Put every MP3 on your hard drive into Winamp, stick it on random play, and tell us which ten tunes it plays

1. The Cars - Candy-O
2. Swamp Dogg - Call me nigger
3. radioprankgonewrong (this crap file where a radio host rings a guy's wife and pretends her husband has been caught screwing his secretary, whereupon she blurts out that she has fucked his brother. oh my sides.)
4. Pop Group - We are time
5. Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee
6. Missy Elliot feat. Jay-Z - Is that your bitch
7. Pops Staples - Peace to the neighbourhood
8. Wedding Present - My favourite dress (live)
9. Medieval Music - Song of the ass
10. The Slits - New Town

Overall a pretty crappy collection appart from Missy and the Slits. Ah well.

This is disappointingly unremarkable. Damn you, WinAMP, why couldn't've you called up one of my weird-ass euro-disco MP3s? Or at least one hip-hop song?

i can't remember having ever heard #8 in my life

Oh No! Oasis! Oh NO! -- a good list apart from that

Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (live)
Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
Daft Punk - Around the World
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
James - Waltzing Along
Restless Heart - When She Cries
Pearl Jam - Given to Fly
Nine Inch Nails - We're in This Together
Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us
Ludacris - Saturday (Ooh! Ooh!)

Perhaps we should also say which ones we skipped? I ended up skipping the Elvis Costello, James, and Restless Heart songs.

1)evolution control committee - by the time i get to arizona
2)the creation - how does it feel
3)van halen - jump
4)quincy jones and james ingram - one hundred ways
5)cormega ft.prodigy - thun & kicko
6)faith evans - love like this (crooklyn clan rmx)
7)fatboy slim - acid enlightenment
8)ludacris ft redman and methodman - what's yr fantasy
9)mystikal ft. nivea - danger
10)madonna - vogue

fun anyway.

fennesz - 010 +-4.40
low - john prine
lilys - hubble
caroliner - in the land of disturbance (the indian home)
jason loewenstein - codes
otomo yoshihide's new jazz ensemble - good morning
thrones - oso malo
metro area - intro
boards of canada - iced cooly
deerhoof - dead beast queen

1) Byrds -- Nothing Was Delivered
2) Rolling Stones -- Connection
3) New Order -- Thieves Like Us
4) Walkmen -- Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
5) Ikara Colt -- One Note
6) Pavement -- Grounded
7) Breeders -- Fortunately Gone
8) Life Without Buildings -- The Leanover
9) Big Star -- Kangaroo
10) Unwound -- Here Come the Dogs

1. Sarah Shannon - "Heaven Got Wider"
2. Coldplay - "A Rush of Blood To the Head"
- Sarah Shannon - "I Don't Want To See the Light" (skipped)
3. Mike Hanle y - "An Arguement For Sugar"
4. Rat at Rat R - "The Beautiful"
5. Hot Hot Heat - "Bandages"
- Pulp - "Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)" (cut off)
6. Destroyer - some track from _City of Daughters_
- Christina Aguilera - "Stripped Intro" (gyp!) (and cut off!)
7. Wendy Carlos - "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Minor (I. Allegro)"
8. Sarah Shannon - "Can't You See" ("shuffle" my ass)
- some supposed Weezer demo track, but I SINCERELY doubt it (skipped)
9. Weezer - "Slob" demo (THAT'S the spicy meatball I was lookin' for)
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Warm Tape"

This actually worked out surprisingly well!

I was kinda scared at how the first and last track were Beck tracks, so I kept listening, and at #11 I got a live version of Mr. Bungle's "My Ass is On Fire".

I didn't even know I had half this stuff.

Actually not a bad listen. It's a good thing I'm pretty consistent about deleting stuff once I decide I don't like it.

2. Pink - Misery (with Steven Tyler)

3. Napalm Death - You Suffer (Part 1)

4. Supergrass - She's So Loose

5. Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A Fuck

6. Platters - Duke Of Earl

7. My Bloody Valentine - Touched

8. Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady

9. Xzibit - U Know

10. Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

Quite random, but not unexpected. Apart from the fact that 9 out of 10 are from 2001-2002...

impaled nazarene - blood is thicker than water

Whoa, memories!! The album was crap, but that track's just brilliant.

Some of these I think I'd only ever listened to once.

Whoa, memories!! The album was crap, but that track's just brilliant.

This is quite possibly why that's the only nazarene track on my hard drive!

1. Inner City - Big Fun

2. Madonna - Into The Groove

3. Leonard Cohen - Bird On A Wire

4. Paul McCartney - Give Ireland Back To The Irish (hee hee)

5. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision

6. Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves

7. Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream

8. Boards Of Canada - Kaini Industries

9. Thin Lizzy - The Rocker

10. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

1: Genki disc 2: lesson 5: track 17 (I've got a bunch of these Japanese practice mp3s I'll skip the rest because this is all that keeps coming up.)
2: Flaming Lips- Moth in an Incubator
3: Boredoms- 77
4: Wire Train- Chamber of Hellos
5: Gilberto Gil- Bastiana
6: Diskettes - Mr. Lee
7: Arab On Radar- God is Dad
8: Microwaves- Central Office
9: 6ths- San Diego Zoo
10: Matmos- Memento Mori

1. art zoyd - anachorete
2. this heat - radio prague
3. badfinger - money (original version)
4. mike ink - silver
5. steve roach - magnificent gallery
6. C4AM95 - atom the pyramid that is you
7. brise-glace - stump of a drowner
8. hell interface - trapped
9. oval - track10 from ovalprocess
10. gentle giant - school days
11. led zeppelin - stairway to heaven (!)

Anyhow, this time around:
1. baraka foundation - set the heart for the bass of the sun
2. james and brian eno - jam j
3. the fall - my new house
4. sputnik - untitled
5. depeche mode - but not tonight
6. brian eno - an ending (ascent)
7. atman - the end of philosophy
8. jandek -hand for harry idle
9. sky high and mau mau - mau mau chart
10. changing times - go your way

1. "The Gentleman on the Stairs" - Dagmar Krause with Harold Schelinx & Ronald Heiloo

2. "The Suit" - Public Image Limited

3. "Doctor Dark" (demo - no vocal) - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

4. "Safari" - Goblin

5. "Mikka" (for solo violin) - Iannis Xennakis

6. "Crazy Gift of Time" - Kevin Ayers

7. "Six Different Ways" - The Cure

8. "Start to Move" - Wire

9. "Polka Dot Undies" - Bowser

10. "Augustus and the Soup" - the Tigerlilies

(11. "200 Years Old" - Frank Zappa) - ugh!

1. Shiina Ringo - Koufukuron
2. Fantomas - Der Glom
3. Interpol - PDA
4. Susumu Yokota - Gekkoh
5. Add N to (X) - Barry 7's Contraption
6. Benett - Love on the Rocks
7. Spoon - Don't Let It Get You Down
8. Little Fujiko - The Scale Monster
9. Control Machete - Asi Son Mis Dias (Remix)
10. DJ Lance Lockarm - Save The Whole World For Later

yeah... somewhere between a :/ and a zzz.

wow - that Racoons Theme thing is really embarrassing. Why do I have that!?

This Heat - Twilight Furniture
Amy Winehouse - In my Bed
Hermann and Kleine - Catch a Snowflake
Dandy Jack & The Junction - Guerra De La Estrellas
Swell Maps - Blenheim Shots
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star
John Lennon - Instant Karma
Polmo Polpo - Requiem for a Fox
Autechre - Further
Freak Electrique - Symphony Electrique

Alice In My Fantasies / Cosmic Slop--Spaceways Incorporated: Thirteen Cosmic Standards
He Do--Joel Forrester:Pre-Microscopic Music Circa 1980
Montego Bay--People Under The Stairs: O.S.T.
Soul Kitchen--The Doors: The Doors
Canzone Di Peppe--Joe Maneri, Barre Phillips & Mat Maneri: Tales Of Rohnlief
Breathing Cells--Masashi Harada: Obliteration At The End Of Multiplication
Yellow--Ken Nordine: Colors
Riot On Sunset Strip--Standells: Try It
Concentration Camp--The Mutants: Giddyup Mutants!
Blue Huhn--Guru Guru: Best Of Guru Guru, Part 2

Misfits - "Bullet" from Static Age
Ume - "Wake" from Urgent Sea
Lady Sovereign - "Sad Ass Strippah"
Psychic TV - "Proof On" from Dreams Less Sweet
Ladytron - "Fighting In Built Up Areas" from Witching Hour
Saccharine Trust - "Effort To Waste" from We Became Snakes
Left Handed Decision - "Prolix Hum" from Without Life
Bad Brains - "Rock For Light" from Rock For Light
Live Skull - "Step" from Snuffer
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Don't Die" from split 7" with Neon Boys

that wasn't too embarrassing

"remember today" the thermals
"espiritu libre" ray barretto
"the city" the drones
"state fair" the last town chorus
"buffalo bird woman" scott amendola band
"girls attractive" diamond nights
"punk is dead" crass
"my hands are yellow (from the job that i do)" the del-byzanteens
"unorthadox daughter" no lay
"we love guys named luke" mu

1. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
2. Wiley feat. Scratchy - Ice Rink
3. Ghostface - Jellyfish
4. Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky
5. Soulwax - NY Lipps
6. Robyn - Jack U Off
7. Kazukuta - Os Bongos (I had forgotten about this, think it's from the Ivory Coast)
8. Tomas Andersson - Copy Cat
9. Felix - Don't You Want Me
10. TATU - All The Things She Said

1. "Interzone" Joy Division
2. "Action Vs. Vibe" Polvo
3. "What Have I Done To Deserve This" Pet Shop Boys
4. "To Hell With Good Intentions" McLusky
5. "Give My Heart A Break" Sammy Turner
6. "Big Maz In The Desert" Swell Maps
7. "Don't Call Me Pain" The Pop Group
8. "Sunny Day" Pigbag
9. "Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish" Captain Beefheart
10. "Sending Lady Load" Felt

1. amon duul II - the return of ruebezahl
2. the fake accents - droney 2
3. the strokes - take it or leave it
4. the ramones - ramona
5. gavin/delia - relevee
6. liars - be quiet mt heart attack!
7. os mutantes - adeus maria fulo
8. my bloody valentine - slow
9. belle and sebastian - belle and sebastian
10. hall and oates - i cant go for that!
11. sun city girls - burial in the sky
12. flipper - ha ha ha
13. judee sill - lady-o (live)
14. the new pornographers - the end of medicine
15. the fall - jawbone and the air-rifle
16. unrest - light command

(Overflow:

11. The Futureheads, "Hounds Of Love"
12. Misfits, "Die, Die My Darling"
13. Nine Inch Nails, "Ruiner (Demo)"
14. Troy Tate, "Love Is..."
15. Visage, "Fade To Grey"
16. Gang Of Four, "I Fled"
17. Propaganda, "P-Machinery"
18. Nash The Slash, "Danse"
19. Echo & the Bunnymen, "The Back Of Love"
20. New Musik, "24 Hours From Culture")

Pretty darn perfect, I'd say.

1 Nick Harrison: The Loner (from a CD with The Music Library book)
2 Steely Dan: Any Major Dude Will Tell You
3 Provocative Percussion: Mood Indigo (I must've imported this from a DVD-R backup; I don't remember digitising this)
4 Brian Eno & David Byrne: Mountain of Needles
5 Harold Budd & Andy Partridge: Geography - Through The Hill (Eno to Budd, nice one!)
6 Die & Clipz: Fresh Evidence (DJ Die mix set; thanks to Koogy)
7 Spiritualized: Anything More (nabbed from the network at my old job; I've never heard this before)
8 Nathan Fake: Falmer
9 Harry Nilsson: The Cast and Crew (from Skidoo)
10 Scott Walker: Joe Hill (from The Moviegoer; I can hear echoes of "Clara" in here. Nah, not really.)

i guess my winamp wanted to party...

(2847 mp3s, about 10 day's worth)

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Lee Perry Special Dub
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Stetson Kennedy
Queen - We Will Rock You
Peter Tosh - Them A Fi Get A Beatin'
Wire - 106 Beats That
Kortatu - Nicaragua Sandinista
Opondo Mugoye - Odhiambo Otieno
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Child Molesters - Hillside Strangler
Halo Of Flies - Human Fly

Andre Williams - Pass the Biscuits Please
Throbbing Gristle - Death Threats
Brian Eno - Two Rapid Formations
Leggo Beast & The Ossie All Stars - Version Dress Back
Vladimir Horowitz - Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 - II. Sehr rasch und leicht
Sun City Girls - Shin Paku
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Triste
The Fall - Way Round
Mercury Dance Band - Envy No Good
Los Indois Tabajaras - Always in My Heart

Corrupted - Sus Futuros
Glenn Gould - BWV 988, Variatio XXV Adagio A 2 Clavier (1981 Goldbergs)
Minguito - Ant'Ana (Angola '60s: 1956-1970)
Keith Hudson - Black Right
Animal Collective - Bat You'll Fly
Ayumi Ishida - (title in kanji, from '60s Cutie Pop Collection: Psychedelic Town Edit)
John Tilbury - Palais De Mari (Morton Feldman: All Piano)
Aksak Maboul - Retour Chez Les Futuristes
Jim Noste - I Get a Kick Out of You (Incorrect Music Compantion 2001)
John Zorn - Tre Nel 5000 (Morricone tribute)

I had an urge to do this today.

1. Bo Grumpus: Travelin' In The Dark
2. Eubie Blake: Charleston Rag
3. Michael Nesmith: Lazy Lady
4. Bob Dylan: North Country Blues
5. The Creation: I'm a Man
6. The Clean: Anything Could Happen
7. Allen Toussaint: Soul Sister
8. The Everly Brothers: When Will I Be Loved
9. The Royals: Facts Of Life
10. Juma Muhina: Dada Mwajuma Pt 2

Surprisingly cohesive, at least until the end. Two of those tracks I've never played on iTunes before: the Charleston Rag & the Creation track.

Ta very much

Party Shuffle!

1. The Flesh Eaters: Pray Till You Sweat
2. Prickly: Pond
3. Possum Dixon: Regina
4. McLusky: Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
5. The Chills: Double Summer
6. The Velvet Underground: One of these Days
7. The Mountain Goats: Milk Song
8. The Velvet Underground: She's My Best Friend
9. Ernest Lough: O For the Wings of a Dove
10. Frank Black and the Catholics: Velvety

Delia Derbyshire - Quest
FortDax - 04. august falling pinewood overpollen
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan (My Bloody Valentine Remix)
Acrnym - Lava Lump
Technical Itch - Think
Aphex Twin - Digeridoo
Aphex Twin - Phloam
Jenny Wilson - Those Winters
Spectrum - Sweet Running Water
Supersister - She Was Naked

saint etienne - clark co. record fair
sonic youth - catholic block
pj harvey - this wicked tongue (peel session)
kitchens of distinction - now it's time to say goodbye
nick cave - black betty
califone - million dollar funeral
low - i remember (a lifetime of temporary relief version)
echo and the bunnymen - villiers terrace
joy division - atrocity exhibition
catherine wheel - lifeline

Beatles - Something (Love Version)
The Five Notes - The Lion Is Awake
Carl Stalling Project - Frazzled Coyote
Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness (Laibach Mix)
Ben Folds - Gracie
Manowar - Wheels Of Fire (Live)
The Killers - All These Things I've Done (Mix)
Supermayer - Superbrain Transmissions
Johnny Prez - La Porta
B Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker

Scott Walker - "Jackie"
Little Richard - "True Fine Mama"
Elton John - "Honkey Tonk Women" [live version from "11-17-70"]
Throbbing Gristle - "10 Pence"
T.Rex - "Telegram Sam"
Scott Walker - "The Girls and the Dogs"
ABBA - "Move On"
Throbbing Gristle - "Still Walking"
T.Rex - "20th Century Boy"
Mick Ronson - "Billy Porter"

long gone lonesome blues - hank williams
you can do magic - america
let him run wild - brian wilson
am i black enough for you - billy paul
dancing in the sun - sun ra
hit liquor - shudder to think
doidoit4u- miso
war - the fall
golden showers - the frogs
interlude - ghostface killah

they might be giants - shoehorn with teeth
jeff wayne - the eve of the war
they might be giants - fingertips #15
modest mouse - dark center of the universe
radiohead - dollars and cents
guided by voices - weed king
ulrich schnauss - blumenthal
current 93 - red hawthorn tree
mouse on mars - tankpark
wagon christ - all my fingers

out of 12000ish mp3s
bleh

1. Field Day for the Sundays :: Wire
2. Gold Digger :: Kanye West
3. In The Lost and Found :: Elliott Smith
4. Ghetto Thang :: De La Soul
5. Little Hands :: Skip Spence
6. Don't Know Why :: Junior Byles
7. Debaser :: Pixies
8. Your Gold Dress :: The Dukes of Stratosphear
9. Brumoso (Misty) :: Lucho Gatica
10. Mullet Head :: The Beastie Boys

"Looking For Another Pure Love," Stevie Wonder
"Zlodej a Dezerter," Traband
"Fortunate Sons," The Boo Radleys
"Prismism," Battles
"Return to Nod," High on Fire
"Yeah Yeah Ku Yeah," Bokoor Band
"Luv n Haight," Sly and the Family Stone
"The Night Is Still Young," Pizzicato Five
"Wake Me Up," Norah Jones
"Last Night," The Mar-Keys

Maximo Park - Limassol
Alice Cooper - Poison
Iam - Quand Tu Allais On Revenait
Tom Waits - Lucky Day
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Beach Boys - Mountain Of Love
Skin Up - A Juicy Red Apple
Kyuss - Odyssey
Beastie Boys - All Lifestyles
AFX - Backdoor.Spyboter.A

I get the prize for coolest random list. Thank you, thank you!

we should do a poll

Um, you might do, if perhaps 7 or 8 of those songs were something completely different. xpost

lukas ligeti - great circle’s tune 1
if, bwana - ummm...
tom lopez/zbs productions - 30 second telephone terror theatre
yoko ono - don't count the waves
blixa bargeld - untitled
jarboe - (first)
marc riley with the creepers - breakneck 1
jorge ben - meus filhos meu tesouro
king tubby - dub from the roots
live skull - corpse

strange things happen when you have a bunch of tellus compilations on your hard drive

next 10 were pretty good too

ac/dc - the jack (live holland 1978)
swans - drink to me only with thine eyes
exuma - seance in the sixth fret
kaigal-ool khovalyg - fantasy on the igil
endless boogie - jammin with top dollar
gal costa e caetano veloso - baby
flesheaters - pray til you sweat
tron von hollywood - after shakespeare
fern knight - wolf i
charalambides - two way

Neu! - Im Gluck
Orbital - Otono
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
Pet Shop Boys - Psychological (Ewan Pearson Remix)
Lutzenkirchen - Corroder
Alex Moulton - Exodus
Feist - Brandy Alexander
The Pipettes - I Love You

That was going really well until the Pipettes.

Lou Reed - Berlin (really bad live version where he can't be bothered to sing properly)
Funkadelic - Super Stupid
Wooden Horse - Gentle Mind
Goldfrapp - Number 1 (1st remix on We Are Glitter)
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch - Legend of Xanadu
The Beatles - Paperback Writer
Madonna - Sorry
Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack - Rose Tint My World
Lionel Ritchie - Hello
Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up

Second time round:

Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk On The Moon
Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
Burial - Prayer
Laurent Garnier - some Resident Advisor podcast I've not listened to
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Meotope Remix)
Vitalic - My Friend Dairo
Prince - Sign O' The Times
Julien H Mulder - Sluts
Prodigy - Fire
Kate Bush - Moving