My Dell computer came with this cheesy set-up called Music Match that is intended to sell individual songs, somehow, as I was thinking about getting rid of it, I stumbled onto the fact that if you enter a musician into the Music Match jukebox search function it will create a song-list of 50+ songs that can be played one time, all in the hopes that you will then buy some of them (but why buy when you can randomly produce these great songlists--it can be hit and miss, with completely awful mixes, but at the same time it is magic when you are presented with one that serves as an inspirational the background to writing).
Today was Elvis Costello day and here is the mix that was produced.
Pump It Up--Elvis Costello
Steppin Out--Joe Jackson
Motorpsycho Nitemare--Bob Dylan
Killing an Arab--The Cure
Franco Un-American--NOFX
Little Trip to Heaven--Tom Waits
I Confess--English Beat
Like Humans Do--David Byrne
Janie Jones--The Clash
Everyone's Gone to the Movies (demo version)--Steely Dan
Girlfriend is Better--Talking Heads
The Trickster--Radiohead
Look Sharp--Joe Jackson
Rock & Roll Suicide--David Bowie
Mirror in the Bathroom--English Beat
Who Loves the Sun--Velvet Underground
Plastic Jesus--Flaming Lips
Table Top Joe--Tom Waits
London Calling--Clash
Blue Eyed Soul--Wilco
Everyday I Write the Book--Elvis Costello
U.B. Jesus--David Byrne
Absolute Beginners--The Jam
Sail to the Moon-Radiohead
Ashes to Ashes--David Bowie
Through My Eyes--Sex Pistols
Spoonful Weighs a Ton--Flaming Lips
Tropicalia--Beck
MLK--U2
War on War--Wilco
(had to get outside and take a break from writing before the mix ended)
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