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No star here laces

09:25 / 13.05.04

Was sure we'd done this before, but can't find it, so...

Of course we all rep the cool stuff, and talk about the new releases. But what secrets about your taste does your computer actually hide? Well there's a sure way to find out...

Put all your mp3s into your player, set it to shuffle, and tell us the first 10 things that come out.

e.g.

1. Dilated Peoples - "Work the angles" (remix)
2. Felix da Housecat - "Ready to wear"
3. Annie - "The greatest hit"
4. Panjabi Hit Squad - "Hai hai"
5. Jay-Z - "Cashmere thoughts"
6. D.E.E. - "Birds in da sky"
7. Ulrich Schnauss - "A letter from home"
8. D12 - "Purple Pills"
9. Superpitcher - "Happiness"
10. Buju Banton - "Name brand" (saltshaker riddim)

Grey Area

11:20 / 13.05.04

List first, mockery/praise/ignorance to follow:

1. Marusha - Deep
2. Sister Hazel - Champagne high
3. Talking Heads - Road no nowhere
4. Members of Mayday - Reformation
5. Zhi-vago - Dreamer
6. New Radicals - Jehovah made this whole joint for you
7. Da Yoopers - Da 30-point buck
8. Alabama 3 - You don't dance to techno anymore
9. Die Ärzte - Schrei nach Liebe
10. Rozalla - Are you ready to fly

Lea-side

14:24 / 13.05.04

i like this..

1. More Than My Old Guitar - Merle Haggard
2. Soul 1 - Spacemen 3
2. Emerge - Fisherspooner
4. All The Things She Said - Tatu
5. Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch
6. Para-Noir - Marilyn Manson
7. Louie Louie - Black Flag
8. The Jovial Tradesman - Bob and Ron Copper
9. Get Out Of My Car - Hasil Adkins
10.Shake - Shadows Of Knight

phew. that could have been worse....

gergsnickle

15:20 / 13.05.04

1. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand - The Beatles
2. Citadel - Rolling Stones
3. Autre Introduction - DJ Shadow
4. I Want To Be The Boy - White Stripes
5. Wasted Time - Kings of Leon
6. The Ghetto Walk - Miles Davis
7. What You Got - John Lennon
8. Local Boy Makes Good - Papa M
9. I'm A Wheel - Wilco
10. Another Morning - American Music Club

rizla mission

20:59 / 13.05.04

i hereby declare white riot to have admirably cool and unpredictable sounding music taste.

Foust is SO authentic

00:23 / 14.05.04

I am proudly uncool.

1. Worlds Apart - Bruce Springsteen
2. Stacie's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
3. Rue The Day - Walkmen
4. Scolding Wife - Great Big Sea
5. All Apologies - Nirvana
6. Above You, Below Me - Badly Drawn Boy
7. Smile - Holy Cole Trio
8. Blurry - Puddle of Mud
9. Under Cold Blue Stars - Josh Rouse
10. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

No star here laces

01:07 / 14.05.04

Oooh! I love that Gillian Welch tune....

Nobody's girl

01:46 / 14.05.04

1. Richard Cheese- Cover of Loser (By Beck)

2. Apollo 440- Stealth Mass in F# minor

3. Indigo Girls- Secure Yourself

4. The Beatles- Eleanor Rigby

5. Black Tape For A Blue Girl- Could I Stay The Honest One?

6. 23 Soundtrack- Illuminatus

7. Mark Mulcahy- Kind

8. Golden Palaminos- Ride

9. Johnny Cash- Man in Black

10. Tori Amos- Ode to the Banana King

Not too bad, considering the crap that could've surfaced.

Glandmaster

06:01 / 14.05.04

1. Carter USM - Bloodsports for all
2. Daft Punk V. The Neptunes - Harder, Better, Faster
3. Scissor Sisters - Better Luck
4. Front 242 - Felines
5. Mogwai - Killing all the flies
6. DJ Shadow - Right thing
7. William Burroughs - nothing left but the recordings
8. PWEI - Ich bin ein auslander
9. EC8OR - discriminate the next fashion sucker you meet thats a raver
10. Squarepusher - UFOs over leytonstone

I cant believe Carter came out - I only have one track on my machine...honest ;0p

No star here laces

08:37 / 14.05.04

Gergsnickle's is the most embarassing: reads like a Q magazine cover cd. Ew.

Mike Modular

09:21 / 14.05.04

01 Boards of Canada - Open the Light
02 Tortoise - The Suspension Bridge at Iguazu Falls
03 Cassetteboy - Chicken Cake
04 cLOUDDED - Son of a Gun
05 OOIOO - On Mani
06 Broadcast - Distorsion
07 Lee Hazlewood - For A Day Like Today
08 Brigitte Bardot - Paris
09 Stereolab - Dear Marge
10 Broadcast - Oh How I Miss You

Hmm, yes, I'm quite pleased with that...

The Strobe

16:29 / 14.05.04

1. Guimar - Aim
2. Get Get Down - Paul Johnson
3. music is math - boards of canada
4. World of Garbage - Company Flow
5. Ode to Summer - Lostprophets
6. Mushroom - Superpitcher
7. Piglet - Arab Strap
8. Goldberg Variations for Keyboard, BWV 988, Varaiatio XXX - JS Bach (played by Andras Schiff)
9. Back in the Day - Masters At Work
10. Jus' a reptlilian (bootleg) - Lionel Vinyl

Murray Hamhandler

18:49 / 14.05.04

Pavement - "Fin"
The Gossip - "Confessor"
Rodd Keith - "Run Spook Run"
The Fall - "The N.W.R.A."
Hella - "The Devil Isn't Red"
Metro Area - "Soft Hoop"
REM - "7 Chinese Brothers"
Revillos - "Caveman Raveman"
Madonna - "Keep It Together"
Vanity 6 - "Make Up"

Jack Fear

23:37 / 14.05.04

I lost most of my MP3s in a hard drive crash earlier this year: I'm on a borrowed computer with no file-sharing software, so I've only got 36 MP3s, all of which were pulled from MP3 blogs or artist sites...indeed, most of them from Fluxington's site.

With those caveats:

"Bareback Donkey Riding," The Clique
"Cherries," The Anomoanon
"La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi," Francoise Hardy
"Karn Evil 9 1st Impression (part 2)," Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"March of the Sinister Ducks," Alan Moore
"That Was The River," The Waterboys
"London Girls," the Vibrators
"Don't Stop 'til you Get To Bollywood," Bollywood Freaks
"C30 C60 C90 Go!" Bow Wow Wow
"Outside My Area," Klang

Mock me. I suck.

Isalie

05:10 / 16.05.04

here we go...

squarepusher- red hot car
lords of acid- lover boy
sometimes- my bloody valentine
cure- lullabye
lisa loeb- do you sleep (accoustic version)
Queens of the stone age - no one knows (Unkle remix)
conga fury- ??? (animatrix soundtrack)
veruca salt- said sadly
che fu- scene 3
boa- duvet (accoustic version)

Shanghai Quasar

05:54 / 16.05.04

The Pillows - Come On, Ghost
Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness?
Lole Y Manuel - Tu Mira (KBv2 OST)
Kyoto Shakuhachi Master - Kyusha Reibo
Elton John - Rocket Man
Melanesian Chants - Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi (TRL OST)
Exuma - Metstophaliese
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Iwasaki Taku - Duty (WHR OST2)
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

I'm not sure which one was the least expected.

moofman

06:10 / 16.05.04

Glass - Gang of Four
Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
405 - Death Cab for Cutie
Colma - Buckethead
Torture Sequence - Zoogz Rift
Immature - Bjork
Shade of Blue - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Sueisfine - My Bloody Valentine
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Peel Seesion) - Joy Division
Summer Turns to High (Her Space Remix) - R.E.M.

Nothing embarassing enough to be mocked, and if it is it's either there for novelty purposes (Cascades) or it's too out there for 98% of the people in the world to even realize it (Zoogz Rift).

pomegranate

15:27 / 16.05.04

fun!

1. "french ca"-brian eno
2. "grandfather time"-quintron
3. "beskhu3epnm"-aphex twin
4. "give up the funk"-parliament
5. "wanted dead or alive"-bon jovi
6. "pier poalo"-blonde redhead
7. "i live for that look"-dinosaur jr.
8. "st. gregory"-twilight singers
9. "summer babe"-pavement
10. "crazy in love"-beyonce and jay-z

Red Cross Iodized Salt

20:04 / 16.05.04

1. DJ Ripley - Havoksound (70min mix)
2. Chops - Git Dat Mutha
3. Talk Talk - Runeii
4. Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome
5. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan Is A Bitch
6. Heavy Vegetable - Krishna On The Ledge
7. Les Waters - Balloon Farmer (thanks Sav)
8. Dizzee Rascal - Seems 2 Be
9. Huggy Bear - Pansy Twist
10. Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Love Lost

rizla mission

20:54 / 16.05.04

Baring in mind I only have 125 mp3s, all of which I've painstakingly downloaded at one time or another, I still think my list has turned out impossibly cool..

1.Theoretical Girls – US Millie
2.Neutral Milk Hotel – she did a lot of acid
3.Slint – washer
4.Sonic Youth – Blonde Redhead (DNA cover)
5.Boris – heavy friends
6.The Hunches – Got Some Hate
7.Simply Saucer – Instant Pleasure
8.Lydia Lunch – stares to nowhere
9.Bal Sagoth – The Dark Liege of Chaos is Unleashed at the Ensorcelled Shrine of Azura-Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, part II)
10.Herman Dune – airdrum to Pavement

Baz Auckland

02:24 / 17.05.04

...er.. of 4895 mp3s...

1. David Bowie - All the Young Dudes
2. Dirty Three - She Has No Strings
3. The Ramones - Listen to My Heart
4. Nick Cave - Henry Lee
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Tear Me Down
6. Flaming Lips - All We Have it Now
7. Neko Case - Timber
8. Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
9. Johnny Cash - Sea of Heartbreak
10. JS Bach - Totcatta and Fugue in D-Minor

...I love putting it all on random. Such musical fun!

_pin

09:11 / 17.05.04

Oddly, this contains to songs made by people from Barbelith:

Seth's I Am The Utterance Of My Name
PJ Harvey, 'Missed'
Steve Reich, 'Section VIII' from Music for 18 Muscians
The Flaming Lips, 'Oh My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight... )'
Baby Bird, 'Married'
Big Boi, 'Bowtie (postlude)'
Themselves, 'Joyful Joy Of 1001 Faces'
Jay-Z, 'Change Clothes'
Electrolane, 'I Want To Be The President'
Tokyo Squirrel (Saveloy's sampler-based project), 'Moo-Hah'

No star here laces

15:41 / 17.05.04

9.Bal Sagoth – The Dark Liege of Chaos is Unleashed at the Ensorcelled Shrine of Azura-Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, part II)!

!!

!!!

C'mon, give us a potted description cos I'd hate to type all of that into slsk for nothing...

ORQWITH

16:05 / 17.05.04

1. "vexed" -dizzee rascal
2. "why would you wanna live" -wilco
3. "neuschnee" -neu!
4. "def cover" -murs
5. "punk love" -the magnetic fields
6. "speedwolf" -high on fire
7. "teenage moustache" -the locust
8. "so hot (wash away all my tears)" -spacemen 3
9. "two people in a room" -wire
10. "chisolm trail" -woody guthrie

YNH

17:08 / 17.05.04

1. Mercy House - The Nields
2. The Waitress (Milan 4-18-94) – Tori Amos
3. Opened - The Breeders
4. Rise - Rainer Maria
5. Variatio IV A 1 Clavier - Glenn Gould
6. Lawrence - Ani Difranco & Utah Philips
7. Cry for Everything Bad that’s Ever Happened - Le Tigre
8. Variatio XXIII A 2 Clavier - Glenn Gould
9. Don’t Believe the Hype - Public Enemy
10. Outlands (Fountain of Elisha mix) – The Orb

rizla mission

23:51 / 17.05.04

C'mon, give us a potted description cos I'd hate to type all of that into slsk for nothing...

Everyone should hear at least one Bal Sagoth song before they die. Preferably that one, because as you will have noted, the title defies belief.

I was going to try and describe it, but that would be even sillier than the record itself.. go on, download it, seriously.. you won't be disappointed.

This should answer all your questions, and pose many sinister new ones. My favourite thing on there is the singer's drawing of the map of the kingdom in which his songs take place - it looks like it was drawn with crayons at break-time. It's so sweet.

matsya

00:07 / 19.05.04

This is how I listen to my mp3s all the time. Here's the first ten for the day:

The Cheat Theme Song - SkatePark
At the Agway - John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants)
Be Patient - They Might Be Giants (from McSweeney's CD)
Surf's Up - Beach Boys (from Smile)
Horses - Patti Smith
Electronic Counterpoint (Fast 1) - Steve Reich
Frog and Banjo - Doughty
Swimming Hole - Robert Greenawalt & E.K.
If I Were You - Asylum Street Spankers
God Only Knows - Beach Boys

m.

moonweaver

00:32 / 19.05.04

'She dumped me' - Gus and Frank
'Hallucinateing Pluto' - B52's
'I Need Love' - Luka Bloom
'I am the fly' - Wire
'Killer' - Adamski
'Verona' - Elemeno P
'I could be dreaming' - Belle & Sebastian
'Third Uncle' - Bauhaus
'Alone with you' - The Sunnyboys
'Jet boy, jet girl' - The Damned

ughh, no wonder and feeling mighty discordant...the ickle pixie in da box must be trying to tell me that she needs some more food,
lunchtime of theft awaits!!

Querelle

03:27 / 19.05.04

Carnival - Bikini Kill
Tossed - Frank Black
Sonata in c minor (Pathetique) - Beethoven
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto
Whirl Away - Patti Smith
Black Out - Pavement
Underdog - The Dirtbombs
Down In It - NIN
What You Want - My Bloody Valentine
Scherzo in b-flat minor - Chopin

Huh.. interestingly, not what I've been listening to for a while.. except pavement and MBV maybe.

Saveloy

10:57 / 24.05.04

_pin, how the feck did you get hold of Seth's track? Did you break into his house while he was out buying drum polish?

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:08 / 24.05.04

I haven't downloaded any new MP3s onto this particular computer in 2 years and 2 months.

1. The Need – ‘Girl Flavoured Gum’
2. Lambchop – ‘The Old Matchbook Trick’
3. Rufus Wainwright – ‘Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk (Reprise)’
4. Tom Waits – ‘Innocent When You Dream (78)’
5. Lovage – ‘Strangers On A Train’
6. M.O.P. – ‘Warriorz’
7. The Moves – ‘Easter Present’
8. Wu-Tang Clan – ‘Gravel Pit’
9. Joni Mitchell – ‘Big Yellow Taxi’
10. Pixies – ‘Here Comes Your Man’

I'm only really ashamed of the Lovage - don't know why I haven't deleted that boring slop yet. The Lambchop is also a bit rub. Some of the rest is a bit obvious - I tended to download stuff I wasn't necessarily going to buy but wanted to be able to listen to should I ever feel the need. Very happy with 1, 3, 7 and 8 though.

No star here laces

14:50 / 24.05.04

Ew. Tom Waits.

Again, but on a different computer:

1. Rocket/People (Jeno's stormy weather mix)
2. Monolake - "perpetuum"
3. Knifehandchop - peel session
4. The electric 10 - ex-p.r.
5. Bender boys - "Poltergeist"
6. Aphrodite - "I got 5 on it"
7. Claro Intelecto - "Two Thousand"
8. The Stunned Guys - "Bim Bum Bam"
9. Mad Mike - "Deep space nine (a brother runs this ship)"
10. Field Mob - "Sick of being lonely"

Oh my god. What an abortion of a list. Thank god the Knifehandchop one was 20 minutes long, otherwise it would've been a nearly uninterrupted stretch of tedious detroit techno. That Aphrodite thing is possibly the worst mp3 on my disc (now deleted). The Stunned Guys track was a revelation though - silly gabber with lots of playing with the "pan" control. And Field Mob is obviously genius...

iconoplast

23:42 / 25.05.04

Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson
Berthe Sylvia - Frou Frou
Fantastic Voyage - Coolio
Bank Holidays in the Sun - Baxendale
Running With The Devil - Van Halen
This is Radio Clash - The Clash
That's What I Get - Nine Inch Nails
High Plains Drifter - Beastie Boys
Baby I Got Your Money - Ol Dirty Bastard
Starship - MC5

...I make mix CDs for my workplace, and take requests from my coworkers. AND we just finished going through the alphabet, one day at a time.

Man. Every time I hit 'skip,' I was hoping something cool would show up. Damned again by sheer probability...

Red Cross Iodized Salt

23:05 / 26.05.04

1. Ferenc - Yes Sir, I Can Hardcore (Michael Mayer Mix)
2. Lali Puna - Rapariga da Banheira
3. Clipse - Grindin' (Swag vs. Clipse Danger Dub)
4. Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois
5. Batutinha DJ - Megamon
6. Rammstein - Du Hast
7. Kool Keith - Sex Style
8. Lennie De Ice - We Are I.E.
9. Moonshake - Blister
10. A House - Endless Art

...which I'm actually quite happy with. I had no idea that Endless Art or We Are I.E. were on there. Could probably drop Du Hast though...

No star here laces

01:09 / 28.05.04

That Ferenc tune is so incredible. It actually sends shivers down my spine. Geekily, I have two copies, one still sealed...

Shame it didn't come right before Lennie De Ice in your playlist - that would have been a great one-two...

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