Okay, I admit it. I occasionally edit out songs that make me cringe or induce a series of eye rolls. My FRT is more of a first-ten-songs-that-I-would-actually-listen-to list than a first-ten-songs list.
This week’s challenge: Impress us with your horrible taste.
If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Fire up your mp3 players, load up your entire mp3 collection (even the bad stuff), and hit play. List the first ten that pump through your radio, radio. And this week, be honest.
1) Smoke City – With You
2) The Clash – Bankrobber
3) Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
4) Trick Daddy – She Walla Walla
5) Gary Wright – Dream Weaver
6) Tom Petty – Last Dance With Mary Jane
7) The Stooges – My Girlfriend Hates My Heroin
8) The Alchemist ft. T.I. – Pimp Squad
9) Titanic Soundtrack – Piano Solo
10) Hooverphonic – 2wicky
See? That wasn’t so bad, just a few breakdowns with the Titanic business, pimp shit, and Gary Wright. Winamp is being kind today.
An additional five since we’re experimenting with honesty:
a) Diana Krall – I’ve Got You Under My Skin
b) Vybz Cartel – Up To Di Time
c) Peggy Lee – Fever
d) The Undertones – You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It?)
e) The Libertines – Road to Ruin
Maybe I’ll try this truthfulness thing more often.
Oh, my. editing? I’m so disillusioned. I’ve always been honest with my FRT, that’s how I wound up with 2 Styx songs once. Yeesh.
Be back tomorrow with mine. No time tonight.
BTW, the undertones? nice. And Radio, Radio: Had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Costello in an historic theatre last weekend- wow. 2/12 hours by a guy that old? Being married to Diana Krall agrees with him.
I will see Elvis Costello once before he retires. Once!
Lots of great songs. Trouble with me is that I don’t have that much music on my computers, so I just loaded up my HD with a couple more CDs worth of music. “Horrible Taste Edition” Results:
1) Elton John – Dirty Little Girl
2) The Business – Spirit of the Streets
3) Pennywise – Perfect People
4) Wes Montgomery – D-Natural Blues
5) Morphine – Shame
6) Mephiskapheles – Snack Pack
7) Elton John – Into the Old Man’s Shoes (2nd Elton. Hmmm…)
8) NOFX – Leave It Alone
9) Portishead – Numb
10) Radiohead – Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
Doesn’t seem too bad. Anyway, I got to see David Sedaris earlier this week, so I’m kind of happy to think that my bad taste is good.
Friday Random Ten: Trypticon Edition
1. Bad Religion – Drunk Sincerity
2. The Futureheads – He Knows
3. Debora Brown – Stupidly Happy
4. Ken Siegert – I Remember the Sun
5. Bad Religion – Come Join Us
6. XTC – Battery Brides
7. The Bees – All Of a Sudden (It’s Too Late)
8. Stemag…
Muzak X
Classical style!
Frederic Chopin (Ashkenazy) :: Op. 28 – D flat “Raindrop”
Frederic Chopin (Daniel Barenboim) :: Nocturnes – Andante Cantabile – F major op 15 No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven (Alfred Brendel) :: Piano Sonata no.18 in E flat …
off topic. content is everything. Congratulations:)
Well, let me be honest in this way: the playlist (which includes a radio show) I saved from Tuesday because of its odd cohesion – except for “So Important” which also stands out from other Sparks tracks by being weak.
WEILL: Alabama Song [from Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny] – Angelina Réaux
Get In the Swing – Sparks
Rebel Without a Banjo – Dr. Foster
9 – 5 Pollution Blues – The World
Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) – The Chocolate Watchband
So Important – Sparks
ART DAMAGE ELECTION SPECIAL: DIRTY POLITICS:
a) KRZog: Skull V Skull
b) KRZog: George III Voodoo
c) KRZog: ATtanoONE
d) Tim Schwallie: The Eleventh
e) Satyr Oz: “…voice is doing to me…”
f) The Honorable Senator Robert C. Byrd: I Let Fall * War
g) KRZog: Shaquinaux
h) Phil Harris: Shadrak (from “the South Shall Rise Again”, 1959)
Apocalypse II – Tod Dockstader
I Can’t Remember My Dreams – Kristian Hoffman & Lydia Lunch
Hospitality On Parade – Sparks
Friday Random Ten, Sarah and Sean’s Wedding edition
Since work has precluded me from attending Sarah and Sean’s wedding, I sent a few music mixes to be played at the ceremony/reception.
Friday Random Ten – Last Edition During Classes This Semester
Yes, this is the last Friday that falls during the class schedule this semester.
1) Louise – Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested
2) Blow Gabriel, Blow – Jonathan Pryce – De-Lovely film soundtrack (yes, I cried during this scene)
3) Read Your Mind – Vonda Shepard – Heart and Soul: New Songs from Ally McBeal (well, not so new anymore, but anyway…)
4) Adrian – Jewel – Pieces of You
5) A Small Measure of Peace – Hans Zimmer – The Last Samurai film soundtrack…
Work WMP, selection reduced: (1) Generator — Elastica (2) 1963 — New Order (3) Checking in, Checking Out — The High Llamas (4) Love Removal Machine — The Cult (5) Rock n’ Roll High School — The Ramones (6) San Tropez — Pink Floyd (7) Analogue Rock — Stereolab (8) No Reply At All — Genesis (9) Why Can’t I Touch It? — The Buzzcocks (10) Limelight — Rush.
You know it’s an unedited list because of #4, 8, and 10.
Well, my computer is quite unfriendly (or the Internet is, I’m not sure which) because while Launchcast definitely played the following songs, I didn’t hear much of them. Damn.
Artist — Song
Big Mama Thornton — Hard Times
Talib Kweli, Feat. Black Thought and Pharoahe Monch — Guerrilla Monsoon Rap
Barenaked Ladies — The Old Apartment
Metallica — For Whom the Bell Tolls (hmm…as I recall, that popped up a couple of weeks ago, too…)
Iron Maiden — Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Doobie Brothers — What a Fool Believes
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Peoples Peoples
The Roots — Double Trouble
Led Zeppelin — Communication Breakdown
Norah Jones — Nightingale
And as an added bonus, the 11th song to pop up, just as I thought I had avoided the lame music:
Counting Crows — A Long December
The President’s iPOD Commission has released his latest selection.
Our motto is: iPOD, therefore I am TM.
norb- prog alternating with punk. sounds like my typical playlist.
Lauren- Yes you need to find a way to see Elvis. I’ve seen him four times: Punch the Clock, Spike, Painted from Memory, and The Delivery Man. At this point, he only tours when he feels like it (and wow, did he feel like it last Saturday) and plays a set that makes him happy.
My FRT Interruptus:
Pop Will Eat Itself – Satellite Ecstatica
Sugar – Clownmaster
Neil Young – Old Laughing Lady
The English Beat – Spar Wid Me
Cheap Trick – High Roller
U2 – Refugee
REM – Imitation of Life (live)
Supertramp – Casual Conversations
Beastie Boys – Shadrach (smokin and drinkin on a Tuesday Night!)
the Mekons – Axcerpt
Two Supertramp songs in two weeks. That’ll be enough, iPod. Just stop.
Proof, anyway, that the list above is unedited.
And a Mekons song. Lucky!
Friday Random Ten: The “Digging A Hole” Edition
Got tons of yardwork to do today!
Since I share a player with a man who loooooves Ween and odious amounts of stoner rock, I too skip a lot. If there’s like 4 Ween songs in the top ten, I’ll drop three. If I have no idea who the band is, I’ll skip that, too. But in the spirit of honesty, and also because I can’t duplicate this list at my screwed-up blog, I will play your dangerous game, Lauren.
1) “Too Much Love”–LCD Soundsystem
2) “Teenage Bonehead”–The Queers
3) “1982″–Miss Kittin and the Hacker
4) “Straight Ahead”–Kool and the Gang
5) “Samba Tranquille”–Thievery Corporation
6) “Sloop Johh B”–The Beach Boys
7) “Nietzsche”–The Dandy Warhols
8) “Overrated”–Helmet
9) “San Berdoo Sunburn”–The Eagles of Death Metal
10) “Life’s a Bitch and Then You Die”–The Moistboyz
Weirdly, the player stuck to my stuff for most of the beginning and then it took a dangerous turn at #8 and slide downhill into cock rock at an alarming speed. Now you know my shame. I live with someone who likes heavy metal, at least just a little of it.
Ah hell, here’s a bonus 5 for the extra shame factor:
1) “Sun Devil”–Lowrider
2) “Always You”–The Sundowners
3) “Boy About Town”–The Jam (My old friend! There was a time you showed up on the random ten every week–why did you leave? Are you staying for good this time?)
4) “Roses”–Andre 3000
5) “Albino Sunburned Girl”–Ween
Cause it just ain’t the full shame without Ween.
I don’t edit, and I’m usually embarssed by something. But not this one:
1. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Biomusicology
2. Tha Alkoholiks- Daam
3. Devendra Banhart – (listed as untitled for some reason. it’s one off the newest one).
4. Three Mile Pilot- The Year of No Light
5. Animal Collective – Mouth Wooed Her
6. Kimya Dawson – Anthrax
7. Animal Collective – Whaddit I done
8. Prince P w/Raekwon – The Bump Bump
9. Ray Charles – Mess Around
10. Tears for Fears – Mad World
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1. “32 Flavors” Ani DiFranco from Dilate
2. “Bessie Smith” Bob Dylan and The Band from The Basement Tapes
3. “Get Out of This House” Shawn Colvin from A Few Small Repairs
4. “Sea Brazil” Bela Fleck & the Flecktones from Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
5. “Just Won’t Burn” Susan Tedeschi from Just Won’t Burn
6. “Kerosene Hat” Craker from Kerosene Hat
7. “Can You understand My Joy” John Gorka from Temporary Road
8. “Che Guevara T-Shirt” Richard Shindell from Vuelta
9. “Check Me Out (Hey Hey Hey)” Peter Mulvey from The Trouble with Poets
10. “Goodnight, Irene” The Nields from Abigail
Hm. Don’t know what’s up with all the title tracks today–three in a row.
Friday Random Ten – 04.22.05
Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit
Oh, my God, Dream Weaver? I’m having painful flashbacks of ugly velvet bellbottom suits and platform shoes.
“track 3″ – aero wave
“i’m a man you don’t meet every day” – the pogues
“rock ‘n’ roll high school” – ramones
“vertigo blues” – sue foley
“shanesong” – sixteen deluxe
“some kind of” – giant sand
“teenage lobotomy” – ramones
“candyland” – james mcmurtry
“deanna” – nick cave and the bad seeds
“greed” – swans
I only copy CDs I like on my hard drive, so there is not much to be ashamed about, though I did feel embarrassed when Red Rat came up in my FRTs and ended up dropping him outta my “Random” selection, except for “Love Dem Bad”, which he sings with Buju Banton, and is actually embarrassing in its own sexist way (“a nuff we have, so much gals inna fi we catalog“).
Generally, I’m annoyed by mysogynist or violent lyrics, especially when they come from artists I like and are accompanied by good music. This is the case of talented Taiwanese rapper MC HotDog 熱狗 and, more importantly, of most songs on A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory (and I don’t only mean “The Infamous Date Rape”), whose mixture of jazz and Hip Hop is truly unique.
On the other hand, if it weren’t for the lyrics, I’m not sure I would like Ms. Dynamite’s A Little Deeper if it weren’t for the lyrics.
The Ultimate Deadline Edition
“Me produce to you important stuff” (Tzanetos on Greek NY radio in 1920-something):
1) Life’s a Struggle – Shawn (Song Yueting 宋岳庭, aka M 80).
2) Alishan de guniang 阿里山的姑娘 – Tian Zhen 田震
3) Gringlish (Instrumental), followed by Με τις τσέπες αδιανές – Aman Amerika Orchestra
4) Mr. Nigga – Mos Def
5) Come We Go Dung Deh – Linton Kwesi Johnson
6) Redder Than Red – Buju Banton
7) Biye 畢業 – MC HotDog 熱狗
8) Safe European Home – The Clash
9) Excursions – A Tribe Called Quest
10) Reggae Music Moving – Prince Far I
Sorta summarizes four years of mediocre weblog reading, writing and commenting (back when Feministe’s template featured a 50s/60s-style woman with a gun). Shut that fick and being ‘Around Thirty’. I’ll go repeatin’ Cui Jian 崔健 and claim that it’s not that I don’t understand, this world changes too fast (不是我不明白, 這世界變化快). Like the one Heretik’d say, life goes from Oi to Yo, back to Oy.
(That should be my last FRT until I get to buy more CD’s; as Q-Tip says, “well daddy don’t you know that things go in cycles“, and I’m kinda sick of it right now. Time to fire up my “Sensual Healing” selection.)
a 50s/60s-style woman with a gun
More accurately, she was holding a rifle.
I love that picture. If I could get it to work on this blog layout, I would whip it back out in a minute.
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