«
»

This week’s 20 random songs

Published May 27, 2005

You know the rules: Shuffle your entire music collection, click Play, and report the first 20 tracks, no matter what [*]. This week’s list is formatted as artist, song title, and album (in italics):

  1. Strong Winds, Graham Parker, Passion Is No Ordinary Word
  2. Possession, Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Toward Ecstasy
  3. House Carpenter, Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3 (Rare and Unreleased)
  4. Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, Willie & Lobo, The Music of Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
  5. He’s Gone, The Grateful Dead, Live at Winterland, October 17, 1974 (bootleg)
  6. As Long As It Matters, Gin Blossoms, Congratulations … I’m Sorry
  7. Looking Forward, John Gorka, Temporary Road
  8. Power of Two, Indigo Girls, Swamp Ophelia
  9. Bodas de Oro, Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder, Mambo Sinuendo
  10. 12 Bar Blues, NRBQ, Peek-A-Boo: The Best of NRBQ (1969-1989)
  11. No Place Away, Greg Brown, Dream Cafe
  12. I Ain’t Ever Satisfied, Steve Earle, Live at the Bluebird Cafe (with Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt)
  13. Over You, Aaron Neville, Treacherous: A History of the Neville Brothers
  14. Jolly Roger, Roger McGuinn, Born to Rock & Roll
  15. Caldonia, B. B. King, How Blue Can You Get? Classic Live Performances 1976-1994
  16. Hey Madeline, Kyf Brewer, Bright Jewels
  17. Garden of Earthly Delights, XTC, Oranges and Lemons
  18. Paul’s Tune, The Clash, London Calling, 25th Anniversary Edition
  19. My Shit’s Fucked Up, Warren Zevon, Live in Nashville, April 11, 2000 (bootleg)
  20. Love Art Blues, Neil Young, Archives Be Damned, Vol. 1 (bootleg)

[*] My one exception is to limit each artist to one track per list. If the same artist appears a second time, I skip over that track. Graham Parker’s superb “Soul Shoes” and an extra track each from Willie & Lobo and Bob Dylan would have made this list otherwise.

3 Responses to This week’s 20 random songs

  • Zaine Ridling says:
    May 27, 2005 at 11:22 pm

    This would make a good song list for a BBC Radio show.

  • headmoron says:
    May 28, 2005 at 4:54 pm

    I kept the duplicates, but made them an (a) listing.

    1. On the Tweek Again – Primus – Tales From the Punchbowl
    2. What’d I Say – Ray Charles – Anthology
    3. Madman – Silverchair – FrogStomp
    4. Would? – Alice In Chains – Dirt
    5. Bird – Candy Dulfer – For The Love Of You
    6. Piano Song – Gino Vannelli – Crazy Life
    7. Groaning The Blues – Eric Clapton – From The Cradle
    8. Irresistable Blues – Sue Keller – Those Irresistible Blues
    8a. Stop Breakin’ Down – Eric Clapton – Sessions for Robert Johnson
    9. You’re the One – Dwight Yoakum – Last Chance for a Thousand Years
    10. Heart That’s Ready to Break – Sonya Kaye – Sunday Blues
    11. Time and Tide – Basia – Time and Tide
    12. Dimming of the Day – Bonnie Raitt – Longing In Their Hearts
    13. Derailleur Gears – Steve Morse Band – Major Impacts.
    14. Everything You Wanted to Know Abou!!! – 10cc – Bloody Tourists
    15. Cynical – Extreme – Waiting For the Punchline
    15a. GitItOn – Candy Dulfer – For the Love Of You
    16. Liar – Megadeth – So Far, So Good, So What?
    17. The Outlaw Torn – Metallica – Load
    18. Slippin Into Darkness – War – Best Of War
    19. If I Could Fly – Joe Satriani – Is There Love In Space?
    20. Hunger For Love – Crabby Appleton – Crabby Appleton

  • Cameron says:
    May 30, 2005 at 7:37 am

    I too removed the duplicates, which turned out to be a chore because iTunes tends to duplicate quite often.

    1. Velvet Eyes, Buzz Deluxe, Zombie Night In Canada
    2. Let’s Get F’cked Up, The Cramps, Foxfire
    3. Triple Trouble, Beastie Boys, To the 5 Boroughs
    4. Absolute Beginners, The Jam, Grosse Pointe Blank Soundtrack
    5. Bloodbeat, The Meteors, Psychobilly Stomp
    6. Temptation, Tiger Army, Early Years EP
    7. Mary, Sublime, Robbin’ the Hood
    8. Wellington’s Wednesdays, The Weakerthans, Fallow
    9. Secondary, Brand New, Your Favorite Weapon
    10. Survive, King Prawn, Fried in London
    11. Paint It Black, Gob, How Far Shallow Takes You
    12. Goin’ Off, The Porkers, Generic Skaca
    13. Pull Out, Death From Above 1979, You’re A Woman I’m A Machine
    14. Wanted, Nekromantix, Demons Are a Girl’s Best Friend
    15. Whistles the Wind, Flogging Molly, Within a Mile of Home
    16. To Have And To Have Not, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards
    17. Baby Lou Tattoo, Horrorpops, Hell Yeah
    18. Meet Me in the Bathroom, The Strokes, Room on Fire
    19. Missing Link, The Hives, Tyrannosaurus Hives
    20. 1945, Social Distortion, Live at The Roxy

Hosted by A2

A2 Hosting does PHP5, MySQL5, PostgreSQL 8, cPanel, Ruby on Rails, and SSH/Shell.
I use them because I like dealing with responsive, friendly human beings.
Plans from $2.95/month.

Ed on Twitter

Sponsors

Links of Interest

Copyright © 2002-2012 by Ed Bott. All Rights Reserved.