My iPod shuffle made me do it

Laundry List

I haven't posted a Random25 on the blog for a while.

The post title is self-explanatory. The songs below are what the iPod shuffle threw my way whilst I was doing the laundry a couple of days back.

Not a bad selection of tracks. Pretty mainstream which reflects the music on my iPod at the moment. I probably should shake it up a bit. Probably the most obscure band in the list is the post-punkish New Age. I know absolutely nothing about them, short of the fact that there's nothing about them on the internet and they're better than seventy-five per cent of the bands that Simon Reynolds gushes over in Rip It Up.

Oh yeah, click to enlarge . . . and to enrage.

Swift blog tailoring

Only four Weller songs? I'm getting better.

Check out Cornershop's cover version of 'Waterloo Sunset' if you can. It's not half bad.

PS - click pic to enlarge and to be enraged.

'Until you realise it's just a random playlist'

If you fast forward through about 217 songs, this too could be your random 25.'

The return of a long forgotten series on the blog.

Four of the songs are faves of Kara's but only three are strikingly obvious.

Owen stomped his feet to Level 42.

Kara asked, 'Who is this?' when The Delgados came on, which I interpret as a good sign. Maybe I won't have to play their albums in secret in the future.

I'd forgotten how spiky the Long Blondes were. They would play a terrific double bill with Sons & Daughters.

For the life of me I can't remember 'Shaking Through', even though I've played Murmur to death for a period of four months. I guess it suffered from B side syndrome. In the age of mp3s 9/10 songs that self-same fate.

I have to investigate that Steve Earle album further. It's time for me to get past his twenty year old statement that what the United States needed was someone like Neil Kinnock as their President.

For me, The Seeds will always just be another group on a Nuggets compilation but I noted that their lead singer, Sky Saxon, died this week. iTunes Genius obviously noted it as well.

What else makes the 25? Dionne Warwick murders the Cilla Black classic. Franz Ferdinand croon their Brooklyn song. Simple Minds remind us once again what a fucking brilliant band they once were. Wreckless Eric makes a strong case for being the bloke with a thirty five year old career based on one song (but it's a great song). Malcolm Middleton's sounds like he's covering Fatima Mansions but the song lyric doesn't contain half the wit of either Cathal Coughlan or the cover of the album that the song comes from. Tears For Fears get all vaguely political, as was obligatory for pop bands in the eighties after Live Aid. And Jellyfish. Whatever happened to Jellyfish? Did I miss anyone out?

"You celebrate chaos."

Much too random

Three tunes from 2008 must be a record for me.

Monday moaning

Imperial College: who are you?

UPDATE

Don't mind me. A random ramble fuelled by a lack of sleep and an Owen permanently glued to my left arm. Here's a random 25 by way of recompense:

Not a duff track in sight. K-Tel would be very proud.

Still curious to know who Imperial College is, though. I'm not that sleep deprived.

Whatever happened to the random 25s'?

Some people have random YouTube clips, I fall back on random 25s

"Anarchy's dead now, Maxine"

Too much Barking, not enough Brighton Beach

R. Andom (1976-2008)

Listening In

25 at 36

Not Forgotten About The Other One

Come Back To This . . . Maybe