Friday Random Ten

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1. 1) Southern Culture On The Skids: White Trash
   2) Pink Floyd: In the Flesh
   3) Phil Stier: Magic Carpet Ride
   4) Blues Traveller: But Anyway
   5) Macy Gray: Sexomatic Venus Freak
   6) Munros: Flower of Scotland
   7) Beck: Truck Drivin’ Neighbor Downstairs
   8) Beastie Boys: Funky Boss
   9) Led Zeppelin: Your Time Is Gonna Come
   10) Elmore James: Hawaiian Boogie

2. All else may be wrong with the world, but with Tom Waits again in Jill’s FRT, something is right.

3. That Gypsy Kings to Tom Waits segue sounds dreamy, but then I think, Foreign Affairs Waits and the Gypsy Kings…not so much.

   And the “Life in a Glass House” to Ani one works nicely, not because the songs sound at all alike, but because there’s an implied narrative. First, the Radiohead lyrics:

   Once again, I’m in trouble with my only friend
   She is papering the window panes
   She is putting on a smile
   Living in a glass house

   Once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens
   Think of all the starving millions
   Don’t talk politics and don’t throw stones
   Your royal highnesses

   Well of course I’d like to sit around and chat
   Well of course I’d like to stay and chew the fat
   Well of course I’d like to sit around and chat
   But someone’s listening in.

   Once again, we are hungry for a lynching
   That’s a strange mistake to make
   You should turn the other cheek
   Living in a glass house.

   Now, Ani’s “Glass House”:

   sitting in my glasshouse
   while your ghost is sleeping down the hall
   watching the little birds fly
   kamikaze missions into the walls
   think i’m gonna stay in today
   sit on my couch and watch them fall

   life just keeps getting harder
   keeps getting harder to hide
   darker it is around me
   easier it is to see inside
   and outside the glass
   the whole world is magnified
   and its barely an inch
   from here to the other side

   guess that push has come to this
   so i guess this must be shove
   but before you throw those stones at me
   tell me what’s your house made of
   and before you’ll know what i’m doing wrong
   you’re going to have to get in line
   for the purposes of this song
   lets just say i’m doing fine
   sure, i’m doing fine

   trapped in my glasshouse
   crowd has been gathering since dawn
   make a pot of coffee
   while catastrophe awaits me out on the lawn
   think i’m going to stay in today
   pretend like i don’t know what’s going on

   [Sorry about the formatting. Not sure why it’s previewing like that.]

   Anyhow, like most former mix-tape mavens, I love little more than imposing narratives that aren’t there onto songs which aren’t either. But were this the basis of a mix…and now you see why I rarely comment on people’s RFT. (I wouldn’t have commented on this one either, but the Radiohead/Ani conjunction was too suggestive to pass up.)

4. Ani and Fiona Apple: soundtrack to my high school years.

   I love Tymps, though. Hoping to see Fiona in concert this summer, twice if I’m lucky!

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