Monday? I thought we killed this thing last week!
- Swirlies - Park The Car By The Side Of The Road
- Matt Pond PA - three
- Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne
- Doc And Merle Watson - Carroll County Blues
- Miles Davis - Stella By Starlight
- Beatles - I'm Fixing A Hole
- Son Volt - Mystifies Me (clip of the, original, Ron Wood version since I couldn't find the Son Volt)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Live @ Fillmore)
- Boubacar Traore - Narena
- Frightened Rabbit - The Wrestle
Alas.
How's your portable shuffleable music device treating you?
It’s been treating me good — here is a shuffle-and-a-half I listened to on Saturday, that made me happy:
Steve Earle — “Marie”
Robyn Hitchcock et alia — “Do not fear the dark” by John Wesley Harding
Steve Earle — “Outlaw’s Honeymoon”
Grateful Dead — “New Minglewood Blues” + long jam
Indian Creek Delta Boys — “Going to London”
Circulatory System — “I You We”
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians — “Beautiful Queen”
Robyn Hitchcock — “Sometimes a Blonde”
The Soft Boys — “Salamander”
Bob Dylan — “The Death of Emmet Till”
Dave Van Ronk — “Wandering”
Robyn Hitchcock — “Lovely Golden Villains”
Minus 5 — “John Barleycorn Must Live”
Milton Brown and his Brownies — “Copenhagen”
Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra — “King Porter Stomp”
The “Sometimes a Blonde” performance is breathtaking, it’s from a June 2010 concert in Toronto.
1. Alex Chilton – Save your love for me
2. Édith Piaf – Les Trois Cloches
3. Elvis Costello – Lipstick Vogue
4. Frank Sinatra – I’ll Be Seeing You
5. Elastica – See That Animal
6. Beck – Blackhole
7. REM – Paint It Black
8. Charlatans – Weirdo
9. Superchunk – Dance Lessons
10. Morphine – Yes
On an unrelated note, in the comments of name that tune, Rob said he couldn’t see the songs. Rob, any trouble? Anybody else?
It was a cold and frosty 2 hour commute to work today, so for company I found myself aurally pleasured by the following:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control.
2. The Beatles – I’m Down.
3. Skunk Anansie – Hedonism.
4. The Radiators From Space – Television Screen.
5. Rilo Kiley – I Never.
6. David Bowie – Eight Line Poem.
7. QOTSA – Song For The Dead.
8. The Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale.
9. Radiohead – Creep (Acoustic).
10. The Shins – Red Rabbits.
Out the door at 06:40 to walk the 1/2 mile to the bus stop to catch the 07:00 to the train station. 25 minute wait (and a large vanilla latte) for the 07:45 to Bristol, which gets in at 08:20, then another 1/2 mile walk to the office. The weird thing is that it doesn’t feel like a long commute because I’m not driving, plus there’s always Kindle and shuffle. However, it means I’m up very early and by the time I get home in the evening my son is in bed and my daughter isn’t far off. Thinking of a change but the job climate is pretty crappy at the moment.
So, how’s your commute fellow Cleekazoids?
i pulled the song list out while i was making sure the comments were working correctly. there was a moment of panic after Rob’s comment showed up and i couldn’t figure out why i was seeing what i was seeing.
should be all set to go, now.
so that’s a ~2 hour commute ??
yow!
i have a 20 minute drive down a pleasant little parkway. traffic can be pretty heavy at times, but it mostly moves right along.
I can see the songs now and will have a stab at the quiz later. However, if I do as badly as the last one (where I think I recognised *one* song) I’ll be too embarrassed to comment!
Some days my wife will drive me to the station which means the commute is around 1h 30m. On a really good day I can leave the house at 07:15 and be at my desk by 08:30.
We live is a very small town but I consider myself lucky I can use public transport to get into Bristol. Driving would be a nightmare as the office is right in the centre of the city and has no parking. The nearest car part is about £25 a day. F*** that!
BTW, that quiz… I use Chrome which has a built in player for MP3s but track 13 and 14 wouldn’t play so I had to save them to disk and use iTunes.
Great quiz Mike!
My commute is about 15 minutes in the morning and 20 in the afternoon, both ways generally against traffic. The bus would take far longer and the new light rail doesn’t go out as far as I need to get to work. Sure beats when I was in Los Angeles and my commute was in the range of 45 minutes – infinity, with about an hour as the average.
1. Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
2. Descendents – Bikeage
3. Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same
4. REM with Natalie Merchant – To Sir With Love
5. Ultravox – Stranger Within
6. Gomez – Hamoa Beach
7. Rush – Tom Sawyer
8. Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
9. XTC – King for a Day
10. David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes
Now to start in on the quiz!