Tag: Friday Random Ten

Haven’t done one of these in a while, but here we go. Set your MP3 players to “shuffle” and post the first ten songs that come up.

The Friday Video, of course, has to be Michael:

1. The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
2. Radiohead – Myxamatosis
3. Pissed Jeans – Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear
4. White Denim – Paint Silver Gold
5. Tom Waits – Black Box Theme
6. The Dirty Projectors – No More
7. Angus & Julia Stone – Just a Boy
8. Regina Spektor – Apres Moi
9. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy
10. Jens Lekman – Into Eternity

Answer: A lawyer who won’t screw you. (h/t thebalcony on Twitter for that joke).

Yes, it’s true, I am officially a Real Lawyer as of this past Monday, when I was admitted to the New York Bar. And I just moved into a new apartment, and it’s a long weekend, so this Friday is very celebratory. Some Grizzly Bear to kick it off:

You know the deal: Set your MP3 player to “shuffle” and post the first 10 songs that come up.

1. Jill Scott – Free
2. Liars – The Garden was Crowded and Out
3. Goldfrapp – A&E (Maps Remix)
4. The Capstan Shafts – Hp to the Sweet Blue World Again
5. Architecture in Helsinki – That Beep
6. The Avett Brothers – Nothing Short of Thankful
7. Tom Waits – Blind Love
8. MGMT – Pieces of What
9. The Shins – One By One All Day
10. Chris Garneau – Castle Time

You know the drill: Set your MP3 player to shuffle, and post the first ten songs that come up.

Friday video: Gawker is right, this is one NYU student I actually like (also, he is the cutest, and I do really love him after reading this interview — he’s also performing tonight at Bowery Poetry Club):

Nyle “Let The Beat Build” from Nyle on Vimeo.

1. The Kinks – Starstruck
2. Tom Waits – The Black Rider
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
4. The Pogues – White City
5. Suckers – It Gets Your Body Movin’
6. Silver Jews – How to Rent a Room
7. Spoon – The Fitted Shirt
8. Liars – We Got Cold, Coughed and Forgot Things
9. Mogwai – Moses? I Amn’t
10. The Parson Red Heads – Mossback

Thank God it is finally spring in New York. And in honor of the fine weather and the fact that it has inspired me to return to the gym, which I have not visited in almost two weeks, we have a Very Special FRT this week. Last time around I asked you to help my dad find teh cool; now I want you to help me update my gym playlist so that I’m actually motivated to work out instead of sitting on my couch watching re-runs of Arrested Development on Hulu. So for my FRT this week, I set my Gym playlist to “shuffle” and skipped the 19 Girl Talk songs that came up so that we would have some variety. You should do the same, and we can all find some new tunes.

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
2. Franz Ferdinand – Michael
3. Beyonce – Ring the Alarm
4. Girl Talk – Once Again
5. Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
6. MGMT – Time to Pretend
7. The Gossip – Yr Mangled Heart
8. Les Savy Fav – Yawn, Yawn, Yawn
9. T.I. – Whatever You Like
10. MIA – Paper Planes

The Friday Video will possibly get me in trouble with Ms. Lauren, but I have a weakness for over-the-top divas, and I think Gaga fits the bill. And while I generally dislike the new electro-pop/disco thing and while her music is decidedly not particularly feminist-friendly, I can respect her steadfast refusal to wear pants. I also love the aesthetic of her videos:

Happy Friday. Leave your FRTs in the comments.

My dad just got his first ipod (or as he calls it, his IPOD) and has expressed his disappointment with my recent failures to post FRTs, because it means he doesn’t know what to download. So this one is for you, old man.

The rest of you know what to do: Set your mp3 players to shuffle, and post the first ten songs that come up. Give my dad something cool to listen to.

1. Des Ark – It’s a Hard World Sometimes for Little Things
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Rich
3. Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
4. Tom Waits – Just Another Sucker on the Vine
5. Voxtrot – Wrecking Force
6. Rufus Wainwright – The Tower of Learning
7. I.U.D. – 911
8. Dirty on Purpose – The Thing About Getaways
9. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The World Stops Turning
10. The Antlers – Bear

Friday video is old-ish, but I still like it:

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You know the drill: Put your MP3 player in shuffle and post the first 10 songs that come up. And then someone explain to me why anyone would pay $300 to hear U2 live.

Friday song you should all listen to: Big Weekend (thanks Dave). Who else is ready for summer?

1. Les Savy Fav – One Way Widow
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dudley
3. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Mountaineer’d
4. Radiohead – 15 Step
5. Tom Waits – Anywhere I Lay My Head
6. The Pogues – The Old Main Drag
7. Amr Diab – We Hikaytek Aih
8. The Bloodsugars – Purpose Was Again
9. Voxtrot – Wrecking Force
10. Cat Power – Living Proof

Friday videos (only two this week, because I have shit to do):

Telepathe:

Band of Horses:

Set your mp3 players to shuffle and post the first ten songs that come up. Go!

Friday Video: The War on Drugs, because I’ve had this song stuck in my head all week.

1. The Kinks – Starstruck
2. Kid Sister – Family Reunion (featuring David Banner)
3. Timbaland and Magoo – Luv 2 Luv U
4. The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
5. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – C.I.A.
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mysteries
7. Tom Waits – In Between Love
8. Miles Davis – Dr. Jekyll
9. The Decemberists – Oceanside
10. Jets to Brazil – Conrad

Bon Iver:

A little Neko Case:

More videos below the fold.

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You know the drill: Set your MP3 player to shuffle and post the first 10 songs that come up:

1. Jans Lekman- Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig
2. Radiohead – Scatterbrain
3. Roots – Nothing New
4. Death Cab for Cutie – 405
5. Timbaland and Magoo – Up Jumps Da Boogie
6. Cat Power – After It All
7. Spoon – I Could Be Underground
8. Amr Diab – We Hikaytak Aih
9. The Notwist – Off the Rails
10. Silver Jews – Albemarle Station

No video this week because I am feeling lazy. Feel free to post some in the comments. And in case you were wondering, this week is the Chop’t edition because my kittens are getting their balls cut off on Wednesday. Aww.

I’ve been MIA all week because I’ve been visiting family in Seattle, which means being at the whim of my mom’s dial-up AOL (not even kidding). So the blogging has been light, because it’s apparently still 1995 at my mom’s house. But I have relocated to a lovely coffee shop with wireless, just in time to bring you the FRT. You know the drill — leave yours in the comments.

Friday video is my favorite single of the year:

1. Jets to Brazil – King Medicine
2. Silver Jews – Black and Brown Blues
3. Bruce Springsteen – Jersey Girl
4. Tom Waits – Carnival
5. Voxtrot – Rise Up In the Dirt
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Turn Into
7. The Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna
8. Desk Ark – For Rob Riecke
9. Guided by Voices – Glad Girls
10. The Gossip – Yr Mangled Heart

Sadly, no more videos today because I’m in a rush, so I’ll pose a question instead: What was your favorite single of 2008?