Friday, January 27, 2012

60 songs called Rat Race

And now for something a little different. Today I ran to work, it is fairly safe to assume I will run home and you can take it as read that I'll run the same course I've been running for the past fortnight; I guess that's my little Janathon OCD. No on lobbed anything at me and I was back t my calm, reasonable self.

So in running summary it was humid, it rained and I didn't really enjoy the run to work. After the standard breakfast of mixed berry smoothie, large cap and turkish toast with vegemite I thought I'd listen to the Boomtown Rats song "Rat Trap." Why I typed "rat race" in to YouTube is a bit of a  mystery, but it set me off on a listening odyssey of songs with the title "Rat Race."

So, in order of listening, here goes...have a listen; there is some gold in there, but beware the shite.

Skindred (ska-rock)
The Specials (ska) Bob Marley (Reggae)
Billy Idol (rock)
Impellitteri (Christian Metal)
The hundreds and Thousands (pop I guess, a bit like the cure)
Goft of Gab (hip hop)
Les Double Six (jazz)
Kubla Khan (unsigned pop/rock)
Childs Play (sleaze rock)
The Ruby Tuesdays (Indie pop)
UK Subs (punk)
Kaya (UK Soul/Hip Hip)
Baha Men (poppy movie soundtrack)
Hi Tension (80s soul)
Antibalas - Reggae/Afro Beat
The Righteous Brothers Band (Northern Soul)
Mind Museum (Indie Pop Placedbo and lots of other stuff imitation)
Pal Joey (dance trance)
Chester P (rap, but leave it to Eminem eh?)
Scroobius Pip (spoken word/beat poetry/rap with intelligence)
Idle Warship (80s-esque, er confused pop)
A Broken Silence (melodic hip hop)
Koolant (Jamaican reggae)
Big Wig (indie rock)
Sizzla (roots)
Raine Maida (er, not sure)
Drapht,Ciecmate and Jase (yet more rap)
The Fastbacks (a bit punk)
Kid iD (oo, jazz-pop-avante-garde>)
Papa Fish (er, more jazz-pop-rock...stuff>)
Gino Washington (sweet sould music>)
The Mandators (poppy reggae to mke you ire>)
Biff Naked (pop...a bit eurovision if you ask me>)
The Beat Seekers (MOR, AOR>)
Avantasia (awful rock>)
Dave Jorgenson (country...shudder..>)
Seminal Rats (Australian punk>)
Capleton (more reggae, indistinguishable from most other reggae>)
La Rebla Fam - live (ska>)
Gun (soft rock>)
Skankshot (ska>)
The Unknowns (60s inspired early 80s pop>)
The Gravy Train (folk rock)
Reproach (thrash-hardcor>)
Shaded Red (MOR-AOR I've heard too many times before)
Wolf Down (noisy shout thrash!)
Wet Lev (avant garde nonsense, next!)
Devilfish (dull dance for druggies)
Disfear (screamy almost death noise. YES!)
Todd Evans (hippy with a guitar who can't really sing)
Akir (more rap...haven't we heard this before?)
Skytone (limp, wet pop)
Urban Riot (breakbeat)
Patriot (punk)
Urban Riot (breakbeat)
Patriot (punk)
Silver Stars (rock)
Ralfi Pagan (70s soul)
Race Card (rapcore, apparently. Didn't know that was a genre)
Eric Burdon (white man funk)

Whadya know, I ran home for a total of a bit over 25km today. I also kicked a pyrex pie dish that I'd put on the floor for Rowlf to clean up. Hope my big toe is OK in the morning because I've got 25km to run tomorrow.

2 comments:

LilB said...

It's amazing what you find - I've been doing days of the week to head my blogs - come up with some absolute corkers! Well done on your mileage and glad no-one threw anything at you!

Anonymous said...

Well done on the 400 miles when it happens -- some time tomorrow no doubt. Hope the big toe behaves. Will come back to this post and explore the playlist at some stage!