The wrong side of capitalism

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Start up your MP3 player, set it on random, and write down the first fifteen songs it plays:

1. Kelis – ‘Young, fresh ’n’ new’.
2. Backyard Dog – ‘Baddest ruffest’. (I’d completely forgotten I had this. It is, obviously, great)
3. The Darkness – ‘I believe in a thing called love’. (Ouch)
4. NWA – ‘Fuck the police’.
5. Kylie Minogue – ‘Can’t get you out of my head (Soulwax remix)’.
6. The Diff’rent Strokes – ‘Hotel Yorba’.(Recorded off John Peel)
7. tATu – ‘Nas ne dogoniat’. (Not the best Russian tATu track, it must be said. ‘Robot’ is much better)
8. Ms Dynamite – ‘Dynamite’.
9. Mary J. Blige – ‘Family affair’.
10. Dr Dre – ‘Bad intentions’.
11. Mel and Kim – ‘Respectable’.
12. SWV – ‘Right here’. (The best bit of ‘Human nature’ without the fat)
13. Lucille Bogan – ‘Shave ’em dry’. (AudioGalaxy used to run occassional features to encourage you to pirate more stuff. This was from a piece about unexpectedly filthy old records, along with a song called ‘The rotten cocksucker’s ball’. “I’ve got something between my legs that’d make a dead man come,� indeed)
14. BBC Radio – ‘The Lord of the rings’. (I was hoping one of the various left-wing intellectual radio shows I’d downloaded would show up – Slavoj Žižek, Michael Hardt, or at least Naomi Klein. But no such luck)
15. Beyoncé – ‘Crazy in love’. (Crushingly obvious, but great, and probably a fitting end to the list)

Not as exciting a list as I’d hoped, although probably fair enough as a sample of my musical taste. I think I’ll leave my MP3 player on random, as it’s unearthing stuff I’d completely forgotten about (Artful Dodger featuring Mel Blatt, anyone?).

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