Because Lauren always beats me on this.
Pavement – Major Leagues
Pedro the Lion – Rapture
Blackstar – Definition/Redefinition
Jem – They
R Kelly – Feelin’ On Your Booty
Joss Stone – Dirty Man
Ani Difranco – Dilate
Rachel Sage – Sistersong
Beth Orton – Love Like Laughter
Busta Rhymes – What It Is Right Now
OOOO!! Blackstar, Joss Stone, and Ani Difranco! Nice.
1. Papa Was a Rodeo Star (Magnetic Fields) / 2. Volare (Dean Martin… no, I’m serious) / 3. It’s Her Factory (Gang of Four) / 4. Blue Kentucky Girl (Loretta Lynn) / 5. Papa Ain’t Salty (T-Bone Walker) / 6. Passport to the Future (Perrey-Kingsley) / 7. Buggin’ (Flaming Lips) / 8. I Remain Calm (The Roots) / 9. Lesson Learned (The Gossip) / 10. Breaking Up Somebody’s Home (Albert King).
Average age: 25 years, give or take.
R. Kelly really needs to work on his titles. I’m particularly fond of “You Remind Me Of My Jeep.”
It’s either an indicator of how old I am, or an indicator of how completely “not with it” or “uncool” or “unhip” or “so 20 years ago” or whatever the term is now, but I recognize exactly three of the names of artists on this Random Ten list. And I believe I’ve actually heard Ani Difranco sing and have seen a photo of her. Joss Stone and Busta Rhymes I’ve heard of, but that’s about it. This is not in any way to criticize the list, its contents or its author; it’s simply an observation.
Popular-culturally, I’m clueless! Just thought I’d share that! ;)
Friday Random Ten – 10.14.05
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. As promised, all free and legal (I
No way, “Feelin On Your Booty” is a perfect song title if ever there was one. It gets right to the point,you know? I can appreciate that. The song is amazing too, especially the end (“your boo-ty, your boo-oo-ty, your b-b-b-b-b-boo-boo-boo-boo-oo-ty”). Seriously, download it. It cannot be beat.
Although I have to say, Trapped in the Closet is perhaps his greatest work to date. Has anyone else been following this remarkable piece of musical-drama genius? I can hardly wait for the next chapter.
Bleh. You can have your R. Kelly. I just want to know if/when Blackstar is going to record again.
Mos and Talib still perform together occassionally around NY, but the last time I saw them was a year and a half ago. As far as I know, they aren’t working on anything, which is depressing. I like to think that Mos is too busy planning his wedding to me.
(and I was joking about the R Kelly this, he’s horrible. Just entertaining).
Late to the party, as we West Coasters often are, but here goes:
Friday Random Ten – The “I Should Jack My Neighbor’s Mercedes” Edition:
1. Dr. Dre (with Snoop Doggy Dogg) – Dre Day
2. Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up
3. Boston – Foreplay/Long Time
4. Electric Light Orchestra – Can’t Get It Out Of My Head
5. The Turtles – Elenore
6. The Police – Every Little Thing
7. Juice Newton – Queen Of Hearts
8. Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
9. Nick Lowe – When I Write The Book
10. Parliament – Flash Light
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track – Sir Mix-A-Lot – Sleepin’ Wit My Fonk
Kick Out The Jams Muthaf*
So I said that I’d be retiring from AGITPROP. Well, that doesn’t mean I can’t come around once a week to drop a Random Ten in the bucket . . . The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson Kashmir – Led
Black Diamonds and Pearls – Blackalicious
Jesus is Way Cool – King Missile
Quiet On Tha Set – NWA
Rhythm Sticks – Blackalicious
Adrenaline – Rosetta Stone
Here – Wax Mannequin
A Rock and A Hard Place – Sister of Mercy
Independant Voicing – Hugh LeCaine
Bar Star – Run Chico Run
I Hate My Generation – Sloan
Guilty Pleasure Bonus Track: Gigolos Get Lonely Too – Morris Day and the Time.
Weird. Starts hip-hop, onto goth, then geek rock, interspersed with some random shit.
Norbiz, Papa Was a Rodeo is a fucking awesome song.
you still believe in me – blue t-shirt
WEILL: I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Angelina Réaux
You’re a woman – Jana Vaccaro & Rick Relli
WEILL: My Ship [from Lady in the Dark] – Angelina Réaux
Double Barrel – Keith Levene
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio Nº 2, Op. 67 (iii) – The Eroica Trio
IVES: Quartet Nº 1, “From the Salvation Army” (i) – Emerson String Quartet
Over the Summer – Sparks
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet Nº 8, in c, Op. 110: Largo – The Eroica Trio
Raiding the 20th Century – A History of The Cutup – Strictly Kev
Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane: Sweet & Lovely
Jimmy Yancey: I Love To Hear My Baby Call My Name
Blind Willie Johnson: Can’t Nobody Hide From God
Black Lodge Singers: Sponge Bob Square Pants
Burning Spear: Jah Dub (“Glory Be to Jah”)
Sinead O’Connor: Fire On Babylon
Bush Chemists: Heartical Dub
The Meters:: Hey Pocky Way
Creedence Clearwater: Born on the Bayou
Neil Young: Falling off the face of the Earth
Well, I was going to do a coolness rating this week, just because, but then song number 6 came up and killed everything. So here’s my ratingless Friday Random Ten™:
#) Artist — “Song”
1) M.I.A. — “10 Dollar”
2) Fear Factory — “Edgecrusher”
3) Sonny Rollins — “Sonnymoon for Two”
4) Ravi Shankar — “Hey Nath”
5) Khaled — “Sahra”
6) Chris Cagle — “Chicks Dig It” (WTF?!?!?!?!?!)
7) Trivium — “The End of Everything”
8) Miles Davis — “Star Eyes”
9) Dimmu Borgir — “Reptile”
10) Type O Negative — “I Don’t Wanna Be Me”
#6 is a demonstration of the dangers of using Yahoo Launchcast, I guess. Sometimes it just throws something totally out of left field at me. Fracker.
Super-cool Bonus Track: The Roots — “Table of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)”
The West Coast Edition to Friday’s Random Ten. Loaded up the MP3 player [all 9395 of my song titles :-) ] and these were the first ten that played.
2821 – Frank Sinatra – South Of The Border
6878 - Five Keys – Deep In My Heart
3711 – Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
(And YOU were worried about cool, Robert?)
382 – Lovin’ Spoonful – Do You Believe In Magic
1060 – Clash – Rock The Casbah
3225 – Jill Scott – Slowly, Surely
2752 - The Flying Burrito Bros. – Orange Blossom Special
1387 - Nelly – E.I.
1229 - Bel Biv Devoe – Poison
437 - The Turtles – Eleanor
Bonus Track
2474 - Elton John – Candle In The Wind (original version)
Cross-posted at Carrie’s Bar & Grill.