Booker T & the MGs - Green OnionsThe Bar-Kays - I Can't Turn You LooseAphex Twin - ThaLed Zeppelin - Thank YouSufjan Stevens - That Dress Looks Nice On YouT-Rex - Children of the RevolutionThe Beatles - Glass OnionWilco - Company In My BackPavement - Trigger CutJohn Coltrane - My Favorite Things
― Veðrafjǫrðr heimamaður (ecuador_with_a_c), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
10 tunes courtesy of itunes dj (when did it change from party shuffle?)
my dying bride - the sexuality of bereavement
what a downer of a track to start with. it's a song from the 'turn loose the swans' era that never made the cut for that particular album, and thankfully so as it would have been the weakest track by some margin. it's MDB-by numbers - a bit too meandering and grim for the sake of being grim. but the liberal use of violin (which was a defining element of MDB's sound during this era) is a welcome touch.
guided by voices - surgical focus
this is a terrific song in the right context, but it's probably not what i felt like being served up just now (too playful and tuneful as a follow-up to MDB?). i'm still buzzing to the vocal delivery as always, and love how RP glides from verse to bridge to chorus in one lofty fell swoop, like the shifts in the song are passages for one long, extended thought.
the police - driven to tears
it's a slick, poised and well-paced song that i always enjoy hearing. the refrain is catchy in spite of itself and the vocals benefit from being understated and low-key. not sure if i'm sold on the guitar solo, which sounds vaguely tacked-on.
alice in chains - put you down
one of the more lightweight numbers from 'facelift'. it's plenty catchy and AIC would probably never be this energetic again, but it does feel like it's the product of a band pandering to convention by churning out the requisite "fast, upbeat song" rather than being wholly focused on homogenising its unique strengths across an entire album. these issues would be rectified on 'dirt', which is totally uncompromising and more consistently representative of a band that had well and truly found its calling.
wilco - hotel arizona
this is my favourite song from 'being there'. it's a perfectly balanced fusion of the introspective moodiness of the album's quieter numbers and the more spirited, angular drive of the louder rock-focused ones. really like how the song closes too.
darkthrone - en as i dype skogen
about as primal and unalloyed as musical expression, of any kind, can get. when i'm truly feeling the mood of a song like this, i don't want to be distracted from it.
tears for fears - everybody wants to rule the world
this song is quite tastefully put together and avoids the laboured schmaltz you get on songs like 'shout' (which would have been decent if the chorus wasn't repeated a billion times over). it works by virtue of its subtlety - never lapsing into overt-preachiness, offering something elegant and restrained for the casual listener, while dog-whistling a deeper, more elaborate message to those consciously seeking poignancy.
tim buckley - the healing festival
ok, here we have a song that i never want to hear if i'm not in the mood for it. when i'm feeling it, it's phenomenal. right now i'm tempted to skip.
gang of four - glass
this song jumps around a lot, taunting the listener with urgent semi-grooves before venturing off on sharp detours, chopping things up dramatically. i think i might have overlooked this tune a bit in the past and will pay more attention to it in the future.
depeche mode - behind the wheel
used to find it unnerving, but these days i can't get past the stiffly layered synths and mock-spookiness of it all. i think the song's about drugs and stems from personal experience, but it all sounds surprisingly distant and third-person.
― charlie h, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
depeche mode - behind the wheelused to find it unnerving, but these days i can't get past the stiffly layered synths and mock-spookiness of it all. i think the song's about drugs and stems from personal experience, but it all sounds surprisingly distant and third-person.
This one sounds much better on the 7 inch remix IMO.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Vance or Towers - Do Whatever We WantThe Alley Cats - Black Haired GirlThe Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your HeartBob Dylan - In the GardenTerry Callier - Dancing GirlBenny Goodman - Mean to MeOscar Peterson - But Not for MeGil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - CornersDome - Cancel Your OrderSonic Youth - Malibu Gas Station
― MumblestheRevelator, Saturday, 30 October 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Focus - Dusk & BlackdownBad Penny - Big BlackAdventures in Success - Will PowersBrasil '07 - MedicationsFat Old Sun - Pink FloydRaw Shanks a Million - White RainbowThe Terrace - Linus LovesRock and Roll - EdanAlways - BentDingered and Rothered - Betty Botox
― Treblekicker, Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Caribou-OdessaArcade Fire-(Antichrist Television Blues)Okkervil River-Plus OnesTom Waits-Little Drop of PoisonMastodon-IslandModest Mouse-3rd PlanetRadiohead-Sail to the MoonSleater-Kinney-What's Mine is YoursIron & Wine-Boy with a CoinJunior Boys-When No One CaresNirvana-In Bloom
― monster_xero, Sunday, 31 October 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Again from my (now quite extensive) Spotify playlists rather than iPod, but rather random all the same.
The Specials: Rat RaceGrandaddy: The Crystal LakeUtopia: Everybody Else Is Wrong(And then, bloody Spotify played me a fucking bloody Josh Groban ad! But that bloody doesn't count! )Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin'Depeche Mode: The Love ThievesAnnie: AnthonioHuman League: The Things That Dreams Are Made OfYes: To Be OverPaul Simon: Born in Puerto RicoTime After Time - Cyndi Lauper
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Dazz Band - let it whipLes Fleurs De Lys - reflections of charlie brownRoyspop - summer nightsVilla Gombao Inc - welcomeGonzos - church keyKurtis Blow - the breaksModern Unreal & Pat Appleton - good for meCapt. Beefheart- flower potMike Flower Pops - venus as a boyBenny Sings - get there
Ray Charles - don't set me free
― meisenfek, Monday, 20 December 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
people clown on geir a bit much, given that's a pretty solid ten songs he's come up with (& on shuffle, even)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 20 December 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Time to play this game again:
Coldplay: TroubleMoody Blues: Watching and WaitingSupertramp: The Logical SongMike Oldfield: Platinum Part 2Sugababes: Red DressChicago: Questions 67 and 68Roxette: Church Of Your HeartEurythmics: Thorn In My SideFad Gadget: Collapsing New PeoplePink Floyd: Matilda Mother
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the boo radleys - if you want it, take itcolourbox - sleepwalkerwire - the queen of ur and the king of umkraftwerk - metropolissuicide - las vegas man (live)goodie mob - see you when i see youoval - do whilefour tet - pocketscolourbox - breakdown - original 12"aaliyah - choosey lover (old school/new school)
surprised to see two songs from the colourbox best-of, that's the only cd of theirs i have!
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Carla Bley, "Wrong Key Donkey"Fanny, "Regular Guy"Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "California Coastline"Black Oak Arkansas, "Fever in My Mind"Noah Howard, "Queen Anne"Steve Miller Band, "Blue Odyssey"Butthole Surfers, "Suicide"Jericoh Jones, "Man In The Crowd"Soft Boys, "Way Way Hep Uh Hole"Art Ensemble of Chicago, "Variations Sur Un Theme De Monteverdi"
damn, #11 was Roxanne Shante, "Roxanne's Revenge"
(Also in there: "Glum 1", just a recording of me screwin around on a virtual synth.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Jesus Lizard - ChromeEnnio Morricone - L'CaricoThe JB's - You Can Have Watergate, Just Give Me Some BucksBjork - Army of MeThe New Year - Stranger to KindnessMcClusky - There Ain't No Fool In FergusonBuzzcocks - Nothing LeftFugazi - Nice New OutfitDrunkdriver - Choking HazardThe Zulus - Too Much
Good way to start the day.
― janswers, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
max b - goon musicsuckdog - murdering monsterschelsea wolfe - goldshock treatment OST - little black dresssiouxsie & the banshees - voodoo dollylungfish - you did not exist (live)lizzy mercier descloux - wawatyler, the creator - herthe hook - you need peoplecarla bley & paul haines - ginger and david theme
― the first rule of debate club (Edward III), Friday, 13 May 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Can an iPod be set up to take your ratings of the songs (the one to five stars it lets you can assign to each song) into account when set on shuffle? Or does it do this already?
― Lee626, Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
tom waits - union squarethe rolling stones - stop breaking downthe xyz affair - idealschristopher o'riley - the touristida maria - oh my godtune-yards - killathe a-sides - sidewalk chalkblossom dearie - they say it's springthe cardigans - lovefoolthe polyphonic spree - section 21 (together we're heavy)
wildly unrepresentative, but a pretty enjoyable batch of tunes
― kaygee, Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
electrik red - friend lovertalking heads - born under punchescurren$y & wiz khalifa - s.d.l.los campesinos - all your kayfabe friendsclipse - bodysnatchersthe exploding hearts - throwaway stylecut copy - hearts on fire (aeroplane remix)wiz khalifa - the kid frankieprodigy - 7th heavendestiny's child - temptation
dunno how it ended up on two wiz khalifa songs
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Johnnie Ray - 'Such A Night'Kraftwerk - 'Mitternacht'The Four Pennies - 'Juliet'The Stooges - 'Little Doll'Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - 'Bill's Corpse'rent - 'Attack Ships'Rod Stewart - 'Maggie May'Michael Jackson - 'Get On The Floor'Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Bad Moon Rising'glomag - 'Disco Nostromo'
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Saturday, 14 May 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Shackleton - Hypno AngelRadiohead - A Wolf at the DoorMadvillain - Money FolderAphex Twin - Polynomial-CHorace Andy - Ain't No SunshineThe Ocean - Catharsis of a HereticDJ Shadow - Changeling (Transmission 1)Captain Beefheart - Semi-Multicolored CaucasianOutkast - SynthesiserBlame - Music Take You
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Saturday, 14 May 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
crystal castles - doe deergayngs - the walkersaint etienne - 7 ways 2 love (alternate)cansei de ser sexy - music is my hot hot sexcalifone - polish girlstangoterje - i get liftedsleater-kinney - im not waitingwavves - green eyessilver jews - buckingham rabbite-40 - born in the struggle
lol @ this sampling
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 May 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Keane: My ShadowNew Order: 5 8 6Billy Ocean: Carribean QueenStereophonics: Local Boy In The PhotographThe Temptations: Just My ImaginationColdplay: PolitikElton John: Your SongAlphaville: Forever YoungOrbital: Dwr BudrABC: Vanity Kills
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 May 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
swans - the final sacrificelcd soundsystem - freak out/starry eyesthis mortal coil - the lacemakerdevo - (i can't get no) satisfactionthe microphones - eyes for volumeyoko ono - walking on thin ice (walked across the lake mix)lull - [untitled 14th track from Moments]love and rockets - use mebeastie boys - time for livin'cabaret voltaire - a minute is a life time
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Sunday, 15 May 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
the cure: let's go to bedheavenly: c is the heavenly optionbrendon benson: pleasure seekerblondie: i'm gonna <3 u toosystem of a down: violent pornographythe smiths: cemetery gatesyaz: in my roomhuggy bear: dissthentic penetrationfutureheads: carnival kidsthe clash: straight to hell
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ODB - Shimmy Shimmy YaOrbital - HalcyonLil B - TheaterMike Ink - Paroles (Autechre Repoles)Autechre - TeartearRoyce da 5'9" - Psycho (Skit)Smegma - En VoutMayhem - AntiDemdike Stare - Trapped DervishKevin Drumm & Daniel Menche - Gauntlet
― ears are wounds, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Iris Dement - Mom & Dad's WaltzR.E.M - UndertowHow to Dress Well - Can't See My Own FaceThin White Rope - If Those TearsGirls vs. Boys - Bulletproof CupidCodeine - 3 AngelsThe Cure - HomesickThe Go-Betweens - Spirit of a VampireEarth - Geometry of MurderRod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
― Mule, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
E-40 - I Love My MommaLena Katina - BelochkaCoven - Dignitaries Of HellHole - Credit In The Straight WorldMonika Brodka - Krzyżówka DniaMiranda! - PerfectaDusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love MeVirus - NepogodaPeter Fox - StadtaffeMylene Farmer - Bleu Noir
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
the jesus and mary chain - never understand (alternate)brian eno - burning airlines give you so much morewoods - born to losethe dead c - glass hole pitlow - your poisonmilton babbit - philomelm.i.a. - born freeorchestral manoeuvres in the dark - architecture and moralitynew order - subculturecocteau twins - ella megalast burls forever
― solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
bone awl - lindow manjorge ben - se segura malandrobee gees - jive talkin'free clinic - drunktankkurt vile - inside lookin outnovos baianos - misterio do planetapussy galore - assholeneil young - everbody's alonedavid bowie - eight line poemthe body - falling
― the first rule of debate club (Edward III), Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
in office all weekend, with only limited, 4K song ipod for company. shuffle:
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
spotify on local shuffle
nas - surviving the timesdeath grips - guillotinejack e chocolate - pavarotyponytail - g shockgaseneta - livekain - nubian iipaulo bagunca - mensaqeiroyob - silence of heavenmr scruff - kalimbajohnny moped - vd boiler
― duke of irl (Edward III), Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link