#13340: — 01/14  at  09:37 PM
.. Pink Floyd is more like it. And Little Red Corvette is something I can relate to..... and I have no idea what the rest of that stuff is. If you say its music I'll take you at your word. But then I pretty much only turn on the radio to listen to NPR so Im nobody to be judging.

#13343: Orac — 01/14  at  10:14 PM
If you like the above tunes, you really should check out The Arcade Fire, if you haven't already...

#13344: — 01/14  at  10:43 PM
...there´s also the second song, "Dirty Trick" by Swedish/Finnish The Pagans, go figure.

#13346: — 01/14  at  11:09 PM
...and btw, who in ¤#!"$£@!! has "Six Organs of Admittance"? Tell that to Eccentrica Gallumbits of Douglas Adams fame (ok I know, time to go to bed now).

#13348: covington — 01/14  at  11:29 PM
1) Ween - Voodoo Lady
2) Sour Times - Portishead
3) Cut the Tree - Wolfgang Press
4) Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - White Stripes
5) Sidewalk Serfer Girl - Super Furry Animals
6) Diablo Trisam Theme - Blizzard Entertainment
7) The Reptiles and I - Shriekback
8) Under Pressure - David Bowie and Annie Lennox
9) All Time Low - Satellite
10) Gin & Juice - The Gourds

#13358: PZ Myers — 01/15  at  07:52 AM
Whoa...Bowie and Lennox? I've got "Under Pressure" with Bowie and Mercury, I didn't know he'd done it with Annie. Where's it from?

#13360: Orac — 01/15  at  09:02 AM
I was wondering the same thing myself. I'm a huge Bowie fan and have been for at least 25 years. Then I looked it up. Bowie did do a live version of "Under Pressure" at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 1992. I am not aware of its having being released on CD, although perhaps there are imports or bootlegs out there of it.

#13361: Orac — 01/15  at  09:03 AM
Ooops.

That's "did do a live versino of 'Under Pressure' with Annie Lennox." Sorry.

#13362: — 01/15  at  09:22 AM
Heh. OK, I get:

1 Serenade in D, K.320 (Eine kleine nachtmusik) Berliner Philharmic
2 Biko Peter Gabriel
3 How Long Dire Straits
4 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel
5 The Man Who Loved Beer David Byrne
6 White Room Eric Clapton
7 Finale from Les Mis Chorus(Broadway Cast)
8 Concerto for 2 violins in D MInor (Brandenburg) Scottish Ensemble
9 Baker Baker Tori Amos
10 The Celtic Soul Brothers Dexy's Midnight Raiders

#13373: — 01/15  at  03:34 PM
1) Tuesday At Ten - Count Basie Orchestra
2) Folded Flags - Roger Waters
3) The New Store - Max Steiner (Gone With The Wind)
4) I Only Have Eyes For You - Frank Sinatra
5) Sunglasses - Tracy Ullman
6) Kiss - Prince
7) Please - Mel Torme
8) The Oldest Established Crap Game In New York - Frank Sinatra
9) UMC - Bob Seger
10) The Bridge of Khazad Dum - Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings)

#13402: — 01/16  at  06:15 AM
Hi PZ

I've been meaning to ask for some time. You aååarantly have scandinavian roots - from where Denmark, Sweden, Norway?

Snakker du, eller forstår du nogle skandinaviske sprog, prater du svenska? Snakker du norsk eller dansk?

Just courious, some of the song seem to be in Swedish

/Soren

#13408: — 01/16  at  10:55 AM
Jeff,

Dont leave your player laying about. It would be worth stealing.

#13409: — 01/16  at  11:01 AM
All hope is not lost. Just heard Kasey Chambers singing "Pony" on Weekend Edition. (More featured on npr.org) I have been exposed to new music and I like it. Seems she is from down under. Must be what Wilkins listens to on his iPod.

#13416: teep — 01/16  at  12:26 PM
Caress Me Down -- Sublime
Scotland the Brave -- The Rogues of Scotland
NEO SPHERE -- T. M. Revolution
In It for the Children -- Uncle Bonsai
Streets of Laredo -- Marty Robbins
Another Bag of Bricks -- Flogging Molly
Piano Man -- Billy Joel
My Name Is -- Eminem
Mississippi Squirrel Revival -- Ray Stevens
The World is Full of Bastards -- Mary Prankster

Note to self: Guys and Dolls songs would make you happy. Get them.

#13499: — 01/17  at  11:58 AM
1. The Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof
2. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Doesn't Have To Be This Way
3. Badly Drawn Boy - The Blossoms
4. The Haunted - Godpuppet
5. Mattias Alkberg BD - Släng mina rester i en grav
6. Cult of Luna - Receiver
7. Badly Drawn Boy - Life Turned Upside Down
8. Silverbullit - Run
9. Apoptygma Berzerk - Photoshop Sucks
10. Kasey Chambers - Stronger

#13632: — 01/18  at  02:22 PM
1. Sax & Violins - Talking Heads
2. Polka Power - Weird Al Yankovic
3. Starman - Culture Club (Cover of Bowie)
4. Iowa - John Linnell
5. Fingertips (Everything is Catching on Fire) - They Might Be Giants
6. Fingertips (I Heard a Sound) - They Might Be Giants
7. Chess Piece Face - They Might Be Giants
8. Joe the Lion - David Bowie
9. Not Given Lightly - Frente!
10. Utah - John Linnell

Odd...how does an iPod's shuffle, work, anyway? The proportions aren't suspicious, but what are the odds of three TMBG songs in a row, two off the same album, plus two more of one of Linnell's side albums...out of a list of 1400 songs?

#13636: — 01/18  at  03:01 PM
What is this iTunes thing or MP3 players?t

#13691: — 01/19  at  12:01 AM
rrt -

I think Apollo 18 is kind of an exceptional case. There are close to 40 tracks from that album alone, so that's like 3% of your entire collection. Probably still noteworthy, but I suspect a calculation would show a surprisingly high probability of catching two in a row from that album

#13699: — 01/19  at  08:30 AM
I did wonder if perhaps, in such a sampling, it's statistically likely to get some "surprising" results, but I was too lazy to work it out. But it's nice to have Fingertips scattered throughout an entire library of music, lurking, ready to leap out at you when least expected. As it should be.