Great Comp - Tom Dunne on Today FM

2rs

Tom Dunne is sitting in for Ray d'Arcy this week and has started a competition. What you have to do is set your ipod/mp3 player to shuffle and email todayfm with the first 10 songs that come up. The address is shuffle@todayfm.com. The weirder and more diverse the better, and these will be played then on air, 1 list each day between 11 and 12. This is what mine threw back

1. Pinball Wizard - The Who
2. Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
3. Luminous Times (Hold on to Love) - U2
4. What do you do for Money Honey - AC/DC
5. Bloodbath in Paradise - Ozzy Osbourne
6. Last Night - The Strokes
7. Trapped - Bruce Springsteen
8. Sympathy for the Devil - Guns n Roses
9. Didjerama - Jamiroquai
10. Shant/Ashtangi - Madonna

flogen

Is there a prize?

2rs

depends on whether you call having your playlist played on Today FM for an hour next week a prize or not...

dulpit

Ya, great idea... Tom Dunne is quite enjoyable to listen to as well...
Anyways, this is my shuffle:

1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky

Kyur4 TH Ich - Linkin Park (from Reanimation)

Number One - John Legend (from Get Lifted)

Feuer Frei! (live) - Rammstein (from Volkerball)

Start Wearing purple - Gogol Bordello (from Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike)

Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued - Fall Out Boy (from From Under The Cork Tree)

Bones - The Killers (from Sam's Town)

The Spicy McHaggis Jig - The Dropkick Murphys (from Sing Loud, Sing Proud)

Oh, Love Come to Town - Talking Heads (from The Best of The Talking Heads)

Coconut - Harry Nilsson (from The Resevoir Dogs OST)

flogen

2rs wrote:

depends on whether you call having your playlist played on Today FM for an hour next week a prize or not...

I don't, to be honest.
I'm happy enough to listen to my playlist without advert/chatter interruptions!

Didn't email it in, but as it's an interesting idea, I did check it out to see what turned up:

When Doves Cry - Prince
Soul Shadows - Bill Withers
Cassandra Geminni: E. Sarcophagi - The Mars Volta
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Look Out Frank - Tom Waits
What Is It About Men - Amy Winehouse
I-E-A-I-A-I-O - System Of A Down
Cecilia Ann - Pixies
Sidewalk Serfer Girl - Super Furry Animals
Across The Universe - Fiona Apple

raven136

Silvio-Bob Dylan
Fightstar Karaoke-Dropkick Murphys
Nuclear-Ryan Adams
Wonder of you-Elvis
Girl who wanted to be god-Manics
Sloop John B-Beach Boys
Landslide-Dixie Chicks
Apple of my eye(Live)-Damien Dempsey
Leanfaidh Me-Kila
Twistin the night away-Sam Cooke

god bless the shuffle button

Anto McC

A Boy Named Sue (live) - Johnny Cash
Hold Me,Thrill Me,Kiss Me,Kill Me - U2
Golden Slumbers - The Beatles
King Of New York - Fun Lovin Criminals
You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You - Dean Martin
It's Probably Me - Sting
Falling Down A Mountainside - David Gray
Black Night - Deep Purple
Snow Is Gone - Josh Ritter
Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher

Nightwish

I sent in this. Its not exactly the middle of the road AOR that Today FM spews out daily.

1. End of All Hope - Nightwish (Century Child)
2. Poison - Alice Cooper (Trash)
3. Lost - Tristania (World of Glass)
4. Crystal Mountain - Death (Symbolic)
5. War Pigs - Black Sabbath (The Best of)
6. Revenga - System of a Down (Mezmerize)
7. Preliator - Globus (Epicon)
8. Sweet Sacrifice - Evanescence (The Open Door)
9. Your Sweet 666 - HIM (Greatest Love Songs Volume 666)
10. Baba O'Riley - The Who (Who's Next)

_feedback_

What ye think of the first one? Very safe selection I reckon! Thin Lizzy, Razorlight, REM and Queen .....

It's a good idea, but Dave Fanning done it a couple of years ago and done a better job IMO.

Liam Byrne

Here's what mine came up with:

1. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
2. Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
3. Never Let You Down - Don Baker
4. Sara - Fleetwood Mac
5. In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
6. School's Out - Alice Cooper
7. Can't Get Used to Losing You - The Beat
8. Destination Dreamland - Dominic Mulvaney
9. Veronica (Acoustic) - Elvis Costello
10. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves - Cher

That said, with a pretty eclectic list that includes over 11,000 songs, that's not particularly representative of the overall playlist (e.g. it doesn't include any of the good up-to-date stuff that I have)

Nightwish

Todays one didnt deviate from what they usually play at all. Its what I expected from Today FM tbh. Man I hate that station.

dulpit

Nightwish wrote:

Todays one didnt deviate from what they usually play at all. Its what I expected from Today FM tbh. Man I hate that station.

Ya I was quite disappointed with the selection TBH, every single song was something that is played on a fairly regular basis... I was expecting to hear some crazy off the wall type stuff... But seen as how every radio station in this country is all about conforming to the norm, that won't happen for week... What's wrong with playing some rock&roll, heavy metal, classical, indie, pop etc.(whatever) all on the one station? Can't we have variety?