1) Martha Wainwright – TV Show
2) Elvis Costello – I Want You
3) Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
4) Jon Brion – Here We Go
5) American Analog Set – Know By Heart
6) Jens Lekman – Be Good
7) Iron & Wine – Weary Memory
8) Aimee Mann – It’s Not
9) Br. Danielson – Daughters Will Tune You
10) The Clientele – Tracey Had a Hard Day Sunday
Had I rated this one, a big fattie ten. But that’s just my opinion.
Thrown like a star in my vast sleep
I open my eyes to take a peep
To find that I was by the sea
Gazing with tranquillity.
‘Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love,
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love.
1. Lambchop, “Nashville Parent”
2. Southern Culture on the Skids, “Camel Walk”
3. Dead Kennedys, “I Fought the Law”
4. Cut Chemist, “Bunky’s Pick”
5. Curtis Mayfield, “Keep On Trippin’”
6. Rose Royce, “Born to Love You”
7. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “Scorpio”
8. Yo La Tengo, “You Can Have It All”
9. The Amps, “Pacer”
10. The Plugz, “Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)”
Friday Rendom Ten – 08.19.05
Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit shuffle on your favorite digital music player (for me my Windows MediaPlayer at work) and report on the first ten songs that it spits out. The missus and I are taking the
1) Norman Blake: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
2) Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3) Jane’s Addiction: Idiots Rule
4) Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks
5) Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky
6) Black Flag: Revenge
7) Tom Petty & The heartbreakers: Refugee
8) Roger Waters: 4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
9) The Pretenders: Back On The Chain Gang
10) Beck: Jack Ass
This is an odd lineup for me. No blues and no bagpipes in ten songs. The Waters song is great. Writing from the bottom of a well of pain, on his oft-forgotten solo album “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking,” Sexual Revolution has some of his most cutting lyrics:
“Hey, girl/As I’ve always said I prefer your lips red/ Not what the Good Lord made/ But what He intended.”
Happy Phantom-Tori Amos
About a Girl-Nirvana (unplugged)
Summertime-DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Punk-Gorillaz
Lovely Rita-The Beatles
Purr-Sonic Youth
All My Life-Foo Fighters
Cocoon-Darling Violetta
In the Garage-Weezer
Holiday Song-Pixies
Friday Random Ten, Murder Capital of Americal Edition
# Sleater-Kinney / All Hands on the Bad One / Ironclad
# B Rich / 80 Dimes / Friday
# Blackalicious / A2G / Alphabet Aerobics
# Mark Ronson f. Sean Paul & Tweet / Here Comes the Fuzz / International Affair
# Sarah McLachlan / Surfacing / Witness
# Jurassic 5 / Quality Control / Lausd
# Black Eyed Peas / Elephunk / Let’s Get Retarded
# Tech Itch & Don Davis / The Animatrix: OMPS / The Real
# Graeme Revell & Robert Rodriguez / Sin City: OMPS / Cardinal Sin
# The Roots / Things Fall Apart / Table of Contents, Parts 1 & 2
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Friday Random Ten – Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends Edition
1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9
2. MC Hawking – Fuck The Creationists
3. Alan Parsons Project – Games People Play
4. The Donnas – Take It Off
5. Kid Rock – Wasting Time
6. New Order – Temptation
7. Boston – Hitch A Ride
8. Nick Lowe – So It Goes
9. Peter Schilling – Major Tom
10. Bobby Darin – Lazy River
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Boy Meets Girl – Waiting For A Star To Fall
THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW
I’M JUST MAD ABOUT SAFFRON Before there was retro and long before hipsters, there were mamas and papas and earth mothers and mothers of invention and a godfather of soul. There was a woman who came upon a child
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Any FRT with Elvis AND Aimee Mann will be rated right up there.
Nice graphic, btw.
Here’s mine:
http://empireofthesenseless.blogspot.com
two bonus tracks, comments, and Self Audit.
Friday Random Ten, Return to New Jersey edition
1. The Strokes – Meet Me in the Bathroom
2. Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning
3. Fuel – Hemmorrhage
4. Miles Davis Quartet – If I Were a Bell
5. Eels – Your Lucky Day in Hell
6. Barenaked Ladies – It’s All Been Done (this was *our* song… when we were in 8th grade.)
7. Allman Brothers Band – Melissa
8. Billy Joel – For the Longest Time
9. Common w/Kanye West – The Food
10. Martha and the Vandellas – Dancing in the Street
Bonus Rain Track: Frou Frou – Only Got One
Spring Forward – Uncle Dave Lewis
We Are the Clash – Sparks
jingle announcing ‘Magic Mountain’ concert #2 – Sparks
The Good’s Gone [BBC] – The Who
Our Prayer/Gee – Brian Wilson
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G – ii) Andante con moto – Philomusica Antiqua, New York/Stephen Simon
Heavy 4 Hire – Keith Levene
Twist (Edit) – Twister
Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Saint Etienne
Political Science – Randy Newman
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Boy Meets Girl – Waiting For A Star To Fall
OMG, I didn’t know anyone else but me actually had that track!
Here’s my FRT, circa 1980′s
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Pat Benetar – Love Is A Battlefield
Billy Vera & The Beaters – Corner of the Night
Def Leppard – Animal
AC/DC – Back In Black
Honeydrippers – Sea Of Love
Billy Idol – Dancing With Myself
Warrant – Where The Down Boys Go
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warrens – I’ve Had The Time Of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
Huey Lewis & The News – She’s Some Kind Of Wonderful
Bonus Track
Guns ‘n Roses – Patience
Cross-posted at Carrie’s Bar & Grill
Lesley Gore: Sometimes I wish I Were A boy
Eno / Cale: Been There Done That
The Gladiolas: Little Darlin’
Bonnie Pointer: Nowhere to Run
Rascals: Any Dance’ll Do
DBs: Rollercoaster
Lightning Hopkins: Happy Bllues for John Glenn
Doors: My Eyes Have Seen You
Procol Harum: The Devil Came from Kansas
Diane Renay: Unbelievable Guy
Let’s review shall we?
Based on the myriad feedback I’ve been getting for my previous post I guess I should re-iterate what this site…