He's making a list , and checking it twice

[venta]

Right. Thanks to the wonders of polls, a highly scientific process has constructed me a playlist for the remainder of the afternoon.

Please note that this has been bashed together in something of a hurry (I'm at work, y'know), so no nit-picking if I've made mistakes.

(I did use the method suggested for dealing with out-of-range numbers, rather than my original plan.)

• Super-Connected - Belly (from the album King), selected by secutatrix (23-5-5)


• Don't Take Ecstasy - Mindless Drug Hoover (from the album Top Banana), selected by lanfykins (131-2-5)


• To Forgive - Smashing Pumpkins (from the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness DawnTo Dusk), selected by lambertbehnke (188-1-7)


• I See Red - Split Enz (from the album History Never Repeats), selected by elethiomel (194-1-3)


• Knuckle Too Far - James (from the album Laid), selected by addedentry (96-2-48)


• Pure Morning - Placebo (from the album Without You I'm Nothing), selected by zotz (152-5-1)


• Pastimes & Lifestyles - Dogs Die In Hot Cars (from the album Please Describe Yourself), selected by liriselei (58-1-9 )


• Pure - 3 Colours Red (from the album Pure), selected by sushidog (1-1-1)


• Since I Left You - Avalanches, selected by satyrica (137-1-7)


• Ramblin' Man - Lemon Jelly (from the album Lost Horizona), selected by chrisvenus, (111-1-11)


• Trouble and Strife - Everything But The Girl (from the album Love Not Money), selected by secondhand_rick (69-6-9)


• Annie Waits - Ben Folds (from the album Rockin' the Suburbs), selected by nisaba (24-6-1)


• Roses - Magnetic Fields (from the album 69 Love Songs Vol 2), selected by j4 (123-2-1)


• Dead Kennedys-Ill In The Head - Dead Kennedys (from the album Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables), selected by ewx (47-1-12)


• Late Night, Maudlin Street - Morrissey (from the album Viva Hate), selected by triskellian (135-1-6)


• Jesus Christ - Longpigs (from the album The Sun Is Often Out), selected by davefish (117-2-8)


• Summer - Alien Ant Farm (from the album Anthology), selected by smiorgan (5-5-5)


• Carole King (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (from the album Tapestry), selected by phlebas (36-24-36)


• Bury The Hatchet - New Model Army (from the album Impurity), selected by narenek (144-2-8)


• Infrared - All About Eve (from the album Ultraviolet), selected by metame (6-6-6)


• King - Belly (from the album King), selected by kauket (23-2-7)


• Hello City - Barenaked Ladies (from the album Gordon), selected by purple_pen (17-2-16)


• Love and Hunting - Neuroticfish (from the album Singles and Rarities), selected by olethros (140-3-3)


• Punk Boy - Helen Love (from the album Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Muzik), selected by pm215 (91-9-11)


• Keep Up The Speed - Sahara Hotnights (from the album Jennie Bomb), selected by mejoff (174-3-5)


• Hi-Fi - Suede (from the album Head Music), selected by wimble (199-2-10)


• Ten Feet Tall - Mutton Birds (from the album Envy Of Angels), selected by antoniosteve (142-1-7)


• Switzerland - Baxendale (from the album You Will Have Your Revenge), selected by broadmeadow (20-3-5)


• Me & Bobby McGee - Flossie Malavialle (from the album Making Up The Miles), selected by stegzy (73-17-12)


• Wayfaring Stranger - Flossie Malavialle (from the album Making Up The Miles), selected by lnr (73-2-9)


• The Ground Folds - Sense Fail (from the album From the Depths of Dreams), selected by mr_tom (180-1-5)

Thanks to those who helped compile the list :)

Comments

[zotz]

Mindless Drug Hoover? Excellent. Dave-At-The-Next-Desk used to play me some stuff . . . The Reefer Song, possibly? The one abut the policeman, anyway

[venta.livejournal.com]

That's the bunny :) (Though obviously, I'm listening to Don't Take Ecstasy). The album's actually surprisingly worthwhile.

Poke!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

You've got two "Bad username in LJ tag" errors.

Or, at least, you did when I posted this!

Pah!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Smart arse ;-)

Re: Poke!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's what comes of being lazy and getting emacs to remove all the _s - sure, it took them all out the filenames, but also out of a couple of usernames.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Oo, impressive match!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er, sorry ? What is matching what ?

(unless you mean that 36 mod 12 = 12 (kinda :))

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

36-24-36 is (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course :)
I was too busy being disappointed that it wasn't 36-24-36 by the Violent Femmes to notice!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Dogs Die In Hot Cats got misfiled in my mp3 collection, and the above list is all based on filenames (didn't want to spend the time fixing everything).

And yes, that entire Belly album is very fine. Feel free to borrow it if you want.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't believe I've ever ganked in my life. It sounds most distasteful :)

According to the OED

[wimble.livejournal.com]

(See quot.) Hence ganky a., containing or resembling ‘gank’.

1747 HOOSON Miner's Dict. Iivb, Gank, a Soil lying in some Veins of a very Red or Yellow colour, sometimes Branching and Spreading itself in small Strings or Joynts to the Rachill, by which Signs it is very probable a Vein may be discovered; some Veins are naturally much inclined to it, such we call Gankey Veins. Ibid. Sijb, The Joynts in it are of a red Colour, or gankey.

Don't think that can really be passed off under "Common Usage", y'know ;-)

[triskellian]

For it to properly count as random, you have to play that list on random, too, so you don't know which once you're getting next.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I think there's some (at least marginally) interesting number psychology behind people's choices there - a lot of firsts, a significant number of triplets, some other cute patterns and the repeat of 73 can only either (a) signify Sandi Toksvig nostalgia or (b) be akin to the "pick a number between 10 and 50" thing that normally works when you haven't already been talking about number psychology or are talking to people with an interest in such matters.

What an awful sentence.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

repeat of 73 can only either (a) signify Sandi Toksvig nostalgia or (b) be akin to the...

I vote that, because I know for damn sure what number I'm going for next time someone tells me to "pick a number between 10 and 50".

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Unless it's a psych eval or in line at customs - neither of those sets of guys has much sense of humour.