I know it’s been approximately 17 years since I’ve done one of these, but I thought I might bring it back. Here’s the drill: Set your MP3 player to “shuffle” and post the first ten songs that come up. Here’s my ten, and a few videos:
Passion Pit, who I saw two weeks ago and who were just delightful:
1. Ted Leo – Timorous Me
2. Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
3. Girl Talk – Summer Smoke
4. The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things
5. The Capstan Shafts – The Flowering Universe Confounds
6. Tom Waits – Baby Gonna Leave Me
7. Rufus Wainwright – Evil Angel
8. The Bad Plus – And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
9. Grizzly Bear – All We Ask
10. Jans Lekman – Shirin
Girls, Lykke Li and Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down below the fold.
Girls, who make me want to move to California:
Lykke Li:
Thao & Get Down, Stay Down
Ah… Pale Green Things. These are some great choices, but nothing like the song where the evil stepfather dies. The opening chords of that album are among my all time favorite, along with the opening chords of the first Decemberists album.
Loomer – My Bloody Valentine
Only a Broken Heart – Tom Petty
My Evil Twin – They Might be Giants
Wicked Little Critta – TMBG
Mr. Club – Pretty Girls Make Graves (I have that?)
Broken Sound – New Found Glory
Been A Son – Nirvana
Funtime – Iggy Pop
Love Me Like a River – Melody Gardot
Control – Fumbata
How about a best of 2009 mix? Working on mine right now.
Thao is really active in the feminist community. Next to Elliott Smith she is my all-time favourite artist, too. I need to buy her album!
anyway, random 10:
Lift The Veil, Kiss The Tank by Blood Brothers
Don’t Follow by Alice in Chains
I Don’t Blame You by Cat Power
Moral Majority by Dead Kennedys
Misery And Famine by Bad Religion
Fried My Little Brains by The Kills
The Biggest Lie by Elliott Smith
March of God by The Pillows
The Park by Feist
City Song by Emmy the Great
Heh. Skipping over “geek” songs (video game songtracks):
Eurythmics – The King and Queen of America
Godsmack – Straight out of Line (hm. Forgot about this song.)
Delerium – Love
Yo-Yo Ma – Slumber My Darling
Duke Ellington – The Mooche
Samurai Collection II – Hiten
Cannonball Adderley – Goodbye
Hammerfall – Born To Rule
Bliss – Wish U Were Here
Ayreon – Valley Of The Queens
I am somewhat dismayed by the monarchionormative nature of this random selection, but so it goes, I suppose.
My shuffle never really feels random. I’m certain that my ipod exercises editorial control.
Liz Phair – Baby Got Going
Sigur Ros – Olsen Olsen
Palomar – One Haunt
Interpol – A Time To Be So Small
Telefon Tel Aviv – You Are the Worst Thing In the World
The Killers – Midnight Show
Sigur Ros – Ny Batteri
Kills – What New York Used To Be
Portishead – Plastic
Sigur Ros – Glosoli
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
Meg Baird – The Cruelty of Barbry Allen
The Black Heart Procession – Your Church is Red
Herman Dune – With a Fistful of Faith
Jen Wood – Lie 4 a Lie
Violent Femmes – Good Feeling
Frog Eyes – New Tappy is Heard and Beheld
Yaphet Kotto – Fact or Fiction
S – Try
Rufus Wainwright – Rebel Prince
Similar to Jill’s then!