Thursday 18 October 2007
Brain shuffle
Every once in a while, one of those music memes sweep through the blogs I read: put your music-player software on shuffle mode and list the first 20 tracks that come up, that sort of thing. Here’s a twist: keep track of the songs that are in your head at the moment you wake up, and post a list. Here’s mine over the past few weeks. Make of them what you will.
- Dexys Midnight Runners - “Come On Eileen”
- Franz Ferdinand - “What You Meant”
- Massive Attack - “Risingson”
- Peter Gabriel - “Steam”
- XTC - “Limelight”
- Little Eva - “The Loco-Motion”
- Bruce Springsteen - “Dancing In The Dark”
- Steelye Span - “Bachelor’s Hall”
- King Crimson - “Dinosaur”
- Rowlf the Dog - “Cottleston Pie”
- Komeda - “Elvira Madigan”
- The Shins - “Phantom Limb”
- David Bowie - “Life On Mars?”
- Mashup: Depeche Mode - “Get The Balance Right” vs Franz Ferdinand - “Jacqueline”
- Jazzanova - “Mwela”
About half of these are things I was listening a day or a few days previous… but the more interesting ones are the ones that seemed to come out of nowhere, like “Dancing in the Dark”, or “Cottleston Pie”, which I hadn’t heard since I was a kid. (And by the way, here it is on YouTube. A lot faster than I remember - my mental recording seemed to be more wistful.) “Loco-Motion” and “Bachelor’s Hall” are in there too, certainly.
Try it! It’s a cross between “what you’ve been listening to” and “where’s your head at”.