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):
- High Tide or Low Tide, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Songs of Freedom Disc 2
- Diamond Joe (traditional), Bob Dylan, Good As I Been to You
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? Ry Cooder and David Lindley, Live in Vienna 1995 (bootleg)
- Waltz of the Flowers, Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), The London Symphony Orchestra
- Sexy Sadie, The Beatles, White Album
- Words I Might Have Ate, Green Day, Kerplunk!
- Box Full of Letters, Wilco, Live in Chicago 2000 (bootleg)
- U-Mass, Pixies, Trompe Le Monde
- Joy, Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- Imamou Lele (A Vodou Spirit), Boukman Eksperyans, Revolution
- Almost Full Moon, Enigma, Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi
- Muddy Water, Grateful Dead, Live at the Felt Forum (NYC) 1971
- Island Style, Randy Lorenzo, Slack Key Guitar
- Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Harbor Lights, Bruce Hornsby, Harbor Lights
- Tender When I want to Be, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Stones in the Road
- Rock and Roll Party Queen, Louis St. Louis, Grease (Original Soundtrack)
- Moonlight Becomes You, Willie Nelson, Moonlight Becomes You
- Victim of Love, The Eagles, Greatest Hits (Vol. 2)
- Home to Houston, Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts … Now
Amazingly, the tracks on this list actually flow together quite well.
[*] 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. This week, Bob Dylan’s “In the Garden” and the Grateful Dead’s “A to E Flat Jam” would have made the list otherwise.
Out of 2700 songs on my pc, here is the top 20 songs when I shuffle all of them:
“Hey Jude” by The Beatles
“Roll Over Beethoven” by Electric Light Orchestra
“Free Fallin’” by Tom Petty
“Before You Accuse Me” by Eric Clapton
“Centerfold” by The J. Geils Band
“Cheeseburger in Paradise” by Jimmy Buffett
“Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin
“Allentown” by Billy Joel
“#9 Dream” by John Lennon
“I Drink Alone” by George Thorogood & The Destroyers
“Mother Freedom” by Bread
“Sweet Little Sixteen” by Chuck Berry
“Mansion on the Hill” by Bruce Springsteen
“Sqeeze Box” by The Who
“All Revved Up With No Place to Go” by Meat Loaf
“Golden Years” by David Bowie
“Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” by U2
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” by The Police
“Let It Bleed” by The Rolling Stones
“Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf
Right now, I am creating a 4th of July oldies music for my son’s graduation party. Right now, I am up to 70 oldies. Have a great 4th!!!!!
1. Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Gold
2. Tobacco Road – Edgar Winter’s White Trash – Roadwork
3. Watching Birds – Jean Luc Ponty – Open Mind
4. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Rockapella – The Christmas Album
5. Hard to Believe – The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd.
6. All in the Family – Korn – Follow The Leader
7. Engines of Creation – Joe Satriani – Engines of Creation
8. 1040 Blues – Robert Cray – Shame and a Sin
9. LIttle Dipper – Hum – You’d Prefer an Astronaut.
10. Hellbound Train – Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train
11. Maggie Mae – The Beatles – Let It Be
12. Break Up – Ricky Garcia – Unsigned Artist
13. Silver Start – Pousette-Dart Band – Never Enough
14. Southern Steel – Steve Morse Band – Southern Steel
15. The Power Of Bombos – Steve Vai – Alive in an Ultra World
16. Doing That Scrapyard Thing – Cream – Goodbye
17. The First Thing Smokin’ – Dwight Yoakum – South Of Heaven, West of Hell
18. Holy Wars-The Punishment – Megadeth – Peace Sells, But Who’s Buying
19. Alligator Crawl – Sue Keller – Album Unknown
20. I Wonder if You Fell the Way I Do – Merle Haggard and Asleep at the Wheel – A Tribute to the Music of Bob Will and the Texas Playboys