Get your i-Pod, i-river, MP3 player, computer media player or whatever. Choose random or shuffle. What are the first 10 tracks that appear. Will that secret Bay City Rollers track you love be exposed?

My first attempt..


JOHNNY CASH - Give My Love To Rose
TOM WAITS - Train Song
KYLIE MINOGUE - Better The Devil You Know
ART BRUT - Formed A Band
MIGHTY BOOSH CD2 - Track 01
KASABIAN - Processed Beats
WHITE ZOMBIE - Black Sunshine
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Tired
BRASSY - So Long Baby
DAVID BOWIE - Time

Incubus - Drive
Green Day - Homecoming
Green Day - Prosthetic Head
Eric Clapton (feat. BB King) - Worried Life Blues
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Parallel Universe
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Live)
Blink 182 - Mutt
Soundgarden - Pretty Noose
The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me


Not entirely reflective of my taste but good enough for a first try. Not a bad idea Sostie.

no I-pod.

Yep mine's fairly 'random'

N.Y. – Doves
Save Me – Aimee Mann
Numbskull – Ash
Hole in the Head – Sugababes
Aerodynamic – Daft Punk
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
You Don’t –Tricky
Down on the Street – Adam Green
Nobody Likes You – Zombina and the Skeletones
Something – The Beatles

Hmmmmmmmm...how about this as an alternative. Take your entire CD/record collection. Cut up the sleeves so you have strips with the song titles on them. Put them into a hat. Pick out 10.

Using Winamp;

Faithless - Soundcheck Jam
Melt Banana - Mind Thief
Weezer - Slob
James Brown - Unity part 1, The Third Coming
The Cramps - I was a Teenage Werewolf
The Cure - Young Americans
Beastie Boys - Crawlspace
Devo - Here To Go (Go mix)
Billie Holiday - Them There Eyes
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 4

On name alone, this is a band I must check out




You da man

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Beautiful - Moby
Five Years - Life Aquatic Soundtrack
I love you more than words can say - Otis Redding
If I had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies
Nothing Better - The Postal Service
Sugar in my Coffee - Big Sugar
Holiday - Weezer
Grace (Acoustic) - Jeff Buckley
More Than A Feeling - Boston (I'm not joking...)

Wow... I'm a little amused, and a little ashamed. Fun game!

Today's mix brought to you by itunes:

Adam and the Ants - Stand and Deliver
They Might be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
Bachman Turner Overdrive - You ain't seen nothing yet
The Everly Brothers - Unchained Melody
The Ronettes - You came, You saw, You conquered
The Ronettes - Baby I love you
Kurt Cobain - Rape Me (Accoustic)
The Shirelles - Baby, it's you
Stevie Wonder - For once in my life
Aladdin OST - One Jump Ahead


That wasn't very exciting.

..has reminded me to get my arse in gear and put my Phil Spector stuff on my i-Pod

Actually I cheated - Baby it's you came on twice... no idea why, so I made it only one choice. Bring on the Mono lurve

VELVET UNDERGROUND - I'll Be Your Mirror
NEW ORDER - The Beach/Sandwiches
ANDREW WK - Fun Night
PRIMAL SCREAM - Slip Inside This House
LADYTRON - Skools Out
THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT - Black Tambourine
SEX PISTOLS - Problems
GARBAGE - Bad Boyfriend
FRANZ FERDINAND - This Fire
THE SPECIALS - Hey Little Rich Girl

One Too Many Mornings - Chemical Bruvvers
Teardrop - Massive Attack
So What - Miles Davis
Velouria - Pixies
Belfast - Orbital
Dry The Rain - Beta Band
Catch The Sun - Doves
Nature Boy - Miles Davis
Firesuite - Doves
Messages - OMD

Hmmm, double Doves & Davis.

The songs off my iPod are

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleroes-Burnin' Streets
New Order-Doubts From Here
Love-Laughing Stock
The Beatles-I'm A Loser (Live At The BBC)
The Vines-Country Yard
Elliott Smith-Pitseleh
Rufus Wainwright-Rebel Prince
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Little Miss Strange
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Rich
Charlotte Hatherley-Where I'm Calling From

Hmm, fairly representative of my tastes, though it shows none of my love of prog, post-punk or electronica. Knew the beatles would be on there since I have too many of their songs for them not to appear every so often.

This is a fun game!

i-what?

The Rockafella Skank - Fat Boy Slim
Lord, Send Me An Angel - The White Stripes
2 People - Jean Jacques Smoothie
What Am I Doing Hanging On - The Monkees
All The Small Things - Blink 182
American Dream - Jakatta
The Modern Age - The Strokes
The Hopeless Waltz - Blanche
I Love To Boogie - TRex
No Regrets - Robbie Williams

Buffalo Soldier - Bob marley and the Wailers
Dirty Mouth - Hot Hot Heat
In Bloom - Nirvana
Desire - Zwan
No Jokes - Fact - Hot Hot Heat
Honeydew - Mr Scruff
Probe Your Mind - Junior Walker and the Allstars
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
Wrapped Up In Books - Belle & Sebastian
Gigantic - Pixies

The White Stripes - Blue Orchid
Athlete - Wires
Billy Talent - Try Honesty
Basement Jaxx - Oh my gosh
Foo Fighters - Times like these
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
CKY - Skeletor vs Beastman (???)
Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
Sum 41 - We're all to blame.

This is a good excercise in seeing what I need to delete.

Strawberry Mudpie! - Surfin Jonny
Ben Folds - Song for the Dumped
Richard Cheese - Beat it
KT Tunstall - Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
The Pillows - Ride on Shooting Star
Rooster - Come Get Some
Bloodhound Gang - Along comes Mary
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
El Rey León - Voy a ser el Rey Leon
3 Rock from the Sun Themetune

ooh fun game. heres my first ten

TOM WAITS - king kong ( daniel johnston cover )
BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - agnes, queen of sorrow
DANIEL JOHNSTON - love not dead
SCOUT NIBLETT - drummer boy
PALESTRINA - kyrie
THE FALL - hotel bloedel
BOB DYLAN - sara
THE SMITHS - never had no one ever ( gah! )
TOM WAITS - diamonds and gold
JAMES BROWN - she's the one
PAVEMENT - summer babe ( winter version )

Superkat - Kenny Dope
The Love Below (intro) - Outkast
Bongoloid - Basement Jaxx
Corn Rigs - Paul Giovanni
Bodhisattva Vow - The Beastie Boys
Bring My Family Back - Faithless
What Is Kahuna? (Fatboy Slim's "Smell The Kahuna" Mix) - FC Kahuna
Tasty Big Ed (All Seeing I) - Fuzz Townshend
The Search - Basil Poledouris
Charly [Trip into Drum and Bass Version] - The Prodigy

Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles
Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles


What the fuck is going on?!

I tried to download that yesterday and couldn't find it... Grrr.

I could send you a copy, only I was lying for comedic effect. So I won't send you a copy, because I was lying for comedic effect.

Longview - This Is
Pulp - Bar Italia
The Libertines - The Ha Ha Wall
Puressence - Past Believing
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Blur - You're So Great
Tenacious D - City Hall
Lemon Jelly - Homage to Patagonia
Blink 182 - Don't Leave Me
Ed Harcourt - She Fell Into My Arms

Nothing too bad there, at least my secret liking of Chas 'n' Dave didn't crop up.

Music is my Radar – Blur
Flicker – Kathryn Williams
Red Dust – Zero 7
Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash
Nerdy – Busted
Under the Milky Way Tonight – The Church
Who Loves the Sun? – The Velvet Underground
Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson
Close to You – The Avalanches
Potter’s Wheel – Josh Ritter

Excellent list there Chappers. Is 'Corn Rigs' the Wicker Man version?

It certain is. The Wicker Man has one of my all-time favourite soundtracks, as I mentioned in the soundtrack thread.

OK... this morning on my way to work, my in car MP3 player played the following.

1) Back in Black - ACDC
2) Fat Bottomed Girls - HAYSEED DIXIE
3) Don't Change that Song - FASTER PUSSYCAT
4) Paradise City - GUNS 'N' ROSES
5) Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter - IRON MAIDEN
6) American Badass - KID ROCK
7) Cowboy - KID ROCK
8) Sex Action - LA GUNS
9) Money Talk - ACDC
10) Gimme the Prize - QUEEN

Not necessarily in that order, but there we go.

THE MUSIC - Cessation
NICK CAVE - The Mercy Seat (Acoustic)
THE CULT - Star
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Legal Man
PSYCHEDELIC FURS - All That Money Wants
BOARDS OF CANADA - Triangles & Rhombuses
THE CRAMPS - Jungle Hop
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - Memphis Soul Typecast
THE PRIMITIVES - Nothing Left
DEPECHE MODE - Never Let Me Down Again

Deee-lite - Groove is in the heart
British Sea Power - Like a honeycomb
The Datsuns - Harmonic generator
Green Day - Holiday
Eric Cartman - You guys are my best friends (a ten second sound clip)
The White Stripes - Ball and biscuit
Green Day - Wake me up when September ends
Foo Fighters - Oh, George
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)

Two off the same album this time......how odd.

Oh dear...




Hayseed kicks ass.

Did it again:

Where is My Mind - Pixies
Nobody Girl - Ryan Adams
Next Year - Foo Fighters
Lucifer - Jay-Z
A Little Respect - Wheatus ()
The Great Houdini - New Found Glory
First it Giveth - Queens of the Stone Age
Yellow - Coldplay
4 White Stallions - Counting Crows
Do You Hear - Mr Scruff.

The same songs generally come up when I do shuffle consecutively, and my iPod evidently likes Hot Hot Heat, New Found Glory and Audioslave, because they usually come up a few times...

Today's iPod shuffle threw up the following gems, or not:

The Smiths-Rubber Ring
Coldplay-A Message
The Beatles-Don't Let Me Down
British Sea Power-Victorian Ice
Prince and the Revolution-Let's Go Crazy
Kasabian-Cutt Off
Weezer-Simple Pages
De La Soul-Change In Speak
Specials-You're Wondering Now
The Beatles-Two Of Us

LEMON JELLY - Soft
SHAMPOO - Saddo
TOM WAITS - Soldier's Things
NEW YORK DOLLS - Vietnamese Baby
RAMONES - Baby I Love You
SMALL FACES - I Feel Much Better
STEVIE WONDER - Jesus Children Of America
BRIGITTE BARDOT - Moi Je Joue
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - April Fools
INTERPOL - Roland

Well I was about to contribute, but my battery just decided it needs a charge.

ok today's playlist -

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - if you don't cry
BOB DYLAN - blind willie mctell
NEIL YOUNG - only love can break your heart
PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES - the grandmother wolf
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - do do do ( what now is next? )
MADLIB - peace / dolphin dance
SKATEBOARD VS ERLAND OYE - metal chix / always on my mind
CLINIC - anne
VAN MORRISON - everyone
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - memorial

Wolfsheim - This Is For Love
Opeth - The Funeral Portrait
The Dickies - The Banana Splits Theme
PWEI - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
SNAP - The Power
The Nice - America
Zoe - Sunshine On A Rainy Day
David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
The Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer
Kiss - God Gave Rock And Roll To You II

Wonderstuff - Circlesquare
B*witched - Cest la vie
Libertines - Horrorshow
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Belle and Sebastian - I'm Like A Cookoo
Charlotte Hatherley - Kim Wilde
Pulp - Lipgloss
The Streets - Could Well Be In
Cars - Drive
Gwen Stefani - What Ya Waiting For

OK... my journey in this morning was composed of the following...

METALLICA - Enter Sandman
THE MISSION - Deliverance
ACDC - Whole Lot of Rosie
TIGERTAILZ - Living Without You
ACDC - Back in Black (live)
IRON MAIDEN - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
SISTERS OF MERCY - Vision Thing
LA GUNS - One More Reason
MEGADETH - In My Darkest Hour
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Freebird

10 tracks, randomly chosen by winamp:

Cake - Friend is a four letter word
Primal Scream - Inner flight
Divine Comedy - A woman of the world
Nirvana - Molly's lips
Deejay Punk Roc - All You Ladies
Razorlight - Don't go back to dalston
Darkness - Stuck in a rut
Lemonheads - Alison's starting to happen
Mr Scruff - Giffin
Carter USM - England

King Tubby - King Tubby's Badness Dub
SFA - Bleed Forever (bravecaptain mix)
Pulp - Help The Aged
Stereolab - Monstre Sacre
New Order - Mesh
The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World
ABC - Valentine's Day
Pixies - All Over The World
David Bowie - Let's Spend The Night Together
Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now

Is that a Stones cover?

I don't have my full collection on the playlist, but it just chose

XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
Radiohead - In Limbo
System of a Down - Violent Pornography
The Cure - A Pink Dream
Bright Eyes - Happy Birthday To Me
Beastie Boys - Super Disco Breakin'
Futureheads - Carnival Kids
The Divine Comedy - Everybody Knows
The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ripeness (Alternative vers.)

It's called "I'm a Cuckoo" for future reference

Heroes and Villains – The Beach Boys
Decent Days and Nights – The Futureheads
Only You – Portishead
Downtown Lights – The Blue Nile
Dry the Rain – The Beta Band
Thinking About Tomorrow – Beth Orton
Sand River – Beth Gibbons and Rustin’ Man
I’m a Slave for You – Britney Spears
Your Song – Groove Armada
Ponderosa - Tricky

Yup.

SFA - Y Gwyneb Iau
The Smiths - Still Ill
Beethoven - Attacca
Eric Serra - A Bird In New York
Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Dizzee Rascal - Sittin' Here
Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning
Elbow - Fugitive Motel
King Tubby - Blood of Africa

NASHVILLE PUSSY - (I'm) Misunderstood
MILES HUNT - Love Can Make You Sorry
THE 5,6,7,8's - It's Rainy
DAVID BOWIE - Hang On To Yourself
RIDE - Vapour Trail
SAINT ETIENNE - Kiss And MAke Up
PUBLIC ENEMY - Bring The Noise
BEACH BOYS - That's Not Me
GUITAR WOLF - Three AM Noodle Shop
SPIRITUALIZED - The Slide Song

Ewan MacGregor & Nicole Kidman - Elephant Love Medley
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Lion King OST - I just can't wait to be King
Busted - That's what I go to school for
Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less and Less
Ricky Martin - Shake your bon bon
The Apricots - Honey Love
Scissor Sisters - Take your mama
John C Reilly - Mr Cellophane
N*E*R*D - She wants to move



I don't come off very well with that selection, do I?

John Hegley - Mr McNaulty
Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
Shaun Ryder - Northern Soul Brother
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
FC/Kahuna - Fear of Guitars
Doves - The Sulpher Man
Mark Mothersbaugh - Rachel Evans Tenebaum
The The - This is the Day
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Beta Band - Simple