Musings —12.08.2010 08:38 PM
—Fifteen Songs
On Facebook, Susannah Sears challenged me to ’15 Songs,’ which seemed fitting, today.
She explains:
“(1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.
(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
(3) List the first 15 songs that come up (song title and artist) NO editing/cheating, please. Even if you might skip the song when it comes up or be embarrassed for people to know that it’s in your collection, you still must list it.
(4) Choose people to be tagged. It is generally considered to be in good taste to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I’m betting that your musical selection is entertaining.
To do this, go to “NOTES” under tabs on your profile page (or click on “+ write a note” button at the top of the page), paste these instructions in the body of the note, enter your 15 Shuffle Songs, Tag 25 people (under the post) then click Publish.”
Here’s what I’ve come up with (or, rather, iTunes did). For fun, do likewise – tell the rest of us your fifteen. Lennon would approve; it avoids musical snobbery and dishonesty.
And, yes, you do see ‘La Traviata’ there.
1. Loved Ones – Spy Diddley
2. NOFX – Leaving Jesusland
3. Lillingtons – Robots in my Dreams
4. Patsy Cline – Got A Lotta Rhythm In My Soul
5. Ramones – What’s Your Game
6. Richard Hayes and the Eddie Sauter Orchestra – Junco Partner
7. The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
8. Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
9. The Ruts – Something That I Said
10. Booker T and the MGs – Green Onions
11. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers – Here Come the Martian Martians
12. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
13. Nirvana – Lounge Act
14. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – La Traviata
15. The Undertones – Casbah Rock
Fun Thanks!
Peaches – I don’t give a fuck
Tears for Fears – Shout
Rude Boy Train – Desmond Deckker
Sergio Mendez – Tristeza
Obsession – Cabaret Voltaire
Murder By Death -Intergalactic Menopause
Billy Preston – Will it go Round in Circles
Wille Nelson – You are Always on My Mind
Alana Miles – Black Velvet
Michael Franti & Spearhead – All Rebel Rockers
Jackson Browne – You Love the Thunder
Fred Eaglesmith – Tinderbox
Bloodhound Gang – Discovery Channel
War- Cisco Kid
B52’s – Quiche Lorraine
Did this a week or so ago. enjoy:
1. Neko Case – Marais la Nuit
2. Ben Folds – Song for Gracie
3. Poco – Follow Your Dreams
4. Kathleen Edwards – Asking for Flowers
5. Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
6. The Deep Dark Woods – Farewell
7.Brandi Carlile? – Losing Heart
8.Hank Snow – Yellow Roses
9. John Legend – Humanity
10. Ben Sures – Dancer
11.Dave Hole -Hawaiian Boogie
12. Pascale Picard – That is the Matter
13. Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne – Smokin Boogie
14. Martha Wainwright – Tower Song
15. Robert Plant – Falling in Love Again
What da ya know – my iTunes is CRTC compliant; spitting out a playlist that’s over 30 % CanCon!
Me and the Blues – Count Basie
Exhuming McCarthy – REM
Hip -No-Tyzed – The Gruesomes*
Trying to Chew my Head – Johnny & G Rays *
Christine – Siouxie and the Banshees
Sena Stanjena – Andreas Vollenweider
The Mind’s Eye – Remy Shand *
Jackson & Jane – James Keelaghan *
Stand – REM
The Flower of Margherally – Compadres *
Lester Leaps in – Charlie Parker
Twin Cadillac Valentine – The Sceaming Blue Messiahs
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing – Vince Guaraldi Trio
St. Louis Blues March – Glenn Miller
Johnny Come Lately – Duke Ellington
* – denotes Canadian Content
I did this a few months ago on FB, and frankly, the results were mortifying and, I hope you will believe me, not representative. I’ll share ’em anyway:
1 – When I Come Around – Green Day
2 – Patience – Guns N’ Roses
3 – Only You – Yaz
4 – Love the One You’re With – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
5 – Walk This Way – Run DMC and Aerosmith
6 – Talk about the Passion – REM
7 – Kiss Me – Stephen Duffy
8 – Southern Man – Neil Young
9 – All I Want Is You – U2
10 – She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
11 – Will The Circle Be Unbroken – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
12 – Santa Monica – Everclear
13 – Fiddler’s Green – The Tragically Hip
14 – Cracklin’ Rosie – Neil Diamond
15 – Hard Headed Woman – Cat Stevens
Lounge act.
Perfect.
I thought this would be easier, it wasn’t.
15 is very limiting, I picked one for each artist, there are so many others.
1. Shine On Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd
2. Layla (Acoustic version) , Eric Clapton
3. Sultans of Swing, Mark Knopfler
4. Thrill is Gone, BB King
5. Imagine, John Lennon
6. Knocking on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
7. Get Back, The Beatles
8. Mystery Train, Elvis Presley
9. Taking Care Of Business, Randy Bachman
10. London Calling, The Clash
11. Simon & Garfunkel, The Sounds of Silence
12. Johnny Cash, Hurt
13. Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones
14. Vertigo, U2
15. Gimme All Your Loving, ZZ Top
Just one… Bad Time For Being In Love by Grand Funk/
Beatles – Across the Universe (Very fitting, considering)
New Order – Ceremony
Social Distortion – I was Wrong
Kings of Leon – Notion
Rise Against – Savior
The The – This is the Day
Bob Marley – One Love
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Arcade Fire – My Body is a Cage
The Cure – Show me, Show me, Show me
The Cranberries – Just my Imagination
Jane’ Addiction – Jane Says
Band of Horses – The Funeral
The Flaming Lips – Do you Realize?
REM – Orange Crush
Not bad…coulda been worse:
1) The Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
2) Tegan and Sara – Red Belt
3) Steve Earle – Rake
4) Foo Fighters – Everlong
5) Dobie Gray – Drift Away
6) Ramones – Sheena is a Punk Rocker
7) Lita Ford – Kiss Me Deadly
8) Aphex Twin – Mold
9) Spandau Ballet – True
10) Kate Bush – Cloudbusting
11) Motorhead – Ace of Spades
12) Billy Bragg – The World Turned Upside Down
13) Roxy Music – Avalon
14) The Four Seasons – December 1963 ( I am soooo embarrassed)
15) David Usher feat. Tegan Quin – Hey Kids
Total of 732 songs on the player and I cannot believe that I did not hit ONE George Jones song…wow….
Boards of Canada – Oscar See Through Red Eye
Xavier Naidoo – In Deine Hände
Elbow – The Stops
Valery Gore – Knifes Dream
Martin Grech – Twin
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? (Extended Boilerhouse Mix)
Boards of Canada – Seeya Later
Wilco – Muzzle Of Bees
Ton Steine Scherben – Allein machen sie dich ein
Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re Awesome
Boards of Canada – You Could Feel The Sky
Beirut – The Long Island Sound
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespro Della Beata Vergine: Laudate, Pueri Dominum a 8
The Cute – A Letter To Elise
Clearly, iTunes loves Boards of Canada.
1. The Clash – Straight To Hell (Edited Version)
2. Sex Pistols – Johnny B Goode (Dave Goodman ‘Anarchy’ Rehearsal Sessions)
3. The Jesus And Mary Chain – Teenage Lust
4. Black Flag – Slip It In
5. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns – Well I’ll Be John Brown
6. The Ramones – Durango 95
7. Judas Priest – Pain And Pleasure
8. Maxine Brown – Oh No Not My Baby
9. Hard Skin – Romford
10. Bernard Cribbins – I’d Rather Go Fishing
11. Ken Yokoyama – I Go Alone
12. Jook – Shame Shame Shame
13. Another Pretty Face – That’s Not Enough
14. Pama International – He’s More Like His Father
15. The Alarm – Watching Me Watching You Watching Them Watching Us
out of the new-old millennium pile:
Lodger – Let Her Go
Paper Moon – Say it’s All Over
Toro Y Moi – Low Shoulder
Editors – Lights
Morning Spy – I am the Time
Starsailor – This Time
Bliss – American Heart (ft. Boy George)
Dykehouse – Signal Crossing
Epoxies, the – Radiation
Penate, Jack – Tonight’s Today
Tigers that Talked – The Merchant
Changes, the – Water of the Gods
Parallels – Find the Fire
Depeche Mode – Precious
Stellastarr – In the Walls
A true story that’s almost too horrible to share in public. My wife doesn’t have an iPod but borrows mine to run with so there’s a few of her CDs loaded on it. She ramps up her running from “zero” to “somewhat more frequently” the months before ski trips out West. So last March I’m adding some new stuff to my iPod, synch it, and out of idle curiousity I innocently click on Top 25 Most Played.
Yep – the first 15 cuts from ABBA Gold, followed by 10 of my favourite tunes
Please Lord, if I die tragically in public, make sure my iPod is crushed in the accident….
We forgive you. Such is the cold calculation of iTunes “shuffle.”
Meh, that’s nothing. Not only have I loaded stuff on for my wife, but all three of my daughters (13, 7, and 2) have music on my iPod as well. I’m terrified to put on a random shuffle lest my list get populated with tracks from “The Wiggles”, “Hannah Montana”, or any number of “Glee” cast butcherings.
Thank God my son has decent taste in music!
Antonio Vivaldi – Le quattro stagioni L’Inverno
John Lennon – Beautiful Boy
Pixies – Alec Eiffel
Ian Dury – Wake up and make love with me
The Ramones – Havana Affair
Luciano Pavarotti – Nessun dorma
The Vibrators – Baby, Baby
The Misfits – Attitude
The Slits – Hated by many loved by a few
Dave Brubeck – Bluette
Ray Charles – Hit the road Jack
Sex Pistols – Whatcha Gonna Do About It
The Doors – Hello, I Love You
The Metric – Sick Muse
Number 15… dunno what all this Double Bubble Trouble is about, but the song is coool 🙂
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it takes a Train to cry–Bob Dylan
Beautiful Son–Hole
Anyone can Fill Your Shoes–X
Jaw, Knee, Music–NOFX
Ordinary–Face to Face
Sick Little Suicide–The Matches
Deny–the Clash
Jammin’–Bob Marley
The Only One–The Cure
Don’t Stop–The Stone Roses
Rapid Decompression–Against Me!
Everyday Is Lke Sunday–Morrissey
I Predict A Riot–Kaiser Chiefs
I Walk The Line–Johhnny Cash
Rock N’ Roll High School–Ramones
Don’t Sell Me Short–Bad Religion
hmmm..just a typical 40-something Albertan list?
OK, here’s mine, but in my defence, I put everything on my iPod, all 7,000+ songs, including all the kids music (my oldest went through a musical phase; we got help and he’s over it and now listens to The Killers and Metric; thanks for your concern):
1. R.E.M. – Horse to Water
2. Led Zepplin – D’Yer Mak’er
3. Alanis Morisette – You Oughta Know
4. Peter Gabriel – (Leonard Cohen’s) Suzanne
5. Elvis Costello – Everyday I Write the Book
6. Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger
7. Frank Sinatra – What Is This Thing Called Love?
8. Raffi – Baby Beluga
9. Portishead – Numb
10. Sting – Saint Augustine in Hell
11. Brian Eno – Deep Blue Day
12. Sinéad O’Connor – Just Like U Said It Would B
13. Paul Simon – Father & Daughter
14. Pearl Jam – Blood
15. High School Musical Soundtrack – Just Getting Started
1. Sweet Dreams – The Mekons
2. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Billie Holiday
3. The Hives-Introduce The Metric System In Time – The Hives
4. Scoundrel Babes – The Constantines
5. Shake It – Hillstomp
6. Someone Else’s Song – Wilco
7. Echos Myron – Guided By Voices
8. Pretty Girls (The Mover) – Against Me!
9. Pay To Cum – Bad Brains
10. Hit The Plane Down – Pavement
11. Into The Fire – Mission Of Burma
12. Alcohol – The Kinks
13. Motel Room In My Bed – X
14. Prayer Of The Refugee – Rise Against
15. Grown So Ugly – The Black Keys