Why Dont'cha Do Me Right?

Growing tired of mucking about with the 'best of 2006' shenanigans, tonight I let iTunes sort itself out with what it ominously calls 'party shuffle'. It's a randomizer situation, although what kind of party would rock to the sounds which it has thrown me in the last half hour, I struggle to imagine.

First off, breaking the ice, we had Neonlicht by Kraftwerk...followed by Stray Cat Blues, maybe my favourite ever Stones track. A startlingly filthy record, hard to imagine Razorlight coming close to this kind of decadence. And when did bleeding Razorlight get to be a number one selling group anyway??

Next up, two Zappa tunes, guranteed to get any party swinging, Why Dont'cha Do Me Right? from Absolutely Free, and Watermelon In Easter Hay, from Joe's Garage. Then, two records I have no memory of bunging into iTunes at all - some strange trumpet thing called Greek Triangle which I would be in no hurry to encounter again, and a great tune called Story Of My Life, by Unrelated Segments.

I could go on, but I think my original point was that sometimes it's easy to get stuck in a rut of listening to the same stuff, neglecting the darker recesses of the record collection...
When was the last time you played The first Velvet Underground LP? I bet it was ages ago, because like me you thought you had heard it so much that it had been absorbed into your DNA and there was no need to ever bother actually playing it ever again...I blew the dust off it the other day, and it was just as great as ever.

other good stuff unearthed tonight included tracks by Schoolly D, William Burroughs, Jelly Roll Morton, the Pogues, Boards Of Canada, Aphex Tin, Richard Hawley, and the Colorblind James Experience. Randomizing is the way forward...in fact I might randomize my 2006 comilation, which might be interesting. Or more likely, shit.