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. Riding with the King, B.B. King and Eric Clapton, Riding with the King
  2. Night Is Left Behind, Yonder Mountain String Band, Live in Cincinnati 10-31-2004
  3. Rattlesnake Shake, Fleetwood Mac[**], Live at the BBC
  4. Forgotten Years, Midnight Oil, Blue Sky Mining
  5. Love O’Love, The Subdudes, Primitive Streak
  6. Mother, Sinead O’Connor and Roger Waters, The Wall: Live in Berlin 1990
  7. A’ Chuthag (The Cuckoo), Natalie MacMaster, My Roots Are Showing
  8. Silvio, Bob Dylan, White Dove (bootleg)
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love?, Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Vol. 2
  10. Back in the High Life, Warren Zevon, Live in Nashville 4-11-2000 (bootleg)
  11. Fly Like An Eagle, The Neville Brothers, Family Groove
  12. Alive, Pearl Jam, Ten
  13. Mother Pigogne and the Clowns, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker
  14. Lady Cab Driver, Prince, 1999
  15. Concrete Jungle, Bob Marley and the Wailers, On Stage
  16. Why Walk When You Can Fly, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Stones in the Road
  17. The Big Room, Neil Young, Archives Be Damned Vol. 4 (bootleg)
  18. Casey Jones, David Lindley and Warren Zevon, Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead
  19. Seguro Que Hell Yes, Flaco Jimenez, Flaco Jimenez
  20. Five Women, Joe Cocker, Night Calls

[*] My one exception is to limit each artist to one track per list. If the same artist appears a second time, I skip over that track. This week, Bob Dylan and Yonder Mountain String Band and Bob Marley would each have had an extra track on the list otherwise.

[**] The original Peter Green lineup, not the bogus Nicks-Buckingham gang.

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  1. OK, I’ll bite…

    1) Sugar, “Man On The Moon”, 1992/02-20 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA (bootleg)
    2) The Clash, “Janie Jones”, 24 Hour Party People Original Soundtrack
    3) R.E.M., “Departure”, New Adventures In Hi-Fi
    4) Sebadoh, “The Freed Pig”, III
    5) New Order, “Fine Time”, 1989/06-16 Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA (bootleg)
    6) The Charlatans UK, “The Only One I Know”, Melting Pot
    7) Fugazi, “Forensic Scene”, Red Medicine
    8) Echo And The Bunnymen, “Lover I Love You”, Crystal Days box set (CD3)
    9) Tobin Sprout, “The Natural Alarm”, Carnival Boy
    10) Pixies, “I Bleed”, 2004/12-18 Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC (late set)
    11) Pavement, “Chesley’s Little Wrists”, Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe CD1
    12) Wilco, “I Must Be High”, A.M.
    13) Naked Raygun, “Potential Rapist”, Basement Screams
    14) Codeine, “Ides”, The White Birch
    15) Mark Eitzel, “Wild Sea”, 60 Watt Silver Lining
    16) Joy Division, “Shadowplay”, 1979/03-14 Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, UK (bootleg)
    17) Superchunk, “Watery Hands”, Indoor Living
    18) Paul Westerberg, “Let’s Not Belong Together”, 2002/06-29 Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN (bootleg)
    19) The Smiths, “Barbarism Begins At Home”, Meat Is Murder
    20) Uncle Tupelo, “Gun”, Still Feel Gone (reissue)

    Repeated would have been New Order, R.E.M., Superchunk and Wilco…

    drew

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