Be Excellent To Each Other

Thanks to a train of thought emanating from hearing Bad Manners perform a version of Black Night on an episode of ...Buzzcocks I'd recorded over the weekend, I wondered how many good songs there are starting with the word 'black'. So, I checked my mp3 collection, and after a circuitous series of events arrived at the following playlist. (In short, there are more good ones that you might have imagined)

Black Night / Hugo Strasser
Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Feat. Chuck D) / Asian Dub Foundation
Black Out Fall Out / Polysics
Black Forest / Takako Minekawa
Black-Eyed Susan / Laura Veirs
Black Arabs / Sex Pistols
Black White Blue / Front 242
Black Bass / Shonen Knife
Black Tongue / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Black hole sun / MakroSoft
Black Forest (Lorelei) / Mercury Rev
Blackpool Roll / Mr Scruff

So, for your listening pleasure, here they are: http://blackcelebration.muxtape.com/

Can anyone else think of similarly (though not necessarily related to specific colours) themed playlists? If you can't this is going to be a very lonely thread...

Almost forgot - if anyone is thinking of a potential compilation but can't be bothered uploading each track to Muxtape, Mixwit should be handy. Unlike Muxtape you can upload as many compilations as you like under one username, but most spendidly you don't even need to upload anything. Instead it looks for the songs that you ask it to, and compiles a 'tape' automatically. You can even do custom cassette covers for it. Here are my Mixwit tapes so far, though I really ought to do some better ones.

You missed out 'Black' by GridLink. Choon, that.

Don't know that one. I wonder if it is possible to compile an entire Muxtape of differents songs with the same title. Hmm.

"Black Betty", surely?

STOP NAMING SONGS I HAVEN'T GOT AND DO YOUR OWN COMPILATIONS.

(And relax.)

Blackbeat by Apollo 440

Blackened by Metallica
The New Black by Strapping Young Lad
Filthy Black Shit by Frost
... cripes I must have tonnes of "black" songs.

Edit: yep 570 mp3s with black in the title.

Wow, entirely coincidentally I am listening to Black Swan by Thom Yorke as this thread loaded up.

There is also:
Black Mirror by Arcade Fire
Black White by Asian Dub Foundation
Blackwell by The Delgados
Blacktop Beat by Jurassic 5
Blackout by Muse
Black Milk by Massive Attack
Black Math by The White Stripes
Black Man by Stevie Wonder
Black Lead by Death in Vegas
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall
Blackout by Amusement Parks on Fire
Blackman Redemption by Bob Marley
Blacklisted by Ash
Black History Month by Death from Above 1979
Black Hole Prophecies by Foreign Beggars
Blackeyed Blond by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blackburn off the Killer 7 OST
Blackbird by the Beatles
Black-Eyed by Placebo
Black Tower of the Halo 3 OST
Black Thumbnail by the Kings of Leon
Black Sweatshirt by Sage Francis
Black Block by Modeselektor
Black Panther by Crystal Castles
Black or Blue by Suede
Black Blood of the Shadow of the Colossus OST
Black Monk Theme by The Fall
Black Garden by the Manic Street Preachers
Black Cadillacs by Modest Mouse
Black And White Town by Doves
Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
Black Country Woman also by Led Zeppelin
Black Mountain Side also by Led Zeppelin
Black Steel In The First World, also by Public Enemy
Black Star by Radiohead
Black Out by Pavement
Black Stacey by Saul Williams
Black History Month also by Saul Williams
Black Plant by Last Shadow Puppets

Supermassive Black Hole by (ugh) Muse

Via the magic of Winamp:

1. The Upper Room - Black And White (3:41)
2. The Offspring - Black Ball (3:24)
3. Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs (2:43)
4. Jamiroquai - Black Capricorn Day (5:41)
5. All Saints - Black Coffee (4:51)
6. Manic Street Preachers - Black Dog On My Shoulder (4:48)
7. Texas - Black Eyed Boy (3:17)
8. DragonForce - Black Fire (5:49)
9. A - Black Hole (4:15)
10. Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic (4:21)
11. The White Stripes - Black Math (3:04)
12. Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - Black Mountain (3:10)
13. Michael Jackson - Black Or White (3:19)
14. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (6:19)
15. The Darkness - Black Shuck (3:21)
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue (3:03)
17. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet (4:47)
18. DragonForce - Black Winter Night (6:32)
19. Placebo - Black-Eyed (3:48)
20. Final Fantasy VI - Blackjack (3:06)
21. Muse - Blackout (4:22)

Blackout by (hed) Planet Earth

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

Just on the few I've got on this laptop I've got

Blackwater - David Sylvian
Back in Black - AC/DC
Blackout - David Bowie
Black River - Paul Weller

on top of the many that have already been mentioned.
Can't be arsed walking downstairs to switch on the desktop.

Only tracks I have which are not mentioned elsewhere on here;

Black and White - Static X
Blackjack - Airbourne

You're rubbish - he said songs that start with 'Black...'

Winnar!

Too late, I had that one in me personal collection!

Meanwhile:

Red Hot / Jurassic 5
Red Death At 6:14 (Live) / White Stripes
Red Tan / The Raveonettes
Red Eye / Ben Kweller
Red Light / The Strokes
Red Brick Dream / XTC
Red Microphones / The Comas
Red Rain / White Stripes
Red Team / Front 242
A Red, Red Rose / Camera Obscura
Red Red Red / Fiona Apple
Red White & Blue Dream / Kimya Dawson

http://redletterdaze.muxtape.com/

I do actually have something better to do, I'm just not doing it.

1. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert (4:17)
2. JLK - Red Dwarf Theme (2:00)
3. The Ordinary Boys - Red Letter Day (5:27)
4. Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light (3:00)
5. The Aquabats - Red Sweater (3:23)
6. Final Fantasy VII - Red XIII's Theme (1:27)
7. Johnny Cash - Redemption (3:03)
8. Green Day - Redundant (3:20)
9. Guillemots - Redwings (6:02)

Not really sure those last three count though.

Ooh, Hybrid: Red Square Reprise
I love Hybrid.

So how do I add things to the muxtape list?

Black Planet by the Sisters Of Mercy, obv.[/late]

Red is the new black.

You need to go to the Muxtape website, sign up and from there you can upload up to twelve songs. If you can't be done with uploading tracks, Mixwit is much the same, only there's no limit on the number of songs per collection, it finds the MP3s for you, and you can make multiple compilations on the same username. The downside is that the selection of tunes is limited by what their web-bots can find, as there's no option to upload your own tracks. Swings and roundabouts, really.

Excellent!