h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The "What music are you listening to at this precise moment?" thread is all well and good, but it doesn't give an entirely accurate view of everyone's musical taste - let's face it, who posts to it when they're listening to something embarrassing?

So, I give you the mp3 Shuffle Challenge - set your mp3 player to "shuffle all" and list the next five tracks it plays. No editing out the embarrassing ones!

I'll start...

Vapors - "Turning Japanese"
Beatles - "And Your Bird Can Sing"
Inspiral Carpets - "Generations"
Elliott Smith - "Waltz #2 (XO)"
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - "I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby"

There, that wasn't too embarrassing... except for the last one, perhaps.

Your turn!

Coheed and Cambria - "Cuts Marked in the March of Men"
We Are Scientists - "Down the Hatch"
Joy Division - "Dead Souls"
Liars - "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" (one of the best songs I've ever heard, by the way)
Foo Fighters - "What If I Do?"

Not particularly embarrassing, I don't think. Plus one of my all time favourites.

I don't have a shuffleable MP3 player, but I do freely admit to listening to embarrassing music in the 'WMAYLTATPM' thread (see Girls Aloud a couple of hours ago.)

A typical mix of the credible and the embarrassing here, I fear.

Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lily The Pink - Scaffold (oh, the shame)
Pretty Fly (For A Rabbi) - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Dead End - Silver Sun
Quinn The Eskimo - Bob Dylan

B

With my musical taste I know I'm going to regret this, but let's see what happens...

Is This the World We Created - Queen
Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants
Catherine - Philip Jeays
Numb - Pink
Hold the Heart - Big Country

Hmm... could have been worse!

Don't really have a random play MP3 thinggie on this PC, that I use much anyway, but a very embarasing list of things in the most recently played doobry on media player

1. Rough mix09
2. test mix01
3. perculia
4. the shags louis louis,
5. Dave's Big Delux, it's O.K to be ska the first err three of course being the most recent and stuff I'm working on recording and the others must have been ages ago I listened to I really oughta listen to more music

Ok, I don't have an MP3 player with me - but hitting the shuffle button on I-Tunes on my computer comes up with the following list

Symphony 3 - Beethoven - BBC Philharmonica
Episode 16 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mefistofele - Opera - Arrigo Boito
Lights - The Sisters of Mercy
Patricia the Stripper - Chris de Burgh
Vivaldi - Sky

Well - that's confirmed it... I've a weird taste in music

emm this could be bad knowing my media player!

Its not unusual by tom jones
Rocket man by elton john
hes a pirate from the best disney album in the world
zip a dee doh day also from the best disney album in the world
lord reign in me by delerious


not too bad considering!

Ok I'll play;

American Witch - Rob Zombie
American Boy - Juliette and The Licks
Afraid - Motley Crue
Suckin on Jin and Juice - Hayseed Dixie
Take Me In Your Arms - Kim Weston

Nowt wrong with that.

It could have been a lot worse!

On the music collection on this 'ere PC

The Sunnyside of the Street - The Pogues
Small Song - Lhasa
We Will Rock You - Queen
A Certain Smile - Johnny Mathis
Bloodsport For All - Carter USM

And a free bonus track of
Dogmanaut 2000 (Cat versus Dog Mix) - Frigid Vinegar

Doesn't look too bad (apart from Disney ).

Mine are:

Electrolite - REM
Tears In Heaven - Paul Anka (cover of Eric Clapton's)
When You Gonna Learn - Jamiroquai
Love Divine - Vineyard
When Love & Hate Collide - Def Leppard

As nowhere near all my music collection is in there, that's nothing like as eclectic as it could be.

With the Disney, I was referring to Nicky - I'm getting slow!

The Cat Empire - Saltwater
The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
Duran Duran - A Matter Of Feeling
Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
They Might Be Giants - Women And Men

RF

Don't have shuffle on my MP3, so this is from the PC

Tourette's - Nirvana
Sweet Sweetback's Theme - Earth, Wind and Fire
Fade to Grey - Visage
Christmas - The Who
Time Will Tell - The Black Crowes

Only like 3 of them, and not that much

Innerzone Orchestra – Bug in the Bass Bin
David Bowie – Jump They Say
Charles Mingus – Roland Kirk’s Message
The Specials – Stupid Marriage
Key-Matic – Breakin’ in Space

The only one *I* think is a bit embarrassing is the Key-Matic track, but that makes me love it all the more!

Robbie Williams - No Regrets
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Lesley Garrett - A New Heaven
Juliette & The Licks - Hot Kiss
J Geils Band - Centerfold

Not sure what that lot says about me What a great game though

Deb

Just did a MediaPlayer shuffle:

Black Crowes - 'Gone'
AC/DC - 'Ride On'
Oasis - 'Columbia'
B.A.D. - 'E=MC2'
Primus - 'Hail Santa'.

Cripes. Considering some of the tripe on my hard disc that's not too bad at all.

Hard Fi - Better do better
Fiona Apple - Sally's Song
Amateur Transplants - London Underground
Lifehouse - Storm (acoustic)
Placebo - Running up that hill

Not as eclectic as it could have been.

I had to wait all day to do this one!

World Party- "Ship Of Fools"
David Bowie- "Space Oddity"
13th Floor Elevators- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
Rezillos- "Top Of the Pops"
Gang Of Four- "At Home He's A Tourist"

>World Party- "Ship Of Fools"<

By the left, I've not heard that for years! May have to seek it out again