L Everett Scott

I'm an old guy (as in wore bell bottoms to school) with an old car whose CD player died about a year and a half ago. The car has no USB or any kind of digital connection, but the radio still works, so I use that pretty much every time I drive. The idea for this thread came to me as a result of my scanning through stations to find music that I can listen to.

With that in mind, I encourage everyone here to post your own five random songs, be they tunes that you heard at the mall, on shuffle on your portable device, on TV commercials, whatever. If no one else feels like contributing, that's fine, too...I can carry this thread solo for a good long while.

Here's my first five:

ELO - Evil Woman
Gowan - Guerilla Soldier
Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Boys & Girls
Yazoo - Only You
John Fogerty - Centerfield

Hiro11

Five tracks from my ride in today, from a classic rock playlist I built on Play Music (with some of my own stuff) last year:

Synchronicity 1: The Police - I put this on the playlist because of the absolutely terrific drum part on this song, it's really driving.
SWLABR: Cream - this popped up on shuffle, such a great fuzzy guitar sound.
The Cradle Will Rock: Van Halen - this is a surprisingly strange song for a Van Halen single. It rocks.
The Rover: Zeppelin - underrated track, sounds surprisingly modern to me. Great production on Physical Graffiti.
Looks That Kill: Crue - one of my favorite 80s rock songs, I was happy this popped up.

L Everett Scott

Thanks for sharing, Hiro11. 'Looks That Kill' is a pretty kick-ass track...been a while since I've heard that one.

I have a rather short drive to work (typically 10 minutes), so I usually get to listen to two or three songs at most. Here's a mix of what I heard this morning and some others I've caught on other drives:

• The Cars - Just What I Needed
• Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
• Honeymoon Suite - Burning in Love
• Supertramp - Give a Little Bit
• Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy

As I mentioned in the OP, anyone and everyone is free to join in with whatever songs you've come across in your travels, regardless of the source. If you prefer to just drop by to see what new music that others and I post here, you're welcome to do that, too.

L Everett Scott

Today's five:

• Our Lady Peace - One Man Army
• The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Paul Janz - Every Little Tear
• Living Colour - The Cult of Personality
• Hinder - Lips of an Angel

Ash Ketchum

Damn, the only ones I've even heard of in the above posts are "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Evil Woman."

Here's my five, all heard on my iPod in the gym today:

•Vanishing Point (消失点-Vanishing Point-)
•Honto no Jibun (ホントのじぶん; My True Self)
•Take It Easy!
•Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
•Rock no Kami-sama (2010 mix version) (ロックの神様(2010 mix version); God of Rock)

All on an album called The Best Buono!

inri222

Poison Idea - Die On Your Knees
Celtic Frost - Dawn Of Meggido
Killing Joke - Requiem
The Cure - 100 Years
Agnostic Front - With Time

Hiro11

Man, does that bring me back to high school...

Geofferson

I went for a jog before work this morning. Here are 5 songs that came up on my playlist.

Starstruck - The Kinks
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
Walking on a Thin Line - Huey Lewis
Ohoopee River Bottom Land - Larry Jon Wilson
Trouble - Keith Richards

L Everett Scott

My five for today:

• Tal Bachman - Aeroplane
• Real Life - Send Me An Angel
• Def Leppard - Move With Me Slowly
• Aerosmith - Janey's Got a Gun
• White Town - Your Woman

Ah, music is a crazy and wondrous thing, isn't it? So many factors go into how well a singer or band is known amongst a particular crowd.

I can relate: I went to high school with a guy who just could not wrap his mind around why I never heard of the Yellow Magic Orchestra(*). 'What do you mean you've never heard of them?' he would say. 'They're FAMOUS!'

According to him and like-minded people, the YMO was probably the greatest thing since the combustion engine. To me, they were a band with an odd name whose music I was completely unfamiliar with.

But that's what makes the world go around: Asian Electronica will have their fans, just as Country Music will have theirs, the same with Death Metal, Polka Music, K-pop, German Opera, etc etc etc.

If you're not familiar with some of the songs or artists in this thread (or this forum for that matter), that's OK...even the most well-rounded of music connoisseurs aren't going to know it all. I find threads like this great for getting a peek inside the musical tastes of other people and for discovering new (or perhaps not-so-new) music.

* See write-up here: factmag.com/2015/01/22/the-essential-yellow-magic-orchestra/

covenant

This was a great thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/music-talk/...r-shuffle.html

L Everett Scott

Thanks for sharing that link...it looks like I'll have a few thousand song recommendations to get through.

The fact that someone else started a similar thread a few years back gives me cause for relief. I find that with original ideas, sometimes you're the first one with it because others who thought of it realized pretty quickly it was a dumb-ass idea and kept it to themselves.

Since I'm here and since I did a lot of driving in the past couple of days, here are five more tunes:

• Chromeo - Jealous (I Ain't With It)
• Journey - Wheel in the Sky
• The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier
• New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
• Kansas - Point of Know Return [came across this one on an old commercial for, of all things, an insurance company]

Hiro11

On another retro kick this morning:
World Party: "Way Down Now", a great Stones-ish uptempo song from the early ninties. This is off of "Goodbye Jumbo" which I think is one of the great forgotten albums of the time.
Screaming Blue Messiahs: "Sweet Water Pools", a kick ass crunchy rock track from a band unfairly considered a novelty act.
Josie Cotton: "Johnny Are You Queer?", I can't tell if it's offensive or respectful but the chorus and refrain is simply undeniable in this song. Also has tight guitar riffing. Made famous by Valley Girl.
Sparks: "Beat The Clock", hilarious song by one of the weirdest bands in history.
Bruce Springsteen: "Candy's Room", might be my favorite Boss song.

Norm de Plume

You must be a Canuck listening to a CanCon station. No one in the States has heard of this underappreciated crooner.

Rocketdog2000

The Nerves - "Hanging On The Telephone"
Mott The Hoople - "The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll"
Sweet - "Hell Raiser"
The Easybeats - "Sorry"
Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds - "Pressure Drop"

hbilly

From my 1980 Playlist, which I tagged European Edition.

Oh! Susie - Secret Service
Buona Domenica - Antonello Venditti
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull
Weekend - Earth & Fire (Dutch band)
Come to L.A. - Chilly

L Everett Scott

Guilty as charged. Janz is probably the greatest musician ever to turn into a Theology Professor.

Did a heck of a lot of driving today. Here's the first five I can recall:

• Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
• Doug and the Slugs - Day By Day
• Seether - Same Damn Life
• Genesis - Throwing It All Away
• Guns 'N Roses - Night Train

Norm de Plume

Yes, that he is. I'm actually a big fan of his high-powered synth-driven ballads.

to "Day by Day"

tommyp007

"Some Velvet Morning" Lee Hazelwood
"Se la Vida E" Pet Shop Boys
"Housequake" Prince
"Thunderstruck" AC/DC
"Cheek to Cheek" Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett


What I listened to on the the way home from work today.

L Everett Scott

Did a multi-ciity tour by car today...here are five of the tunes I caught:

• Craig Smart - 123
• Streetheart - Under My Thumb
• America - Sister Golden Hair
• Treble Charger - Brand New Low
• Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

L Everett Scott

More road trips, more tunes...

• The Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man
• Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
• Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up!
• Chilliwack - Fly At Night
• Sam Smith - Writing's on the Wall

tonyc3742

My car iPod smart playlist is NeverHeard - up to 25GB of random music, excluding podcasts and Christmas songs, with a play count of 0 in my itunes. (seems like each time I get close to 0, something happens to my computer and resets play counts.)
Anyway - last five tracks heard from that playlist -

Einstuerzende Neubauten - Der Kuss
Lacrimosa - Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit (coincidental, German-language music is a small set of my lists)
David Bowie - After Today
Alice Cooper - I Am the Future
Styx - Rockin' the Paradise

Oh man, I might have to dig up my Billy Joel Greatest Hits tape.

I've been looking to discover some new (to me) music, thanks for this thread.

Every band is someone's favorite.

hbilly

Last five songs before I went to bed yesterday

Donatella - Lailola
Smokie - It's Your Life
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV
Glen Campbell - Sunflower
Amanda Lear - Queen Of China-Town

Giles

'Starlight Express'
'She Loves You' - Beatles
'Bang & Blame' - REM
'Daydreamer (Student Union Mix) - Menswear
'Stone Fox Chase' - Alan Glenn

Mondo Kane

Grant Hart-"Is The Sky The Limit"
Sisters Of Mercy-"Marian"
Drumbago and The Dynamites-"Dulcemania"
Slick Rick-"Teenage Love"
Creepersin-"Proceed With Plan 9"

L Everett Scott

No worries...and thanks to everyone who's contributed so far.

Here are five from today...

• Enrique Iglesias - I Like It
• The Pretty Reckless - Heaven Knows
• Teenage Head - Let's Shake
• The Offspring - Gotta Get Away
• Pukka Orchestra - Listen to the Radio