Do it like your mama told you: Fire up your IPOD, MP3 or other digital media player, set to random play, and list the first ten songs. See list encapsulate your entire personality in ten simple songs.
1) Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me
2) Magnolia Electric Company – The Dark Don’t Hide It
3) Three-Six Mafia – Sippin’ On Some Syrup
4) Iggy Pop and the Stooges – Search and Destroy
5) Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight
6) Detroit Cobras – Over To My House
7) The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
8) The Cramps – Strychnine
9) Neko Case – Runnin’ Out Of Fools
10) Public Enemy – 911 Is A Joke
Friday Random Ten (widescreen edition)
Okay okay, this kind of thing has been around for like forever (which is anything more than two months in the blogamarole), but I’ve kinda hung back because it’s all abou
Today’s an all-Female (mostly Chinese, too: 婦女運動萬歲!) Random Ten:
1) Lei de xiaoyu 淚的小雨 – Deng Lijun 鄧麗君, aka Teresa Teng
2) Book And A Cover – Suzanne Vega
3) Cuimian 催眠 – Wang Fei 王菲 (aka Faye Wong)
4) Secret – Émilie Simon
5) Anyway U Want It – Ms. Dynamite (feat. Keon Bryce)
6) Ο κύκλος της ντροπής (O kyklos tis dropis) – Sadahzinia
7) Mingbai 明白 – Tian Zhen 田震
8) Kanjian ziji 看見自己 – Zhang Huimei 張惠妹 (aka A-Mei)
9) 昨日‧今日‧明日 (past, present, future) – Pizzicato Five ピチカ―ト・ファイヴ (female lead singer)
10) Zaici dabei Guanshiyin 在慈大悲觀世音 – Qi Yu 齊豫 (16’04 Buddhist chant; to keep calm when reading the Drumglesias bwoys).
Just because.
PLease delete this if you think that two lists is too much, but when I noticed you had a song from Fear of a Black Planet, I couldn’t resist posting the unigender list that came up yesterday:
1) Fite dem back – Linton Kwesi Johnson
2) Peace and Tranquility to Earth – Roudoudou
3) Skypager – A Tribe Called Quest
4) What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit) – DJ Shadow
5) Kuqi yu eryu 哭泣與耳語 – Zhang Huimei 張惠妹
6) Tiankong 天空 – Wang Fei 王菲. A classic. Sometimes I wish Windows Media Playa didn’t know so well how to make me cry.
7) Χείλι μου μοσκομύριστο – Μίκης Θεοδωράκης (Mikis Theodorakis). One of the songs my parents used to wake me up to, sang by Grigoris Bithikotsis on a poem by Yannis Ritsos. Nuff sed.
8) Charlene – Red Rat. Why do I even keep him in my random selection? Nostalgia leads to weakness.
9) Burn Hollywood Burn – Public Enemy (feat. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane). To listen to while browsing the Jim Crow Museum website.
10) Heri jun zai lai 何日君再來 – Deng Lijun 鄧麗君, aka Teresa Teng. More tears (is that what you call ‘emo’?).
In honor of Estrogen Week, all my bands have at least one female member.
1. “Truth”–New Order
2. “Lexicon Devil”–The Germs
3. “Little Boy”–The Crystals
4. “Wake Up”–Sahara Hotnights
5. “Who Needs Forever”–Astrud Gilberto
6. “Poor Little Critter on the Road”–The Knitters
7. “The Great Love Sound”–The Ravonettes
8. “Anorak Girls”–Anorak Girl
9. “5 O’Clock in the Morning”–The Donnas
10. “Wild Honey Pie”–The Pixies
Friday Random Ten – 02.25.05
Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit
In honor of Estrogen Week, 2 of my entries are female (Dusty + X), which leads me to wonder where all the female musicians are. Quick, somebody send me several hundred CDs.
1. Yesterday Once More – Redd Kross (Carpenters cover)
2. Year 1 — X
3. Cherished – Dusty Springfield
4. Same Old Thing – The Meters
5. Forty Thousand Headmen – Traffic
6. Beautybox – Kraftwelt
7. When the Bloom is on the Sage – Riders in the Sky
8. Wednesday Week – The Undertones
9. Good Horses – Ondar (Tuvan throat-singing)
10. You’re Not Very Well – The Charlatans UK
my list :
the triumph of a heart – bjork- medulla
situation – yazoo
i’ll turn to stone – the four tops
do right woman, do tight man – aretha franklin
tribulations- lcd soundsystem
never let me down again(aggro mix) – depeche mode
say goodbye – khan feat julie cruise
no no no – destiny’s child
gloomy sunday – elvis costello
vivrant thing – q-tip
Damn. For some reason my trackback didn’t show up.
Friday Random Ten: Do As The Scorpions Did Editio
All standard rules apply. This meme brought to you by Feministe.
1. Martin Newell – Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me
2. Andy Partridge – Helicopter
3. Pizzicato Five – Eclipse
4. Carl Orff – Dies, nox et omnia
5. Beatdrop – Clash of the Titans
6. …
“Leyes” – Hazard County Girls
“Speed Racer” – 2 Nice Girls
“Oblivion” – Glass Eye
“Manatee” – TunaHelpers
“Oh To Be In Love” – Kate Bush
“Gone Blind” – Sue Foley
“Oh Bondage, Up Yours” – X-Ray Spex
“Strawberry” – Boss Hog
“The Party Line” – This Microwave World
“”Better Things” – Michele Solberg
No. You. Don’t. ….have the Starland Vocal Band in there??!!
Random Randomness
Without further ado, the Friday Random Ten. Goodnight, My Love – Benny Goodman In My Life – Beatles Groove Is In the Heart – Dee Lite True – Ryan Cabrera Dazzle – Siouxsie and the Banshees New World (Demo Version)…
Friday Random Ten
Being once more rather pressed at work, and not wanting to post up my Oscar picks until Sunday morning (maybe Saturday – we’ll see), I’m instead hopping on feministe’s Friday tradition of setting the MP3 player to random and listing the first ten so…
I have Starland Vocal Band. No seventies playlist is complete without it! ;-)
Friday Ten
Because it’s Friday. Because I feel like it. Because Lauren sez “Do it like your mama told you.”
Why, yes. I listen to Starland Vocal Band. You got a problem with this?
Friday Random Ten
A window into my personality? I don’t know, but I’d say this randomly-generated playlist is a pretty accurate representation of my stubbornly unhip musical taste.