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Says it all, I guess.

Okay, so here's the deal: nominate me one word no longer than 7 letters and enjoying subjectively* popular use, and I'll tell you what, if anything, in my mp3 database matches it.

Try me.

* I'll be the freakin' judge of that.

Update

Yeah it's crude, but one of my favourite playlists emerges from a search for fuck:

  • Fucking Little Bastards — Arab Strap
  • Hey Fuck You — Beastie Boys
  • Butterfucker — Cibo Matto
  • Fake as Fuck — Del the Funky Homosapien
  • Everything's Fucked — Dirty Three
  • I Don't Want the Motherfuckin' — Dr Dooom
  • Fuck You Very Much, The FCC — Eric Idle
  • Wanna Fuck Around — Pavement
  • The Man Don't Give a Fuck — Super Furry Animals
  • Slack Motherfucker — Superchunk
  • How Fucking Romantic — The Magnetic Fields

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ms fits

How long have you been a Sime Nugent fan for then hmm?

Joseph

Do you know I can date it precisely? The fifth of May, two thousand and two.

It was the day the shit started heading for the fan.

Not that Sime had anything do with it. He just happened to be playing at the Corner.

Joseph

The melbs.org boys obliged.

Pat tried and succeeded in stumping me with growth. I don’t know what he was looking for, but I truncated it to grow and got:

  • Trees keep growing — Azure Ray
  • When I grow too old to dream — Benny Goodman
  • Full grown — Blues Explosion
  • I promise you’ll never grow old — Son, Ambulance
  • Do you see my love (for you growing) — The Dirtbombs
  • I don’t want to grow up — The Ramones
  • I don’t want to grow up — Tom Waits

Ben: hours:

  • After hours — A Tribe Called Quest
  • The hours — Handsome Boy Modelling School
  • Four hours in Washington — M Ward
  • Mystery hours — New Pornographers
  • Magic hours — Explosions in the sky

Andy: train:

I’m not going to write out all 42 songs (artificially inflated by Dylan’s Slow Train Coming lp). Here’s a selective playlist:

  • Night train — Oscar Peterson
  • Night train to Lorca — The Pogues
  • Live on 89.9FM Nighttrain — Aesop Rock
  • Downtown train — Tom Waits
  • Last of the steam-powered trains — The Kinks
  • Coal-train robberies — Elvis Costello
  • Don’t miss the train — No Use for a Name
  • Devil’s train — Crooked Fingers
  • Train of pain — Barry Black
  • This train will be taking no passengers — Augie March
  • It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry — Bob Dylan
  • Lakes of Pontchartrain — Christy Moore

Vince

How about “maverick”? Or alternatively, “renegade”. If you’re still scraping the bottom of the barrel, then “unpredictable” will do.

Of course, finding anything with “Mark Latham” in it trumps all of these and then some.

Joseph

Well, that’s either three strikes and I’m out, or four balls and I walk. Since I made up the rules, I’m walking.