This one is borrowed from Kristin. The rules:
- Open up the music player on your computer (if you have one — the music player, I mean. Clearly you have a computer, because otherwise you couldn’t read this).
- Set it to play your entire music collection.
- Hit the “shuffle” command.
- Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
Here’s my list
- Crosby Stills Nash & Young — Helplessly Hoping
- Leo Kottke — Even His Feet Look Sad
- ZZ Top — Sleeping Bag
- The Lyres — Swing Shift
- The Guild League — Fingers of the Sun
- Single Gun Theory — Metaphysical
- The Orb — Little Fluffy Clouds
- Dervish — The Hills of Greanmore
- Train — Ramble On (Led Zeppelin Cover)
- Eminem – Stan
Whew… my Neil Diamond collection stash is safe.
Hmm…
1. Moondance (live) — Michael Buble
2. I Won’t Leave Your Lonely — Shania Twain
3. Palladio – i Allegretto — Karl Jenkins
4. Touching the Untouchables — Men at Work
5. Under Your Thumb — Godly and Creme
6. Everybody Hurts — The Corrs
7. This Kiss — Faith Hill
8. I’ve Got You — Martine McCutcheon
9. Mr Natural — Mental as Anything
10. Would I Lie To You — Ralph McTell
Hmmm, either my classical section was over sampled or I have more classical music recorded than I thought.
1. Tequila Sunrise – The Eagles (got lucky with #1)
2. Le tombeau de Couperin, for Orchestra – Debussey
3. Earth – Gladiator Original Soundtrack
4. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, 3rd Movement (Van Cliburn)
5. Brahms Violin Concerto in B, 1st Movement (awesome)
6. Motzart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (a little too light)
7. You Know What I Mean – Phil Collins
8. Intermezzo in E-Flat Minor by Brahms (Van Cliburn)
9. Don’t Stand So Close to Me – The Police
10. Lunatic Fringe – Red Rider
My Sinatra didn’t make it, which is actually dissappointing since I consider him rather cool. My enya recordings on the other hand…(republicans listen to New Age?!)
(I shuffled a few more times and usually end up with only 3 classicals in the top 10, so the classicals did get oversampled the first time).
Excellent topic.
Alllrighty then… no editing: (what the hell with all the ZZ top??!!?)
1. Angkor Wat by Yes
2. Brazil by Django Reinhardt
3. Girl Gone Bad by Van Halen
4. Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson
5. Sam’s Song by Dean Martin/Sammy Davis, Jr.
6. Viva Las Vegas by ZZ Top
7. Good Night My Love (Pleasant Dreams) by Harry Connick, Jr.
8. Experimental Film by They Might Be Giants
9. Blush Response by Vangelis
10. La Grange by ZZ Top
Spider in the Snow by The Dismemberment Plan
Soldier Girl by Polyphonic Spree
At The River by Groove Armada
Margerine Rock by Stereolab
Vatstep Dsp by Hrvatski
One Million by Athlete
Julie and Candy by Boards of Canada
Big Black Gun by Simian
Olio by The Rapture
In Particular by Blonde Redhead
Not too bad of a mix.
Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo) – Beetoven
The Day Before You – Rascal Flatts
Now That I Found you – Alison Krause
Everytime You Say Goodbye – Alison Krause
Highway Blues
Bedshaped – Keane
Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts
Once Upon a Lifetime – Alabama
Feels Like Today – Rascal Flatts
Superman – 3 Doors Down
(All from my limited music collection on my company laptop) :)
Joy Division
It’s fascinating seeing what other people listen to, especially since I have never heard of most of those groups… including three of my selections – these were random stuff I was trying to discover different music.
My Neil Diamond stash remains hidden ;-)
Fatboy Slim- Song for Lindy
Pearl Jam- Parting Ways
U2- New York
Bad Religion- How Much Is Enough?
Rolling Stones- Stealing My Heart
Gorillaz- Clint Eastwood
Rolling Stones- Not Fade Away
Sum 41- Rhythms
Tom Petty- Lonesome Sundown
Aerosmith- Just Push Play
Interesting.. 2 of 10 are ‘hits’in one form or another (Aerosmith, Gorillaz). The rest are b-sides or filler tracks.
A Certain Someone-Sundays
Cuttin’Out-Donovan
The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil-Jefferson Airplane
Chains-Wolfgang Press
DJ Goes Dead-Franklin
Nocturne-Django Reinhardt
We’ve Loved Before-Henry Mancini
The Payback-James Brown
Never Marry A Railroad Man-Shocking Blue
Broken-Hearted Blues-T. Rex
1. Beatles – Ticket to Ride
2. Lee Greenwood – Battle Hymn of the Republic
3. Jesus Christ Superstar – Herod’s Song
4. Soggy Bottom Boys – Man of Constant Sorrow
5. Van Morrison – Crazy Love
6. Willie Nelson – Midnight Rider
7. Police – Every Breath You Take
8. Bentframe – Me is Retarded
9. The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
10. Simon and Garfunkel – Cecilia
My ten:
Jimmy Eat World-My Sundown
Papa Roach-Revenge
Jimmy Eat World-Rockstar
Aztec Camera-Somewhere In My Heart
Beastie Boys-Girls
Sylvester-Do You Wanna Funk?
Finch-Letters To You
Rage Against The Machine-Testify
Franz Ferdinand-Take Me Out
Mr Scruff-Shanty Town
I must add I’ve about 700 tracks on my PC, but most of my music is on CD-I’ve nearly 300 albums and compilation CDs.
Sir Mix A Lot – Baby got back (didn’t realize I even had this one)
Moby – First Cool Hive
Smash Mouth – Padrino
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
The Deftones – Change
Red Hot Chili Pepers – Under the Bridge
Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears
Live – Waterboy
Yaki Da – I Saw You Dancing
1. China girl – David Bowie
2. Fire and rain – James Taylor
3. The weight – The Band
4. My way – Frank Sinatra
5. Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
6. Catch the wind – Donovan
7. Running down a dream – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8. Waterloo sunset – The Kinks
9. Ordinary world – Duran Duran
10. Live and let die – Wings