Start Your iPods

Random 10. Links optional. Describe the one you like the least.

  1. Radiohead - I Will
  2. Syd Barrett - She Took A Long Cold Look
  3. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King - Pride And Joy. This is, to me, the weakest song in the SRV & King set. While SRV is all over this, King seems a little lost, unsure of what to play during the verses, and tentative in his solo. I assume that's because the rest of the set was (according to Wiki) part of King's live show, while "Pride And Joy" was a SRV song and had been released that year - King was probably not used to playing it.
  4. The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
  5. The Faces - You're So Rude
  6. Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest - Deep Purple
  7. Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource
  8. NiN - Down In It
  9. Police - Deathwish
  10. Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison - Playin

Now you do it.

7 thoughts on “Start Your iPods

  1. Rob Caldecott

    Merry Christmas fellow Cleekians!

    1. The Vines – Ain’t No Room
    2. Oasis – Whatever
    3. Wolfmother – Where Eagles Have Been
    4. The Long Blondes – Heaven Help The New Girl
    5. The Police – So Lonely
    6. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
    7. Blondie – Union City Blue
    8. X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne – Lazy
    9. Curtis Mayfield – Give It Up
    10. The Charlatans – North Country Boy

    Wow. Great list. Least favourite? The Springsteen track I suppose because I’m not a massive fan (but I do admire the guy), but it’s still a pretty good track and I feel a bit mean for choosing it.

    Two days left at work. Bring it on.

  2. platosearwax

    1. Blue October – Ugly Side
    2. Billy Corgan – To Love Somebody
    3. Queens of the Stone Age – Hispanic Impressions
    4. 20/20 – Yellow Pills
    5. Ryan Adams – The Drugs Not Working
    6. The Fall – War
    7. Mike Doughty – Sunkeneyed Girl
    8. The Cult – Zap City
    9. Mike Doughty – Nectarine (Part 1)(terrible user video but the only one available)
    10. Rain Tree Crow (formerly the band Japan) – Blackwater

    That was a damn good batch of songs. Least favorite….probably the Billy Corgan track. It’s OK, but it’s like it is trying so hard to be different than the Pumpkins, trying to do the Radiohead thing of getting all synthesizery and all it does is leave it sounding like really, really bad Pumpkins. Normally I would go for the sound of it, but it just sounds like the Pumpkins without half of what made them so great.

    I highly recommend every single other track here, particularly the Mike Doughty and Rain Tree Crow.

    Happy Holidays everyone!

    1. The Modesto Kid

      Huh cool, Queens of the Stone Age is a band I heard for the very first time just last week when I streamed the new Amnesty International Dylan tribute record — they have an absolutely ripping version of “Outlaw Blues” on there.

      1. Rob Caldecott

        QOTSA rock but their formula can get a little tired. I recommend you buy ‘Songs For The Deaf’ – it’s pretty fantastic (and Dave Grohl drums which is always a pleasure).

  3. The Modesto Kid

    q. Marche au Camp, Laurie Hart (wow do I ever not listen to this record enough)
    w. Down the Road, Flatt and Scruggs
    e. Across the Universe, Robyn Hitchcock (Maxwell’s, November 04 — the linked version is the not-particularly-closest thing I could find)
    r. Cumberland Blues, Fiddlin Doc Roberts (th8is shuffle is truly shining in the fiddle department)
    t. Visions of Johanna, Chris Hintz
    y. Dry Town Blues, Leake Co. Revelers
    u. Cypress Grove, Vassar Clements
    i. Ain’t That a Shame, Brian James (IRS Greatest Hits)
    o. Ten Tiny Toes, One Baby Nose, Sol Ho’opi’i and his Novelty Quartette
    qp. Egyptian Cream, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians.

    Hard to pick a least liked number from this list — I am thinking midway through that it’s going to be Egyptian Cream, that is not one of my favorite RH numbers… Really recommend checking out the Laurie Hart piece, that (Danse ce Soir) is one of those records that I forget all about for long periods and then hear a song from on shuffle and fall in love with all over.

    After the shuffle I am going to go spend a while listening to Laurie Hart.

    (Tomorrow night is Mountain Station’s gig! Exciting)

    …Yeah “Egyptian Cream” is unquestionably the least stellar of these tunes.

  4. The Modesto Kid

    Another random mix starting by coincidence with the same track over here. (Wow! “here” is post #2,800 (or actually a little less — the post numbers are dense but not continuous.) That means I must have had a post #2,666 and not even noticed it.)

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