30 April 2013 (Day 120) – The Shuffle Sessions # 4

I’d originally envisaged that I’d do one of these per month and so this one is to bring me up to date, so to speak.

A curious thing happened after I hit the shuffle button.  Song number 1 turned out to be Gene Vincent’s Pink Thunderbird.  Wasn’t this the same track that led off Shuffle Sessions # 3?  I quickly leafed back through the pages of my music journal had this confirmed. 

Now I don’t know about you, but I get deeply suspicious when something like this happens.  Was this truly coincidence?  I thought not and hit the forward button – yep, Trouble Every Day by The Mothers Of Invention, track # 2 of the previous shuffle.  I hit it again and up came the same Muddy Waters track and then I knew; my iPod was repeating the previous shuffle.

Rather than set a new shuffle, I took this one to the end point of Shuffle Sessions # 3 (Whispers by Luna) and decided to continue from the next item:

56.          Earth – High Command (from Pentastar In The Style Of Demons)
57.          The Modern Jazz Quartet –Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West (from At Music Inn, Guest Artist Jimmy Giuffre)
58.          Common - Everywhere (feat. Martina Topley-Bird) (from Universal Mind Control)
59.          Waylon Jennings - Brown Eyed Handsome Man (from The Best Of Johnny Cash TV Show)
60.          Marshall Crenshaw – Someplace Where Love Can’t Find Me (from Good Evening)
61.          John Coltrane – Naima (from Giant Steps)
62.          The Reverend Horton Heat – Liquor, Beer & Wine (from Liquor In The Front)
63.          Ramones – Bop ‘Til You Drop (from  Ramonesmania)
64.          The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – And So It Goes (from Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 2)

Then disaster struck.  In relocating the iPod I somehow managed to break the shuffle and the reluctantly had to set a new one.  A shame because the brace:

1.       Black Cab – Sword & Shield (from Call Signs)

2.       The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning (from Grin & Bear It)
3.       Siouxsie & The Banshees – Cities In The Dust (from Tinderbox)
4.       Rocket From The Crypt – I Wanna Know What I Wanna Know) (from Live From Camp X-Ray)
5.       Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness)
6.       Paul Kelly – Feelings Of Grief (from Stolen Apples)
7.       Camper Van Beethoven – Tania (from Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart)
8.       Sleepy John Estes – Drop Down Mama (from Let Me Tell You About The Blues – Chicago)
9.       The Beta Band – It’s Over (from The 3 E.P’s)
10.   Shearwater – Landscape At Speed (from The Golden Archipelago)
11.   The Mars Volta – Eriatarka (from De-loused In The Comatorium)
12.   Les Paul & Mary Ford – It’s A Lonesome Old Town (Greatest Hits!)
13.   John Lee Hooker – This Is Hip (from Mr. Lucky)
14.   John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – It Ain’t Right (from Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton)
15.   Joni Mitchell – Just Like This Train (from Court And Spark)
16.   XTC – Standing In For Joe (from Wasp Star. Apple Venus Volume 2)
17.   Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing (from Dire Straits)
18.   Diana Ross – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (from Hitsville U.S.A. The Motown Singles Collection 1959 – 1971)
19.   Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band - The Promised Land (from Live 1975 – 1985)
20.   The Belle Stars – Sign Of The Times (from The Stiff Records Box Set)
21.   The Twilight Singers – My Time (Has Come) (from Powder Burns)
22.   Bruce Springsteen – My Love Will Not Let You Down (from Tracks)
23.   Neil Young And Crazy Horse – Cowgirl In The Sand (from Road Rock Vol. 1)
24.   Otis Spann – Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Party Blues Line) (from Down To Earth.  The Bluesway Recordings)
25.   Eels – Agony (from Shootenanny!)
26.   The Gun Club – Field Holler (live) (from The Birth The Death The Ghost)
27.   Concrete Blonds – Darkening Of The Light (from Bloodletting)
28.   Guided By Voices – Secret Star (from Live From Austin Tx.)
29.   Pixies – The Happening (from Bossanova)
30.   Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Thermometer Drinking The Business Of Turnstiles (from Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo)
31.   Tony Joe White – I Want To Be With You (from The Collection)
32.   Sepultura – Slave New World (from Chaos A.D)
33.   Todd Rundgren - Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off (from A Wizard, A True Star)
34.   Tom Petty – Feel A Whole Lot Better (from Full Moon Fever)
35.   Money Mark – Harmonics Of Life (from Push The Button)
36.   The Neville Brothers – Voo Doo (from Yellow Moon)
37.   Wall Of Voodoo – Spy World (from Call Of The West)
38.   Basement Jaxx – Stop 4 Love (from Remedy)
39.   New Order – Every Second Counts (from BBC Radio 1. Live In Concert)

Well that’s it for another session and a pretty good one at that, even allowing for the need to reshuffle.  It's also given me an idea for tomorrow....