The Wily Filipino

Picture Meme: The Answers.

Some of you folks might know that in a fit of relative turmoil about a year ago I ransacked my entire music collection for The 1100 Greatest Songs Ever. (It has now swelled to almost 1600.)

The songs on constant shuffle on my iPod -- at least before iTunes 5.0 destroyed my smart playlists -- are drawn from that pool of 1600. As one can imagine, from looking at my Last.fm / Audioscrobbler page, it would be heavily weighted towards certain artists, so Puffy, Guided By Voices and the Carter Family would inevitably show up on the list; not sure why this list contains a disproportionate amount of women with guitars though. So here are the answers, with the songs that happened to be on random shuffle:

1.
Arvo Pärt, "Spiegel im Spiegel"

2.
Prince and The Revolution, "Pop Life" (though this is obviously a still from "When Doves Cry")

3.
Guided By Voices, "Echos Myron" (my favorite GBV song ever)

4.
Beth Orton, "Central Reservation"

5.
Yo La Tengo, "The Whole of the Law"

6.
Alex Chilton, "Don't Be A Drag"

7.
Richard and Linda Thompson, "Withered and Died"

8.
The Carter Family, "The Wonderful City" (cheated a little here, since this is actually performed with Jimmie Rodgers)

9.
Puffy, "Long Beach Nightmare" (my favorite Puffy song ever)

10.
Jonatha Brooke, "Nothing Sacred"

11.
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"

12.
Slayer, "Angel of Death"

13.
Gillian Welch, "By the Mark"

14.
Daryl Hall and John Oates, "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)"

15.
The Velvet Underground, "What Goes On"

16.
Nat King Cole, "Somewhere along the Way"

17.
Captain Beefheart, "Moonlight on Vermont"

18.
Bruce Springsteen, "Independence Day"

19.
Stereolab, "Outer Bongolia"

20.
Laura Cantrell, "Not the Tremblin' Kind"

(I wasn't keeping track of who got more correct answers -- answers are posted publicly anyhow -- but thanks to torn, Dan, Rebecca, J-Lu, JP, juan tamad, skipscada and krangsquared for sending in their guesses. No one got Slayer!)

Posted by the wily filipino at September 12, 2005 09:46 PM