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As with the last time I wrote a journal entry here (quite some time ago!), I have been listening to multiple versions of a single song on spotify.

This time the song in question is Bold Riley, a traditional sea shanty (as far as I know).

I have been familiar with this song for many years in the version performed by the Oysterband, which is still my firm favourite. More recently I have come to know the Kate Rusby version, which sadly isn't available on spotify at the moment.

My play queue for this morning consisted of 9 versions of the song, including the Oysterband one. I don't recall having heard any of the other versions here before, although several of the artists, including The Wailin' Jennys, Tim van Eyken and Louis Killen, are familiar to me.

There was quite a nice range of treatments, from traditional a cappella shanty singing (such as Killen's version and the one by Holdstock & MacLeod), through to fairly modified arrangements such as the one from Rising Gael…

Last.FM Milestones490th track: (28 May 2007)
Global Communication - 7'39 (link and e621 mix)491st track: (28 May 2007)
Marillion - The Only Unforgivable Thing
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002Y4TM4.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg492nd track: (28 May 2007)
Lily Allen - Naive493rd track: (28 May 2007)
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/43096181.png494th track: (28 May 2007)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/43096181.png495th track: (28 May 2007)
Joy Division - Shadowplay
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/43096181.png496th track: (28 May 2007)
Lycia - Monsoon I (Anticipation)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000BCL.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg497th track: (28 May 2007)
Lycia - Monsoon II (Aftermath)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000BCL.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg498th track: (28 May 2007)
Orbital - Satan (Industry Standard)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/8588719.jpg499th track: (28 May 2007)
Orbital - Satan (Live in NYC)500th track: (28 May 2007)
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Don't remember those 70s shows too well...

.38 Special

Abe Vigoda
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Aerosmith
Dave Alvin
The Americans
Laurie Anderson
Anonymous 4
Arbouretum

Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Kofi Baker's Tribute To Cream
Lou Barlow
The Battlefield Band
The Be Good Tanyas
Michel Bénébig
Big Search
Black Flamingo
The Black Ryder
The Blasters
Eddie Bond
Boris
Trace Bundy
Paul Butterfield

Calexico
The Californian
John Campbell
John Carpenter
Castanets
Cheap Trick
Robert Cray

Dead Meadow
Rick Derringer
Dios Malos
Dolorean
Dum Dum Girls
Bob Dylan

The Elected
Electric Flower
Electric Light Orchestra
Endless Boogie
The Entrance Band
Exploding Flowers

Los FabuLocos
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Piers Faccini
Farewell Continental
The Felice Brothers
The Flaming Lips
Kirk Fletcher
Foghat

Genesis
Ghostland Observatory
The Gourds
Grateful Dead

Michael Hedges
Wayne Henderson (the luthier)
Hepa/Titus
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Feeling quite summery again this month...and going for music that is more poppy than alternative. Some tracks donated by Sandeep and Synthia Spleen too... :-)

1. J-Walk - Soul Vibration

2. Ergo Phizmiz - Sticky White Glue (Extract):Rectify

3. Holly Palmer - Different Languages

4. Santogold - You'll Find A Way

5. Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me

6. Duke Special - Freewheel

7. Jack McManus - Not the Hardest

8. Green Day - Macy's Day Parade

9. Air Traffic - Shooting Star

10. Indiana Gregg - Crazy Crazy Crazy

11. Kendel Carson - I Like Trucks

12. Hypnotic Clambake - Just A Mountain

13. GreenSpace - .....

14. Emilíana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime

15. Infernal - This Little Secret

16. Amr Diab - Habibi

17. Gram Rabbit - Dirty Horse

18. Mary Gauthier - Our Lady Of The Shootings Stars

19. Bon Iver - Skinny Love

20. Ryan Adams - Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.

21. The Wailin' Jennys - The Wailin' Jennys

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US:

Alaska:
Kate Earl (Chugiak)
Melissa Mitchell

Arizona:
Courtney Robbins (Tucson)

California:
Kurt Adam (Hollywood)
Lauren Adams
Adrianne (Los Angeles)
Priscilla Ahn (Los Angeles)
Kawika Alfiche (San Francisco)
Anticon (San Francisco)
Augustana (San Diego)
Joan Baez (Menlo Park)
Roem Baur (San Francisco)
Blame Sally
Jeff Bonilla (Modesto)
Mataji Booker (Los Angeles)
Barry Big B Brenner (Tujunga)
John Bruce (Modesto)
Emma Burgess (Hollywood)
Rachael Cantu
Carolyn (El Cerrito)
Chicago Red (Los Angeles)
Correatown (Los Angeles)
Cosmologic (San Diego)
Deborah Crooks (San Francisco)
Deerhoof (Oakland)
Brett Dennen (Oakdale)
Rick Di Dia (Oakland)
Diablo Dimes
DJ Egadz (San Francisco)
DJ Slate and Rocket 8 (Modesto)
DJ Werd (Aptos)
Aaron Durr (Modesto)
Eels (Los Angeles)
Elina (Los Angeles)
Aireene Espiritu (Oakland)
Melissa Etheridge (Los Angeles)
Evaline (Turlock)
Michelle Featherstone (Los Angeles)
Sean Fonda (Modesto)
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An alphabetical iTunes survey

A
First artist: Abigail Washburn
Last artist: Astrud Gilberto
Favorite artist: Anne Heaton

B
First artist: The B-52's
Last artist: The Burns Sisters Band
Favorite artist: The Be Good Tanyas

C
First artist: Cadence Carroll
Last artist: Crystal Brandt
Favorite artist: Christine Kane

D
First artist: Dana Parish
Last artist: Dusty Trails
Favorite artist: Deirdre Flint

E
First artist: E. Cooper Seay
Last artist: Erin McKeown
Favorite artist: Edie Carey

F
First artist: Faith Hill
Last artist: Full Frontal Folk
Favorite artist: Ferron

G
First artist:Gaelic Storm
Last artist: GrooveLily
Favorite artist: GrooveLily

H
First artist: Heather Eatman
Last artist: Holly Figueroa
Favorite artist:Heidi Talbot

I
First artist: Ina May Wool
Last artist: Iris DeMent
Favorite artist: Indigo Girls

J
First artist: Jan Smith
Last artist: Juliet Wyers
Favorite artist: Jennifer Kimball

K
First artist: K's Choice
Last artist: Kyle Riabko
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Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line or verse from the first 30 songs that play, not matter how embarassing.
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!


1. Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken
The Cranberries - Zombie

2. Men who shoot their
horses are the
same men who would
like to kiss your hand

3. The wind howls 'cross the ice flows
Sends the frozen snow skidding
A river on a river hardened over

4. Sleeping is giving in
No matter what the time is.
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)

5. There's not much going on today,
I'm really bored,
It's getting late,
What happened to my Saturday?
Avril Lavigne - He Wasn't

6. Hold on to love, that is what I do
Now that I've found you
And from above, everything's stinking,
There not around you.
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okay, i'll do another quiz! HA!

Open up your music player of choice and enable shuffling. Answer the questions with the songs that come up.

01. Why did you decide to take this quiz?
Track: pull it from my heart
Artist: Paolo Nutini
Comments: okay, nice start.

02. Where will you meet your husband/wife?
Track: human behaviour
Artist: Björk
Comments: that's not making sense

03. Where will you "hug" your wife/husband for the first time?
Track: we were sparklig
Artist: My Brightest Diamond
Comments: umm, i'd say that's not the place, but the feeling ;)

04. What is your secret dream?
Track: suede
Artist: Tori Amos
Comments: haha, maybe suede shoes ;)

05. What song will they be playing at the morgue when they'll perform your autopsy?
Track: contessa
Artist: Thea Gilmore
Comments: okay...ummm

06. Who will throw a party after you die?
Track: old man
Artist: Neil Young
Comments: hehe, that's cool.

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