1) Stevie Wonder – We Can Work It Out (one of the best covers I’ve ever heard – click to download)
2) Morphine – Cure for Pain
3) Of Montreal – The Party’s Crashing Us
4) Man… Or Astroman? – Um Espectro Sem Escala
5) Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
6) Wesley Willis – Vampire Bat
7) The Catheters – Days Gone By
8) Sister Carol – International Style (I’m surprised Gwen Stefani hasn’t ruined this one yet)
9) Mount Sims – No Yellow Lines
10) Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Bonus Track: David Essex – Rock On
1) Ice Cube – My Summer Vacation
2) My Bloody Valentine – Cupid Come
3) Atom & His Package – Bloody Lip
4) Le Tigre – Manifesto in G (I have to say, I love their overdriven droney stuff)
5) Magnetic Fields – Parades Go By
6) Andre 3000 (well, technically Outkast) – A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre
7) Neil Young – Ride My Llama
8) Destroyer – Streethawk I
9) The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
10) The Cure – So What
This is by far the best random 10 iTunes has ever spit out at me.
Friday Random Ten – The “I Almost Lost My Ritalin” Edition:
1. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – Lucky Man
2. David Bowie – Changes
3. The Cure – Let’s Go To Bed
4. Juice Newton – Queen Of Hearts
5. Public Enemy – He Got Game
6. Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
7. The Darkness – Friday Night
8. Tommy Tutone – 867-5309/Jenny
9. Firewater – Fell Off The Face Of The Earth
10. Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait
Bonus Friday Guilty Pleasure Track: Kid Rock – Bawitdaba
That Stevie Wonder is a great cover. Perhaps having something to do with the fact that it’s basically a completely new melody.
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I think it has something to do with the fact that he actually sounds semi-interested in working it out, as opposed to the original.
1. We Can Get Down (A Tribe Called Quest) / 2. Television Fission (Man or Astroman?) / 3. Wrap it Up (Super Furry Animals) / 4. Keep On Livin’ (Le Tiger) / 5. Deeper Into Movies (Yo La Tengo) / 6. One (Metallica) / 7. Revolution (Los Lobos) / 8. Kyberneticka Babicka, Part 1 (Stereolab) / 9. Teach the Children (Eric B. and Rakim) / 10. You’ve Got to Earn it (Staple Singers)
1 pulled teeth-green day
2 rickets-green day
3 moonshine-free
4 solidarity-sheryl crow
5 dancin’ fool-frank zappa
6 velvellettes-needle in a haystack
7 lonely ol’ night-john mellencamp
8 shame-matchbox 20
9 sunday morning-no doubt
10 pablo picasso-david bowie
bonus track- green shirt-elvis costello
1. For What Reason – Death Cab for Cutie
2. Green Light – The Harvey Girls
3. Jelly Dancers – The Eels (My four-year-old’s favorite song. He likes to sit in his booster in the back seat of the car and listen to it. He’s got rhythm.)
4. It’s All Around You – Tortoise
5. A question for Emily Foreman – of Montreal
6. Turn it up – Big Strides
7. Eclater un type des Assedics – Akhenaton
8. Exodus Damage – John Vanderslice
9. The Only Way Out – The Sparrow
10. God Killed the Queen – Louis XIV
And because that’d be a terrible note to go out on,
Bonus Random Track: Paranoid Android – UMass Percussion Ensemble
Bonus You-should-listen Track: On the Bus Mall – The Decemberists
That’s dance to it.
My “Paris Ain’t Burnin’, It’s the Banlieue” Edition:
1) Mr. Nigga – Mos Def
2) Sense Outta Nansense – Linton Kwesi Johnson
3) English Civil War – The Clash (but the cover says it’s about China)
4) Long Time – Bad Brains (for the ragga feeling)
5) The Disposition of the Linen – Michael Nyman (easy listening Purcell)
6) Danyuan ren changjiu 但願人長久 – Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 (Su Shi/Dongpo poetry for, like, evah)
7) Chanson de toile – Émilie Simon (I bought her first album looong before she did the soundtrack to that penguin picture)
8) Biye 畢業 – MC HotDog 熱狗 (good ol’ graduation days)
9) I’m Alright Now – Johnny Cash (Yeah, right)
10) Rhythm (Devoted To The Art Of Moving Butts) – A Tribe Called Quest
Bonus : Jiemei 姊妹 – A-mei 張惠妹 (Some say it’s a lesbian anthem: ‘You are my sis-ter, you are my bay-baay’. With Native Taiwanese chorus.)
hmmmm. Man …or Astroman?
Friday Random Ten – 11.04.05
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. Kind of bummed out music-wise today. I
Waiting For The Barbarians Edition
Velvet Days – Kristin Hersh
idxu2 – aero wave
Split – The Big Boys
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) – The Stranglers
Hazing – Throwing Muses
Daytime Dilema (Dangers of Love) – The Ramones
You Make Me Sick – the Motards
Something In The Night – Bruce Springsteen
Burning Room – Pray For Rain (Sid & Nancy Soundtrack)
Gdansk – Test Dept.
1) Talking Heads: Once In A Lifetime
2) Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue
3) Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
4) Stevie Ray Vaughn: Willie the Wimp
5) Bob Seger: Her Strut
6) Guns ‘n’ Roses: Sweet Child o’ Mine
7) Shooglenifty: Delighted
8) Eric Clapton: I’m Tore Down
9) Bo Diddly: I’m A Man
10) Public Enemy: I Can’t Do Nuthin’ For You Man
Non-random Bonus Track The Libertines: Get Along
I find the rest of “Up the Bracket” pales in comparison to the incendiary brilliance of “I Get Along.” Shooglenifty is Scottish “acid croft” modern folk, with fiddles.
Let’s make it 11 to reunite Parks & Newman on one playlist.
Black Gold – Van Dyke Parks
409 – Surfsiders
Station Break – Firesign Theatre
Song of the Sewer – Art Carney
Recombo DNA – Devo
HAYDN: Sonata in Eb, H52/L62: Finale. Presto – Alfred Brendel
IVES: They Are There! for chorus & orchestra, Ky38b – Charles Ives & Kronos Quartet
bushwhacked2 – unknown
Stria – John Chowning
Stop! I’m Watching TV! – Stark Effect
Little Criminals – Randy Newman
1 “Smith & Jones Forever” – The Silver Jews
2 “Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern” – Todd Snider
3 “Sexx Laws” – Beck
4 “Slow Burn” – David Bowie
5 “Humidity Built the Snowman” – John Prine
6 “Chelsea Hotel” – Leonard Cohen
7 “I Feel You” – Depeche Mode
8 “Puce” – Ken Nordine
9 “Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
10 “Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2” – Neutral Milk Hotel
Bonus Track: “Owls Go” – Architecture in Helsinki. Awesomeness.
1. Jackie Blue – The Ozark Mountain Boys
2. Lisa Says – The Velvet Underground
3. It’ll Be a Long Time – The Offspring
4. Southern Train – Professor Elixir’s Southern Train
5. Cindy of a Thousand Lives – Billy Bragg
6. Get the Dutch – Duster
7. Burgundy – Ken Nordine
8. Rat Velvet – The Lemonheads
9. Chinese Lorraine – Jack Logan
10. Flyerman – Trampoline
“Ticket to Ride” – The Beatles
“Pilgrim” – Eric Clapton
“You Should Know Better” – Kenny Wayne Shepard Band
“Streets of Phliadelphia” – Bruce Springsteen
“Tura Lura Lurai” – The Band
“Learning to Fly” – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Something Inside Me” – Elmore James
“I Will Never Be The Same” – Mellisa Etheridge
“Happy” – The Rolling Stones
“Find Me Out On A Mountaintop” – Blue Highway
That would be Mott The Hoople, not The Mott Hoople.
Ha! My fingers have dyslexia.