If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Load up your mp3s, even the embarassing ones, set to random and list the first ten it spits out. Blog yours or leave them in the comments below. Go!
5076. Pere Ubu – Humor Me
2332. The Breakaways – That’s How It Goes
1506. Nina Simone – Wild Is A Wind
3849. Firewater – Fell Off the Face of the Earth
5026. The Luniz – I Got 5 On It
2860. Al Green – I’m Glad You’re Mine
4285. The Stooges – Search and Destroy
4866. Nancy Sinatra – You Only Live Twice
880. Too Short – I’m a Player
2111. The Mekons – Last Dance
Bonus Track: #3081 Bel Biv Devoe – Poison
As a special bonus, this conversation happened on Wednesday right as the last bell was about to ring:
Student 1: I have a song in my head!
Student 2: What song?
Student 1: Mike Jones. (hums a bit and turns to me) Ms. B, do you ever listen to rap?
Student 2: Look at her. She doesn’t listen to rap.
If you had been there, you might have heard me gasp.
Me (indignantly): I listen to rap, but not crap like Mike Jones.
And now that I look at this week’s FRT, I realize that while I may not listen to Mike Jones, I listen to my own brand of crap that deserves its own pathetic category. On the other hand, it can get worse than Too Short.
You’re rendering the word “bonus” in the term “bonus track” virtually meaningless.
Next time you’re confronted with a minor generational rift, tell them that if they wanna be treated right, see Father MC. Or check Ralph Tresvant for sens-i-tiv-i-ty.
Meaninglessness is my thang, man. Don’t you rain on my parade.
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Friday Random Ten – 10.28.05
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. More free and legal (I think) mp3′s
At Home Sick While My Academic Career Crumbles Around Me Edition
Friday Random Ten – The “Lauren’s Gonna Hate This” Edition:
1. Arrested Development – Tennessee
2. Parliament – Mothership Connection (Star Child)
3. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
4. Parliament – Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
5. Too Short – The Ghetto (coincidence? You be the judge!)
6. The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
7. Weezer – Island In The Sun
8. Corey Hart – Sunglasses At Night
9. Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In L.A.
10. Squeeze – Tempted
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Big & Rich – Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
1. Men Without Hats – Pop Goes The World
2. Peter Murphy – All Night Long
3. The New Pornographers – Jackie
4. The Fugees – Fu-Gee-La
5. Coded Music Apparatus: Patterns on the Pitch Graph (Automated Sackbut) – Hugh LeCaine
6. Metallica – Fray Ends of Sanity
7. Atom & His Package – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mab Lib
8. Acting Ensign – Saucer Separation
9. Tenacious D – You Fucker
10. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) – Neil Young
Bonus guilty please: NWA – Gangsta Gangsta
1. To the Baby Counter – Brainiac
2. Jump On It – Scissors for Lefty
3. Identify – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. The Cold Part – Modest Mouse
5. Gideon – My Morning Jacket
6. Have a Lucky Day – Morphine
7. I Hate To See You Baby Doin’ That Stuff – Lloyd Cole
8. Blackout Curtain – Now It’s Overheard
9. Plastic Airplane – The Halo Bit
10. Revenge! – Spoon
A little Mekons for the weekend, Lauren! give yourself 10 out of ten for coolness.
mine:
1. Voices Carry – Til Tuesday.
2. Atom Drum Bop – The Three Johns.
3. Businessmen are Okay – The Loud Family.
4. Never Been In A Riot – The Mekons.
5. Wherever I May Roam – Metallica.
7. Here Comes President Kill Again – XTC.
8. Chunks – Dinosaur Jr.
9. My Girl – The Ghettobillies.
10. The Old Gods Return – Blue Oyster Cult.
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If I ever visit the USA (unlikely since I’m a brown-skinned European and it doesn’t look like New Orleans is going to be put back the way it was) at least I now know I’ll have someone to dance with.
Brian: Please tell me that you, like me, downloaded your Metallica “illegally”.
Artist — “Song”
John Mayer — “My Stupid Mouth”
Ugly Duckling — “Einstein’s Takin’ Off”
Mos Def — “Brooklyn”
Black Sabbath — “Dirty Women”
Emperor — “Thus Spake the Nightspirit”
Coal Chamber — “Tragedy”
Trivium — “Drowned & Torn Asunder”
Charlie Parker — “East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)”
Stan Getz — “Desafinado”
Tool — “Disgustipated”
Special Halloween Bonus Track:
Helloween — “Why?”
Knifeghost:
I am sure the IMS will eviscerate me should I admit that I might – I SAID MIGHT – have purchased said Metallica.
But maybe I’ll just maintain that it was a gift.
yea – that’s it.