Consolidated – Eclecticism

Since I’ve kind of slacked off on my ‘Gallimaufry’ meme posts over the past few weeks, here’s a music meme from Don to play with.

How many songs?

15,293 songs, 69.10 GB, 51 days 11 hours 46 minutes 42 seconds total playing time.

Sorted by song title, the first and last songs:

? (Fragezeichen), by Nena, off of 99 Luftballoons
Zyklon B, by Leaether Strip, off of Penetrate the Satanic Citizen

Sorted by artist, the first and last songs:

Is It You (Scintillating), by :Wumpscut:, off of Born Again
Green Crumble, by μ-ziq, off of In Pine Effect

Sorted by album, the first and last songs:

A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed By A Make Believe Lover…’Cuz It’s Hot, by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, off of ‘Cuz It’s Hot
Shake Your Lovemaker, by The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, off of Zoot Suit Riot

Top 10 most-played songs (Most-played song at No. 1):

Listen, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Precession, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Break, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
See, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Live, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Bite, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Jazz, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Play, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Ridicule, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Plan, by the Kleptones, off of A Night at the Hip-Hopera

(Um…yeah. I’ve been listening to this a lot recently.)

Last 10 recently played songs (Most recently played at No. 1):

This is a Collective (12″), by Consolidated, off of Dysfunctional Relationship
The Day the World Went Away, by Nine Inch Nails, off of The Day the World Went Away
Somebody Gotta Do It (Remix), by Ice-T, off of Just Say Yes
Erased, Over, Out, by Nine Inch Nails, off of Further Down the Spiral
Phantom of the Opera (’94 Club), by Harajuku, off of Phantom of the Opera
We Care A Lot, by Faith No More, off of Never Mind the Mainstream
It’s A Miracle, by Roger Waters, off of Amused to Death
China, by Tori Amos, off of Little Earthquakes
Sexcrime (Ninteen Eighty-Four), by The Eurythmics, off of 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
Brian Wilson’s Dreams, by The Who Boys, off of Tales of Townshend and Wilson

Find “sex”; how many songs?

Global (title, artist, album) search: 188 songs
Song title search: 83 songs

Find “death”; how many songs?

Global search: 150 songs
Song title search: 54 songs

Find “love”; how many songs?

Global search: 830 songs
Song title search: 557 songs

Find “peace”; how many songs?

Global search: 75 songs
Song title search: 30 songs

”To Strong (Cosmic)“ by Ultimate from the album Tripnotized Vol. 3 (1996, 6:33).

Some people. I mean, come on…

My first exposure to the Pixies was when i was in Europe with the also now reuinited Skinny Puppy on their Mind TPI tour. Must have been 1987….

The Skinny Puppy guys were driving me crazy. Cevin was fight with the tour manager on a daily basis. It was just not an environment that i was particularly enjoying. I was helping to set up the stage and sell merchandise for Puppy. It meant i had a fair amount of down time during the day. So i wrote long notes to the Throwing Muses and the Pixies begging them to get me off the Skinny Puppy tour. I would write them on the back of the posters for our shows and then leave them a kind soul from the club to hand off to someone from the Pixies and the Throwing Muses the next night.

And if that weren’t enough…

Did i mention that i once had dinner with Michael Stipe? But by now, who hasn’t? He liked my shirt. I was tour managing the left wing of the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, Consolidated, when we were playing in Athens. The drummer for Consolidated (Phil) was putting together a compilation album for In Defense of Animals and Michael was contributing a song. He came and joined us for dinner.

As someone who, having listened to the Pixies, the Throwing Muses, Skinny Puppy, R.E.M., and Consolidated for more years than I can think of, but because of living in Anchorage — who nobody cool goes to when they’re touring — never having had even the chance of seeing these artists in concert, let alone having dinner with them, I want you to know that I say this from the deepest, darkest depths of my heart:

You lucky bastard.

;)

Sorry. Just had to get that out of my system.

(And yeah, R.E.M. does still rock — their Bumbershoot show was excellent.)

Not Gallimaufry

Namedropper ;)