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Last 10, as of 8/2/2010, 1:35 p.m. CDT:

 

•Grant-Lee Philips - "Older Now"

•Built to Spill - "Else"

•Stiff Little Fingers - "Straw Dogs"

•Neutral Milk Hotel - "Naomi"

•Jimi Hendrix - "Like a Rolling Stone"

•Gorillaz - "Superfast Jellyfish"

•The Move - "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues"

•Son Volt - "Automatic Society"

•Tom Zé - "Triú-Triii..."

•Shrimp Boat - "Anna E"

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John is a friend of mine. We went to middle school together. Lost touch, and then I heard his music, fell in love with it, and we got back in touch. Wound up recording my own music with him many

Ah, I understand now. I know this might be a no, but do any CDs of the album exist still? I've been getting into his music recently and I'd love to hear what Everybody Sees You sounds like.

I discovered them through a community dedicated to finding songs that never have the author mentioned, and can't be recognized by music identifying apps (Shazam, Google Assistant Music Search, etc.) T

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Pixies: Bone Machine

Steve Miller Band: Dance, Dance, Dance

Soul Asylum: To My Own Devices

Them: Stormy Monday

Radiohead: Just

Beck: Devils Haircut

The Choir of All Saints: Jisas yu holem hand blong mi

X: Blue Spark

U2: North and South of the River

Foreigner: Long, Long Way from Home

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Evan Dando – Repeat

Jonathan Richman – As My Mother Lay Lying

The Beatles – Birthday

Pavement – Here

Lou Barlow – Gravitate / One Machine

Joy Division – Auto-Suggestion

The Smashing Pumpkins – Rose March

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Breakdown

Thom Yorke – Atoms for Peace

The Breeders – Saints

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Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River

Effigy - Uncle Tupelo

Fuck School - The Replacements

Hand Me Down - The Wallflowers

Handshake Drugs - Wilco

Blood Bank - Bon Iver

Terms of Psychic Warfare - Husker Du

Wreck of the Old 97 - Woodie Guthrie

Sadly Beautiful - The Replacements

Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold - Steve Earle

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Roy Rogers - Elton John

Back of A Car - Big Star

Them Belly Full - Bob Marley

Blue Head Flame - The Walkabouts

Sally Was A legend - Robyn Hitchcock

Money - Richard Thompson

Tiger Tattoos - Laura Veirs

Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico

Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones

Travelling Mood - Dr. John

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OK ten tracks randomized...I almost typed sodomized but that's a different message board.

 

1. Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One

2. Sparklehorse - See The Light

3. Editors - The Big Exit...sheesh.

4. Warren Zevon - Disorder In The House..yay, redeemed after the Editors tripe.

5. Shawn Mullins - Sunday Morning Coming Down...yeah, I know.

6. Silver Jews - The Farmer's Hotel.

7. The Louvin Brothers - Mary Of The Wild Moors

8. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread

9. Thin Lizzy - Angel From The Coast

10. Whiskeytown - Faithless Street.

 

 

Not quite as all over the map as I would have thought.

 

One time recently, out of the 12 songs that I listened to in a session, I had 5 Bruce Springsteen and 5 Radiohead tracks

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This computer only has about 300 songs on it (and over-represented by people named "Wainwright"), but here goes:

 

1. Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto

2. Well-Alright - Spoon

3. I Want To Be Evil - Eartha Kitt

4. Can't Hardly Wait - Replacements

5. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright

6. That Time - Regina Spektor

7. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf

8. Not Ready to Love - Rufus Wainwright

9. Goddamn HIV - Mary Gauthier

10. Hearts Club Band - Martha Wainwright

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1.Harness Your Hopes-Pavement

2.Lay Low (live)-My Morning Jacket

3.My Gun (CD version)-The M's

4.Turn The Beat Around-Gerald Jackson & Vickie Sue Robinson

5.Laid-James

6.A Hazy Shade of Winter-Simon & Garfunkel

7.To Know Her Is To Love Her-The Beatles

8.Sincerely Me (live)-Better Than Ezra

9.Beat A Drum-R.E.M.

10.Blue Wing-Dave Alvin

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Volcano - Beck (From the acoustic Modern Guilt sessions)

Hoodoo Voodoo - Jeff Tweedy

Eu Protesto - Tony da Gatorra vs. Gruff Rhys

Freak Me Out - Weezer

One Shine - The Roots

Hard Fucking - Tenacious D

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (MTV Unplugged version)

Sarn Helen - Super Furry Animals

Cryin' Won't Help You Now - Ben Harper

Domingo a Noite - Luiz Bonfa

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1. No Cars Go - Arcade Fire

2. Sideshow by the Seashore - Luna

3. Rocks Off - Rolling Stones

4. Squalor Victoria - The National

5. Hesitating Beauty - Billy Bragg & Wilco

6. Would Not Be Denied - Buffalo Tom

7. Science vs. Romance - Rilo Kiley

8. Peace in the Valley - Dawes

9. Sweet Talkin' Woman - ELO

10. Themselves - D. Boon

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I usually don't use teh shuffle on me iPoodle, but this is fun.

 

The Beatles --- Good Day Sunshine (RevolverO

Bruce Springsteen --- Gave it a name (Tracks Disc 4)

Neil Young --- The Believer (Chrome Dreams II)

Pearl Jam --- REd Mosquite (No Code)

Bob Dylan --- Flight of th Bumblebee (A Tree with Roosts Volume 2)

Bruce Springsteen --- Merry Christmas Baby (Coliesum Night: Uniondale, L.I. 12-29-1980)

Bruce Springsteen --- Devils and Dust (Devild and Dust)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers --- Here Comes My Girl (The Live Antholody disc 1)

LCD Soundsystem --- Drunk Girls (This is Happening)

Bruce Springsteen --- Waiting on a Sunny Day (The Rising)

 

Amazing... over 5800 songs and I get 4 Springsteen songs.

Let's try this for 10 more:

 

Son Volt --- Strenght and Doubt (American Central Dust)

Big Star --- Kizza Me (Third/Sister Lovers)

Pearl Jam --- Release (Live in Seattle, Nov. 6 2000)

Elvis Costello and The Attractions --- (What's so Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Armed Forces)

Neil Young --- Song X (Mirrorball)

Sunshine of Your Love --- Cream (Disreali Gears)

Bruce Springsteen --- Spirit in the Night (Roxy Night, 7/7/1978)

The Band --- Danieland The Sacred Heart (Stage Fright)

Bruce Springsteen --- Darkness on the Edge of Town (Darkness of the Edge of Town)

Wilco --- Venus Stopped the Train (YHF Demos: Engineer's Copy)

 

Hmmm...6 of 20.

 

The Toadies --- Velvet (Rubberneck)

U2 --- Mofo (Pop)

Alejandro Escovedo --- Everybody loves me (Bourbonitis Blues)

The Beatles --- Michele (Rubber Soul)

The Doors --- The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) (The Best of the Doors)

Big Star --- Life is White (#1 Record/Radio City)

Badfinger --- Get Away (Ass)

Los Lobos --- Angels with Dirty Fingers (Just Another Band from East L.A.)

Michael Penn --- All that that Implies (Resigned)

Kings of Leon --- Dusty (Youth and Young Manhood)

 

Fun exercise

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1. You're Quiet - Brendan Benson

2. Versatile Heart - Linda Thompson

3. The Man Amplifier - Young Marble Giants

4. The Ballad of Bitter Honey - Eef Barzelay

5. Scarecrow - Eddi Reader

6. Strawberry Blonde - Ron Sexsmith

7. Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank

8. Sweedeedee - Michael Hurley

9. Vibrate - Rufus Wainwright

10. When the Roses Bloom Again - Sally Timms

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The Band - The Last Waltz Suite: The Last Waltz (Refrain)

Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love (from Wings Over America)

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

Rogue Wave - Like I Needed

Magnolia Electric Co - Hard to Love a Man

Noah and the Whale - Love of an Orchestra

Golden Smog - Another Fine Day

Alejandro Escovedo - About this Love

Gillian Welch - Caleb Meyer

Nellie McKay - Work Song

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Cat Power – We All Die

Soundgarden – Outshined

Hole – Asking For It

Zwan – Declarations of Faith

Neil Young – Don't Cry No Tears

Guided by Voices – Sleep Over Jack

Julian Casablancas – Left & Right in the Dark

Chin Up Chin Up – Falcons and Vulcans

Sonic Youth – Dripping Dream

Broken Social Scene – Complications

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ben folds five - fair

the jayhawks - over my shoulder

red house painters - make like paper

ryan adams - willows

spoon - wanted to be your

wilco - bull black nova

my brightest diamond - apple

elvis costello - watching the detectives

the rolling stones - country honk

ryan adams - starting to hurt

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The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off

A.C. Newman - 35 In the Shade

The Flaming Lips - The Impulse

Pearl Jam - Sad

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

Bruce Springsteen - For You

Sunset Rubdown - Paper Lace

Steinski - Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite)

Spoon - Don't Make Me A Target

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No Mind-No Soul - The Chesterfield Kings

Birds of Paradise - The Pretenders

Der Komissar - After The Fire (wtf?!?!?)

Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf

Crossing - Grand Champeen

Ham-Fisted Box of Gloves - The Gourds

Front Porch - Slobberbone

My Baby Left Me - CCR

Kingpin - Wilco 9/97 Wavefest

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Great Lake - Joe Henry

Song No. 4 - The Soft Boys

Stop! Look What You're Doin' - Carla Thomas

Broken Bottle - Alejandro Escovedo

Undone Again - Sand Rubies

Little T&A - The Rolling Stones

Snake's Tooth = Protection Against Fever And Luck In Gambling - Califone

Hang Me Now - Jeanne & The Darlings

Big - Moby Grape

Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr

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Uncle Tupelo – Sauget Wind

The Lemonheads – Rudderless

Jeremy Enigk – Abegail Anne

Tegan and Sara – I Bet It Stung

Billy Bragg – A New England

The Folk Implosion – Brand of Skin

Billy Bragg & Wilco – Remember The Mountain Bed

The New Pornographers – My Rights Versus Yours

The Replacements – Kids Don't Follow

Wilco – Why Would You Wanna Live (Live)

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Saturday at Band Uniform Checkout for D-man:

 

Dawes (North Hills) --- Girl to Me

Meatloaf (Bat Out of Hell)--- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth

Queens of the Stona Age (Songs for the Deaf) --- You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar...

Bruce Springsteen (Tracks) --- Stand on It

Seals and Crofts --- Diamond Girl (Have NO idea how this got on my iPod, but it was a nice surprise)

Jet (Get Born) --- Cold Hard Bitch

Muse (Black Holes & Revelations) --- City of Delusion

Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street) --- Skake Your Hips

Warren Zevon (Life'll Kill Ya) --- Don't Let Us Get Sick

Pearl Jam (Live at Benaroya Hall) --- 25 Minutes to Go

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Cornershop- Brim Full of Asha

Noah and the Whale- Mary

Tin Hat Trio- Hotel Aurora

Vince Guaraldi Trio- Christmastime is Here

Justin Hinds and Dominoes- Save a Bread

Steve Earle- Over Yonder (Johnathan's Song)

The Black Keys- Too Afraid to Love You

The Beatles- Wild Honey Pie

Bluetip- Bad Flat

Paul Simon- Cool, Cool River

 

Weird list.

 

Last 10, as of 8/2/2010, 1:35 p.m. CDT:

 

•Grant-Lee Philips - "Older Now"

•Built to Spill - "Else"

•Stiff Little Fingers - "Straw Dogs"

•Neutral Milk Hotel - "Naomi"

•Jimi Hendrix - "Like a Rolling Stone"

•Gorillaz - "Superfast Jellyfish"

•The Move - "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues"

•Son Volt - "Automatic Society"

•Tom Zé - "Triú-Triii..."

•Shrimp Boat - "Anna E"

 

This is a good Mix. Anywhere you can find Stiff Little Fingers AND Tom Ze is a good place.

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Pixies - Ed Is Dead

Scud Mountain Boys - Combine

The Easybeats - Made My Bed Gonna Lie In It

Major Lance - I'm The One Who Loves You

The Kinks - Jack the Idiot Dunce

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Cut Dead

Johnny Coles - Jano

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Bayou Stomp

The Long Ryders - (Sweet) Mental Revenge

Wire - Start to Move

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Can You See Me - Jimi Hendrix (At Monterey)

Home In My Hand - Brinsley Schwarz (Please Don't Ever Change)

Someday We'll Be Together - Frederick Knight (I've Been Lonely For So Long)

Something In The Way - Best Coast (Tour CD-R)

To The Bone - Ray Davies (Jane Street Theater Aug., 2000)

All The Love In The World - Consortium (Paisley Pop)

Is This Real ('itr 4-track demos) - Wipers (Box Set, disc 1)

Pirate Jet - Gorillaz (Plastic Beach)

The Version (Hypocrite) - Brinsley Schwarz (Please Don't Ever Change)

The Moonbeam Song - Nilsson (Nilsson Schmilsson)

 

then...

 

Fabulous Day - The Essex Green (Everything is Green)

Fuzzy Tremolo - Shrimp Boat (Something Grand, disc 2)

My Time - Happy Ashtray (Everybody Sees You)

Children Of The Revolution - Kirsty MacColl (Electric Landlady)

Setup - Happy Ashtray (Everybody Sees You)

Captain Reale - Gentle Influence (Paisley Pop)

Up Front - Wipers (Box Set [Disc 1])

Nine At a Time - Cash Cow (rBGH)

Long Division Blues - Peggy Sue (Fossils and Other Phantoms)

Love At First Sight - XTC (Black Sea)

La Guacamaya - Los Lobos (La Pistola y El Corazón)

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Goodbye Babylon - The Black Keys

Down By The River - Neil Young

Fifteen Keys - Uncle Tupelo

Subbacultcha - Pixies

Timebomb - Old 97's

Oscillate Widly - The Smiths

First Breath After Coma - Explosions In The Sky

California Zephyr - Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar

My City Was Gone - The Pretenders

Vamos - Pixies

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Been a couple of weeks here's another one:

 

1. Wilco - Bull Black Nova

2. KISS - Talk To Me

3. T. Rex - Life's a Gas

4. Weezer - Falling For You

5. Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys - Toy Heart

6. The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet

7. Wilco & Billy Bragg - Another Man's Done Gone

8. KISS - Parasite (live)

9. Them Crooked Vultures - Reptiles

10. The White Stripes - The Same Boy You've Always Known

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