Saturday, April 09, 2005
Random Ten: At Least I Got the Track Listing on Friday Edition
by Tom Bozzo
The iPod serendipity fails a little for this playlist, mainly since I've started adding a bit of electronica to the music database. There's no way a human programmer would ever segue from Belgian syntho-industrialists Front 242 (note: Flash-heavy site) to C86'ers like The Mighty Lemon Drops. In the old days, I'd probably have buffered Front 242 from the rest with the reggae-ish track from Colourbox, and used the metalloid Adorable to lead into the Lemon Drops from there. The rest would almost work as is.
(Edited for increased linkiness.)
Fire up your hardware or software MP3 player, set to shuffle, and report the first ten tracks.
| Artist | Song | Album |
| Front 242 | Quite Unusual | Official Version |
| The Mighty Lemon Drops | Turn Me Round | Happy Head & Out of Hand |
| Cocteau Twins | Ella Megalast Burls Forever | Blue Bell Knoll |
| Adorable | Sunshine Smile | CD single |
| Dif Juz | Silver Passage | Extractions |
| Colourbox | Looks Like We're Shy One Horse/Shootout | Colourbox (MAD 315 CD) |
| Belly | The Bees | King |
| New Order | Paradise | Brotherhood |
| Slowdive | Some Velvet Morning | Souvlaki |
| The Durutti Column | Francesca | Another Setting |
The iPod serendipity fails a little for this playlist, mainly since I've started adding a bit of electronica to the music database. There's no way a human programmer would ever segue from Belgian syntho-industrialists Front 242 (note: Flash-heavy site) to C86'ers like The Mighty Lemon Drops. In the old days, I'd probably have buffered Front 242 from the rest with the reggae-ish track from Colourbox, and used the metalloid Adorable to lead into the Lemon Drops from there. The rest would almost work as is.
(Edited for increased linkiness.)
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You are way too hip for me. I've only heard of Belly from your entire list, and I'm probably thinking of someone else anyway.
# posted by 
: Sat Apr 09, 11:44:00 PM
: Sat Apr 09, 11:44:00 PM
Bryan: Both Belly and New Order would have seen airplay both on college radio and commercial alternative stations, so you may well be thinking about the same Belly. Some of the other selections give away some combination of my advancing age and the amount of esoterica acquired in my mid-to-late '80s record collecting heyday; some of it would have been college radio fare in that time frame.
(New Order does have a new album out, though, which from the previews at the iTunes store sounds like one of their better recent efforts.)
(New Order does have a new album out, though, which from the previews at the iTunes store sounds like one of their better recent efforts.)
Front 242 are Belgian? Some enterprising Classic Rock (pronounced "CRock") station should do Battles of the Countries, with Plastic Bertrand and them in one bracket. (Maybe using Benelux would allow another few brackets?)
Ken, I actually wasn't familiar with Plastic Bertrand -- that's a little before my time.
Doesn't the Eurovision Song Contest work somewhat like an international battle of the bands, its reputation for advancing crap music notwithstanding?
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Doesn't the Eurovision Song Contest work somewhat like an international battle of the bands, its reputation for advancing crap music notwithstanding?
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