Friday Random Ten October 24, 2008 Jill It’s Friday, so that means it’s time for the FRT. Set your MP3 player to shuffle and post yours in the comments. And if you want more great tunes tonight, come by the AuH2O show. First, a song I’ve been obsessed with for weeks now and cannot stop playing on repeat on my way to work: 1. The Fugees – Ready or Not 2. Cat Power – Love & Communication 3. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat (Yuksek Remix) 4. Bob Dylan – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) 5. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Who’s Laughing? 6. Mark Lanegan – Driving Death Valley Blues 7. Tom Waits – Russian Dance 8. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood 9. Girl Talk – Overtime 10. Jets to Brazil – Conrad And one more song I can’t get enough of:
Out of 8,070 songs on the portable player, you ten had to walk into my life: 1. Running From Home by Bert Jansch; 2. Theme from A Clockwork Orange by Wendy Carlos; 3. Too Much Competition by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup; 4. Trans-Europe Express by Senor Coconut; 5. Bodies by The Sex Pistols; 6. Siberian Khatru by Yes; 7. I Can’t Stand Up Alone by Clyde McPhatter*; 8. Brothers Gonna Work It Out by Public Enemy; 9. He Don’t Really Love You by The Delfonics; 10. What It Is by The Dictators. * yuppies: stop naming your children Hunter, Gavin and Braden and start naming them Clyde, Fatback, and Earl.
my list: 1) raphael saadiq, “oh girl (featuring jay-z)” muhsinah, “once again” 2) gnarls barkley, “run (i’m a natural disaster)” 3) che grand, “wrap it up” 4) platinum pied pipers, “fever (featuring zeno)” 5) eric roberson, “couldn’t hear me” 6) esthero, “superheroes (afta-1 remix)” 7) jeffrey osborne, “on the wings of love” (no, REALLY!) 8) kanye west, “drunk and hot girls (featuring mos def)” 9) jill scott, “spring summer feeling” 10) common, “so far to go (featuring d’angelo)” just as random as i am.
1. Tori Amos – Raspberry Swirl 2. Peaches – I U She 3. Toad the Wet Sprocket – Crazy Life 4. Spoon – The Way We Get By 5. Sufjan Stevens – He Woke Me Up Again 6. The Blow – The Touch Me 7. Iron and Wine/Calexico – Dead Man’s Will 8. The Killers – When You Were Young (Remix) 9. The Knife – Heartbeats 10. The Butchies – Trouble
I love this game but it’s hard not to cheat. 1) Parliament Funkadelic – Atomic Dog 2) Doris Troy – What More Can I Do? 3) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Got a Thing on my Mind 4) Chicha Libre – Popcorn Andino 5) Karen Dalton – Ribbon Bow 6) Adam Ant – Wonderful 7) Melechesh – Secrets of Sumerian Sphynxology (amazing black metal from Israel!) 8) Cub – My Chinchilla 9) Yeasayer – Worms 10 The Minutemen – Mutiny in Jonestown
Can’t play this game ’cause I do not own an MP3 player, but I’m inspired to comment on your video selections this week. Love them both. Both songs are strange and sad, which is kind-of how I’m feeling on this rainy day.
1.the Doves-One of These Days 2.Gwen Stefani-The Sweet Escape 3.Tara MacLean-If I Fall 4.Mark Heard-A Broken Man 5.She&Him-Swing Low Sweet Chariot 6.Icicleworks-A Whisper To a Scream 7.R.E.M.-It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 8.Modest Mouse-A Long Distance 9.the Cars-You Might Think 10.the Beatles-Nowhere Man
That Santogold album is my favorite work music right now. The whole album is about her going back to NY to get her shit together and make music. It’s totally positive and motivating. I’ve got her, Sam Sparrow, Unklejam, and Estelle on heavy rotation. 1. Estelle – American Boy (instrumental) 2. Quad City DJs – Space Jam Theme Song 3. Crystal Castles – 1983 4. Kings of Leon – Taper Jean Girl 5. The Coasters – Poison Ivy 6. Carolina Liar – Last Night 7. Jack Hammer – What Greater Love 8. Estelle – I Wanna Love You 9. Sonido Lasser Drakar – Tonight But No More 10. Scienz of Life – Metaphysics
Dang – what is that song and artist from the first video??? The artist is Santogold, and the song is L.E.S. Artistes. She’s rad, and her album is amazing — highly recommended.
LES Artistes is super-catchy, but omg that video. Thanks for sharing. (1) Still Alive – Ellen McLain (2) Give Me Back My Dreams – The 6ths (3) Another Day – This Mortal Coil (4) Inform the Truth – Gyakuten Syban 2 (5) Hemvagen – Detektivbyran (6) Madame de Pompadour – National Orchestra of Wales (7) Prologue – Okami (8) Oh! – Mickey Green (9) Go Faster Stripes – Kat Flint (10) When Water Comes to Life – Cloud Cult
Sure, I will definitely post names from now on. The second artist is Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, and the song is Buriedfed.
1. blonde redhead – misery is a butterfly 2. hot chip – no fit state 3. interpol – not even jail 4. pet shop boys – yesterday when i was mad 5. salif keita – laban 6. the strokes – electricityscape 7. beirut – cherbourg 8. bloc party – kreuzberg 9. last of the mohicans – the kiss 10. m83 – teen angst
1. Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World 2. Dead Prez- We Want Freedom 3. Portishead- Humming 4. The Pussy Pirates- yummy lungy 5. Bjork- Cocoon 6. Weezer- Falling for You 7. Bjork- Big Time Sensuality 8. RunDMC with Aerosmith- Walk This Way 9. Alanis Morissette- Forgiven 10. Some Ella Fitzgerald song I never figured out the name to.
P.S. That Santogold video is really really intense and violent. It was really surprizing how even though the props were unrealistic, how the violence was very realistic and startling.
I was listening to my iPod while gardening. Let’s see if I can remember what came up. This Year – The Mountain Goats (And Terror Song, my kids’ new favorite – sheesh, I may be a bad mom) There Must Be a Reason – Frankie Lane Sunshine (Go Away Today) – John Edwards Stroker Ace – Lovage Fallin’ – Alicia Keys Leave My Woman Alone – Ray Charles Gladewater – Michelle Shocked Turn the World Around – Harry Belafonte and the Muppets Putnam County – Tom Waits Egg Raid on Mojo – Beastie Boys