

  102. 102.

    scottinnj

    The Fat Girl – Lyle Lovett
    She’s Not Just a Pretty Face – Shania Twain
    Fantasy – The xx
    Books Written For Girls – Camera Obscura
    On The Sly – The Bamboos
    Travelin Soldier – Dixie Chicks
    I Believe – Book of Mormon Soundtrack
    Don’t Wait Up – Diane Birch
    It Hurts So Bad – Susan Tedeschi
    Under The Thumb – Len Price 3

  103. 103.

    Dr Dave

    @jl:

    This “unhip old person” is enjoying 12 year old Glenmorangie (aged in port wood, not sherry), thank you very much.

    “Malternative” beverages fall in the same class as wine coolers, for young persons transitioning from soda to real alcoholic beverages that have been around since God was a boy (and he and I drank 3.2 beers together in the high school parking lot). Cheers!

  105. 105.

    wag

    Thinking about Tomorrow—Beth Orton
    Ring of Fire—Wall of Voodoo
    Pinhead—The Ramones
    North, South, East West—The Church
    Singing in my Sleep—Semisonic
    I Don’t Care—The Ramones (again)
    Music for the Royal Fireworks—Handel
    Falling Down—Tom Waits
    Strawberry Letter 2—The Brothers Johnson
    For Whose Sake?—Richard Thompson

    I’d say that’s a pretty =fair representation of my ipod…

  106. 106.

    2liberal

    rush -> ghost rider (rio)
    led zeppelin -> over the hills and far away
    pete townshend-> uniforms
    leo kottke -> agile n
    love spirals downwards – alicia
    u2 -> stories for boys
    the who -> fragments of fragments
    u2 -> cedars of lebanon
    REM -> man on the moon
    the who -> Underture

  107. 107.

    ScottF

    Since someone mentioned it was originally 20, here’s my next 10.

    11. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo – Pere Ubu
    12. The World at Large – Modest Mouse
    13. No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
    14. Can’t Get There From Here – REM
    15. Hearing Aid – They Might Be Giants
    16. Underneath the Sycamore – Death Cab for Cutie
    17. Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend
    18. Good Day Sunshine – Beatles
    19. Heave Knows I’m Miserable Now – Smiths
    20. Alpha Romeo – Dangerous Birds

  108. 108.

    elmertfudd

    Ellie Goulding-This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)
    Pink Floyd-Pigs on the Wing (part 2)
    Porcupine Tree-Intermediate Jesus
    The Beatles-Mother Nature’s Son
    Funn and Love-Sickman
    Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody
    The Beatles-Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
    Three Hits-In This Country
    Imogen Heap-Wait It Out
    Robert Plant-Angel Dance

  111. 111.

    Valdivia

    @Emma:

    Ha ha. Yes! I once had a dinner party when i still lived in nyc and someone asked what was up with the lugubrious music. I said: it’s russian classical, my favorite! They laughed. :)

  112. 112.

    scav

    1 Track 29, Doctor Who 45 vol 1
    2 Dresden Hofkirche Bells
    3 Chanticleer Mexican Baroque, Hieremiae Prophetae Lamentationes
    4 Mrs Bradley Mysteries 4/6
    5 Bonn Cathedral Bells
    6 Cabin Pressure, Series 2, Ipswich
    7 The Boston Camerata, An American Christmas, Jesus the Light of the World
    8 Hammered Dulcimer Christmas, Away in a Manger
    9 Merry Christmas Big Band, Silver Bells
    10 Life in Technicolor, Coldplay
    11 Murder is Easy 4/7

    Finally am adding enough stuff to work my way past the damn Christmas stuff entirely dominating my shuffle. Funny that everything I’ve been adding recently is a radio series or audiobooks though.

  113. 113.

    donr

    1. 双处 (Shuang Chu)- 雪杯圆 – (Beijing opera)
    2. Bartok – Viola Concerto, Adagio religioso – Yuri Bashmet
    3. 李聖傑 (Li Shengjie) – 靠近
    4. Debussy – Quartet in g minor, Anime et tres decide – Berg Quartet
    5. Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier – Lotte Lehmann, Rise Stevens
    6. Paul von Klenau – Symphony #1 in f minor
    7. 卢广仲 （”Crowd” Lu） – 吉米寶貝
    8. 程砚秋 (Cheng Yanqiu) – 四郎探母 (Beijing opera)
    9. Beethoven – Quartet, Op. 127 in Eb, Guarneri Quartet
    10. Harry Partch – Delusion of the Fury

  114. 114.

    Three-nineteen

    Soul Rebel – Bob Marley and the Wailers
    Mamma Mia – Abba
    Can’t You See – Bob Marley
    Goodbye Stranger – Supertramp
    Master and Servant – Depeche Mode
    You’ve Got a Friend – Carole King
    I Won’t Dance – Frank Sinatra
    Flowers on the Wall – The Statler Brothers (Pulp Fiction Soundtrack)
    Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
    I Want to Break Free – Queen

  115. 115.

    Spike

    stellastarr* – No Weather
    Stars – Ageless Beauty
    Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps
    Tori Amos – Cars and Guitars
    Fountains Of Wayne – Trains and Boats and Planes
    Air – Cherry Blossom Girl
    Drive-By Truckers – Birthday Boy
    The Thermals – At the Bottom Of the Sea
    Daft Punk – Burnin’ / Too Long
    The Call – Family

  117. 117.

    Sentient Puddle

    At the risk of being late…

    Talking Heads – Heaven
    U2 – Zoo Station
    The Beatles – Dear Prudence
    The Killers – Human
    R.E.M. – Driver 8
    Fountains of Wayne – This Better Be Good
    The Beatles – Only A Northern Song (Mono)
    R.E.M. – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    Gorillaz – California and the Slipping of the Sun
    Trombone Shorty – The Cure

    Think I’m more a fan of this shuffle than what I got last time around.

  119. 119.

    Turgidson

    @NobodySpecial:

    Temple Of The Dog – Hunger Strike

    Holy nostalgia, Batman! I’ll have a soft spot in my heart for that song (and a smattering of songs from Soundgarden/Pearl Jam) until the day I die, I think. The grunge/alt craze hit just as I was starting to really pay attention to music. Good memories. Mostly.

  120. 120.

    Polar Bear Squares

    Ahhhhh I love this game!!!!

    People Under the Stairs – The Fun

    Quasimoto – 1984

    MF Doom – Gazillion Ear

    E-40 feat. Snoop Dogg and Too $hort – You Can’t Stop the Boss

    Clipse feat. Pharrell Williams – I’m Good

    Georgia Ann Muldrow – Kings Ballad (Tribute to Michael Jackson)

    Raheem Devaughn feat. Dr. Cornel West – Dr. Cornel West interlude

    Ghostface Killah – 300

    The Roots – The Day

    Hi-Tek – Know Me

    But I’m from California (Bakersfield …stop snickering) so here’s my two favorite songs of the moment. (Extremely NSFW)

    J Stalin – Clean Ass Car

    Guce feat. J Stalin – Got to Go

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    Night shift checking in.

    Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? – Paula Cole
    Tita – Pauline Croze
    Midnight Man – The James Gang
    That Girl – Maxi Priest and Shaggy
    Living in a Box – Living in a Box
    Prince of Darkness – The Nylons
    More Than This – Roxy Music
    Here Comes My Baby – The Mavericks
    Thunder and Lightning – Chi Coltrane
    Embryonic Journey – Jefferson Airplane

    Had to laugh when the Mavericks came up, because AsiangrrlMN and I throw that video back and forth at each other practically on a nightly basis.

    Think this list is a little ’80s heavy because I still have a bunch of songs on my Droid that I was collecting for my younger brother’s birthday. That’s my excuse, anyway. Surprised no jazz came up at all.

  124. 124.

    kvenlander

    Tim Berne, Mrs. Subliminal / Clownfinger
    Os Mutantes, Justiciero
    US3, Caught in a struggle
    Tuomari Nurmio, Pieni aurinkoni
    Kraftwerk, Neon Lights
    David Byrne & Brian Eno, My Big Nurse
    Ali Farka Toure, Banga
    The Jam, News of the world
    Miles Davis, C.T.A.
    R.E.M., Finest Worksong

    Uh, I think I just dated myself. And more. Oh well. Back to lurkery.

  125. 125.

    Steeplejack

    @cleek:

    shufflin from the full list is always dodgy . . .

    True dat. I, too, breathed a sigh of relief didn’t cringe too much.

  126. 126.

    Snayke

    Skynyrd – Made in the Shade
    Rolling Stones – Loving Cup (alternate)
    Otis Redding – Merry Christmas Baby
    Ryan Adams – Hallelujah
    Prince – Free
    Otis Redding – Come to Me
    Neil Young – See the Sky About to Rain
    Hold Steady – Citrus
    Drive-By Truckers – Heathens
    My Morning Jacket – One Big Holiday

  128. 128.

    Frank

    No songs on my podplayer (I do not do Apple; I don’t like walled orchards), just podcasts:

    Radio Times from WHYY FM in Philly.

    The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU FM in DC.

    Harry Shearer’s Le Show.

    NPR’s On the Media.

    Geek News Central.

    Geekazine.

    The Rude Pundit on the Stephanie Miller Show.

    TLLTS.

    Linux Outlaws.

    The Tin Foil Hat Show.

    And stuff like that there.

  129. 129.

    nerf

    1. Camaron (Taranta): Dave Holland/Pepe Habichuela
    2. Sugar: Count Basie
    3. Broadway: Hampton Hawes Quartet
    4. Moqueca de Idalina: Nei Lopes
    5. Mule: Kenny Burrell
    6. No. 11: Andrew Cyrille/Greg Osby
    7. Faith: Azam Ali
    8. Asi Se Compone un Son: Ismael Miranda
    9. Black Action Figure: Stefon Harris/David Sanchez/Christian Scott
    10. Play the Blues and Go: Wynton Marsalis Septet

  130. 130.

    sfinny

    Well I don’t have an i-pod but recently upgraded from a cassette walkman to a CD walkman for my hikes. Preferred music is either Big Audio Dynamite or Concrete Blond.

  131. 131.

    Steeplejack

    @boss bitch:

    I did not cheat, but I did do a little hog-faced ’splainin’.

    ETA: I am listening to my 10 now, and I have to say that “Living in a Box,” ridiculous as it is, is an awesome song–wretched ’80s excess all the way! Haven’t heard it in ages.

  132. 132.

    lazarus

    Save It, The Cramps
    Stocktaking, NoMeansNo
    Mystery and Misery, Rainer Maria
    Slow Song, Sleater-Kinney
    Stars and Fields, Ashen
    Works Its Way In, Hers Never Existed
    No Time to Waste, Bardo Pond
    There Will Be No Divorce, The Mountain Goats
    Misirlou, Dick Dale and the Del-Tones
    Shea Stadium, Marnie Stern

    Marnie Stern’s the only questionable one. I’m still deciding if she’s a keeper.

  133. 133.

    Joseph Nobles

    I don’t have an iPod, but I did just see Fright Night (how do you like your blue-eyed popcorn movie now mr death) (quite a lot thanks for asking), and am now settling in for Conan in an ETX theater. I am Hollywood’s ho dog.

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    @dubyabee:

    Can you tell I’m probably twice as old as most of you?

    You’re new around here, aren’t you? Most of us are old as dirt.

  136. 136.

    Steeplejack

    @jl:

    I don’t have an iPod. I just fired up the trusty Droid. Could also have used WinAmp or Windows Media Player in shuffle mode.

  137. 137.

    joeyess

    Deserted Cities of the Heart: Cream
    Revolution #1 : The Beatles
    Glass Onion : The Beatles
    Head East: Never Been Any Reason
    I Found Out: John Lennon
    Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Beatles
    Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones
    For What It’s Worth: Buffalo Springfield
    Whippin’ Post: The Allman Brothers
    A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall: Leon Russell

  140. 140.

    FlipYrWhig

    1. Handel, Saul, Act I, Sinf, Allegro
    2. Depeche Mode, Dreaming of Me
    3. Squeeze, In Quintessence
    4. Jesus Jones, Are You Satisfied?
    5. Squeeze, Hard to Find
    6. School of Fish, Speechless
    7. Pet Shop Boys, Go West
    8. Gay/Pepusch, Beggar’s Opera, If You at an Office Solicit Your Due
    9. R.E.M., Welcome to the Occupation
    10. Brave New World, Apologies

    Yeah, that sounds like me.

  141. 141.

    Steeplejack

    @joeyess:

    Hey, me likey!

    Just pushed into songs 11-20 on my shuffle:

    Rock and Roll Woman – Buffalo Springfield
    Isn’t It Time – The Babys
    I Saw the Light – Todd Rundgren
    Children Say – Level 42
    Mad World – Gary Jules
    Never Knew Love Like This Before – Stephanie Mills
    Memphis Soul Stew – King Curtis
    Freeway of Love – Aretha Franklin
    One Wish – Hiroshima
    Shape of Things to Come – Max Frost and the Troopers

    Man, I have got to prune that ’80s stuff from my brother’s birthday. It’s way over-represented.

  142. 142.

    Yutsano

    @Violet: Seconded.

    @Steeplejack: Some of us no haz these new fangled contraptions. Hell I don’t have Winamp even. Lawn. You. Kid. Off. Naow.

    (It took me forever to get a cell phone, then a smart phone. Also.)

  143. 143.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Aw, come on, dawg! You’ve got a freakin’ computer, or you wouldn’t be here. And you’re a musician, for God’s sake. You don’t have any music on your computer? It’s all on dilithium CDs stored in the clean room with your atomic-powered Nakamichi player?! Give. me. a. break.

  144. 144.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: Believe it or else. The main reason being this is a relatively new laptop, and my headphones disintegrated a little while back and I’ve been too cheap of a bastard too lazy to replace them. I just YouTube shuffle and putter around.

  148. 148.

    worn

    Years – Little Sue
    Oh Lord – The Excuse
    I Want You Back – David Ruffin
    Crippled Turkey – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    Sad Eyes – Robert John
    Russian Rag – Dave Apollon
    If I Had a Pony – Lyle Lovett
    Long Distance Winner – Lindesy Buckingham & Stevie Nicks
    Varsoviana – Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
    Nereci – Djavan

    Surprised nothing funky showed up in the mix, but shuffle is so often a fickle mistress…

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    @worn:

    The shuffle she is indeed a fickle mistress. Love me some Bob Wells. The Texas Playboys–meh. They’re kind of . . . distant.

  151. 151.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack:

    The shuffle she is indeed a fickle mistress

    But enough about wifey…

    I am so glad I have the cilantro gene. The chicken enchiladas I just made wouldn’t be the same without the herbiage.

  152. 152.

    Steeplejack

    God, I am a shuffle slut. Here’s my third batch:

    Mais Que Nada – Brasil ’66
    Guitars, Cadillacs – Dwight Yoakam
    Elusive Butterfly – Bob Lind
    In Demand – Texas
    Just Call Me Lonesome – Radney Foster
    It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
    Leave Me Be – The Zombies
    Cowgirl in the Sand (live at Massey Hall, 1971) – Neil Young
    Flamenco Sketches – Miles Davis
    Time of the Season – The Zombies

  153. 153.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack:

    God, I am a shuffle slut

    Must…resist…low…hanging…curveball….

    EDIT:

    In Demand – Texas

    If that don’t get a certain Asian woman’s attention nothing will. She’s not perfecting human-ape simian relations yet…

  154. 154.

    Turgidson

    Now that it’s just the night crew judging me, I’ll play.

    1. The Replacements – Sixteen Blue
    2. Sugar – Tilted
    3. Enon – Window Display
    4. Cocteau Twins – Summerhead
    5. The Green Pajamas – Planet Love
    6. Luna – Ihop
    7. Love – Alone Again Or
    8. Boards of Canada – Dandelion
    9. Sparklehorse – Pain Birds
    10. Deerhunter – Dr. Glass.

    Hmm. Kind of indier-than-thou. Meh.

  155. 155.

    Comrade Kevin

    Another batch of shuffle:

    1) The Ballad of Johnny Butt – Sublime
    2) Three on Speed – NOFX
    3) I Am Ahab – Mastodon
    4) Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon
    5) The Right Profile – The Clash
    6) Down Rodeo – Rage Against the Machine
    7) Cat Fight – Dance Hall Crashers
    8) Bomber – Motörhead
    9) Hey Satan – You Rock – Therapy?
    10) Glamour Boys – Living Colour

  156. 156.

    Steeplejack

    @Turgidson:

    Now that it’s just the night crew judging me, I’ll play.

    Hey, screw you. We can be just as judgmental and asshole-y as those goddamn day-shifters.

    Your list sucks. Ooh, Love! Was just listening to “Seven and Seven Is” earlier today.

    ETA: And for some reason that song always makes me think of Fever Tree, “San Francisco Girls.”

  157. 157.

    MagicPanda

    Ok. Here’s a late entry, even though no one will read it.

    Robyn Hitchcock – Leppo & The Jooves
    Bonobo – All In Forms
    Miles Davis – So What
    Thom Yorke – Jetstream
    The Flaming Lips – Convinced of the Hex
    Yves Montand – Rue St. Vincent 9 (from the Rushmore Soundtrack)
    Gotan Project – La Del Ruso
    Severed Heads – Golden Boy Live
    Innerzone Orchestra – Architecture
    Nobukazu Takemura – Let My Fish Loose (Aphex Twin Remix)

  160. 160.

    Steeplejack

    @MagicPanda:

    Night shift is here for you. I love the Rushmore soundtrack, and I’m listening to Miles (“Flamenco Sketches”) right now.

    Carry on.

  161. 161.

    MagicPanda

    @FlipYrWhig: With a handle like that, no Hüsker Dü?

    @Comrade Kevin: Sadly, I don’t actually listen to a lot of Miles Davis, so I’m not even sure what that song sounds like. It came up on shuffle because it’s on the list of “stuff I want to listen to because everyone should know something about Jazz, right?, but I never end up feeling in the mood for it.”

    And thanks for verifying that I actually do exist. And here I was convinced that no one would be reading at this late hour!

  163. 163.

    aliasofwestgate

    Round 2 for the night crew. ^^

    Steal You Away-Hybrid
    Mirotic-Dong Bang Shing Ki
    Reflections-Daft Punk
    Eiyuu(Hero)-Doa
    Hug-DBSK
    Boarding–TM Revolution
    Vanilla-HotCha
    Salted Fatback-Mocean Worker
    Mujintou-doa
    Tada, Arigatou-Monkey Majik

    yes, there isn’t a language i haven’t run across that i don’t like in music YET.

  165. 165.

    miwome

    Keep Up ft. Haley Small — Street Lurkin remix
    Sober — Pink
    Stand Ins, Three — Okkervil River
    Contortionist — Sholi
    Scratch Your Name — The Noisettes
    Love You Till Tuesday (Single Version) — David Bowie
    Smoothie Song — Nickel Creek
    luv it mayne — Das Racist
    A Cause Des Garçons — Yelle
    Back of a Truck — Regina Spektor

    This is actually quite a good representation of my music library, which never happens when I do these things. Huzzah!

  167. 167.

    Comrade Kevin

    @MagicPanda: I used to know quite a bit about jazz, but after my dad died, my knowledge deteriorated a lot. I can hear that “So What” track in my head, but I probably wouldn’t be able to even whistle it.

  168. 168.

    Steeplejack

    @MagicPanda:

    Combo of (a) putting together stuff for my brother’s birthday party last October and (b) it’s just a great song. Hearing it always makes me think of the video and puts a smile on my face.

  169. 169.

    Turgidson

    @Steeplejack:

    Hey, screw you. We can be just as judgmental and asshole-y as those goddamn day-shifters.

    Oh no doubt, maybe more so. I just…don’t…really care. And there’s less of you, anyway. And you’re right. My list sucked. Sixteen Blue is a killer tune though, and anything off Forever Changes is tough to criticize. And…that’s not a bad Cocteau Twins song. Oh hell, it wasn’t that bad after all.

  170. 170.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Yes, and could I get a side of weak sauce with that? Yum, so good on flat soufflés and burned frittatas.

    Crap, just when I decided I was not going to abase myself by posting any more shuffle stuff Windows Media Player decides to start bringing it with the thunder. Vince Guaraldi, “Greensleeves.” I’m actually hearing a slightly faster, Latin-tinged alternate take, but this is close enough.

    . . . Okay, forget that. I browsed ahead in the queue, and it’s more of that catchy but embarrassing ’80s stuff. Damn you, brother! There will be a cleansing of the Droid this weekend.

    ETA: Windows Media Player is shuffling from the directory that mirrors what is on the Droid.

  172. 172.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, I’m out. Long day of reconstructive dental work–which seems to have gone pretty well, but I’ll know better after the swelling and soreness have subsided–then a full day at work in the retail hellscape. Looking forward to a leisurely morning off tomorrow and no work until 4:00 p.m.

    Buenas noches from a lonely room, as Dwight Yoakam might say. (Not in the Droid shuffle queue.)

  173. 173.

    MagicPanda

    @Steeplejack: Nothing wrong with the song of course. I just found it incongruous with the rest of your list.

    Then again, I’ve never really listened to the song in any meaningful way. I think I characterize it in my head as “novelty song to play at a party or perhaps use as a backing track to a scene in a tv sitcom to hammer a point home” maybe I should give it a listen.

  174. 174.

    Alison

    I’m bored as shit, so I’m doing a second list. Whee!

    1. Venus As A Boy – Bjork
    2. Flesh and Blood – Oingo Boingo
    3. One Sweet Love – Sara Bareilles
    4. Polly – Nirvana
    5. The Richest Man in Babylon – Thievery Corporation
    6. Dearest – The Black Keys (Buddy Holly cover)
    7. Atomic – Blondie
    8. My Sister – The Juliana Hatfield Three
    9. Moon in Water – Underworld
    10. Electrical Soul Wish – My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

    That TKK album is great driving music. For me, at least. Probably not for anyone else :)

  175. 175.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack:Hmmmmmmm…where did you get that Texas song from?

    @Yutsano: 37 hours and 20 minutes to go! Not that I’m counting or anything.

    And, I no has iPod or any music thingy like that, and I hate shuffle, anyway, so I no can play.

  178. 178.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t really have a motivation to get one. But who knows, maybe I’ll get one at the holidays. Or something.

    Hi hon. Is it too much self-interest to suggest to the President that he could save money by declaring the day after Thanksgiving a federal holiday?

  180. 180.

    HG Hay

    Gary Numan – Films
    Thurston Moore – Blur
    Sunny Day Real Estate – 8
    Swans – Time Is Money (Bastard)
    Darkthrone – Where Cold Winds Blow
    Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers
    Guided By Voices – Yours To Keep
    Broadcast – Look Outside
    Daniel Higgs – Living in the Kingdom of Death
    Yo Majesty – Monkey

  189. 189.

    piratedan

    no Ipod (wife and kids have ’em), so I had to go to my Itunes stuff on shuffle:

    The Groover – T. Rex
    In a Lonely Place – Smithereens
    It’s not my birthday – They Might Be Giants
    Union City Blue – Blondie
    Private Investigations – Dire Straights
    Take It Tomorrow – BoDeans
    Please Please Baby – Dwight Yoakum
    Blue Sky – The Allman Brothers
    Sleeping Bag – ZZ Top
    Senses Working Overtime – XTC

  191. 191.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m only slightly off. I blame the Dawgs. You can’t spend your time around folks who survived Parris Island and lived to tell the tale without it affecting you somehow. It’s how I got into a conversation about Glocks at work today.

  192. 192.

    Amir Khalid

    @Comrade Kevin:
    I’m curious. Why do people find that weird? If there’s one thing I know about Ireland’s history, it’s that some Irish base their whole identity on not being Catholic, and indeed on mortal enmity toward Catholics (alas).

  196. 196.

    Amir Khalid

    @asiangrrlMN: \
    Slow. After the first few days, you just get used to it and proceed as normal. But I’ve had it worse. In 2007 I made it through the 21st apparently OK, despite people openly doubting if I really was well enough to fast. And then, on the morning of the 22nd, I was hospitalized with anemia and dehydration. (I guess they were right after all.) So now I make sure to eat enough and take in enough water at night.

    And I have survived a Ramadan trial this year: Samara Morgan. For a while, though, I did consider changing my nym to Al-Maftoon.

    Out of curiosity, not long ago I bookmarked a website with the text of the King James V Bible. I looked through the site’s contents list and clicked at random on the Song of Solomon.

    Oh, my.

  198. 198.

    Yutsano

    @Comrade Kevin: It just blows brains too much when you explain to Americans that there are non-Catholics in Dublin and Papists all over Ulster. And don’t even get started on the Jewish population.

    @asiangrrlMN: The conversation was fatal but not serious. Barely above gallows humor level. The work Dawg is like that. He’s a yinzer. Also. Too.

    A possible counterattack for you. Plus half-naked woman.

  202. 202.

    joeyess

    @Turgidson:Thanks. Now I feel like such a sixties sap. @Turgidson: Yeah, I like that Cream tune. It’s a little Spinal Tappy for me, but it is an often overlooked tune.

    Most of the songs on my iPod are tunes that we play in our band. We’re starting to get work and our guitar player is a tech-wiz so we’ll be uploading really nicely recorded vids on YouTube.

  203. 203.

    burnspbesq

    I cheated. The first thing that came up is something that knocks me out every time I hear it, so I exited from shuffle mode and listened to the whole record: “Saudades” by Trio Beyond (Jack DeJohnette, Larry Goldings, and John Scofield).

    And after that, I had to listen to the record that inspired it: ” Emergency,” by The Tony Williams Lifetime.

  204. 204.

    burnspbesq

    Did anyone else catch the live broadcast of Jenny Scheinman’s Mischief & Mayhem on NPR on Wednesday night? Unflippinbelievable. Nels Cline is a freak of nature.

  206. 206.

    harlana

    My favorite CDs disappeared into a black hole about 2 years ago and I have nothing to upload on my mp3 player as I am waiting until I have enough disposable income to purchase more music. So I just download the Stephanie Miller show every day.

    But here’s one of my favorites, I just love Robert Smith, I believe he is genius.

  207. 207.

    SixStringFanatic

    Late to the party but here goes….

    Queens of the Stone Age – 3’s & 7’s
    Modest Mouse – Dashboard
    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – US 41
    Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes
    The Beatles – I’ve Just Seen a Face
    The Faces – Maybe I’m Amazed
    Led Zeppelin – Traveling Riverside Blues
    Bob Marley & The Wailers – You Can’t Blame The Youth (Live)
    Death Cab for Cutie – Your New Twin Sized Bed
    Them Crooked Vultures – Gunman

    And I swear to the FSM that I didn’t do anything but transcribe the first ten songs my iPhone threw at me. I know, what are the odds of going from “I’ve Just Seen a Face” to The Faces? And starting and ending the list with two different Josh Homme bands? Shrug. Sometimes the universe smiles.

  208. 208.

    Jebediah

    @burnspbesq:
    Nels Cline is a freak of nature.

    He certainly is. He used to work at a record store within (longish) walking distance of where I am working now. Don’t think he has to any more, though.

    ETA: Ipod is at home, so I can’t play the game, but one of my Pandora stations has been playing a lot of John Prine lately. Gawd, I love that guy’s voice and songs.

  211. 211.

    Jebediah

    OK, back home and ready to play even though I am probably all alone in this thread:
    1. All Shook Down – Replacements
    2. Jesus, Etc. – Wilco
    3. Three To Get Ready – Dave Brubeck Quartet
    4. Eyes of the World – Grateful Dead (live 6/10/1973
    5. Revolution Rock – Clash
    6. Gun – Uncle Tupelo
    7. Twin Falls – Built to Spill
    8. Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens
    9. Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
    10. a snippet of a 1983 Roky Erickson radio interview from the Wildlife record
    11. Janie Jones – Clash
    12. I wanna love again – Dwight Yoakam

    Not a bad representation, although it mostly leaves out everything I have been obsessively listening to lately – Son Volt, John Hiatt, Lucero… and now time for bed as it is almost 5 am here…

  212. 212.

    Blue Galangal

    O.K. – Michael Penn
    Pathetic Pair – The Headstones
    Jesus Walking on Water – Violent Femmes
    Crack the Shutters – Snow Patrol
    Big Boy – Balam Acab
    Sabertooth Tiger – Cage the Elephant
    How’s My Drinking – Guided By Voices
    Four Days – Counting Crows
    Let Your Troubles Roll By – Carbon Leaf
    A Few Good Men – Dropkick Murphys

  213. 213.

    Paul in KY

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Raven, I’ve seen The Doobie Brothers, Parliment-Funkadelic, Isaac Hayes, Exile, Blondie, ELO, Hall & Oates, CSNY, George Thourogood, Sting, The Pogues, Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Paramore, Tegan & Sara, Band of Skulls, River City Extension, Wolgemut, Neon Trees, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Kylesa, Grace Potter & Nocturnals, Galactic, Buffalo Springfield, The Strokes, Widespread Panic

    Maybe a few others I can’t remember just now.

  215. 215.

    Kane

    Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love to Ball
    Raidiohead – Weird Fishes
    The Isley Brothers – Footsteps in the Dark
    Aretha Franklin – Ain’t No Way
    The Veils – Talk Down the Girl
    Mary J. Blige – MJB Da MVP
    Rufus Wainwright – Poses
    Led Zeppelin – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
    Tired Pony – Dead American Writers
    The Pretenders – Show Me

  216. 216.

    MarkJ

    For Emma, Bon Iver
    Guess Things Happen That Way, Johnny Cash
    Why Don’t You Write Me, Simon and Garfunkle
    Creep Along Moses, Mavis Staples
    Good Times, INXS
    America the Beautiful, Ray Charles
    You Wanted a Hit, LCD Soundsystem
    Three or Four, The New Pornographers
    Your Head is On Fire, Broken Bells
    In the Street, Big Star

  217. 217.

    dobrojutro

    Rock n’ Roll Crazy Nights – Loudness
    Here Come the Rome Plows – Drive Like Jehu
    Happy Melted City – Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Hourglass – Squeeze
    Save Yourself – Sharon Van Etten
    Treat Me Like a Dog – King Kahn & the BBQ Show
    Here Comes Trouble – Scatterbrain
    Birmingham Eccentric, The – Kelley Stoltz
    Guitar Slim – Things I Used to Do
    Rosemarie – Superchunk

  218. 218.

    Felinious Wench

    Well THIS should be entertaining:

    1. Awake – Godsmack
    2. Submerged – Nose Unit
    3. Any Way You Want It – Journey
    4. Is This What Everybody Wants – Cliff Martinez
    5. Notion – Kings of Leon
    6. ABC’s – K’naan
    7. Stay – Sugar Land
    8. V****a Mine – Puscifer
    9. The Cave – Mumford and Sons
    10. Take a Bow – Muse

  219. 219.

    Alison

    @SixStringFanatic: One of my favorite instances of “Is iTunes becoming sentient and trying to be funny” juxtaposition was getting The Passenger (Siouxsie and the Banshees) followed by The Chauffeur (Duran Duran).

    If the next song had been something like Cars I think I might have shut down the computer and run away :P

  220. 220.

    Wappcaplett

    Arms aloft – Joe Stummer and the Mescaleros
    Shadowman – Afro Celt Sound System
    Suddenly Everything has Changed – The Flaming Lips
    Athena – The Who
    Suzy Greenberg – Phish
    Blanket Show – The Gourds
    Intro – Pepe Deluxé
    Theme from Voltaic – Jack Wall
    Love You to Death – Soup Dragons
    Unity – Desmond Dekker

  221. 221.

    RNoman

    Jumpin’ Jack Flash – The Stones
    Would – Alice in Chains
    Come Away with Me – Nora Jones

  222. 222.

    worn

    @Steeplejack: Day late & a dollar short…but man oh man, if you took a gander at how much Bob Wills is in my collection (not to mention the amount of vintage western swing in general), well, I’d just have to blush. In other words, it’s not a statistical anomaly that out of literally thousands of tunes, while shuffling 20% came up in that genre.

  223. 223.

    rachel

    All Systems Go – James Horner
    Sage of Lamberene – Sam Cardon & Kurt Bestor
    Flowers of the Forest – Mike Oldfield
    Building the Barn – Maurice Jarre
    Above – Blue Man Group
    Reel around the Sun – Bill Whelan
    Concerto grosso in G minor Opus 6, #8 – Archangelo Corelli
    Oki Age (Fisherman’s Song) – Kōdo
    Down to the River to Pray – Alison Krause
    Testify – Rage Against the Machine

  224. 224.

    Bishop Bagboy

    1. Stop Your Sobbing The kinks
    2. Set The Controls For the Heart Of The Sun Pink Floyd
    3. Willie The Pimp Frank Zappa
    4. (You’re The) Devil In Disguise Elvis Presley
    5. Deep In The Heart Of Texas Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
    6. Don’t think Twice, It’s Alright Peter, Paul And Mary
    7. You Don’t Even Know Who I Am Patty Loveless
    8. The Intro And the Outro Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    9. Too Much Too Soon Green Day
    10. Red (Live) Sammy Hagar

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