Haven’t done one of these in a while, but here we go. Set your MP3 players to “shuffle” and post the first ten songs that come up.
The Friday Video, of course, has to be Michael:
1. The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
2. Radiohead – Myxamatosis
3. Pissed Jeans – Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear
4. White Denim – Paint Silver Gold
5. Tom Waits – Black Box Theme
6. The Dirty Projectors – No More
7. Angus & Julia Stone – Just a Boy
8. Regina Spektor – Apres Moi
9. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy
10. Jens Lekman – Into Eternity
Ohio! – Slingshot Dakota
Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel
Evil and a Heathen – Franz Ferdinand
Everything Hits at Once – Spoon
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – Arcade Fire
The Anointed One – Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Wicked Wisdom - of Montreal
Come Saturday - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math(s) - Los Campesinos!
Small Figures in a Vast Expanse - Rilo Kiley
That would be a terrible playlist. Good music, but doesn’t really meld together.
1. Idlewild – You Held the World in Your Arms
2. Bjork – Venus as a Boy
3. Mulan – Honor to us All
4. Michael Franti – Passion
5. Rob Thomas – Lonely No More
6. Miyuki Hashimoto – Hatsukoi Parachute
7. KAT-TUN – Signal
8. Ladysmith Black Mambazo – River of Dreams
9. Byung-woo Lee – No Path Back
10. Deerhoof – Apple Bomb
How I ended up with an mp3 of #5, I’ll never know.
1. Nick Cave & The Badseeds – Night of the Lotus Eaters
2. T. Rex – Rip Off
3. The Stooges – 1970
4. Lady Sovereign – Blah Blah
5. PJ Harvey – Legs (4-track demo)
6. Antony & The Johnsons – Shake That Devil
7. Depeche Mode – I Feel You
8. The Ravonettes – My Tornado
9. Thao – Travel
10. Mos Def – Hip Hop
I LOVE FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK. SO. MUCH.
so much that i have to internet-yell every time it shows up anywhere i read.
1. The Hoodoo Gurus – My Girl
2. Jane Rutter on Mozart’s Flute – Andante in C Major
3. Ce Ce Peniston on Soundtrack, Adventures of Priscilla in the Desert- Finally
4. The Goanna Gang- There’s a House With a Floor
5. The Mavis’s (from To Hal and Bacharach)- Walk On By
6. Black Box Recorder- The English Motorway System
7. Company B Original Soundtrack for Keating! The Musical- The Arse End of the Earth
8. The Whitlams- Jesus Has Got An Erection
9. Madonna- Like A Prayer
10. Many Hands- Droplets