Here’s a fun game, put your iTunes on shuffle and write down which 10 tracks pop up. No cheating and leaving out the tracks you think won’t make you look cool!
Here’s mine:
Controversy Between - Front 242
When Heads Collide - Arsenal
Merry All The Way - Xiao-Peng Jiang, Chung-Kang Chou & Chinese Orchestra Of Shanghai Conservatory
Monkey Bee - Monkey
Kurdish Red - Muslimgauze
All Is Love - Karen O & The Kids
Light Bath - David Byrne
Death Bells - Soulsavers
Rich Woman - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Flynn - Ratatat
Matthew Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I Gave You
Lush - For Love
Kate Bush - Night of the Swallow
Neko Case - Maybe Sparrow
Samhain - Unholy Passion (Live)
Metallica - Breadfan
The Avett Brothers - Go To Sleep
Abba - The Way Old Friends Do
Ladytron - Runaway
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - White Body (Demo)
I feared some redface tracks but here’s what I got:
NIN- The Becoming
AIC- Angry Chair
Opeth- Wreath
Tom Waits- Come On Up To The House
David Bowie- Joe The Lion
Prefab Sprout- Cars and Girls
Rush- Tom Sawyer
Pink Floyd- Dogs
Swans- 24 Hours
Moby- Come on Baby
Over From Underground - Melvins
Sex Changes - Dresden Dolls
On The Bound - Fiona Apple
The Hanging Garden (demo) - The Cure
Three Days - Jane’s Addiction
Thantos - Buck-Tick
Ligeia - Team Sleep
Milky Ave. - Satellite Party
Summer’s Almost Gone - Doors
See The Future (life) - 242
Witch Hunt - MDFMK
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 2
Butthole Surfers - Perry
Slowdive - When The Sun Hits
Isis - In Fiction
Merzbow - Looping Jane
Sonic Youth - Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
Whitehouse - Ruthless Babysitting
Nadja/Black Boned Angel - I
Fursaxa - Russian Snow Queen
From my other iPod with 30 gigs of totally different stuff:
Trent Reznor/Peter Murphy/The TV On The Radio Guy - Dreams
Sting - Shallow Brown
En Esch - Work For Love
Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man
Simple Shelter - Lady Starlight
Killing Joke - Prozac People
Snow Black - Car Crash
Tim O’Brien, Dirk Powell, & John Hermann - Raleigh And Spencer
Gary Jules - Mad World
Black Sabbath - Digital Bitch
Paper Cities - Other Lives
Pills - New York Dolls
Vuelvo Al Sur - Astor Piazzolla
Miss Van Houten’s Coffee Shop - Martin Newell
Round Midnight - Coltrane
Jesus, Etc. - Wilco
Move It On Over - Hank Williams
These Days - Joy Division
Life On Mars? - Bowie
No One Receiving - Eno
Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopedies III. Lent Et Grave
Edith Piaf - Autumn Leaves
David Bowie - South Horizons
Sisyphus - On the Trail
The Pogues - Living In A World Without Her
Merzbow - Kaeru No Shima
Jandek - No Break
Tones on Tail - Movement of Fear
Johnny Cash - Down There By the Train (alternate take)
Pulp - Something Changed
Dang, that makes me look a lot more pretentious than I was expecting.
Bob Marley: Keep On Moving Version
Motiv8: We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Final: After
Apoptygma Berzerk: In This Together
Burial: Homeless
Brian Eno: Organza
Charlotte Gainsboroug: Voyage
Kush Arora: Cold World
Free Energy: Something In Common
Cabaret Voltaire: Minute By Minute
Random X-Mas track but I haven’t hit the deeply embarrassing patch that I always expect to come up when I do this.
Cold Sore Super Stars - Desert Sessions
Kids With Guns - Gorillaz
Feels Like Love - Luc Van Acker
Think - Pigface
The Last Sucker - Ministry
Got You On My Mind - Madeleine Peyroux
Long Cold Summer - Crippled Black Phoenix
Nobody’s Baby Now - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ka-Boom - KMFDM
My Wave - Soundgarden
Been awhile since I heard any Pigface. Maybe i’ll add them to the ipod.
I didn’t actually listen to any of my trax. I just posted them as soon as the first 30 seconds played. I’ve seen some good stuff coming from some of you