As many here know, I have a database. One of its many 'benefits' (= everyone hates it except me) is generating random listings across my whole collection. Here are the two I have lying around. If anyone wants them:
Random 27 (originally done for a Tim you don't know but I forgot he has no tape player, the fule):
Madonna - Act Of Contrition
Walter Bradford - Reward For My Baby
Blondie - In The Flesh
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction (love 1971)
Shut Up And Dance - Mercury Switches
Solomon Burke - Down In The Valley (live)
Five Blind Boys Of Alabama - Deep River (radio session version)
Lavelle White - Why Young Men Go Wild
Continentals - Don't Do It Baby
Massive Attack - Risingson (Darren Emerson for Underworld Remix)
Sam Cooke - Too Young
Burning Spear - She's Mine
Loretta Lynn - Woman Of The World
Aaron Neville - Going Home
Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain - It's Closing Soon (demo)
Koko Taylor - Good Advice
Van Morrison - Daring Night
Add N To X - Sir Ape (radio session version)
Baba Thomas - Miss Shake It
Million Dollar Quartet - Little Cabin On The Hill
Johnny Cash & June Carter - Brand New Dance
Bjork - Crying
Isley Brothers - It Moves Me To Tears
Impressions - Little Young Lover
Dave Angel - Trip To Darkness
Al Green - What A Wonderful Thing Love Is
Gladys Knight And The Pips - What A Wonderful Thing Love Is
I expect I thought Tim would like it because it has lots of soul and Madonna and Blondie. The next was never assigned to anyone, and is designated Random 30:
Only Ones - Programme
DJ Food - Sunvibes
Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch
Trammps - Living The Life
Tammy Wynette - Lonely Street
Nina Simone - I Got Life
Howlin' Wolf - Passing By Blues
Gene Pitney - Half Heaven - Half Heartache
Randy Newman - Cowboy (live)
Wedding Present - Dare
Johnny Cash - Straight A's In Love
Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
Future Sound Of London - Central Industrial
Gang Starr featuring Big Shug and Freddie Foxxx - The Militia
Primal Scream - Vanishing Dub
Pulp - Someone Like the Moon
SE9 Crew - So Sweet (Dub Plate)
Wynona Carr - Give Me Your Hand To Hold
Leadbelly - Old Howard, Poor Boy
Congoes - Feast Of The Passover
Leroy Carr - Big Four Blues
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - John Finn's Wife (live)
Jerry Lee Lewis - My Carolina Sunshine Girl
SMF - How Many Ways?
Undertones - The Love Parade
Prodigy - Skylined
Happy Flowers - Get Me Off The Broiler Pan
Don't you love the seamless blending of styles? If anyone really wants either of these, contact me off-list. If I'd thought of it, I'd have taken them to the meet and tried to offload them on someone...
― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
For a mate of mine who probably doesn't know a lot of this [fairly obvious] stuff:
Side One
Deceptacon - Le Tigre
Open Your Heart - Madonna
Jediwannabe - Bellatrix
Big Pink Candyfloss Haircut - Helen Love
Koochacoo - Kylie Minogue
A Stroke Of Genie-us - Freelance Hellraiser
Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
Danger (High Voltage) - Wildbunch
I Think I Love You - Kaci
Please Mr. Postman - The Shirelles
Real Good Time - Alda
Live At Dominoes - The Avalanches
Upside Down - A-Teens
Side Two
He's On The Phone - Saint Etienne
Pretend To Be Nice - Josie and The Pussycats
Jamie Theakston Superstar - Supercute
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Kandy Pop - bis
Sweet Baby - Gossip
Give Us Your Blessings - The Shangri-Las
Intro Inspection - Osymyso
The Bird That You Can't See - Apples In Stereo
The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
Why Does It Always Rain On Me? - The Lollies
Hey everyone, I have a shiny new CD recorder and nothing to do with it.
― Graham, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Tell me more about this database. How many songs are on it, what kind
of software is it? How long did it take to set it up?
must say
I'm intrigued by some of the names on it (Walter Bradford, Baba
Thomas, SE9 Crew, SMF).
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Billy: the database is in Access. It took me a few hours to design
and build, then weeks and weeks of entering the data. The data is my
own collection only, of course. Over 8,000 acts are listed ('acts'
includes sopme writers, producers, musicians: 7421 with tracks by
them) and over 52,000 tracks listed.
The intriguing ones: Walter Bradford was a bluesman on Sun in the
late '50s; Baba Thomas was an old rock 'n' roller; the SE9 Crew and
SMF are both oldish jungle numbers.
If anyone wants a copy of this database system, I'm happy to provide
same, except you will need your own copy of Microsoft Access, and it
will be of very limited use if you don't have some basic competence
in Access - I wrote it for my own use, not to professional standards
for others to use.
― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
five years pass...