Artist	Song
Alterations	Stand By Your Sheep (from Up Your Sleeve)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago	Rees pt 1 (Rees & The Smooth Ones)
Fats Domino	Be My Guest (16 Great Tracks)
The Platters	I'll Get By (In The Still Of the Night)
Scott Walker	The Impossible Dream (The Romantic Scott Walker)
DAF	Alles Ist Gut (Alles Ist Gut)
Big Black	The Model (Songs About Fucking)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	Crimson & Clover (I Love Rock & Roll)
House Of Love	Christine (House Of Love)
Slapp Happy	The Drum (Casablanca Moon)
Shriekback	Everything That Rises Must Converge (Oil or Gold)
Average White Band	You Got It (Average White Band)
Ray Charles	I Chose To Sing The Blues (Greatest Hits Vol 2)
The Supremes	Reflections (Anthology)
Eric Burdon & The Animals	Ring Of Fire (Love Is)
JJ Cale	Woman I Love (Naturally)
Jesse Winchester	Midnight Bus (Third Down 110 To Go)
Mock Turtles	The Willow Song (Turtle Soup)
King Of Luxembourg	Poptones (Royal Bastard)
Public Image Ltd	Careering (Second Edition)

Comment:

OK, here's the scoop:

The house is in chaos at the moment with vinyl haphazardly piled all over the place. Obviously no chance of tracking down specific tracks.
So I set myself a challenge: select any 20 albums completely at random and try and make a coherent, flowing mix utilising just one track from each.

I'll leave it to others to decide whether It was a success, but as a kind of a research project it was a fantastic experience.

I've been reacquainted with parts of my collection I'd clean forgotten about; introduced to a couple of completely new tracks & seen old familiars in a new light thanks to a change of context.

Better yet, in the process, all kinds of unsuspected correlations & resonances started budding. And not just the obvious ones like the King of Luxembourg / PiL crossover or the DAF / Big-Black-covering-Kraftwerk. I started to notice how, say, Christine carried echoes of the descending riff of Crimson & Clover. At times things got downright spooky. The Jesse Winchester ends with precisely the same drum thud as the one that kicks off The Mock Turtles allowing a virtually seamless edit. (And, yes, Willow is the same song as the one Britt Ekland gyrates around to in The Wicker Man).

There's a fair chance I'll be coming up with a few more of these in the coming weeks....

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