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Friday Random Ten – The Apparently Ass-Kickin’ Edition

You know the deal. If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Load up all your mp3s, set to random play, and list the first ten to grace your precious ears.

It looks like Winamp is into some ass-kickin’ rock this evening.

1) Motorhead – Hellraiser
2) Modest Mouse – Bukowski (how did this get on my playlist?)
3) Slayer – Mandatory Suicide
4) Detroit Cobras – Cha Cha Twist
5) RJD2 – The Horror (and this?)
6) MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose
7) Vibrators – Yeah Yeah Yeah
8) Yo-Yos – Leaning On You
9) Wu-Tang Clan – Conditioner
10) GG Allin – Beat Beat Beat

Leave yours on your own blog or in the comments.

Friday Random Ten – The Completely Honest Edition

Okay, I admit it. I occasionally edit out songs that make me cringe or induce a series of eye rolls. My FRT is more of a first-ten-songs-that-I-would-actually-listen-to list than a first-ten-songs list.

This week’s challenge: Impress us with your horrible taste.

If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Fire up your mp3 players, load up your entire mp3 collection (even the bad stuff), and hit play. List the first ten that pump through your radio, radio. And this week, be honest.

1) Smoke City – With You
2) The Clash – Bankrobber
3) Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
4) Trick Daddy – She Walla Walla
5) Gary Wright – Dream Weaver
6) Tom Petty – Last Dance With Mary Jane
7) The Stooges – My Girlfriend Hates My Heroin
8) The Alchemist ft. T.I. – Pimp Squad
9) Titanic Soundtrack – Piano Solo
10) Hooverphonic – 2wicky

See? That wasn’t so bad, just a few breakdowns with the Titanic business, pimp shit, and Gary Wright. Winamp is being kind today.

Friday Random Ten – The “Trapped in Neverland” Edition

We’ve made it through another week, folks. Pour yourself some tea, coffee, beer, or other brew of choice, and take some solace in the wonders of music.

If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Upload all your mp3s into your player of choice and list the first ten that play.

1) Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels
2) American Analog Set – The Only One
3) Grizzly Bear – Fix It
4) Wilco – Hell Is Chrome
5) Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With the Ghost
6) Jon Brion – Peer Pressure
7) Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
8) Beth Gibbons – Funny Time Of Year
9) Nelly McKay – David
10) Jens Lekman – Be Good

Leave your list on your own blog or in the comments below. And pat yourself on the back. It’s the weekend.

BONUS: Want to torture your coworkers?

Friday Random Ten: Project Guest Blog Edition

Thought I’d do my Friday Random Ten this week at feministe’s guest lodging, rather than my own digs, farkleberries. Here goes:

Out Hud – Dad, There’s a Little Thing Called Too Much Information (A cracking good song for nighttime “L” rides)
Haunted House – Cowboy Light (A strange but darned catchy song. Horribly overmodulated by intention, with near-nonsense lyrics and a backing track that sounds like Phil Spector and Jeff Lynne fighting about who plugged the recording console into the 220V line by mistake. Meanwhile, Liberace’s ghost smiles beneficently over the fracas.) Sample lyrics:

I can see your swimming pool, but I won´t fall in
And I can see the firemen sleeping in the trees
This room has burning disco walls and I can’t find the dance floor
I need to smoke my scoobies out so help me find some wood
Tomorrow night is cowboy night, so let’s go steal a horse
This stallion is drowning in a world of cowboy light
50 Cent feat. G-Unit – Hate It or Love It (Hate the lyrics, love the music. I have a complicated relationship with rap.)
Morcheeba – Everybody Loves a Loser
O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei (The world’s best selling Moldovan-Romanian hit song!)
Otep – My Confession (Poetic, apocalyptic metal band fronted by a lesbian vocalist. That is not a typo.)
Michelle Shocked – Anchorage (Oh, memories of my college radio days!)
Joan Jett – The French Song (One of my most-listened-to songs, ever. Kick-ass and unabashedly sexual, I’ve been dying to cook up a remix/mashup of this track for years. By the way, Western Washington University professor Kathleen Kennedy wrote a fascinating scholarly article called “Results of a Misspent Youth: Joan Jett’s performance of female masculinity” that analyzes how the artist’s “various performances of female masculinity challenged conventional understandings of masculinity and femininity [and] enabled her to carve a space for herself in a male-dominated genre.” Very cool stuff.)
Atomizer – Hooked on Radiation (Bad Boy Remix) (Not just for the boys, this big fat earworm-y circuit party groove with anthemic Gary Glitter-ish lyrics clamps itself firmly to your dancing bone. Has some strange connection to KLF raconteur Jimmy Cauty, the genderbending London club Nag Nag Nag, and “DJ Jonny Slut.” That explains it all.)
Sarah Vaughan – Fever (Adam Vreeland remix) (From the delightful new compilation Verve Remixed 3)

Friday Random Ten – The Procrastination of Deadlines Edition

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

Make sure your boss isn’t around, load up all your mp3s to your favorite player, and list the first ten that appear. Rock out in your cubicle and thank your higher-power-of-choice that it’s Friday. Fellow atheists, thank yourself for having the proverbial cajones to last another week of daily drudgery. Has it been that kind of week for anyone else?

1) The Cramps – All Women Are Bad (what a thing to post on a feminist blog. hm.)
2) Joan Jett – Wild Thing
3) Louis XIV – Finding Out True Love Is Blind
4) Reverend Horton Heat – D is for Dangerous
5) Pixies – There Goes My Gun
6) Erykah Badu – Bag Lady (Tricky remix)
7) Rappin’ 4-Tay – I’ll Be Around
8) Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
9) Princess Superstar – Fuck the Phone
10) The Blasters – Marie, Marie

And an extra: In honor of the lesson plan I am scheduled to teach tomorrow morning, here is a rather elegant recording of T.S. Eliot reading his famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” PC users, right click save as. You snobby Mac users do whatever it is you do.

Friday Random Ten – Now With Downloads!

Happy April Fools Day! If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the FRT. No joke. Load up those mp3s, set to random play and list the first ten that grace your eardrums.

1) Iomos Marad – Each 1 Teach 1
2) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
3) Tanya Stevens – It’s Over Now
4) Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information
5) Too Short – Pimp Shit
I woke up singing this one to myself on Thursday morning.
6) Danielson Familie – Lord, Did You Hear Harrison?
Download especially for Amanda, who will probably like this considering her hipster status and the egregious amount of Ween on her hard drive. The Danielsons make up the coolest Christian band I could ever fathom.
7) Le Tigre – Deceptacon
8) Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie
9) Cibo Matto – Spoon
10) The Constellations – Let’s Face It, Our Kids Are Stupid

Highlighted songs are mp3s available for download, guilt-free I might add.

Friday Random Ten – The Kink in the Feeding Tube Edition

Putting my poor sense of humor on display. If you don’t know what the title of this post means, get the Terri Schiavo Status Update Firefox plugin.

If it’s midnight somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten: Load all your mp3s into your player of choice, set to random, list the first ten that play. This game suitable for people who like lists.

1) Belle and Sebastian – Your Cover’s Blown
2) Beastie Boys – Paul Revere
3) Ramones – Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
(Funny — according to The Cramps, Sheena’s in a goth gang.)
4) Lady Sovereign – Sad Arse Stripper
5) Sean Lennon – Happiness
6) Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears
7) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In the Sky
8) Peaches – Shake Yer Dix
9) Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
10) Mohammed Rafi – Kya Hua Tera Wada

And an extra five just for the above tastelessness:
11) Madvillain – Sickfit
12) David Bowie – Bring Me the Disco King
13) Petshop Boys – Go West
14) Talking Heads – Same As It Ever Was
15) Har Mar Superstar – Baby, Do You Like My Clothes?

Friday Random Ten – The “St. Paddy’s Morning After; Feeling Green” Edition

If it’s midnight somewhere, it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Load up those mp3s and set to random play.

1) Nina Simone – Feelin’ Good
2) Dead Boys – All This And More
3) Iron and Wine – Such Great Heights
4) Otis Redding – Just One More Day
5) Jeff Buckley – Dream Brother
6) Johnny Cash – Rusty Cage
7) Lucinda Williams – Blue
8) Birthday Party – Deep In The Woods
9) Robert Gordon – The Way I Walk
10) The Animals – Monterey

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

Also, see the downloads.

Friday Random Ten – Half-Assed Edition

Since the regular computer with all the music files is broken, I’m resorting to my wee mp3 player in which only fifteen music files are stored. This is the stuff I jog to.

1. The Kleptones – Bite
2. Bone Thugs and Notorious B.I.G. – Notorious Thugs
3. Too Short – Gettin’ It
4. Pharcyde – Other Fish In The Sea
5. Crucial Conflict – Hay
6. Pharcyde – Runnin’
7. Too Short – Short But Funky
8. Biz Markie – The Vapors
9. John Legend – I Used To Love You
10. Cee-Lo Green – The Art of Noise

I prefer the slow-ish jams when I jog. It keeps me from overestimating my speed abilities.