12 April 2013 (Day 102) - The Shuffle Sessions #3

After an early meeting this morning, which ensures that I'll be spending the rest of my day at my terminal developing another presentation, I figured the time is right to set the iPod onto shuffle and listen to my own private radio station. 

Starting point for today's session is a track by one of my father's favourite acts;

1.       Gene Vincent – Pink Thunderbird (from The Very Best Of Gene Vincent)
2.       Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Trouble Every Day (from Freak Out!)
3.       Muddy Waters – You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone (Number One) (from The Complete Plantation Recordings)
4.       Bruce Springsteen – Linda Let Me Be The One (from Tracks)
5.       Randy Newman – My Life Is Good (from Trouble In Paradise) This is the first track to appear in a Shuffle Session from an album already played this year.
6.       Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Nomadic Revery (All Around) (from I See A Darkness)
7.       Django Reinhardt – Japanese Sandman (1) (from Swing 39)
8.       Sixfthick – 40c (from Canetrash)
9.       Pop Will Eat Itself – 92 F (The 3^rd Degree) (from Wise Up Suckers)
10.   Gov’t Mule – Life On The Outside (from The Deep End Volume 1)
11.   Elvis Presley – I’m Comin’ Home (from From Nashville To Memphis. The Essential 60’s Masters I)
12.   Michael Bloomfield – Goin’ Down Slow (from Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man!  Essential Blues 1964 – 1969)
13.   Iggy Pop – Turn Blue (from Lust For Life)
14.   Swans – Miracle Of Love (from Various Failures 1988 – 1992)
15.   Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (live) (from No Direction Home: The Soundtrack.  The Bootleg Series Volume 7) Yes, the famous “Judas” version.
16.   Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers – Do You Love Me? (live) (from Stations Of the Cross (Revisited) Live)
17.   Beady Eye – Four Letter Word (from Different Gear, Still Speeding)
18.   The Church – Pharaoh (from Gold Afternoon Fix)
19.   The Easybeats – Lay Me Down And Die (from The Definitive Anthology)
20.   Wingless Angels – Four & Twenty (from Volume 1)
21.   Not Drowning Waving – Sweat (from Claim)
22.   Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Little Savage (from Imperial Bedroom)
23.   Hoss – Infidel (from Gentle Claws EP)
24.   The Hitmen – I Want You (from Hitmen)
25.   Soul Asylum – Keep It Up (from Gave Dancers Union)
26.   The Kinks – Days (from Picture Book)
27.   Seasick Steve – Salem Blues (from Dog House Music)
28.   Ramones – Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World (live) (from Loco Live)
29.   XTC – Complicated Game (from Drums And Wires)
30.   Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Laughing (live) (from 4 Way Street)
31.   Jimmy Witherspoon – When The Lights Go Out (from Willie Dixon. The Chess Box)
32.   Elvis Presely – There Goes My Everything (from Walk A Mile In My Shoes. The Essential 70s Masters)
33.   Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo (from Return To The 36 Chambers)
34.   Mudhoney – When Tomorrow Hits (from Mudhoney)
35.   Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) (from Atlantic R&B 1947-1974. Volume 6 1966-1969)
36.   Laibach – Leben (from Opus Dei)
37.   Green On Red – Illustrated Crawling (from Green On Red)
38.   Whiskeytown – Factory Girl (Baseball Park Sessions – bonus track) (from Faithless Street)
39.   Syd Barrett – Rats (from Barrett)
40.   The Stone Roses – Daybreak (from Second Coming)
41.   Buffalo – Kings Cross Ladies (from Only Want You For Your Body)
42.   Little Richard – The Girl Can’t Help It (from The Very Best Of Little Richard)
43.   Mazzy Star – Blue Flower (from She Hangs Brightly)
44.   Scott Walker – If You Go Away (from Scott 3)
45.   Johnny Ace – Don’t You Know (from Ace’s Wild! The Complete Solo Sides)
46.   The Human Expression – Optical Sound (from Nuggets. Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965 – 1968)
47.   The Alarm Clocks – No Reason To Complain (from Instant Garage.  Mojo Music Guide Vol. 1)
48.   The Style Council – Internationalists (from Our Favourite Shop)
49.   Dead Can Dance – Nierika (from Dead Can Dance 1981 – 1998)
50.   AC/DC – Beating Around The Bush (from Highway To Hell)
51.   The Who – My Wife (from Who’s Next)
52.   Mission Of Burma – This Is Not A Photograph (from Mission Of Burma)
53.   The Dictators – Baby Let’s Twist (from New York New York Live)
54.   Tool – Wings For Marie (Pt. 1) (from 10,000 Days)
55.   Luna – Whispers (from Pup Tent)

There were some nice sequences in this one, especially that encompassing tracks 12 through to 16 but overall I think it is probably not as good as the previous two this year.  Certainly it is less representative of my taste than those.