Friday Random Ten – the Versace shades edition December 18, 2009 Jill I know it’s been approximately 17 years since I’ve done one of these, but I thought I might bring it back. Here’s the drill: Set your MP3 player to “shuffle” and post the first ten songs that come up. Here’s my ten, and a few videos: Passion Pit, who I saw two weeks ago and who were just delightful: 1. Ted Leo – Timorous Me 2. Sufjan Stevens – Chicago 3. Girl Talk – Summer Smoke 4. The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things 5. The Capstan Shafts – The Flowering Universe Confounds 6. Tom Waits – Baby Gonna Leave Me 7. Rufus Wainwright – Evil Angel 8. The Bad Plus – And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation 9. Grizzly Bear – All We Ask 10. Jans Lekman – Shirin Girls, Lykke Li and Thao & the Get Down, Stay Down below the fold. Girls, who make me want to move to California: Lykke Li: Thao & Get Down, Stay Down
Ah… Pale Green Things. These are some great choices, but nothing like the song where the evil stepfather dies. The opening chords of that album are among my all time favorite, along with the opening chords of the first Decemberists album. Loomer – My Bloody Valentine Only a Broken Heart – Tom Petty My Evil Twin – They Might be Giants Wicked Little Critta – TMBG Mr. Club – Pretty Girls Make Graves (I have that?) Broken Sound – New Found Glory Been A Son – Nirvana Funtime – Iggy Pop Love Me Like a River – Melody Gardot Control – Fumbata
Thao is really active in the feminist community. Next to Elliott Smith she is my all-time favourite artist, too. I need to buy her album! anyway, random 10: Lift The Veil, Kiss The Tank by Blood Brothers Don’t Follow by Alice in Chains I Don’t Blame You by Cat Power Moral Majority by Dead Kennedys Misery And Famine by Bad Religion Fried My Little Brains by The Kills The Biggest Lie by Elliott Smith March of God by The Pillows The Park by Feist City Song by Emmy the Great
Heh. Skipping over “geek” songs (video game songtracks): Eurythmics – The King and Queen of America Godsmack – Straight out of Line (hm. Forgot about this song.) Delerium – Love Yo-Yo Ma – Slumber My Darling Duke Ellington – The Mooche Samurai Collection II – Hiten Cannonball Adderley – Goodbye Hammerfall – Born To Rule Bliss – Wish U Were Here Ayreon – Valley Of The Queens I am somewhat dismayed by the monarchionormative nature of this random selection, but so it goes, I suppose.
My shuffle never really feels random. I’m certain that my ipod exercises editorial control. Liz Phair – Baby Got Going Sigur Ros – Olsen Olsen Palomar – One Haunt Interpol – A Time To Be So Small Telefon Tel Aviv – You Are the Worst Thing In the World The Killers – Midnight Show Sigur Ros – Ny Batteri Kills – What New York Used To Be Portishead – Plastic Sigur Ros – Glosoli
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Meg Baird – The Cruelty of Barbry Allen The Black Heart Procession – Your Church is Red Herman Dune – With a Fistful of Faith Jen Wood – Lie 4 a Lie Violent Femmes – Good Feeling Frog Eyes – New Tappy is Heard and Beheld Yaphet Kotto – Fact or Fiction S – Try Rufus Wainwright – Rebel Prince Similar to Jill’s then!