I have to attend some sort of yearend throw-down at the younger Secret’s school this afternoon, so this is gonna have to be super-quick…
At facebook I’m starting to receive requests for me to participate in various polls, support causes, sign petitions, and play mysterious games with other facebookers. Please be aware that I will be ignoring most of these requests, because I think they’re stoopid. Nothing personal, mind you.
However, my friend Eugene sent a challenge, or tag, or whatever, saying I’m required to turn on my iPod or mp3 player, and post the first fifteen songs that play in the shuffle mode.
That one actually sounds kinda fun, so I’ll do it. Here are the first fifteen, as they’re unspooling in the bunker:
“Midnight Rendevous” The Babys
“From Now On” Paul Carrack
“Diddy Wah Diddy” Captain Beefheart
“Girls of Today” Shoes
“Culture Shock” The Rezillos
“Noise Annoys” The Buzzcocks
“Beauty and Sadness” The Smithereens
“Break Open the Sky” Jason & the Scorchers
“We’re For the Dark” Badfinger
“Changes” The Zombies
“Betcha By Golly, Wow” The Stylistics
“Genius” Kings of Leon
“Kiss Me, Son of God” They Might Be Giants
“Razor Face” Elton John
“Fadeaway” The BoDeans
That’s completely honest, with no editing. Care to play along with this particular bit of internet grabassery? Fifteen’s probably too much, but if you want to list your first five or ten shuffle-play songs in the comments, we’d be interested in seeing ’em. Well, I would, anyway…
Remember the guy at my job who won $100,000 in the lottery? Well, I was given bad information. He didn’t quit, he just took Monday off. He was back in the trenches last night…
I talked with him, and he said the tax man is automatically taking $25K, so the check will only be for $75K. Plus, he was warned, he’ll probably owe more on top of it.
He had to turn over the winning ticket to the lottery commission, who will reportedly be conducting a chemical analysis(?!) to confirm its legitimacy. He said he snapped a photo of the woman who took it from him. Heh.
It’ll be six weeks, supposedly, before he’ll actually see the money. Six weeks! How shitty is that?
The dude had a photocopy of the scratch-off ticket with him, and it made my heart beat a little faster just looking at it. The floor of my ass would fall out, if something like that happened to me…
He’s going to buy some sort of lifelong-dream motorcycle, he said, and bank the rest of it. He’s a nice guy, and I got no problem with any of it. I hoist a vessel of the golden elixir in his honor.
And I need to go. I have to be at the school at 12:45, and my scrotilia will be run through a grinder if I’m late.
I’ll be back with a real update tomorrow.
See ya then!
First bitch
Well good luck with all of the year end ‘crapola’.
I swear every year the crap cycle keeps getting longer, and the learning time gets cut shorter and shorter!
Enjoy!
Jen
I couldn’t be more unhip if I started wearing a fanny pack full of newspaper clippings and a bolo tie. I only recognized one of the 15 artist listed above, and that’s the ghey one. Jesus Tapdancing Christ I’m lame.
“Do it Again” Steely Dan
“Family Man” Hall & Oates
Cold Morning Light” Todd Rundgren
“Hard to Say I’m Sorry” Chicago
“I Saw the Light” Todd Rundgren
“Since You’re Gone” The Cars
“Not Tonight” The New Cars
“Can’t Get it Out of My Head” ELO
“Dancing in the Street” David Bowie
“Human” The Killers
“Rockin” Down the Highway” Doobie Brothers
“The Best of Times” Styx
“Atomic” Blondie
“Working My Way Back to You” Four Seasons
“Jamie’s Cryin” Van Halen
Mmmmmmmmm 75K
First fifteen on IPOD- (I hit “shuffle Songs” just to make it fair)
1- “Spill the Wine”- War
2.- “Crawling”- Linkin Park
3- “Waining for the Miracle”- Leonard Cohen
4- “In the Summertime”- Mungo Jerry
5. “God is a Bullet”- Concrete Blonde
6. “Gangsters and Thugs”- Transplants
7. “Fell on Black Days”- Soundgarden
8. “No More Tears” Ozzy
9. “Ghost Town”- Specials
10. “Prayer of the Refugee”- Rise Against
11. “John Barleycorn Must Die”- Traffic
12. “The Sky’s Gone Out”- Bauhaus
13.
Top frikkin 10….woohoo
Whats an MP3? I’m still using good ole MP2s…
First fifteen on IPOD- (I hit “shuffle Songs” just to make it fair)
1- “Spill the Wine”- War
2.- “Crawling”- Linkin Park
3- “Waining for the Miracle”- Leonard Cohen
4- “In the Summertime”- Mungo Jerry
5. “God is a Bullet”- Concrete Blonde
6. “Gangsters and Thugs”- Transplants
7. “Fell on Black Days”- Soundgarden
8. “No More Tears” Ozzy
9. “Ghost Town”- Specials
10. “Prayer of the Refugee”- Rise Against
11. “John Barleycorn Must Die”- Traffic
12. “The Sky’s Gone Out”- Bauhaus
13. “What Do You Want From Life”- The Tubes
14. “Tomorrow Comes Today”- Gorillaz
15. “A- Punk”- Vampire Weekend
Did you know- There are more chickens in the world than people?
On IPOD right now- (since I skipped the first 15)- “Walk, Idiot, Walk”- by The Hives
First 15 songs on your iPod? Dude…what’s next? Ten things that most people don’t know about you? Five movies that made you cry? Famous people you share a birthday with? Which Joss Whedon are you? I feel a mockable coming on…
Sorry about that- my computer lost the page and acted like the whole goddamn thing vanished or something.- Didn’t know it posted. Anyway, going to lunch now to try to meet some really cool chickens.
“Miricles” Jefferson Starship
“Reelin In The Years” Steely Dan
“This Magic Moment” Jay & The Americans
“Mony Mony” Tommy James & The Shondells
“Ventura Highway” America
“What Is Life” George Harrison
“Conquistador” Procol Harem
“Missing You” John Waite
“Smugglers Blues” Glenn Frey
“Baker Street” Gerry Raferty
“Stay With Me” Ron Wood
“Sister Golden Hair” America
“Sooner or Later” Grass Roots
“Green Eyed Lady” Sugarloaf
Sic’em Metten. Surf Reporter Jeff has crossed perilously into a supremely mockable subject….
Stealing Clive Bull Topics = funny
Stealing bad facebook fad challenges = mockable
“Did you know- There are more chickens in the world than people?”
Thank God for that!!
Visits to Quaker Steak and Lube
would be an empty experience otherwise.
I’m glad for the “genius” feature on iTunes,
I change play lists quite often.
I don’t participate in any of the Facebook shenanigans either.
I’ll have to do the iPod thing when I get home. I can assure you that at least 8 out of the 15 will be gay.
Top 15 on Ipod….
1.Looking Back by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band
2.At Last by Etta James
3.Poke Salad Annie by Captain Luke and Cool John
4.Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes
5.All Right Now by Free
6.Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
7.Tonight by Kate Walsh
8.Too Much Between us By Procol Harum
9.Pets by Porno for Pyros
10.Into the Ocean by Blue October
11.You by Bonnie Raitt
12.The Letter by The Box Tops
13. Dein Angesicht-Schumann by Anne Sophie Von Otter
14.Thunder Kiss ’65 by White Zombie
15. Bach: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor: Great Organ Works by Wolfgang Rubsam
Funny…I have more Foo Fighters on my Ipod than anything else and not one song came up.
I’m right there with you on all of that Facebook crap. I ignore it all too.
Here’s my shuffle list:
King’s Lead Hat — Brian Eno
Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It — Will Smith
She Bangs the Drums — The Stone Roses
Come and Get It (demo) — The Beatles
Swamp — Talking Heads
I’m Gone — Rod West
The End of the World — The Cure
Dance Tonight — Paul McCartney
Extractions — BS 2000
Jingle Bell Rock — Bobby Helms
Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand — The Who
The Trembler — Duane Eddy
When You Were Mine — Prince
Beautiful Thing — Ben Vaughn
Brown Sugar — The Rolling Stones
Rodeo Town – The Kills
The Waiting – Tom Petty
You Send Me – Sam Cooke
I Don’t Know – Ozzy
Nuclear Attack – Gary Moore
Killer Queen – Queen
Undeclared – The Dodos
Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
Thru the Twilight – Girl
Untitiled – Woven Hand
Annie Get Your Gun – Squeeze
Loose – The Stooges
Papa Gene’s Blues – The Monkees
Overkill – Motorhead
Miracle Man – Elvis Costello
Happy Wednesday, Surfers!
Tammy, I have more UFO/Michael Schenker than anything, and not one song! Plus: Motorhead after the Monkees? WTF?
Yeah Knucklehead, I just thought it was bizarre. Of course I have nearly 1000 songs on my ipod, so who knows?
I only load my most favorite songs though so many of them are only two or three of one artist. The Foo Fighters have three entire CD’s worth of songs on my Ipod. In comparison to the rest, I just found it uncanny that not one came up.
@Jason, LMFAO- I feel your pain I don’t recognize a quarter of the artists all the WSVR reporters have on their electronic music makey thingies
im such a tool – cant work an ipod yet…
dying of shame here
Don’t have an ipod. Don’t have a Facebook account. Apparently I am officially out of the loop.
Anyone care to guess what the “first 15” would be for the kid in today’s bunker cam?
@Knucklehead- I’d bet on some Skynard and Charlie Daniels in the top 5
Anything at All – Tristan Prettyman
Controversy – Prince
Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
Whatever It Takes – Lifehouse
Never Again – Kelly Clarkson
Viva la Vida – Coldplay
What Were We Thinking – Joss Stone
Each Day Gets Better – John Legend
Great Companion – Landon Pigg
It’s Raining Men – Martha Wash w/ RuPaul
Istanbul – They Might Be Giants
Unconditional – Simon Collins
I Want You – Elvis Costello
Stuck In A Moment – U2
Grow Old With Me – Mary Chapin Carpenter
I need some better music. I’m looking forward to reading the other playlists.
DMB – Stay (Wasting Time)
Charlie Hunter – Close Your Eyes
Hold Me – Fleetwood Mac (WTF?!?)
DMB – Out of My Hands
Joe Cocker – One Night of Sin
Joss Stone – I Had a Dream
D’Angelo – Alright
Blackilicious – Bow & Fire
Barry White – Love Serenade
Blackilicious – Passion
KT Tunsall – Universe & U
Toots & The Maytals – Reggae Got Soul
Modest Mouse – The World at Large
Jack Johnson – While We Wait
Modest Mouse – Dashboard
Ray LaMontagne – Barfly
What a strange lame list of songs…
Hey, I find this particular facebook tomfoolery interesting. You can file a lawsuit if you’d like.
I just returned from the school, where the entire fourth grade sang communist anthems, and a little Beach Boys. Now I have to go to work, comrades.
See ya tomorrow.
i don’t have an ipod yet. got nothing against them, i’m just slow.
i’ve noticed that most of my friends who play the “what kind of sillyness are you” games are the ones with not enough to do at work.
Commie anthems? Why is school even going? Is it some year round school so the commie propaganda won’t leave their heads before the year is out?
I told all my facebook freinds stop with the requests. A few jumped my shit, they were deleted.
The best thing about facdebook is when you get a fucking stupid request you can go to the upper right hand corner and click “hide this user” Now I don’t have to see my aunts 400000000 surveys.
Ok, this is going to turn out really, really cool OR really, really embarrassing. Here goes:
“Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand
“Little Motel” – Modest Mouse
“Youthless” – Beck
“Blue” – The Jayhawks
“Divine Hammer” – The Breeders
“Kids” – MGMT
“9 in the Afternoon” – Panic at the Disco
“Just Dance” – Lady GaGa
“Seven Nation Army” – White Stripes
“Possum Kingdom” – The Toadies
“Dani California” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“How ‘Bout Them Cowgirls” – George Strait
“About a Girl” – Nirvana
“Around the Bend” – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
“I Do” – Lisa Loeb
Namaste – Beastie Boys
The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
A Lost Care – Sonny Boy Williamson
Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine – Bob Dylan
No Good (Attack the Radaical) – Pantera
Beauty Lies In The Eye – Sonic Youth
Redundant – Greenday
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
Thinkin About Cops – Slightly Stoopid
I Wanna Go Back – Kid Rock
Home – Staind
Kickin’ My Heart Around – Black Crowes
Were You There – Johnny Cash
Teenager – Def Tones
Tightrope – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Wow, this will be horrifying as my taste in music sucks the proverbial donkey…..
1.) Single Ladies – Beyonce (don’t ask)
2.) Catch Hell Blues – The White Stripes
3.) Wicked Little Town – Hedwig & The Angry Inch
4.) Mr. Brightside – The Killers
5.) In Too Deep – Sum 41
6.) Unusual You – Britney Spears (getting horrifying!)
7.) Ode to My Family – The Cranberries
8.) Love Addict – Family Force 5
9.) My Life Would Suck W/Out You – Kelly Clarkson
10.) Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Jewel (ha!)
11.) Competition – Dragonette
12.) Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright
13.) Little Cream Soda – The White Stripes
14.) Even God – Charlotte Church
15.) Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts
Holy geez, I never knew just HOW crappy my taste in music was (save for White Stripes!) until I made this list. I was turning all sorts of red just looking at the song titles. Time to delete!
Oh, and by the way, I am guilty of FB quizzes. Hey, I gotta have something to do at work!
Your lottery guy sounds like he has his head on straight. I misjudged yesterday I think.
$100,000 gives you about $32,500 in taxes to pay in PA. Not including your income.
Lo Mein time
I invented the ipods, but have yet to learn to use one. If I had 15, probably some Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and some Jackie DeShannon on there.
No iPod, but my Panasonic spit out the following on random shuffle:
“It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken” The Tragically Hip
“All My Little Words” Magnetic Fields
“The Fruit that Ate Itself” Modest Mouse
“Blood Roses” Tori Amos
“Kids” MGMT
“Books About UFOs” Husker Du
“Summer Side of Life” Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
“Come Back Margret” Camera Obscura
“While We Were Hunting Rabbits” Matthew Good Band
“MFC” Pearl Jam
“Winnebago Warrior” Dead Kennedys
“Save Me” Amie Mann
“Frankie’s Gun” The Felice Brothers
“Disgustipated” Tool
“The Nothing Song” Sigur Ros
1. Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Wisdom”
2. 13th Floor Elevators – “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
3. Frantix – “My Dad’s a Fucking Alcoholic”
4. Al DiMeola – “Alien Chase on an Arabian Desert”
5. The Saints – “Know Your Product”
6. Can Kickers – “Greasy Coat”
7. Jo Jo Gunne – “Run Run Run”
8. The Occasion – “A Dulcimer’s Fancy”
9. Bad Brains – “I Against I”
10. The Smiths – “How Soon Is Now?”
11. American Mionor – “Walk On”
12. Pagans – “What’s This Shit Called Love?”
13. Lee Michaels – “Do You Know What I Mean”
14. Focus – “Sylvia” (live)
15. The Outlaws “Green Grass and High Tides”
genius – one great effen song…
m.
@ Melissa,
“Holy geez, I never knew just HOW crappy my taste in music was (save for White Stripes!)”
Don’t beat yourself up over Rufus Wainwright either, although I might suggest the Tim Buckley version of Hallelujah is better, and Leonard Cohen’s is the best.
As for the rest I concur with your recent epiphany. 🙂
“Take Your Whiskey Home” Van Halen
“The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone” The Dandy Warhols
“Hey Jude” The Beatles
“Shake the Devil” Tommy Bolin
“The Candy Man” Cibo Matto
“You Didn’t Have To Go All The Way” Junior Brown
“Evil Ways” Santana
“All You Need is Drugs” The Beatles
” Big Pink Cookie” The Nocturnal Tomatoes
“Dirty Pool” SRV
“Believer” Ozzy
“Guacomole” Texas Tornados
“Slow Song” Joe Jackson
“65 Bars and a Taste of Soul” Charles Wright
“Wild Honey” – U2
“I Can’t Stay” – The Killers
“A Dustland Fairytale” – The Killers
“The Sound of Slience” – Simon & Garfunkel
“CBS NCAA Basketball Theme” – unknown
“Black Dog” – Led Zeppelin
“Me & Mr. Jones” – Amy Winehouse
“Is It Any Wonder?” – Keane
“Eye of the Tiger” – Survivor
“Theme from ‘New York, New York'” – Frank Sinatra
“Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor (Vivace)” – Szeryng
“Prospekt’s March / Poppyfields” – Coldplay
“When You Were Young” – The Killers
“Symphony #5 in C Minor – 3. Scherzo: Allergro” – Beethoven
“4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)” – Madonna
Do I win the eclectic award?
“Somthing So Strong”- Crowded House
“Everytime I Think Of You”- The Babys
“Very Good Year”- Frank Sinatra
“The Zoo”-Scorpions
“All Summer Long”-Kid Rock
“Dream Police”-Cheap Trick
“High On A Mountain Top”- Marty Stuart
“Little Guitars”- Van Halen
“Jungle Love”-Steve Miller
“Cold Gin”-Kiss
“Real Me”- The Who
“I Wish”-Stevie Wonder
“Mama”-Genesis
“Can’t Get Next To You”- The Temptations
“Highway Patrol”-Junior Brown
“Train, Train”-Blackfoot
Wow- How did Frank Sinatra sneak his way in there? This is actually off the Bose System as I dont have an ipod anymore,
Janine Jansen – Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Kadri Gopalnath – kamala Apta kula
Senor Coconut – Around The World
Frank Sinatra – How Old Am I?
James Taylor – Mexico
Masters of Reality – Sleep Walkin’
Matthew Sweet – Arigato
Vanessa Hudgens – Just Wanna Be With You
Herman’s Hermits – I’m Henry The VIII, I Am
Miley Cyrus – The Climb
Hey, the Matthew Sweet song is a direct result of a solid gold Jeff Kay recommendation. And yes, this mp3 player is employed regularly in keeping a five year old happy on road trips. The rest is all my fault.
Dre & Snoop Dogg – Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang
LL Cool J – I Need Love
Boogie Down Productions – My Philosophy
Clay Aiken – Sacrificial Love
Wu-Tang – C.R.E.A.M.
NWA. – Straight Outta Compton
Geto Boys – Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me
A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario
Jay-Z – Dead Presidents
Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
The Game – Dreams
Big Pun – Still Not A Player
LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out
Biz Markie – Nobody Beats The Biz
Nas – New York State of Mind
Jason – funny!!
Thanks Alice!
I could do one of those Dos Equis commercials:
He’s the most uninteresting man in the world……”I don’t always drink beer but when I do I prefer two X’s – I mean ex ex beer….(cut! It’s Dos Equis, shit for brains! Where did we find this idiot!?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SSZA0CjdQ
Thanks for the plug Jeff!
By the way… Do you have a playlist for the Peaches Reunion compilation that D. Iverson made for the reunion many moons ago?
Some of those tunes escape me.
Angie – Rolling Stones
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
Roosterspur Bridge – Tori Amos
Windmills of Your Mind – Alison Moyet
Trouble Is – Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Forget About It – Alison Krauss + Union Station
The Outsider – Mono
Save A Prayer – Duran Duran
Feel Good – Gorillaz feat. De La Soul
Voulez Vous – ABBA
The Sun Always Shines on TV – a-Ha
Walk The Same Line – Everything But The Girl
Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta – Puccini
20th Century Boy – T.Rex
Flugzeuge im Bauch – Herbert Grönemeyer
1. hella good – no doubt
2. three days – janes addiction
3. kissing a fool – george michael
4. dry county – the b-52’s
5. fight for your right – beastie boys
Top five songs on my iPod, if I had an iPod:
“Cool Song” – Really Cool Band
“Standard Song” – Standard Band
“Obscure Song” – Obscure Band
“Old Song” – Really Old Band
“Something Nobody Else Will Listen To” – Junk Band