Random Rules again

[nathansmart]

The new board is up, so let's do it again!

This is obviously stolen from The AV Club but here are the rules if you don't already know from the 20 other times I've done this. 10 songs, random shuffle (iPod or iTunes or whatever other thing you might use), discuss the song.

1) You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles, Help!

This is another Beatles song that I'm ashamed to say I first heard on the I Am Sam soundtrack. Before I had really dug into the catalog I loved hearing singles and covers and now I'm glad I finally took the plunge after being so lazy. I love the flutes in there at the end - I'm a flute jerk.

2) Thoughtforms - Lush, Gala

I downloaded a couple of albums from Lush after finding this 80s pop blog. I really like the feel of the track but it's only the 2nd time I've heard it so I don't have any particular feelings on it. The sound definitely fits their name.

3) Flickr - Jonathan Coulton, Thing a Week Two

I'm a sucker for novelty songs and rolling guitar folk songs. Coulton is good for this type of stuff - and the recorder is almost just as good as the flute. I used to have a recorder when I was a kid and it smelled like old spit all the time. I think it was my mom's when she was a kid. I still played it like I was a fairy trying to get her wings.

4) Africa (Goin' Back Home) - Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, The World's Greatest Entertainer

I've been on a mission to download any old school hip hop I can find just to check off anything I've ever missed out on. I'm not sure if I've gone through this album yet, but this song is pretty good - basic but good. I think going through Doug E. Fresh's stuff hasn't really sold me on him as an album maker. He's definitely as entertaining as he claims to be but I'd rather hear his stuff at a party than while laying in bed at home.

5) Spellbound - K-Solo, Tell the World My Name

The spelling rapper - rappers have been doing this for so long but K-Solo took it to the next level. It was something I loved as a kid but now it's just annoying having to try and pay attention to lyrics being spelled out to me. I liked his second album, Times Up, much better.

6) Soul by the Pound (Remix) - Common, Uncommon Classics

I think this remix was done by Large Professor and everything he touches is usually gold. This is a song from Common's first album when he was on some crazy Fu-Schnickens-type stuff - way before he turned into the conversationalist he is today. This album is so different than anything else he's done. It's a nice debut but it's almost boring when compared to Resurrection, one of the best hip hop albums of all time.

7) Bicycle - Rafter, Ten Songs

Back when my little acapella group Indie Blockedappella has it's little 15 blog pages of fame I got commissioned by Sufjan Stevens' record label, Asthmatic Kitty, to do a cover of one song from each of their artists. They sent me a bunch of CDs and I quickly realized that Sufjan is the only one that I actually care about on their roster. I like a couple of them but I can only handle so much experimentation before I zone out. Rafter straddles the line between pop and experimentation but this song is more the first. I like this one.

8) Runnin' Yo Mouth - Original Concept, Straight from the Basement of Kooley High

This is Dr. Dre's (from Yo! MTV Raps) first rap group before getting on Yo! MTV Raps (I think). Ed Lover wasn't involved with this but T-Money was. It's not bad - it just seems to be another record that got lost in the flurry because it didn't really have anything separating it from the pack.

9) Think - The Rolling Stones, Aftermath

I'm not a huge Rolling Stones fan but this is probably the era I like the most. I just hate all that wanky funk blues rock they tend to do. I admit I don't know much about them so I'm probably just being a pharisee. This is probably my favorite album from them and looking at Wikipedia, it's the US release I most like.

10) Jerry - Jimmy Pardo, Pompous Clown

This album is such a snapshot of Pardo's skill but it's also bittersweet because it's not the same unless you're there. The thing I pull most from this track is that it makes me miss Mike Schmidt on the podcast (he keeps mentioning him from the stage). I like the 40 Year Old Boy but Schmidt really needs someone to help him balance out his crazy stories.

[SailRacer]

1) Zero - Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

I haven't listened to this song in forever. I think It's on here from a mix CD I made when I was in high school. Pretty sure I don't have this album any more. Smashing Pumpkins always reminds me of two things. First, my friend Matt who insisted the band be referred to as "Disfiguring Gords". Second, my friend Greg's band which, despite all the claims of the band members otherwise, was mostly a Pumpkins cover band.

2) Cry Tough - Poison, Poison's Greatest Hits

One of my fiance's all time favorite bands. I'm hit and miss with Poison. Brett Michaels played a concert in Sault Ste. Marie, MI when I was living there. He hit on one of my friends. When she turned him down he grabbed her ass and said something I can only describe as 80's movie cheezy. I just wish I could remember exactly what it was...

3) Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow's Greatest Hits

I like Sheryl Crow. This isn't my favorite song of hers, but it's kinda fun. It reminds me of nothing at all.

4) Seamus - Pink Floyd, Meddle

This is a weird Floyd song. It's a blue grass/blues tune that has a hound dog howling through the whole thing in the back ground. Meddle is one of my all time favorite albums. I always think of the book Sphere and my Dad's boat when I here this song. I was reading Sphere when I bought the album, and would sit out on my Dad's boat in the lake and listen while I read...

5) For Boston - Dropkick Murphys, Sing Loud, Sing Proud

This song makes me want to get sloshed on Killians, go to a hockey game, and be one of those ass hole fans. I think they're chanting "Let's Go Hurricanes" at the begining, and I have no idea why.

6) Dirty Hole - Vast, Visual Audio Sensory Theater

VAST is an awesome band. If you're never heard of them go out and listen to the song Free off of their album Music For People. It's a great example of what they're about. I was listening to this album constantly when I broke up with an ex girlfriend. It's funny because she told me when we started dating that she'd slept with 3 people. Turns out it was well higher than that, which made this song extremely appropriate for that time in my life.

7) Welcome - The Who, Tommy

That deaf, dumb, and blind kid says hello. I like this album, but the movie Tommy weirds me out.

8) Float On - Modest Mouse, Float On

This song is insanely catchy. I'll be humming it for the rest of the night. Thanks. This isn't my favorite Modest Mouse album, but I really like it. I was excited that it made it big. It was a great opportunity for people to be exposed to the band that wouldn't have found it otherwise.

9) Walnuts For Gold - Ze Frank, The Songs

If you haven't been to www.zefrank.com and watched The Show, go do it right now. Watch it all. Every episode. Just do it. The songs make me snicker like a fifth grade boy who heard a dirty joke.

10) If You Think You're Lonely Tonight - Bobby Womack, The Very Best

One of my coworkers LOVES Bobby Womack. So I borrowed this album from him. It never really did it for me, but it's kinda fun to listen to every now and then. It borders between music that could almost be in a porn and songs that are mildly depressing. This one leans toward the depressing side.

[hound]

1.) Intro - Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

Kind of appropriate the first song would be an intro. Not really much of a "song". It's usually something I skip when I listen to this album.

2.) Ice Dogs - Man Man, Six Demon Bag

I like doo wop influence in this song. I remember playing it one night in trying to convince some friends to go see Man Man with me and this one guy I am convinced is both gay and really dumb (but surprisingly won't admit to either) said I was listening to "a bunch of little kids" because he didn't understand people can sing in different pitches.

3.) Girl - Les Sexareenos, 28 Party Dancers from Montreal

One of the more melodic, cleaner sounding songs on the album. I prefer BBQ/Mark Sultan in his later works but I like pretty much everything he's done.

4.) Run - Ghostface (featuring Jadakiss), The Pretty Toney Album

Probably more well known around these parts than people realize since it's used all the time as bed music for The Best Show on WFMU every week. Great song!

5.) Running Meredith - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham

What the f? This was on the last random rules I did! Stupid ipod!

6.) Girl 66 - Sonic Chicken 4, self-titled

The first song I heard from them that really grabbed me and I've been listening to this album just about every day for the last few weeks.


7.) She May Call You Up Tonight - The Left Banke, Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of all time. I haven't listened to this in ages and it's as good as I remembered.

8.) Man...or Astro-man? - Domain of the Human Race, EEVIAC: Operational Index and Reference Guide

As far as space surf rock bands god, Man...or Astro-man? were tops. As far as their albums go, this one was tops. Great concept album with probably the fewest boring parts (to me) I've heard. I'm generally not a fan of the concept album due to all the filler that goes into them.

9.) Get Back Baby - Esquerita, Rockin' The Joint

Great 50's soul rock in the vain of Little Richard, which makes sense since Esquerita was the basis of Little Richard's style and persona.

10.) You Make Me Sick, Oh Yeah - The Ohsees, Sucks Blood

Kind of a snoozer of a song. Way to muck up the ending, ipod.

[PinkieOfDoom]

A lot of these songs I find are even on my iPod because of the memories they invoke, even if the song itself doesn't relate at all to the memory...

1.) ABC - Jackson 5

I don't have an explanation (a good one anyay) for this song. It was on my laptop for a different MP3 playing program (not iTunes), but I kept the song anyway because I do like it.

2.) Rewrite (riraito) - Asian Kung Fu Generation

It's the theme song to one of "Full Metal Alchemist" (anime). I downloaded it with the rest of the album it's on. I like this song, and the group of friends I made at Wesleyan all liked anime and they all knew this song. But once again, it's a really good song.

3.) September - Earth, Wind, and Fire

This has always been my absolute favorite song ever. It took me forever to find this song (my mom doesn't trust my brother with iTunes... it's a really long, really crappy story), then after finding it, I found out my mom already had the CD with the song on it. I've found that lyrics don't really mean anything to me so much as the music playing behind it and yeah...

4.) Fat Bitch - Juelz Santana

This is just a funny song, making fun of Gold Digger by Kanye West, but I used to listen to this song whenever my brother drove (and wasn't listening to crappy techno).

5.) Little Busters - the pillows

I like the pillows but I hate when they use English in their songs, and this would be a great song if it weren't for the fact that the English makes no sense (It kind of does, but they could have at least checked with an English speaker if it sounded right): "With the kids think of the future. Maybe kids don't need the masters. Maybe they're just waiting for the Little Busters. Oh Yeah." It's from the FLCL (furikuri or Fooly Cooly) soundtrack.

6.) If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

I used to listen to this song with my mom whenever we drove anywhere that took longer than an hour to get there.

7.) Bad Luck (Part I) - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

This was on the same album as the last song, so same story. I love that kind of music, by the way.

8.) Yoru No Mukou (Beyond The Night) - Asian Kung Fu Generation

This is one of the songs that I listen to the intro and it doesn't pull me in so I don't listen to it until a couple of months at least. Then one day, months later, I'll actually listen to the whole song and fall in love with it.

9.) Utskushiki Ningen no Hibi - Sambomaster

I use this song to walk out to when I do stand up at my school (we pick songs to walk out to to cover the awkward silence that would then exist). A friend of mine knows who Sambomaster is and that was justification for me having it.
I believe the song title translates to "Beautiful People's Day", but I'm probably wrong...

10.) Obsession - Aventura

Aventura's singer sounds like a such a little bitch when he songs and he usually sings about having his heart broken, but that's what makes him popular. I used to hear this song on the radio when my drove me and we listened to his Spanish radio station. If I knew the lyrics to most of the songs on the station, I would have a lot more Spanish songs on my iPod than English.

[Shane]

Here comes a comedy random list...

1) Ian Edwards-Comedy Death Day(Disc 2)

Off one of the greatest comedy compilations of all time. On here is Ian's now famous bit stolen by Gilbert Arenas about shark attacks. Good stuff.

2)Drinking-Pat Dixon (White Devil)

"You ever get so drunk and leave something on all night...like a condom." He's very dry and very funny. I've seen him twice and would recommend you seeing him.

3)SUV/Fat Kids/Suing McDonalds/Dreammakers/Burned Genitals-Greg Giraldo

I like his ranty-ness, he makes it seem like he's making it up on the spot. I've started to grow tired of the things he does on TV for some reason. I have no idea why because I've always liked him.

4)Pictures, Girls in a Group, Let's be Friends-Dov Davidoff

He's weird, but i like his enthusiasm and his crazy voice. I have to wonder if he actually talks like that or is it a stage persona.

5)You Need a Massage-Bill Engvall

The only reason this is on my ipod is because my dad has it and I stole it from him to add to my comedy collection.

6)Look at My Dirt-Pablo Fransisco

He says ka-ka in this bit, huge fan of that word. I got this for buying the dvd (Bits and Pieces), which is really funny. But, all of his dvds and cds seem like the same thing now. All of them have the movie voice guy and 30 minutes about strip clubs.

7)"Two More Sips"-Patton Oswalt (Feelin' Kinda Patton)

I like Werewolves and Lollipops better but Patton is always funny. I haven't listened to this album in forever so I don't have anything else to say.

8)Lifestyles Retro-Frank Caliendo (Voices)

I wish every freaking station wouldn't have ruined his John Madden impression, and I wish he didn't do that crappy show he's doing now. But, this cd is good. His Jim Rome impression is one of my favorites of all time, because nobody else does it, but that's not on this cd. Farley as batman is also hilarious.

9)Mirman-Eugene Mirman (The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of Eugene Mirman)

MIRMANNNN! MAN FROM THE SEA! The album title has him right: absurd. He's one of my favorites. I saw him a couple months ago live and I had a really awkward talk with him, which was exactly how I expected it to be. Then I talked to Andy Kindler for 10 minutes, and it was very educational.

10)Tomatoes-Mitch Hedberg (Strategic Grill Locations)

What is there to say that hasn't already been said. One of the best ever. It makes me sad that I didn't get to see him live.

[Aaron1933]

Okay, I'm about to do it. My guess is 3+ Built to Spill songs.

The Dukes of Hazzard - Patton Oswalt, Werewolves and Lollipops
When I first got this iPod, I had a bunch of comedy albums on it, but this is one of the few that remained on. Fantastic.

Less Than You Think - Wilco, A Ghost is Born
The outro is an irritating addition to this song. Believe me, I'm totally for the noise thing that they started doing on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but here it goes too far and is completely unnecessary.

In Relief - John Frusciante, Shadows Collide With People
I like this song a lot. Haven't listened to much John Frusciante lately, but I still have a lot of his stuff on here. I definitely went through a big John Frusciante phase about a year ago.

How Deep Is Your Love - The Bird and The Bee, Please Clap Your Hands
This a good cover of a good song. I like The Bird and The Bee, although their music is something that I'm not always into.

Again & Again - The Bird and The Bee, The Bird and The Bee
...which is why it's weird that the next song should turn out to be another one of their songs.

Red Rabbits - The Shins, Wincing The Night Away
I really like The Shins. They're a band I got into long after everyone else, like most music I listen to, but who gives a fuck? I don't.

Murmer - John Frusciante, Internet Album
More John Frusciante.

Blood On My Neck From Success - John Frusciante, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt
Wow, more John Frusciante. There are some artists whose entire catalogs I have on here for some reason. I should manage that better.

Been Insane - John Frusciante, Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt
Okay, this is a little ridiculous. I listen to more music than this.

The Tourist - Radiohead, OK Computer
I do love Radiohead quite a bit. This is a good song.

Wow, I was 100% wrong about Built to Spill. I'm amazed. I'm in the middle of a big Built to Spill phase and I have all of their albums on here and then some. (#11 was Built to Spill)

[FF Woodycooks]

I have like 500 Mountain Goats songs, so I'm betting a lot of those will come up.

1. Indiaca - Taraf De Haidouks
Taraf De Haidouks is a Roma/gypsy band from Romania. I really like gypsy music; it's really fast and vibrant, and this band sounds, I don't know.. rickety. In a good way, like they might actually be a traveling band in rural Romania instead of wealthy recording artists or something. I got kinda mad at the first Beirut album because it's sort of insulting to how much more awesome this is.

2. Alpha In Tauris - The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats/John Darnielle is my favorite working songwriter today. Most of his songs are about people trying to relate to each other through forcefields of alcoholism and anxiety. I guess I relate to that? I love how concise and still evocative his writing is.

3. Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
Holy shit this band is awesome. If I could go to any concert that has ever happened, I would go to one of the Stop Making Sense concerts. Talking Heads are a perfect dance party band.

4. Dancing Girls Theme - Madlib
This is from Beat Konducta in India Vol. 3-4. I'm assuming it's all samples from Indian music and Bollywood stuff. It's a great chillout album and Madlib is always awesome.

5. Eleven Instrusions - Harry Partch
This guy rules. He was this composer who worked in the early half of the 20th century who was really interested in microtonality. He invented a 40-something note scale based on vocal modulation. He invented a bunch of instruments to play it, too. A lot of his work sounds like nerdy beatnik poetry, but it's still pretty neat.

6. Kitch - Lord Kitchener
I LOVE this guy. He's an awesome calypso singer who worked in the 50s-60s. A lot of his songs have a ton of funny sexual innuendo that is crazy when you think about when he was popular (listen to "Doctor Kitch", it's gross).

7. What Keeps Mankind Alive - Tom Waits
This is a song from the Threepenny Opera, covered by Tom Waits. Waits is one of my favorite musicians ever (and I love Down By Law, too), I have all his albums. This song is on the third disc of his Orphans Collection, the disc with all the weirdest stuff (like this, and a Daniel Johnston cover, among another things).

8. Another Breakfast With You - Ladytron
I'm kind of embarrassed by this, but it's good music to listen to while you're getting ready to go out.

9. Bananaphone - Rafi
Fuck. This is proof that I'm not skipping around on tracks. Rafi really is pretty great, though.

10. Disorder - Joy Division
This is my favorite Joy Division song. It's completely timeless to me. I wish Ian Curtis hadn't killed himself so he could entertain me with more awesome music (I'm selfish).


Also: Hound, I didn't know other Les Sexareenos fans existed! I know virtually nothing about them except that I somehow ended up with their album and I love it.

[nathansmart]

1.) Intro - Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

Kind of appropriate the first song would be an intro. Not really much of a "song". It's usually something I skip when I listen to this album.

I feel like all the Wu-Tang albums have so many skits and intros that I often times forget that there are songs on the albums. I'll put an old one in and think, "I don't remember this song."

[man124]

1. Feel Flows - Beach Boys, Almost Famous Soundtrack

Almost Famous is probably my favorite movie of all times which is why I own the this song from the soundtrack and not from pet sounds which is also a great album. Also, I like that during the scene where William is backstage during the Black Sabbath concert, this is the song that can be heard coming from the stage. Also, I think this is the Beach Boys song that has a Theremin in it.


2. Alice in Wonderland: I'm Late - Bill Thompson and Kathryn Beaumong, The Music of Disney: A Legacy of song

This 3 CD set probably the biggest guilty pleasure on my I-Pod. Not a huge fan of this particular song though.


3. Dreaming with a Broken Heart - John Mayer, Continuum

To be totally honest, I really hate everything about John Mayer, except for this song. I think it is a pretty solid lost love song.


4. Livin' at the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe - MC Frontalot, Secrets from the Future

If your not familiar with MC Frontalot, then your should be. This song is pretty good. Its a weird combo of nerdcore rap and something that sounds like it should by some crappy 90's pop band, like sugar ray.


5. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad

I cannot put into words how much I hate this song and I don't know how it got on my ipod.


6. Women - Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker

Don't have much to say about this one.


7. Sussudio - Phil Collins, No Jacket Required

When I was a kid, this was the first song I learned all the words to. It is a pretty awesome song though.


8. The number of the Beast - Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast

One of the best intro's of any song ever.


9. Special Delivery - MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising

I am a little sad about the two MC Frontalot songs that came up during this, because neither of them represent his music particularly well. This is a song protesting the war in Iraq. If your interested in some good songs by him listen to Goth Girls, Bizarro genius Baby, I hate your blog and Forbidden Planet.


10. 1980's sitcom theme (BLC Podcast theme remix) - Kristopher Straub, The Precise Moment of Failure

Kris Staub's Music is pretty great particularly his Music to Spam To collection on this CD. Its a whole bunch of nonsense spam emails set to music, and there is something strangely deep about them. Because it is pretty much impossible to find I will add the link to where you can get the album. http://store.nightlightpress.com/music.shtml


I have to say this is a pretty shitty representation of my musical tastes.

[Dan B]

The Black Lips - "Juvenile" They're the new Rolling Stones. I like how they kind of play shitty, but you know they're actually good.

Jay-Z - "Intro" from American Gangster. This album far exceeded my expectations. I'm looking forward to Blueprint 3, but it'll be hard to top this.

Big L - "The Triboro" ft. OC and Fat Joe. Big L was cool. I like that tune "ebonics" a lot.

The Ramones - "You Should Never Have Opened that Door" This is before the Ramones got good i.e. before Marky Ramone joined.

Jon Brion and Michael Penn - "The Phone Call/Waiting for Jimmy" from the Hard 8 soundtrack. This movie's great. This song features some flute action.

The Beach Boys - "Forever" This song is on Sunflower. Dennis Wilson does it. Great!

The Cockney Rejects - "Someone Like You" Oi! indeed.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Skunk" I like the screaming.

Will Oldham - "The Weaker Soldier" live in New Zealand. This is a full band arrangement of a song from Arise Therefore which was just guitar and drum machine. Will Oldham is one of the best songwriters and vocalists out there.

Justice - "Phantom Pt. II" I ignored this album for a while, but it's actually awesome. I dig the rock and roll samples.

[Truth Movement]

1. Feel Flows - Beach Boys, Almost Famous Soundtrack

Almost Famous is probably my favorite movie of all times which is why I own the this song from the soundtrack and not from pet sounds which is also a great album. Also, I like that during the scene where William is backstage during the Black Sabbath concert, this is the song that can be heard coming from the stage. Also, I think this is the Beach Boys song that has a Theremin in it.

"Feel Flows" is from Surf's Up. Not from Pet Sounds. I'm such a Beach Boys nerd that I couldn't overlook it. Sorry.

[Umlaut]

1. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- "Hearts of Oak"
Nothing wrong with this. Is there a more consistent artist of the past 10 years? I dunno, probably. I like Ted Leo a lot, how can you not?

2. The Hold Steady- "Slapped Actress"
From the newest album, which I'm still pretty "meh" about, honestly. I think Craig Finn's voice has just finally gotten to me and I can't listen to more than one Hold Steady song at a time now. This is my favorite song from this album though, but I'm kind of a sucker for songs mentioning theatre and also any use of choral harmonies.

3. Death Cab for Cutie- "Army Corps of Architects"
From You Can Play These Songs Using Chords, file this under Death Cab albums I ripped off MyTunes from this girl in my dorm freshman year. I don't know if I've ever actually listened to this album, and looking at my iTunes play count, I see it confirmed that I have never listened to this song before. It's pretty.

4. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros- "Minstrel Boy"
From Global A-go-go, which I downloaded on the strength of "Johnny Appleseed" after getting hooked on John from Cincinnati. I really fell in love with this album, though. I haven't really set aside the 18 minutes to devote to this particular song yet. I'd probably like it, I'm a sucker for long, epic songs (see: The Tain, Bat out of Hell, Purple Rain)

5. Jann Arden- "Unloved"
Okay, I've got some explaining to do on this one. I am an Acting major, and one of my professors would always do yoga warm-ups with us to this song. I mostly got it to break out at parties for impromptu Sun Salutations.

6. The Velvet Underground- "Beginning to See the Light"
Got into VU a few years ago, obviously one of the all time greats. This is a really great, strangely uplifting song. I like to put it on motivational mixes (which I make, don't judge).

7. Rufus Wainwright- "Vibrate"
Some people don't like this Rufus song because it's kind of corny (Hook: "My phone's on vibrate for you"), but it's actually one of my favorites of his. I love Rufus when he's either completely, ridiculously over the top and melodramatic, or really simple and subdued, like this song.

8. Cabaret- "What Would You Do?"
I knew I wasn't going to be able to get through 10 songs without some musical theatre popping up. I used to be a huge musical nerd, but my interest has waned considerably, excepting Sondheim. I don't know if I've really listened to this song, but it sounds terrible.

9. Jesus Christ Superstar- Entire Album
Yes, I have this on one mp3. I recently watched this movie about a month or so ago (marijuana was involved) and I cracked up hysterically at the entire thing, for obvious, Mr. Show-related reasons.

10. Allen Ginsberg- "Footnote to Howl"
And now my computer is shouting "Holy" at me. Ginsberg is one of my favorites, and I really like this album of him reading his poems, especially "A Supermarket in California."

This isn't a very good sample of my music, but there it is.

[Jerkmonivich]

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
what a great song. i love it.

Stake Out - Freezepop
whatever. i played a lot of frequency and amplitude in college years or something

Definition - Blackstar
will i ever get sick of this song? probably no.

Crosseyed and Painless - Talking Heads
i have nothing to add that hasn't already been said

Slip And Do It - Betty Wright
love love love her, she really had a point of view

Life on Mars - David Bowie
i dated a dude because he performed a sort of choreographed dance routine for me to this song. it sounds like a bad idea and it was!

Good To Go - Elliot Smith
holy. fucking. shit. one of my favorite songs

Dory Previn - Camera Obscura
a bit twee, but i like this band

The Only Answer - Mike Doughty
if you went to my highschool, you listen to mike doughty. that's just how it is.

The Price I Pay - Billy Bragg
a gorgeous song, billy bragg is epic.

this is a boring list. it makes me look boring.

[ChrisCubasATX]

1) Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler: Nothing to see here. Move along

2) Honey Roasted Peanuts - The Simpsons: "Twenty Dollars? I wanted a peanut!"

3) Buy Her Candy - Sleater Kinney: I'm so mad that I never got to see this band live. Her voice is just ridiculous. My old roommate saw them and they did a cover of Mother by Danzig. I hate my old roommate a little.

4) Girl Let Me Cum In Your Mouth - Blowfly: He's says dirty things and I have the maturity level of a 12 year old.

5) Player's Anthem - Junior M.A.F.I.A. ft. Biggie Smalls: HOLY SHIT! I didn't even know I had this song. This group of Biggie hangers on was completely useless except for this song which is the doo doo.

6) My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions: BDP had a run of four albums from 1987 - 1990 (Criminal Minded, By All Means Necessary [where this song comes from], Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop, Edutainment) that were as close to flawless as an artist can come.

7) Watching The Detectives (Live) - Elvis Costello: This is from the Bonus Disc that came with the Armed Forces Release of a few years ago. Good times

8) Anti-Matter (Ft. Mr. Fantastik) - King Gheedora: I would gladly listen to an entire album of Mr. Fantastik of MF Dooms underrate production.

9) Wear Your Hat (Buried & Bald) - N.W.H: N.W.H is Niggas With Hats, the group at the center of criminally overlooked Fear of a Black Hat. This soundtrack is a fantastic. They do perfect paraodies of everything from P.M. Dawn to C & C Music Factory to this amazing Public Enemy Style song about hats as political revolution. I can't reccomend this sound track or movie enough.

10) So Whatcha Gone Do Now? - Public Enemy: God this album sucks. This is from Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age. There are like 3 good songs on this album and this aint one of them.

[KeithTalent]

7) Watching The Detectives (Live) - Elvis Costello: This is from the Bonus Disc that came with the Armed Forces Release of a few years ago. Good times

The bonus discs on those reissues sometimes get more play than the albums themselves. Good stuff. I love in that live version when everything falls away but the bass before "...y'think you're alone until you realize you're in it, now..."

[hound]

1.) What To Do - The Ziggens, Pomona Lisa

One of my favorite bands from high school. Odd they came up because i listened to them for the first time in forever yesterday. Still love 'em.

2.) Can't We All Just Get A Longboard? - The Ziggens, Pomona Lisa

I swear I have like 25,000 songs on my itunes and it plays another one from the same album (but two songs away)? itunes!!!!

3.) Publicité Vin Granji - France Gall, Ultra Chicks Vol 6: Vous Dansez Mademoiselle

Neat song from a french 60's girl garage band compilation. Yumitree and I went on a download binge of 60's garage comps a month or two ago, so my itunes is jam packed with this stuff now.

4.) Eenzaam Op't Leidsplein - Reggy Van de Burght, Ultra Chicks Vol 6: Vous Dansez Mademoiselle

What the hell, itunes! Same album again! This is more of a pop song than garage but still really nice.

5.) Not' Prof d'Anglais - Chantal Kelly, Ultra Chicks Vol 6: Vous Dansez Mademoiselle

WHAT THE F! Well, in your defense, itunes, I hadn't listened to this album yet and this song is pretty awesome. Thanks, itunes for being so lazy.

6.) C'est le garçon - Gillian Hills, Ultra Chicks Vol 6: Vous Dansez Mademoiselle

THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

7.) Je n'y comprends rien - Katy Line, Ultra Chicks Vol 6: Vous Dansez Mademoiselle

OH COME ON! I quit because it's just playing this album in its entirety. My itunes has been hella wacked out lately. Now some dude is leaching my internet and sharing his itunes as "Sanchez's Limewire Downloads." I want to change my network name to "Get off my internet, Sanchez." (When I put a password/WEP code/etc on my internets, my computer just won't go with it, I don't know why and neither does my brother who works for IBM or my dad who's been a computer engineer for 30 years)

[Berliner]

When are you gonna do random roles? I want to discuss my filmography.

[TacoSmith]

1) "I've Been Everywhere" - Johnny Cash: I'm by no means a Cash aficionado but I like his songs here and there. Basically, I'm a bandwagon jumper. I don't really like this song so much, though. Doesn't help that it's in that annoying commercial.

2) "Covered in Punks Blood" by Desert Sessions: Great, this is going to be a list of stuff I don't even listen to that much. I like these albums, though, I just never think to listen to them. This song is pretty good, I remember it. Oh, it's short and it's almost over now.

3) "Son of 'Cha'" by Local H: I'm actually a pretty big Local H fan. Seen them live a couple times and they always put on an awesome show. This song is one of the better ones on "Here Comes the Zoo" which is kind of a forgettable album.

4) "What it Ain't (Ghetto Enuff)" by Goodie Mob ft. TLC: Boy, I love Goodie Mob but this song is certainly not a good representation of why. TLC ain't helping. Although, I'm not going to lie, I used to own "Crazysexycool".

5) "Lapdance" by N.E.R.D: This is definitely a catchy motherfucker. I used to listen to it all the time, but then I kind of burnt myself out on it. Still good, though.

6) "The Day the Niggaz Took Over" by Dr. Dre: I don't really know this song. It's off "The Chronic" though so it can't be all bad, right?

7) "Karate" by Tenacious D: Wow, how appropriate. Now this looks rigged. I still love this whole album with all my heart.

8) "Intro" by OutKast/Big Boi: Well, no list would be complete without an appearance from an intro track. This is the intro to Big Boi's "Speakerboxxx". Even though "The Love Below" got most of the attention, I still think Big Boi's end was really fucking good.

9) "Death Is My Sleazy Pay" by My Morning Jacket: I literally have never heard this song before in my life. I have a tendency to put a band/artist's entire discography on my mp3 player and then never really listen to it. This song seems pretty cool, though.

10) "Velvety Instrumental Version" by Pixies: This is off their amazing B-Sides album. I actually rank "B-Sides" higher than "Bossanova" as far as Pixies albums go. It is noted in the liner notes that even though this is called the "instrumental version" there is no other version.

Wow, I can't believe no Wu-Tang or Wu-Tang affiliates showed up on here. That probably takes up a good 10% of my mp3 player.

[scamboogah]

1) Gold is your metal (Paper Faces Remix) - Themroc - Fabric 09 - Jacques Lu Cont.

2) De Camino A La Vereda - Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

3) Romantic Rights - Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm....

4) Upon This Tidal Wave - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

5) Une Annee Sens Lumiere - The Arcade Fire, Funeral

6) Pleasure Dome 12 - Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Logan's Sanctuary (The soundtrack album to an imaginary sequel to Logan's Run)

7) Everybody in the House - Buzzthrill - On the Floor at the Big Beat Boutique mixed by Fatboy Slim

8) Mark On The Bus - The Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

9) The Only One I know - Charlatans UK - Brit Box

10) To Hell With Poverty - Gang of Four - Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80s Underground

[RegularKarate]

1) "Merv Griffin" - Jimmy Pardo
Yes, I'm on AST, why do you ask?

2) "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" - The Postal Service
Sheesh... I need to clean my iPod a little better, I haven't listened to this in a long time. Anything Gibbard related is kinda guilty pleasure for me.

3) "Revolution 1" - The Beatles
Fun fact: The Beatles are good

4) "These are the days of our lives" - Queen
This is probably left over when I went on a "Listen to a band's entire discography straight through" kick. Queen is great, but Innuendo is a tad creamcheese.

5) "Obstacle 2" - Interpol
I guess my iPod is going for the more obvious stuff for this list, but whatever. Interpol... I hear Obstacle 1 is going to be on the next Guitar Hero... sounds good.

6) "Blue Eyed Devil" - Soul Coughing
There was entire year where the only thing I would listen to while high was Soul Coughing. I was teenager, that's my excuse. Not my favorite off this album, but it reminds me of Bus to Beezlebub (also on this album) and how when my improv troupe was driving to a festival in North Carolina and "Bus" came on and that hook got stuck in our heads and once we got there, Death By Roo Roo started singing it in one of their scenes, which also reminds me that I was drunk and laughing so loud that you can identify me in the youtube video of that show.

7) "Sugar Free Jazz" - Soul Coughing
REALLY iPod? I have my doubts about this really being "random"... 30 gigs of music and it picks another from the same album.

8) "Sweet Road" - Animal Collective
Short and fun... clickity click, pluckity pluck

9) "Sanctified" - Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails got me through Highschool... as a teenager, I just assumed Downward Spiral was about me. Boy, if I could go back in time, I would slap myself. Now I have to occasionally still listen to crappy songs like this.

10) "Bridge over Troubled Water" - Johnny Cash
Some artists get away with being mega cheesy, Johnny Cash is one of them... Fiona Apple is not.