10 tracks of shuffle
My iPod passed 3000 tracks today. Here is a sample of ten tracks on shuffle:
1: You think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Million Bucks
Queens of the Stone Age
This is a ballsy rocker that would make mummy cry. Not for bedtime, unless it's the naughty kind of bedtime. NOt cookie monster vocals, more like a metal bin full of bottles and stone being thrown down a flight of concrete stairs.
2: Why
Joe Satriani
Just about my favourite song of my favourite guitar virtuoso. Shay showed me the kick-ass scale at the end. Just beautiful.
3: The Widow
The Mars Volta
I've never actually heard this one. The Onion says they are a punk band, but i's too melodic to be called that. Anyway, this one is balladic. And quite beautiful too.
4: Everything Reminds Me of Her
Elliot Smith
This is a lovely little apologetic song, by the guy who wrote 'Needle in the Hay', the song that Luke Wilson slits his wrists to in 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Awwww.....
5: Son of a Preacher man
Dusty Springfield
Ahh the old classic straight outta Pulp Fiction. What scene? I think this is the track that Vincent Vega plays when he arrives at Mia Wallace's house. But I can't be sure.
6: Windy
Incubus
The Incubus is sounding off about the way one can drift through life with no ideas about what you're doing. All right for him.
7: Sweet Ammonia
Meat Puppets
Jesus! All this rock music. Usually I can't find a rock song to save myself. Anyway, this one came off of 'No Joke' an ugly little album that sat in the $15 bargain bin outside of Sounz even after Kurt Cobain made them famous by inviting them to play with Nirvana at the MTV Uplugged thing they did. You know: Lake of Fire, Plateau?
8: The Day We Caught the Train
Ocean Colour Scene
Another classic. This was fresh when I was a 1st year at varsity (which is another way of saying '96). I didn't really understand it so much back then but now that I've done some of the things they talk about it makes a lot more sense to write a song about it.
9: Reference Check
Foreign Legion
Diversity! At last. I think I hooked this one up off of Eru and these guys are pretty damn good, although, as this track shows, they can't resist propping themselves up in the underground.
10: Wild America
Iggy Pop
Blah. This one came of the Trip 2 and I would always skip it back in the old days. It's kinda grown on me now, especially the kind of rant he does at the end. "They're so goddam spoilt... they're poisoned inside!,"
And that ends this month's little incursion to the sonic realms of my best friend in korea, Poddy. Not what I expected. I was kinda counting on some Tony Robbins and some funk showing up in there seeing as the bulk of my music these days seems to be soul and stuff. Funny how that happens.
1: You think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Million Bucks
Queens of the Stone Age
This is a ballsy rocker that would make mummy cry. Not for bedtime, unless it's the naughty kind of bedtime. NOt cookie monster vocals, more like a metal bin full of bottles and stone being thrown down a flight of concrete stairs.
2: Why
Joe Satriani
Just about my favourite song of my favourite guitar virtuoso. Shay showed me the kick-ass scale at the end. Just beautiful.
3: The Widow
The Mars Volta
I've never actually heard this one. The Onion says they are a punk band, but i's too melodic to be called that. Anyway, this one is balladic. And quite beautiful too.
4: Everything Reminds Me of Her
Elliot Smith
This is a lovely little apologetic song, by the guy who wrote 'Needle in the Hay', the song that Luke Wilson slits his wrists to in 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Awwww.....
5: Son of a Preacher man
Dusty Springfield
Ahh the old classic straight outta Pulp Fiction. What scene? I think this is the track that Vincent Vega plays when he arrives at Mia Wallace's house. But I can't be sure.
6: Windy
Incubus
The Incubus is sounding off about the way one can drift through life with no ideas about what you're doing. All right for him.
7: Sweet Ammonia
Meat Puppets
Jesus! All this rock music. Usually I can't find a rock song to save myself. Anyway, this one came off of 'No Joke' an ugly little album that sat in the $15 bargain bin outside of Sounz even after Kurt Cobain made them famous by inviting them to play with Nirvana at the MTV Uplugged thing they did. You know: Lake of Fire, Plateau?
8: The Day We Caught the Train
Ocean Colour Scene
Another classic. This was fresh when I was a 1st year at varsity (which is another way of saying '96). I didn't really understand it so much back then but now that I've done some of the things they talk about it makes a lot more sense to write a song about it.
9: Reference Check
Foreign Legion
Diversity! At last. I think I hooked this one up off of Eru and these guys are pretty damn good, although, as this track shows, they can't resist propping themselves up in the underground.
10: Wild America
Iggy Pop
Blah. This one came of the Trip 2 and I would always skip it back in the old days. It's kinda grown on me now, especially the kind of rant he does at the end. "They're so goddam spoilt... they're poisoned inside!,"
And that ends this month's little incursion to the sonic realms of my best friend in korea, Poddy. Not what I expected. I was kinda counting on some Tony Robbins and some funk showing up in there seeing as the bulk of my music these days seems to be soul and stuff. Funny how that happens.
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