Thursday Random Eight (9/18/2008)

The first eight songs of the morning after setting the iPod to shuffle play. I really do listen to new music...it is the ipod that seems to ignore most songs recorded after 2000:

Brian Tyler - Elder Hole: From the Bubba Ho-Tep soundtrack; kinda works better in the realm of the entire album, but such is the risk of shuffle play.

The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard: A high school favorite I never outgrew.

Sonic Youth - Trilogy: The Wonder: The grand finale from Daydream Nation; I remember the day when finding DN on CD was nearly impossible as it was out of print (or perhaps just never released; it was more complicated to figure these things out back in the stone age than it is now). When it was finally issued on disc, I'm sure I listened to it fifty times in a row. I've heard a lot of criticism that it gets long and boring by the end, especially with this 15 minutes, but I think the album is a great package.

Husker Du - Something I Learned Today: This is where I start becoming fascinated with the concept of "random play" on the ipod. Here we are, third week in a row with a Husker Du song, when the likelihood of one of their songs being played in the random 8 is about .17%. I realize, of course, that a Husker Du song is no different than any other song to the random function, and that I'm more perplexed at numerology than mathematics. But still...weird.

Johnny Cash - Danny Boy: From the American IV collection, ripped most notably for Hurt and The Man Comes Around, but most of the songs are usually a nice fall back when I want to hear something calm.

Dalek - 3:46: An even louder, crazier hip hop / noise song than normal from Dalek... a nice fall back when I don't want to hear something calm.

Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless: From The Name of this Band is Talking Heads release, another one that I had on vinyl for a long time before it was finally released on CD. I've never been overly excited about Talking Heads in that I've never gone out of my way to listen to them, but I tend to really like their live recordings (especially the video of the Stop Making Sense tour).

Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven: Heh, monkey.