Just to make ronebofh happy

[jwgh]

Update: I tried tracing this back to its origin, which I wasn't particularly successful at. The farthest back I was able to trace it was to a post made by princewien here. princewien got the idea from someone named Bryan, apparently, but I couldn't figure out who that was.

I think the first person I saw put together one of these lists was schwa242.

The game is:

Step 1: Open your MP3/media player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: List the first THIRTY songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

So here they are:

1. Henry Thomas - Red River Blues
2. Hal Willner - Weird Nightmare Interlude [from the Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus album]
3. Christopher Monti & Jacob Haller - Before You Accuse Me
4. Clark Terry - Flugelin' The Blues
5. 4'33" and the NeTe - Moscow Road Song
    
6. Rudy Green - My Mumblin' Baby
7. They Might Be Giants - Girls In Their Turning
8. Tenacious D - The Road [fast]
9. Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting On Top Of The World
10. Hal Willner - What A Friend We Have In Jesus Revisited
     
11. Lyle Lovett - I Loved You Yesterday
12. The Killdevils - Johnny B. Goode
13. Cal Tjader - Somewhere In The Night
14. Christopher Monti & Jacob Haller - Bright Lights, Big City
15. Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, Flip Phillips et al -- The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite
     
16. Otis Redding - Security
17. Olu Dara - Jungle Jay
18. Hal Willner - Sango Montamaria
19. Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin' Down Blues (Take 1)
20. Johnny Shines - Too Wet To Plow
     
21. Big Daddy - Welcome To The Jungle
22. They Might Be Giants - Reprehensible
23. Johnny Shines - Trouble's All I See
24. John Coltrane - Naima (Alternate Take)
25. Johnny Cash - Give My Love To Rose (w/June Carter)
     
26. Christopher Monti, Jacob Haller, Gabe Luddy - Absolutely Legless
27. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Catfish John [f/Alison Krauss]
28. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mama's Opry [f/Iris DeMent]
29. Jelly Roll Morton - Original Jelly-Roll Blues
30. They Might Be Giants - Concrete And Clay

So this is thirty songs chosen at random from the 4,179 I have in iTunes, for a combined playing time of ten days, seven hours, fifteen minutes, and thirty-four seconds, it says here. I need a bigger iPod.

A little commentary:

The most embarassing thing is probably the number of songs on my playlist that I actually recorded. Four out of thirty? Looking over my music collection, I see I do indeed have almost two hundred recordings of myself (usually with other musicians). Frightening.

I feel that it's a shame that only two of the thirty tracks are by women. Not even one freakin' Aretha Franklin or Memphis Minnie song? Gimme a break. I guess you live by the random playlist, you die by the random playlist.

Focusing more on the positive, Cal Tjader's a jazz vibrophone/percussionist who's really great and is worth checking out, Hal Willner's odd compilations take some getting used to but are also worth a listen, Big Daddy (a group that covers songs from the 60s up through present in the style of 50s musicians and groups) are far better than they have any right to be and are also highly recommended, and I love Olu Dara's From Natchez to Mississippi to pieces.

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[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

YAY!

1) Steely Dan - Lunch With Gina
2) Soundtack To A Generation - Anji
3) Harmonia - Iudixio
4) Megadeth - Victory
5) They Might Be Giants - Critic Intro

6) Mike Keneally - Thanks
7) Vince Guaraldi Trio - My Little Drum
8) Joe Rogan - Ginger Lynn 1
9) Zappa/MOI - Legend of the Golden Arches
10) Heart - How Can I Refuse

11) Neil Sadler - dna for beginners
12) Mike Keneally - Time Table
13) Zappa - The Closer You Are
14) Patrick Moraz - Archetypes: Initiation/Aural Contact II/Soulstice
15) Becker/Fagen - Don't Let Me In (demo)

16) Mahavishnu Orchestra - If I Could See
17) De La Soul - Intro (Buhloone Mind State)
18) Cosmic Slop Shop - Da Family (acappella)
19) Velvet Cactus Society - Somewhere
20) that dog. - Side Part

21) Cornell Big Red Marching Band (Da Bones) - Cheers
22) Zoogz Rift - The Rabbit And The Lady
23) Metallica - Seek And Destroy (No Life 'Till Leather)
24) Megadeth - Black Curtains
25) Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Ginger and David

26) Mr. Bungle - Bloody Mary (Goddamit I Love America!)
27) Zappa - Keep It Greasey (14 Mar 1979)
28) Women's Choir of Sofia (Bulgaria) - Wedding
29) Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Ginger and David Theme (this is different from #25)
30) Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite: Danse arabe

Some of these are repeats from other times I've played. Random, my ass.

Re:

[dumplechan.livejournal.com]

> 6) Mike Keneally - Thanks

So Tim Chmielewski is actually a cover band?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEE.

01 Genesis - Fading Lights
02 Toadies - Paper Dress
03 Garbage - A Stroke of Luck
04 Toadies - Plane Crash
05 Jean Michel Jarre - Les Chants Magnétiques Part 3

06 Soundgarden - Slaves & Bulldozers
07 Midnight Oil - When The Generals Talk
08 Crowded House - Fingers of Love
09 Rush - Working Man
10 Hüsker Dü - Standing In The Rain

11 Los Prisioneros - Cuéntame Una Historia Original
12 Sleater-Kinney - Buy Her Candy
13 Angelfish- Dogs in a Cage
14 Living Colour - Burning of the Midnight Lamp
15 Strike 1 - War Machine (Alternate Version)

16 Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
17 Talking Heads - Creatures of Love
18 U2 & B. B. King - When Love Comes To Town
19 Pixies - Letter To Memphis (Instrumental)
20 Garbage - Temptation Waits

21 U2 - Love Rescue Me
22 Michael Hedges - Peg Leg Speed King
23 Throwing Muses - Say Goodbye
24 Faith No More - Take This Bottle
25 Jack Johnson - Bubble Toes

26 Depeche Mode - Pipeline
27 Chris Cornell - Disappearing One
28 Faith No More - Epic
29 Living Colour - WTFF
30 Midnight Oil - Whoah

Strike 1 was a high school hardcore punk band where one of the members was a friend of my stepson's. Funny moment: i told the friend that they sounded like early Hüsker Dü; he was amazed i'd heard of them, and i was amazed he'd heard of them, too.

[muffyjo]

Talysman turned me onto Big Daddy, and I have to tell you that I agree completely. much better than they ought to be.

And after this, it makes me believe that I need an iPod. I feel so..empty, so incomplete, so...ALONE!

I also recommend (although it's embarassing) Sandra Boyton's Philadelphia Chickens (see http://www.boyntonfordmusic.com/Listen%20to%20Chickens%20&%20Rhino.htm)) with special note to "cows", philadelphia chickesn" and "belly button". There is something about whimsy that gets to me every time.