This week’s 20 random songs

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You know the rules: Shuffle your entire music collection, click Play, and report the first 20 tracks, no matter what [*]. This week’s list is formatted as song title, artist, and album (in italics):

  1. 8 Cylinders, Yonder Mountain String Band, Live at Newport Music Hall 2-21-2004
  2. The Boy in the Bubble, Paul Simon, Graceland
  3. Love Song for No One, John Mayer, Any Given Thursday
  4. Shangri-La, Don Henley, The End of the Innocence
  5. Tension, Shadow, Heat in Da Place: Soca from Trinidad
  6. Don’t You Feel My Leg, Maria Muldaur, Louisiana Love Call
  7. Mama, ‘Tain’t Long fo’ Day, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
  8. Trompe Le Monde, The Pixies, Trompe Le Monde
  9. Love for Sale, Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Ella in Berlin
  10. I Will Never Be the Same, Melissa Etheridge, Yes I Can
  11. Boul Di Tagale, Cheikh Lo, Ne La Thiass
  12. Desert Players, Ornette Coleman, Virgin Beauty
  13. Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting, Songs of Love
  14. Dry My Tears and Move On, The Del McCoury Band, It’s Just the Night
  15. The Promised Land, Grateful Dead, Live at Universal Amphitheatre June 30, 1973
  16. It’s Only a Paper Moon, Nat “King” Cole, The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
  17. Autumn Almanac, The Kinks, Ultimate Collection
  18. Eight Miles High, The Byrds, The Byrds (Box Set) Disk 1
  19. Murder Incorporated, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Live in NYC
  20. Mad, Lou Reed, Ecstasy

 

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3 thoughts on “This week’s 20 random songs”

  1. I like it…. so much so that I think I may make it a weekly thing for my blog…

    Try #1 for me:
    1. Hazy Shade of Winter – Bangles
    2. Whistles the Wind – Flogging Molly – Within a Mile of Home
    3. America – David Bowie
    4. The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders – Moby – Songs 1993-1998
    5. Bombs Away – Paris Texas – Like You Like an Arsonist
    6. Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    7. I think I have a chance with this guy – whats her face – Strong Bad Signs and Other type hits
    8. Runaway – Bon Jovi – Cross Road
    9. I am Weary, let me Rest – The Cox Family – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    10. Amazed – Poe – Haunted
    11. Past & Present – Amadan – Hell-Bent 4 Victory!
    12. Hookers – Ocean’s Eleven
    13. Violent Mood Swings – Stabbing Westward – Clerks
    14. Don’t Push It, Don’t Force It – Gordon – Malcom in the Middle
    15. The Council of Elrond – Enya – LOTR Soundtrack
    16. I Melt with You – M.E.S.T. – Not Another Teen Movie
    17. Switch – Will Smith – Lost and Found
    18. The Space Between – Dave Matthews Band
    19. Yearning of the Sword – Tan Dun – Crouching Tiger
    20. Re-Entry – Limp Bizkit – Results May Vary

  2. hey Ed, I’ll play too. It’s been too long.

    1 Louise Taylor: Call My Name, Velvet Town
    2 String Cheese Incident: Blue Bossa >, 2002.02.05 Hornings Hideout
    3 String Cheese Incident: Horning’s Jam, 2005.06.20 Hornings
    4 Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Live Dead
    5 Neil Young: Harvest, Decade
    6 John Gorka: I’m From New Jersey, Jack’s Crows
    7 Grateful Dead: Lovelight, Dicks’ Pick’s Vol. 4
    8 The Flying Burrito Brothers: Tried So Hard, Hot Burritos! Anthology
    9 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr Bojangles, Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy
    10 Harold Budd: Through the Hill, Trance Planet Vol 2
    11 John Gorka: My New Neighborhood, Jack’s Crows
    12 Jerry Garcia Band: That Lucky Old Sun (Just rolls around heaven all day), Jerry Garcia Band
    13 Rolling Stones: Not Fade Away, Stripped
    14 Grateful Dead: Music Never Stopped, 1977.05.09 War Memorial
    15 David Rothenberg: Track 6, Sudden Music
    16 Grateful Dead: Help on the Way >, 1977.05.09 War Memorial
    17 Grateful Dead: Bird Song, 1973.06.10 RFK Stadium
    18 Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Matapedia, Matapedia
    19 String Cheese Incident: Texas, 1997.06.26 Zephyr, SLC
    20 Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone, Biograph

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