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Friday Random Ten – The “How Many Licks Does It Take?” Edition

It’s midnight somewhere, and that means it’s time for the Friday Random Ten.

Get your favorite mp3 player and upload all the files to the playlist. Go! List the first ten songs that play.

1) Wilco – Hell Is Chrome
2) Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
3) Frank Frost – Ride With Your Daddy Tonight
4) Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina
5) Drive-By Truckers – Birmingham
6) The Horrorpops – Miss Take
7) Elliott Smith – Happiness
8) Cat Power – Good Clean Fun
9) Reverend Horton Heat – The Party In Your Head
10) Man… Or Astroman? – Eisenhower and the Hippies

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  1. This one probably reveals secrets of my music collection better left unspoken…

    1. Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
    2. Margin Walker, Fugazi
    3. Remember the Days of the Old School Yard, Cat Stevens
    4. Paris, Katell Keinig
    5. Ballad of the Sin Eaters, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
    6. Beat It, Michael Jackson
    7. Mama’s Always On Stage, Arrested Development
    8. Galang, M.I.A.
    9. Toitoi, Marumo
    10. Roving Jack the Baker, Craobh Rua

  2. Hey, if the Circle Jerks and Debbie Gibson can team up to cover the Soft Boys’ “I Wanna Destroy You”, maybe there’s hope for a Fugazi/Britney collaboration in the future, Sally.

    1. In This House That I Call Home — X
    2. Down the Road — Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
    3. Trouble No More — Muddy Waters
    4. Options R — Wire
    5. Thieves — Ministry
    6. Big Dipper — Built to Spill
    7. Regret — New Order
    8. Elektrisches Roulette — Kraftwerk
    9. Torn Curtain — Television
    10. L’Ami Cauotte — Serge Gainsbourg

    Average age: about 30 years. I’m surprised that my Windows Media Player doesn’t fossilize.

  3. my friday morning playlist had me all melancholy on the ride into work this morning

    1.the things you said – depeche mode
    2. here come the rain again – eurythmics
    3. say hello , wave goodbye – soft cell
    4. cinnamon girl – prince
    5. leather – tori amos
    6. get along with you – kelis
    7. ladyfingers – luscious jackson
    8. vokuro – bjork
    9. jesus waks – kanye west
    10. when the levee breaks – a perfect circle

    so to combat all the misery, i shall mostly be playing mc hammer’s ‘cant touch this’ to make me cheer up a bit

  4. I admit, I cheat at times. If I hit shuffle and a bunch of heavy metal and stoner rock crap that my boyfriend has loaded the player comes up, I hit reshuffle. This isn’t to reflect the sorry taste of the over-testosteroned. (Kidding, guys. I don’t blame The Penis for stoner rock. I blame Satan.)

    1) “I Believe to My Soul”–Ray Charles
    2) “Be My Guru”–The Hoodoo Gurus
    3) “Voodoo Lady”–Ween
    4) “You’re Gonna Miss Me”–13th Floor Elevators
    5) “Rid of Me”–PJ Harvey
    6) “Bermuda Triangle Shorts”–Man….or Astroman?
    7) “God Only Knows”–Beach Boys
    8) “Hey Hey Ha Ha”–Crazy Girls
    9) “I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea”–Elvis Costello
    10) “Hit It Run”–Run DMC

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  7. BACH: Fugue for organ in g (‘Little’), BWV 578 – Anthony Newman [left over from yesterday, but it made a nice overture]
    1. Nirgendsmann – Klaus Beyer
    2. Abbeyville RD – Lockweld
    3. Here In Heaven – Sparks
    4. Wonderful [2004] – Brian Wilson
    5. In the Art of Stopping – Wire
    6. Change [1999] – Sparks w/Tony Visconti
    7. Bring the Strippers! – RIAA
    8. Liquidator – Keith Levene
    9. Castalia [Mark Gamble Micro-Mix III] – YMO/Mark Gamble
    10. Fashion 500 – Brainiac

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  10. FRT: Close Enough for Rock & Roll, or Three Papers, Two Weeks, One Cup of Coffee and Counting
    1) Close Enough, John Cougar (yeah, the Coug!)
    2) I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish, The Smiths
    3) Wrapped Up in Books, Belle and Sebastian
    4) A Line In the Sand, Q and Not You
    5) Hold Your Breath, Denali
    6) Slow Hands, Interpol
    7) Hell and High Water, Rainer Maria
    8) Get Out of My House, The Streets
    9) Cemetary Party, Air
    10) Only a Girl, David Mead

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  12. i made a playlist populated by songs featuring a woman in some capacity.
    here’s what happened when i hit shuffle.

    1. Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
    2. Thompson Twins – If You Were Here
    3. Emiliani Torrini – I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
    4. The Waitresses- I know What Boys Like
    5. The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
    6. Vashti Bunyan – Diamond Day
    7. Billie Holiday – Sophisticated Lady
    8. Camera Obscura – Lunar Sea
    9. Heart – Baracuda
    10. Joanna Newsome – En Gallop

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  15. 1. Wait Til We Get Home – Lone Justice
    2. Subteranea – The Aqua Velvets
    3. Night Theme – The Chantays
    4. You Need Love – Muddy Waters
    5. Hello Earth – Kate Bush
    6. Janis – Focus
    7. Loved One – Tommy James & The Shondells
    8. To Know You Is to Love You – B.B. King
    9. I Can’t Stand It – The Spencer Davis Group
    10. Till There Was You – The Beatles

  16. Something to Look Forward To – Spoon
    Daughter in the House of Fools – Enon
    Just be Simple – Songs:Ohia
    Close Behind – Calexico
    A Good Man is Easy to Kill – Beulah
    Sawtooth Sung a Cheater’s Song – Califone
    Woven Birds – Calexico
    Louie Louie – The Sonics
    Hi-Fi – M. Ward
    Karen Revisited – Sonic Youth

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