Friday Random Ten – Page 17

Friday Random Ten – The “Well, We Are Stuck With Stupid (For Three More Years)” Edition

We made it through yet another week, people. If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten.

Grab yourself a vat of your favorite brew, fire up your mp3 players, load every song on your drive, and list the first ten that tumble out.

1) Devendra Banhart – Korean Dogwood
2) Nekromantix – Light My Fire (Doors cover, obviously)
3) Eric Burden and the Animals – Winds of Change
4) The Cramps – Surfin’ Dead
5) The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like
6) Nashville Pussy – She’s Got the Drugs
7) Goldfrapp – Ooh La La
8) Black Mountain – Modern Music
9) Of Montreal – Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)
10) Natural History – To You

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Jodeci – If You Think You’re Lonely Now
You like Jodeci, too. Don’t deny it.

Friday Random Ten – The Very Guilty Pleasure Edition

If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Load up all your mp3s (even the embarassing ones), set to shuffle, and list the first ten it spits out.

1) Ween – Voodoo Lady
2) The Cars – You Might Think I’m Crazy
3) Too Short – California Girls
4) American Analog Set – Gone to Earth
5) Pixies – Debaser
6) VHS or Beta – No Cabaret
7) Dirtbombs – Broke in Detroit
8) Belle and Sebastian – Chickfactor
9) Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina
10) Nina Simone – He Needs Me

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Richard Cheese’s cover of 2 Live Crew’s Me So Horny

Friday Random Ten – The Substitute Teacher Edition

1) Butthole Surfers – Hurdy Gurdy Man (surprisingly good cover)
2) Cat Power – American Flag
3) Beth Gibbons – Mysteries
4) Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It
5) Cee-Lo ft. TI – The One
6) Erykah Badu – Cleva
7) Sufjan Stevens – Riffs and Variations
8) Le Tigre – Deceptacon
9) Nina Simone – Wild Is a Wind
10) The Shins – Kissing the Lipless

FRT – A Reluctant Edition

I don’t even want to do this this week but something remotely fun-esque is in order. Elsewhere, Norbizness proves that the South is home to some of our finest music with his Friday Non-Random Music List: Pelican State Edition

Friday Random Ten – The “Flame Wars Abound” Edition

1) Belle and Sebastian – Photo Jenny
2) Shonen Knife – I Wanna Be Sedated
3) Richard Cheese – Shake Ya Ass (Mystikal cover)
4) Ramones – Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
5) Phranc – Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter
6) Reverend Horton Heat – Stop That Pigeon
7) The Meteors – Somebody Put Something In My Drink
8) Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
9) The Hollies – Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
10) The Slits – Typical Girls

Bonus song: “Boom Wah Dis” by Burro Banton, militaristic reggae song

Friday Random Ten — The Unusually Chill Edition

1) Martha Wainwright – TV Show
2) Elvis Costello – I Want You
3) Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
4) Jon Brion – Here We Go
5) American Analog Set – Know By Heart
6) Jens Lekman – Be Good
7) Iron & Wine – Weary Memory
8) Aimee Mann – It’s Not
9) Br. Danielson – Daughters Will Tune You
10) The Clientele – Tracey Had a Hard Day Sunday

Had I rated this one, a big fattie ten. But that’s just my opinion.

Friday Random Ten – The “Sactimonious Women’s Studies Set, Part Deux” Edition

Someday I will be able to measure the weeks by FRTs. If you don’t know what to do by now, figure it out your damn self. It’s Friday somewhere, people.

1) Man Man – Werewolf (On the Hood Of Yer Heartbreak)
2) Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
3) Beatles – Yellow Submarine
4) The Dials – Take It To The Man
5) Primus – Have a Cigar
6) Johnny Cash – Streets of Laredo
7) Dead Boys – Ain’t It Fun
8) Lata Mangeshkar – Wada Na Tod
9) MF Doom and MadLib – Pretty Blood
10) Portishead – Sour Times

Bonus Track: ACDC – For Those About to Rock

If you guys didn’t notice, this FRT image is taken from a shot I got at Graceland last month. If you aren’t impressed, see this. I think Elvis was a secret supporter of NAMBLA.

Friday Random Ten – The “I Forgot It Was Friday” Edition

Eh, I changed my mind and decided to annotate this one.

1) The Ikettes – I’m Blue
I discovered this one thank to Amanda and it quickly became one of my favorite walking songs. It’s nearly impossible to move about in space while listening to this and not wiggle a little. 8/10

2) White Stripes – Cannon
I really liked this band at one time, but after being a staple in my CD player for a million years I find them played out. Just like Jack White. 4/10

3) The Ludes – Your Dog Don’t Bark
Another internet find that screams of the Stones but nonetheless remains a decent driving song. 6/10

4) Gene Vincent – Lotta Lovin’
Gene is my other boyfriend. If I could have gone to Geneland instead of Graceland I would have. 8/10

5) Sleater-Kinney – Fortunate Son
Live version. Since I don’t like live recordings (or SK) all that much (even though I tried), a paltry 5/10.

6) Breakfast Jones – Wishful Thinking
Local band headed by one of my longtime friends. I was genuinely impressed with the set of recordings he gave me when I inquired, especially this song, because the firs time I saw them live they were, um, in need of work. The set of recording he gave me were a project in which he and another band member sent tracks back and forth via email, putting layers of song and lyric over one another. Love this. 9/10

7) MC5 – Back in the USA
Not feeling it today. I have a headache. 3/10

8) The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Underrated punk band. Yes, they’re poppy, yes, radio-friendly, but the ’77 style is fun and a bit raw. 7/10

9) Drive-By Truckers – Guitar Man Upstairs
Definitely not my favorite DBT song. 4/10

10) Jon Brion – Walking Through Walls
One day I will get my hands on this album, but seeing as I’m broke for the rest of the summer and have important things to spend money on, like bills, it will have to wait. The best part of this song is the chorus, a group of background singers quietly singing “mother fucker” to emphasize Brion’s song of f-off empowerment.

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Five Deez, “Funky”

Friday Random Ten – The “To Hell in a Handbasket” Edition

If it’s Friday somewhere it’s time for the Friday Random Ten.

If you don’t know what to do by now I’ll fill you in on the festivities. You have these excellent music files on your computer called mp3s. You select all of them, every one, and load them into your mp3 player. Winamp, iPod, whatever, just leave the Windows Media Player out of it. Set the player to random and let it go. List the first ten songs that play and put them into a list. If you’re feeling some writer’s block, feel free to annotate your list. It will take up space on your blog.

Now let’s go!

1) At the Drive-In – One-Armed Scissor
2) Princess Superstar – Fuck the Phone
3) Little Milton – Grits Ain’t Groceries
4) Nellie McKay – Toto Dies
5) Jeff Buckley – Corpus Christi Carol
6) Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
7) Iron and Wine – Jezebel
8) Swamp Dogg – Total Destruction Of Your Mind
9) Mount Sims – Delicious & Nutritious
10) Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss

Well, this one is just bizarre.

Bonus Track: The freshly downloaded Hard-Fi “Cash Machine,” like The Clash reincarnated.

Friday Random Ten – The “Ongoing Investigation By Investigators” Edition

This FRT is coming out early because I will soon be leaving the computer for the duration of the next 24 hours. My garden calls and I’m spreading hay inbetween the rows and rows of tomatoes. Additionally I decided to resume my old workout routine and have been kicking my own ass at the YWCA where sixty-year-old women regularly put me to shame with their endurance. There is living to be done away from the computer, goddammit.

FRT And now, if it’s Friday somewhere it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Believe it or not I didn’t make this one up. This one goes out to Scotty McC.

1) Slayer – South of Heaven
2) Al Kooper and Shuggie Otis – Bury My Body
3) Danzig – Mother
4) Sufjan Stevens – [Frog] Marching Band
5) Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah! – Details of the War
6) Bjork – Crying
7) The Hives – Main Offender
8) Erykah Badu – Danger
9) Nico – Frozen Warnings
10) The Ojays – Backstabbers

Bonus Guilty Pleasure: Guns n’ Roses – Live and Let Die
Have I ever mentioned that Axl Rose is from my hometown and that his parents lived around the block from mine? I went to a garage sale at their house when I was thirteen, bought a Tom Petty tape, t-shirt with sweat stains, and a bandana, hoping all three were Bill Bailey’s. I later decided that I hated Tom Petty but still have a very soft spot in my heart for GnR. True story.

This is what I idolized: