shuffle.

Every now and then I'll be holding in my hand my gigantic, throbbing, insatiable ipod and feel like i don't know what I want to listen to, this is where the shuffle function comes in handy and is also always the moment when i'm like fuck me i have good taste in music. I have over 17000 tracks on there and to be able to trust in it randomly pouring out awesomeness definately makes all the work worthwhile, as indeed, life.

So i'm just going to post whatever is playing through the speakers! I'll even go to the effort of uploading things that aren't on the net. Also this'll mean this blog won't just be all death cab, pinback, babyshambles etc!

Aqueduct- Hardcore Days/Softcore Nights
The cranberries- I can't be with you
Blue October- Calling you
Gregory & The Hawk- Blame Qui
Nirvana- Swap Meet
Motorhead- Bite the bullet
Daphne loves Derby- Stranger you & I
Andrew Bird- Fake Palindromes
We Start Fires- Wicked Spell

This was a lot of fun! Got to listen to great music and share it. This should be all my blog is then I wouldn't have to think, just put Simon D4 (that's it's name, the 4 is because it's had to be replaced 3 times. I think this ones... actually i won't jinx it!) on shuffle and just write down what happens! Great tracks for real.

But bottom line, library wise, everyone's gonna have some stuff they'd probably be a little embarassed about if they put it on shuffle at a party and it came on. When I was sort of 16 I went through a bit of a "listening to female artists who i think are hot" phase artists like delta goodrem, avril lavigne, bic runga, in a way these chicks were still cool and good lyricists so you can indeed nibble on my nuts. And if you're thinking of bagging on avril lavigne, may I present her defence-

I'm with you
Tomorrow
How does it feel
Losing Grip
Keep holding on

Yeah so please do suck on my sack. She also triggered my post-adolescant enamouré with canadian accents and girls. So excuuuuse meee if i get defensive!

The best advice I can give anyone who has a hard time finding new music and I'm aware that it happens but i'm like how the fuck there's so much. If I was to give a 22 step program it'd go-

1. Get a 120gb ipod classic
2. Don't get obsessed with putting your cds on it'll happen eventually
3. Think of the artists you like and download their libraries
4. Download last.fm
5. Go to the reccomendations page and download those libraries
6. Look on your neighbours pages and download their libraries
7. Download every indie/rock playlist that was made by chriznittle
8. Subscribe to blalock's playlist
9. Research the support acts when you go to gigs
10. Listen to what music people like rather than telling them what they should (yeah fucking hard!)
11. Put your ipod on shuffle and download the libraries of anyone you like and don't know
12. Rate you music intelligently and use genius to find what you'll like on there
13. Download those libraries
14. Read NME the magazine and website
15. Use NME as your bible
16. Read blogs
17. Use the hype machine
18. Be aware at the very least of under the radar
19. Go to as many gigs as possible
20. Talk to as many people as possible
21. Be open minded
22. Have your life become a constant quest to find new music to the point of obsession

= Killer itunes library!

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I've also fallen in love with this track a bit recently-

The Killers- Romeo and Juliet

Goodbye Martin DCX1E, Hello £400

So I sold my guitar, I paid £850 for it, I still owe £181, I just sold it for £400 and am £50 over my overdraft that leaves me with £170, I guess that's not that bad for having a bit of money but I don't have my guitar, it was amazing sounded the best i'd ever played, I have 4 others I guess i'm just going to have to start playing electric, I wonder if this is what happened to Dylan...

Ha.

I've hidden this post down a few even though it's new and here's why, I thought about posting acoustic songs but thought it would be a bit lame. When I handed the guitar over to the guy he could see I was feeling philosophical, especially as when I handed it over I said, "may it serve you well my son", the guy was like 40 lol but none the less he said "i'll let you know if I record anything with it or play any gigs" and that felt like you seeing the guy your ex is seeing while you're drinking alone in a bar and him going "tough break, I'll let you know if we have sex or get married alright?" lol.

I'm going to post a few classic songs that seem to describe life perfectly, if you've ever felt like any of these songs then you're human-

John Denver- Poems, Prayers and Promises

Around about last december I watched the john denver biopic and there's a scene where a girl is talking to her psychiatrist, who is john's ex wife and she recognises her and she reminds her she's there to talk to her about herself, she says she is because she was going to kill herself but something made her turn on the radio, maybe to drown out the thoughts etc but at the last minute she heard this song and it spoke to her, gave her hope. I feel the same way about this song, when i first heard it i probably listened to it 200 times the next day.

Beach Boys- I wasn't made for these times

What with work being the most important things in peoples live, a crumbling economy where frivalousness is frowned upon and where people can go for days without having a conversation with somebody, this is probably the worst decade to grow up in, poor kids.

REM- Shiny Happy People

This song can either be about nothing or a myriad of other things, I like to think it's about taking anti depressants :)

Stereophonics- Local boy in the photograph

O.K So i've had a lot of friends die on me the past few years and the photo that they use in the press release tends to be more recent than the last time you saw them, i don't know why they do this but it seems to be the standard.