1) Melt Banana – Showroom Dummies
2) The Unicorns – Sea Ghost
3) French Disco – Collapse on Sound
4) Queen – Bicycle Race (don’t ask)
5) The Marine Girls – On My Mind
6) Al Green – I’m Glad You’re Mine
7) Jeff Buckley – Forget Her
8) Nina Simone – I Put a Spell On You
9) Elvis Costello – Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (unplugged)
10) Souxsie and the Banshees – Christine
Somebody audit me. I can’t handle the grave responsibility.
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Hmm…If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were hating on Queen…But you wouldn’t do that, would you?
Anyways, my FRT:
Artist — “Song”
Rage against the Machine — “People of the Sun”
Samael — “Black Trip”
The Roots — “Break You Off”
A Perfect Circle — “Lullaby”
The Pharcyde — “4 Better or 4 Worse”
Dizzy Gillespie — “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Sublime — “Garden Grove”
MuDvAyNe — “Recombinant Resurgence”
Machine Head — “Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies”
Blackalicious — “Shallow Days”
1) Shooglenifty: Delighted (“Acid Croft” modern Scotish folk band)
2) Aerosmith: Back in the Saddle
3) The Cult: Electric Ocean (from Electric, an underrated album)
4) Soundgarden: Head Down
5) Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids
6) Black Flag: Fix Me
7) Led Zeppelin: In the Light
8) The Who: My Generation
9) Pink Floyd: Childhood’s End
10) Free: All Right Now
(heavy on the classic rock today. It’s good to be back after several Fridays so busy that I never listened to a single song, even on the commute)
“Scottish” is, of course, spelled with a double “t”. My fingers are protesting the long work hours.
Lauren, I’d give it an 8. The Queen ain’t as bad as you think, and some Elvis always brings the audit numbers up nicely.
You beat norbizness.
Lauren: I’m assuming #1 is a Kraftwerk cover. What does it sound like?
1. Close up The Honky Tonks (Flying Burrito Brothers) / 2. No Aloha (The Breeders) / 3, Brandenburg Concerto 3-3 (Wendy Carlos) / 4. We Are Neighbors (Chi-Lites) / 5. Beat Me Senseless (Circle Jerks) / 6. The Poor People of Paris (Chet Atkins) / 7. Diamond Hard Apples of the Moon (The Nice) / 8. God’s Comic (Elvis Cotello) / 9. Brainiac’s Daughter (The Dukes of Stratosphear) / 10. Why Can’t I Touch It? (The Buzzcocks)
I don’t want to be the Prrrrrresident of Amerrrrrrica. Everybody always dominates my self-audit score. That’s because nobody puts Daryl Hall and John Oates in a corner!
I have a small obsession with Elvis Costello, and the unplugged version of Deep, Dark Truthful Mirror is amazing.
Jill:
I got to see him this year at Bumbershoot. Very cool; would have been cooler if I hadn’t been soaked by the downpour we got that afternoon.
On to Friday Random Ten – Too Cool for School Edition:
1. Stevie Wonder – My Eyes Don’t Cry (Cool anecdote: He played this song at Detroit’s tricentennial celebration in 2001 and hundreds of people did the electric slide/hustle/whatever that dance is in the streets. Pretty neat)
2. No Doubt – Just A Girl
3. Steely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
4. LL Cool J – Going Back To Cali
5. Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line
6. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
7. The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
8. New Order – Blue Monday
9. Pink – Missundazstood
10. Jason Mraz – Curbside Prophet
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Sophie B. Hawkins – As I Lay Me Down
1. The Stonecutters, “We Do!”
2. Modest Mouse, “One Chance”
3. Superchunk, “Punch Me Harder”
4. Mos Def, “New World Water”
5. Death Cab for Cutie, “Transatlanticism”
6. Velvet Underground, “Beginning to See the Light”
7. Lefty Frizzell, “My Baby’s Just Like Money”
8. Loretta Lynn, “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed”
9. Man or Astroman?, “Nitrous Burnout 2112″
10. Lovage, “Strangers on a Train”
I don’t think Bicycle Race requires any apology, although I’m admittedly more of a “Fat-Bottomed Girls” man…
1. Shipbuilding – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
2. What Do You Suppose – Buellton
3. Tracing Paths – Kite Operations
4. The Town Halo – A.C. Newman
5. Arm in the Foam – The Child Who Was A Keyhole
6. Missing Link – The Waco Brothers
7. Animal Suit – Candy Machine
8. Sexy Results – Death From Above 1979
9. 10:1 – Rouge Wave
10. You & Me – Tender Trap
*hopes for hippest ten…rolls dice*
Hood – They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Happened Here
Gorillaz – M1A1
Sufjan Stevens – For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti (boo-ya! That song rules so much I can safely use the phrase “boo-ya!”)
Castanets – First Light’s Freeze
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Classic Art Showcase
Nirvana – Something In The Way (ouch..that hurts mp3 player…that hurts)
Arab Strap – Fucking Little Bastards
Walkmen – The Rat (eh….)
Dizzee Rascal – Stop Dat
Hood – The Winter Hit Hard (TWO Hood songs? I am blessed today)
oh and also…damn you Scott for getting AC Newman’s The Town Halo. That song is so good it makes my folicles ache.
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