I didn't have a plan. I'd been listening to some decent Einstürzende Neubauten, but I looked up their videos, and Blixa Bargeld is someone whose voice you want to hear, not see. He comes across as too theatrical, campy. I didn't want to share that.
I've been putting bird songs in my Random tens, so I figured I'd go with mostly them. Hope you enjoy them.
Time to share your ten.
1. Macho Drunk -- Suburbs -- Credit In Heaven
2. Surgical Focus -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
3. Fantasy Creeps -- Guided By Voices -- King Shit And The Golden Boys
4. Lilli Schull -- Uncle Tupelo -- March 16-20, 1992
5. Drive -- The Wedding Present -- Mini Plus
6. Criss Cross [Alternate Take] -- Thelonious Monk -- Genius Of Modern Music
7. (I Got A) Catholic Block -- Sonic Youth -- Sister
8. Why I Cry -- Best Coast -- The Only Place
9. Revolution Rock -- The Clash -- London Calling
10. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream -- Bob Dylan -- Bringing It All Back Home
B1. Amnesia -- Mekons -- The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll
B2. More Chalk -- The Bevis Frond -- White Numbers
Notes:
2. Sniff
3. Sniff
B2. Went on a serious The Bevis Frond bender back in July
Lilli Schull -- Uncle Tupelo -- March 16-20, 1992 might be the most depressing song in my library. Either that, or Dancing Queen.
1. Bad Bad Hats “A Bout” It Hurts EP
2. Autechre “Yulquen” Amber
3. The Pharcyde “Hey You” Labcabincalifornia
4. Oval “TV Power” Ringtones II EP
5. Neneh Cherry “Beastiality (Christophe Monier Remix)”* Man Remixes
6. KoЯn “Daddy” KoЯn
a. Wilson's Warbler “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
b. Red-Headed Woodpecker “Drum” (Cornell Essential Set)
c. Great Horned Owl “Male and Female Territorrial Hoots, Squawk” (Voices of North Americal Owls)
d. Orchard Oriole “Chuck Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
7. Johnny Cash “If You Could Read My Mind” American V: A Hundred Highways
8. The Orb “White River Jvnction” Orbvs Terrarvm
e. Pine Siskin “Song and Calls” (Stokes Field Guide Bonus CD)
9. Neneh Cherry “Buddy X” Homebrew
f. Black Phoebe “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
T. Coil “A Warning from the Sun (For Fritz)” Summer Solstice: Bee Stings
B. Primal Scream “Higher Than the Sun” Screamadelica
*Notes:
5. [sic]
01. Dark Tranquillity - "Scythe, Rage and Roses", The Mind's I
02. Corrosion of Conformity - "Albatross", Deliverance
03. Windir - "Blodssvik", Likferd
04. Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train", Blizzard of Ozz
05. Dream Evil - "The Mirror", The Book of Heavy Metal
06. King Diamond - "Bye, Bye Missy", Them
07. Megadeth - "Truth Be Told", The System Has Failed
08. Carcass - "Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency", Choice Cuts
09. Dimmu Borgir - "Absolute Sole Right", Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
10. Astral Doors - "Path to Delirium", Evil is Forever
Hey look, no 'hell'...
1. Rock 'n' Roll High School - Ramones - End of the Century
2. I Want Her She Wants Me - The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
3. Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies - Doolittle
4. Whenever I'm Gone - The Prisoners - The Last Fourfathers
5. Oh, Lonesome Me - Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
6. Take the "A" Train - Ella Fitzgerald - Twelve Nights In Hollywood
7. Soulful Wind - Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
8. Forget That Girl - The Monkees - Headquarters
9. Life Is a Carnival - The Band - Cahoots
10. Without Her - Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
B. Spanish Pipedream - John Prine - John Prine
* Silvergun Superman - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
* Motorcade - The Goslings - Occasion
* Someone Something - Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
* Taris (Outro) - Marcel Dettmann - Dettmann
* Jonathan - Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
* Rhythm - Nuel - Trance Mutation
* Marriage - Descendents - Milo Goes to College
* Endless Nameless - EMA - Newermind: A Tribute Album
* Ounce of Prevention - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - (self-titled)
* They Came In - Butthole Surfers - The Weird Revolution
That's a good EMA song. One of the best on that tribute album. (I can't remember what else was on it... Oh yeah, Meat Puppets and a lot of other things I didn't really like too much or pay attention to. I now realize that the album had Foxy Shazam and not Foxygen in it. I've been holding the Foxy Shazam cover against Foxygen all this time.)
I can't remember which STP song that is.
My first concert was Meat Puppets opening up for STP. I still have both T-shirts though neither's in good shape.
I'm curious what everyone thought of the Replacements show? I was a little disappointed, but it was never gonna live up to my expectations or past experiences. That, and I've grown to really dislike large crowds of people. Plus, I hate it when people sing along at concerts. "I didn't pay to hear you sing, buddy. STFU".
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALQ16b_lqs
Also, The Hold Steady has officially jumped the shark for me. Still like the first couple of records but Craig Finn's shtick has grown tiresome. Especially his stage presence.
That was my first time seeing The Hold Steady live, so I would call that the highlight. I made the mistake of moving out of my spot near the stage before the replacements came on, so I was too far away to really get into their set. It sounded good, though.
The Flaming Lips blew me away though. I wasn't expecting that. I wish more bands would pick an album and play it in order.
Part of my issue with the Mats show was we never got close enough, either. We arrived at the stadium just as the HS was starting and the place was already a clusterf*ck.
They played Satellite Transmissions, no? The friends I'd gone to Midway with saw the Lips the next night and really enjoyed it.
Yup. Satellite Transmissions. I wasn't overly familiar with the album, but I am now. They also did just the right amount of talking and storytelling in between songs. Great show.
I got there right when Lucero was playing and moved up pretty close. I'd say 4 deep, dead center. See this photo, I'm in the Twins Cap.
I get the crowd issue and people singing but have a hard time complaining about the performance. Songs from all albums, they were really tight, loud. Some deep cuts, some old faves. Not sure what else you would have wanted from the band.
Agree about the assessment of the Hold Steady.
Hey Scot, check this out.
Yeah, that's a wee bit better than our vantage point. I was back by the soundboard. About 200 ft away. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. I thought they played well and sounded pretty good, it was the extraneous stuff that took away from the gig. I'm looking forward to the film they shot. I think my favorite musical moments were probably Valentine, If Only You Were Lonely, and Unsatisfied.
(Humble brag: one of the peeps in our little group was none other than Dan Corrigan--who took a picture that some of you might be familiar with.)
I think you captured it well, Free. I may have to go through your archives.
This.
The new record remains fairly unengaging for me, but the First Avenue show I saw four years ago remains one of my favorite shows ever.
I had a lot of fun. I wish the band would have talked a little more between songs. I am usually annoyed by people singing along but it didn't bother me at this show.
1. Ha Ha Tonka - "No Great Harm" - Death of a Decade
2. Drive By Truckers - "When The Well Runs Dry" - The Fine Print [A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008]
3. Arcade Fire - "Reflektor" - Reflektor
4. Muse - "Plug In Baby" - Origin of Symmetry
5. Fountains of Wayne - "Halley's Waitress" - Welcome Interstate Managers
6. The Kooks - "Do You Wanna" - Konk
7. Nirvana - "In Bloom" - Nevermind
8. The Mountain Goats - "Philippians 3:20-21" - The Life Of The World To Come
9. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - "Still Aging" - Behind the Music
10. Lana Del Ray - "National Anthem" - Born to Die
1. Blue Sky Black Death - Swords From Driftwood - NOIR
2. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery - Fear Fun
3. Nas - One Time 4 Your Mind - Illmatic
4. Modest Mouse - Whale Song - Now One's First and You're Next
5. The Vines - Homesick - Highly Evolved
6. The Vines - Don't Listen to the Radio - Vision Valley*
7. Liz Phair - Perfect World - whitechocolatespaceegg
8. James Gang - Midnight Man - Greatest Hits*
9. Death Grips - Hustle Bones - The Money Store
T. Marnie Stern - Every Single Line Means Something - In Advance of the Broken Arm
B. Jars of Clay - Sunny Days - Who We Are Instead
6. I have 15165 songs on my iPod. 15 of them are Vines songs. So the fact that I got two in a row is weird.
8. I am quite sure that I didn't buy this, and I don't recall any of my friends ever bringing it over, so its existence is a mystery to me.
The chances of any two songs on your iPod being in the same order on random shuffle is 1 in 229,962,060.
No, those are the odds of those two songs being the next two songs in the correct order.
If he picked any two songs in his list, it would be the chances of those being picked in that order. Not just the Vines songs
It's true for those particular pairs.
Yes but the chances of any pair of songs off of any album being played in order during the next ten songs is much smaller.
If the first song isn't the final track of it's album (or a single), the chances that the next song will be the next one in order are a mere 1 in 15,164.
If it's not the next song, the chances that the third song will be the next track in order after song 2 is 1 in 15,163 (unless the next track was already played or song 2 was the final track of it's album*). etc. I've simplified here, but the probability of two songs being played in order in a random shuffle sometime in the first ten songs is much better than you've presented it to be, because you've focused on two exact songs, rather than any pair.
*and we know that song 2 is the second track of it's album, after beetlebum
Now the probability of three songs being played in order in a random shuffle is a lot more remote.
Furthermore, these two songs were just two out of 15. They weren't in order.
Last night my nephew and I attempted to stump each other with soundtrack music; it was a thrill to find common theme music that we both enjoyed.