ShuffleLupAGus

Today's Pre-Independence Shuffle (Still looking for a pattern):

1. Def Leppard - Lady Strange
A less production Def Leppard is a good one

2. Sondre Lerche - On and Off Again
Faces Down is really one of the better albums ever created

3. Fu Manchu - Regal Begal
I used to live across a place called the Regal Bagel. I don't think they got the Three's Company reference

4. Party Ben - Insane, Medicated Hand (MashUp)
Queens of the Stone Age and Trent Reznor collaborating before they really did. Prophetic

5. Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
"Farakhans a prophet and I think you ought to listen to..." In the bible of hip-hop forever. I dream of the day that Chuck D storms into the Flavor of Love House with an S1W and pulls Flavor Flav out of there on the quest to regain street cred

6. Ted Leo - Me and Mia (Acoustic)
Shouldn't it be Mia and I? Suppose it would change the flow of the song, though

7. Switch - JDeville from Huckoff
Umm. I'm actually playing guitar on this one. Joel from Force Seven is also on there. So...

8. Joe Jackson - Introduction
It's just Joe Jackson introducing the band on Live in Amsterdam. Kind of unnecessary

9. Pinback - Concrete Seconds (demo)
Still waiting for Pinback to make a mistake. They are very very good

10. Goldfrapp - Human (Calexico Mix)
Had never heard this before. That's why shuffling is fun

11. Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera
Pre-Bruce Maiden. I used to be adverse to it, but I kinda like it now. It's more Ren Fairey, though

12. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Did hip-hop samples and the NFL kill this song? I think it's clinging on to relevance

13. Wilco - The Late Greats (Live)
The new band that Tweedy put together is almost Steely Danish in their musical virtuosity. Steely Danish. HAHAHAHAHA! Sounds like a shitty pastry

14. Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song
I broke down and put most of the Zep discography on my iPod the other day. They can't be denied

15. The Bravery - Tyrant
The Bravery is so much better than the Killers that it hurts to think about

16. Camu Tao - Plot for a Little
Def Jux in the house. RIP 6/6/77 - 5/25/08

17. The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
Almost vaudevillian at times, but for some reason I like them. It seems like Amanda Palmer has something to say when she sings. I guess it's called "Dark Cabaret"

18. Built To Spill - In the Morning
I seem to be playing catch-up with this band because I missed them the first time around

19. Jim Noir - What U Gonna Do
He writes songs to sell Target products, Adidas and also makes you feel like you are in a children's television show when you listen to it. Amazingly calming like rays of sunshine in the morning

20. Frank Black - Llano Del Rio
One of the coolest shows I ever saw was Frank Black at a local community center. It was intimate. Watch LoudQUIETLoud

21. Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise
Worst keyboard patch ever. It sounds like a digitized clarinet in a bucket of cherry Kool-Aid filled with pollywogs. Also, does a hand in a glove really make anyone feel good?

22. Franz Ferdinand - Do you Want To (Max Tundra Remix)
Holy fuck. This song just made me take my shirt off and put on gold lame short shorts and start dancing around in my office with pride. They almost lift the keyboards from Jump, but with the sheet music flipped upside down

23.Dangerous Toys - Ten Boots
Wow. This is kind of embarrassing. Quintessential hair metal. Saw them play with LA Guns

24. Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies (Tribute Version)
It's about porn movies. The story is that Ozzy and Randy saw some weird porno and wrote about it

25. The Clash - Complete Control
Never got into The Clash like I should've, but they were really good. you hear them in so much of the music of today

26. M. Ward - Transfiguration #1
M.Ward never ceases to send me to a weird, good place. He writes the soundtrack to a bike ride in Bidwell Park after one too many beers when you are alarmingly aware that you only have four cigarettes in your pocket and no lighter. Those are your only worries at the time. Nothing else. Nothing

27. Ratatat - Party & Bullshit (Biggie Smalls)
This is better than the original. A straight-up barbecue banger. If your head doesn't nod when this is on, you may be dead or have a bad case of honky pox and need a Soul Vaccination. Get it free. Soul vaccinations will be covered by your insurance provider for the price of your regular co-pay

28. Run DMC - Runs House
Fuck! This song is still so sick. From the pantheon of hip-hop. This is the blueprint

29. Cowboy Junkies - Dead Flowers
A far superior Stones cover when compared to Wild Horses by anyone. I'll lay down the challenge to amke an interesting cover of Wild Horses to anyone. It's mislabeled as Townes Van Zandt on my iPod in my attempted assemblage of the Big lebowski Soundtrack. Whoops

30. John Waite - Missing You
This is on a GTA Vice City Compilation, but I have two fuckin' words for you: "Bad English." Journey and John Waite? SUPERGROUP!

31. The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
Literock. Not Lite Rock. Every song seems to tell a story. This song is so fucking sincere and so San Francisco. This band creates discussions between people. Hmmm. Maybe literarirock makes more sense

32. Donovan - Living for the Love Light in Your Eyes
No person is above getting their Donovan on. This dude was on some different shit, man. Nowhere and everywhere at once

33. Goldfrapp - Lovely 2 C U
Wow. That's a contrast to Donovan. I think it's the low-end of this band that draws me in. Remove the lyrics and just leave the bass line and the kick and the snare and I would be just fine

34. Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
Her voice is so powerful it makes me want to either weep or melt like a Nazi looking into The Ark. If you are local to the Bay Area, this song should evoke a recent incident at the SF Zoo

35. Sonny Rollins - Misterioso
Maybe not the Heavyweight Champion, but the dude's still alive and is deserving of a postage stamp for what he gave to music. Will the US ever appreciate jazz as much as Europe? No

36. Queensryche - The Chase
How can you do a duet with Ronnie James Dio (RJD) and still get me to skip the song? I wanted Mindcrime II to be so fucking epic, but it was more disappointing than Spiderman 3. Duet with RJD!

37.The Avalanches - Tomas Bangalter - Turbo
Own whatever you can find by The Avalanches. They are super obscure, but really really incredible. I can't stress this enough. The coolest blend of samples to create something new since Paul's Boutique. If you like Girl Talk and Audiobytes for Autobots, you will love this. This is one of the original samples from When I Met You

38. Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Pre-Mike Patton Faith No More. Goddamn, they made the Bay Area proud

39. The Mars Volta - CJ Pt III
One day someone will be able to figure this band out. As Sparta start to sound like U2, these dudes just keep pushin' the envelope. Engaging, disturbing, improverish...Just an amazing energy and always fresh on the ears amongst a monotonous soundscape of shit

40. Air - Dark Messages
This is probably some of the best poolside music you will ever listen to

41. Muse - Piano Thing
They are kind of Rush. Kind of prog. Kind of Radiohead. They are awesome. Should anyone ever fucking wear socks and flip-flops into the workplace?!?!?! Where the fuck am I? A Jimmy Buffet parking lot? I'm leaving early todday because of that. That's so fucking wrong

42. Gary Jules - Dtla
Just received this album recently. It's good. I pray at night that Gary Jules will replace Randy Newman as the unofficial musical ambassador of Los Angeles. If you mashed Gary Jules and Steve Erickson's brain together, I don't know what you would have, but it would be some brilliant tribute to Los Angeles with references to local shit that only the most LA of LA people would get

43. The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini III
Well, TMV has officially infiltrated the algorithm for the shuffle function on my iPod. I'm calling bullshit on the randomization. My iPod has a fucking agenda

44. Elliot Smith - Son of Sam
I started questioning everything in life the day I related to Elliot Smith songs. He was taken away way too early, but at least he is probably finally at peace. Him and Leonard Cohen telling each other to cheer up is something funny to think about. He got spotty sometimes, but there is no denying his brilliance and it's a fucking shame that he will never get a postage stamp

45. Ozzy Osbourne - Secret Loser
Ozzy has 3 out of 46 at this point? There are 9,000 songs in my iPod. this is not random. William Gibson is going to write a short story someday about the subversive marketing of Apple augmenting their shuffle to prioritize artists who pay to come up more in the shuffle function. Just like who-ogle?

46. Nikka Costa - Nothing
This song is kinda weak, but Everybody Got Their Something is a fuckin' jam

47. Spoon - I Summon You (Alternate Version)
A stripped down version of the album version that puts more emphasis on the vocal. Still pretty strong

48. Whitesnake - Give Me All Your Love
Hairmetal needs to write a retraction for lack of respect for the keyboard player because there was more keyboard tracking on the album versions of hair metal than a Thomas Dolby album or Switched on Bach by Walter/Wendy Carlos

49. Elvis Presley - Hot Dog
His 50s shit was so good. Diners and shitty bands named after car parts that play in public parks have kinda destroyed and cheesefied this type of rock, but the deep cuts still stand up

50. That 1 Guy - Dig
Mike Silverman is on wikipedia. That's fuckin' great. I still drunk dial him every so often. He's one of my own personal idols that I can't even aspire to aspire to. I (heart) him

51. Buckethead - Bloodless
A handful of people will see this association. That 1 Guy tours with Buckethead and the shuffle function played them back-to-back. I'm officially getting the gang together and calling bullshit on random. There is no such thing. I realized this when staring at a Keno screen in a bar looking for patterns. There is always a pattern. Always. Also, Buckethead is fucking rad. Where Satriani is otherworldy, Buckethead is in your trash can and he's snuck into your house to put your cat in the blender and leave a note written on Disneyland Hotel stationary. Sleep easy

52. Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Sex (I'm A)
A cover that stands on its own aside from the original and extremely erotic. It almost makes you forget about Mike Patton peeing in his shoe and drinking it or fucking a turkey carcass at One Step Beyond back in the day. Both probably hearsay. This song turns into phone sex near the end. It's kind of cool


Fuchit. I'm going to get some poolside in.