OK - open up a new smart playlist on iTunes, enter Name>Contains>?
Tick "Limit to", and enter "10 items" and if you've got enough tunes you get 10 self generated questions, hopefully slightly less predictable than the ones the Guardian has in it's Is this it? section in Saturday's Guide.
iTunes grilled me as follows:
1. 4Hero – Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You?)Well I'd let you off if you were at home checking out this quietly brilliant version of the Stevie Wonder song. However, you were more likely to be out traing for some 'athlon or other while I slept in thinking "I really must do some exercise this year"
2. !!! – Hello? Is This Thing On?I spent a year going as a member of Ronnie Scott's jazz club when he was still alive and got to see an impressive list of classic jazz stars. Part of the experience was Ronnie's "let's join hands and contact the living" stand-up routine. Little did I know at the time that his "Hello? Is this thing on?" remark was giving props to the mighty !!! when I thought he was just complaining about lack of audience mirth.
3. Radiohead – You and Whose Army?My smartarse answer to the question of "Regime change".
4. Raphael Saadiq – What?I'm not looking at you and I haven't noticed the felt tip circle you've drawn around your left eye, honest.
5. Gnarls Barkley – Who Cares?Well I like to think I care enough to say "whatever" every now and again.
6. Super Furry Animals – It's Not the End of the World?What I used to ask myself on New Year's Eve throughout the 1980s (a mixture of fear of the apocalypse and Holsten Export)
7. Orange Juice – What Presence?The question that ended my career as lead singer of the "mighty" Grilled Anorax. By the way, anyone had an update on Edwyn Collins' recovery recently?
8. Grandaddy – Goodbye?It took them a few more albums before getting around to knocking it on the head, but a prophetic song maybe?
9. Badly Drawn Boy – Have You Fed the Fish?I had two fish named after former Aston Villa players, Dwight Yorke and Ugo Ehiogu. Both died in the week they transferred to new clubs although I swear I never skimped on the fish pellets. Looks like they understood all the accusations of being fishy "Judases" after all.
10. The Streets – What Is He Thinking?I suppose I'm thinking this is my last question. I'm also reminding myself that I thought the first Streets album was better than the second one which got all the hype. I'm also thinking that I spent a couple of formative years living in the same area of Birmingham that Mike Skinner comes from and I thought I'd lost my Brummie accent.
Thursday, 8 March 2007
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2 comments:
Nice one, Scandalest Bag, perhaps I'll follow your lead on my blog, but I noticed the first question iTunes asked me was "Why Don't You Kill Yourself" by The Only Ones!
Hi Steven, thanks for the message and glad you are enjoying Tall Pony! I've been checking back to Scandalest Bag sporadically, hope you'll start posting again soon!
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