Friday Random Ten

Friday Random Ten – the Is It Snowing By You, Too? edition

Set your MP3 player to random, and post the first 10 songs that come up.

Friday video, because M.I.A. can do no wrong (this is Buraka Som Sistema featuring DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa and Puto Prata).

1. Kaki King – Doing the Wrong Thing
2. The Notwist – This Room
3. Tom Waits – Picture in a Frame
4. Cat Power – American Flag
5. Bad Dudes – Heterosaucer
6. Charles Mingus – I’ll Remember April
7. Chris Garneau – Castle Time
8. The Avett Brothers – Pretty Girl at the Airport
9. Quiero Club – Showtime
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Black Tongue

A song I’ve been slightly obsessed with, and that’s particularly appropriate given the current NY blizzard (and the video is neat, too):

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Friday Random Ten – the I Blame Feminism For This, Too edition

You know the drill: Set you MP3 player to Shuffle and post the first 10 songs that come up.

Friday Video: The Gossip. Because I heart Beth Ditto, this track is great, and I’m pretty sure feminism is somehow responsible.

1. Spoon – Take the Fifth
2. The Blow – Bonjour Jeune Fille
3. Girl Talk – Friday Night
4. John Coltrane – Pursuance
5. Modest Mouse – Black Cadillacs
6. British Sea Power- To Get To Sleep
7. Voxtrot – Kid Gloves
8. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9. White Denim – World as a Waiting Room
10. Neko Case – John Saw That Number

Friday Video #2: The Filthy Youth, because I also heart Ed Westwick (although in a slightly dirtier way than how I heart Ms. Ditto).

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Friday Random Ten – the World is Crumbling edition

You know the drill: Put your MP3 player on shuffle and post the first 10 songs that come up. The video for my #1 (sort of):

1. Goldfrapp – A&E (Gui Boratto Remix)
2. Chad VanGaalen – Flower Gardens
3. Kaki King – Can the Gwot Save Us?
4. Bill Evans Trio – Two Lonely People
5. Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
6. Santogold – Your Voice
7. M.I.A. – The Turn
8. Cat Power – Peking Saint
9. Foals – Olypic Airways
10. Dime Fangs – Califone

MGMT:

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Friday Random Ten – the Yes We Did! edition

The Rules: Set your MP3 player to shuffle, and post the first 10 songs that come up.

Friday video: Since you were all such fans of Santogold last time around, here she is again:

The Ten:

1. Rhett Miller – Our Love
2. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – Evidence
3. Mary J. Blige – Never Been
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Warrior
5. Silver Jews – The Right to Remain Silent
6. The War on Drugs – Buenos Aires Beach
7. The Books – Tokyo
8. Michael Jackson – Billy Jean
9. Les Savy Fav – Hold On to Your Genre
10. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Who Do You Love?

And the White Stripes do Dolly Parton:

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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:

Friday Random Ten – Don’t Call it a Comeback

So I’ve been delinquent on the FRTs for a good month now, which I attribute to traveling and now working. But this week, I remembered to craft my FRT on Thursday night (it’s not technically cheating, since it was certainly Friday somewhere) and set the post to publish on Friday. Genius, I know. So here’s my triumphant return. Set your MP3 player to shuffle and leave yours in the comments.

The first Friday Video is a song I’ve had stuck in my head all week:

The FRT came out pretty good this time:
1. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Woodfriend
2. Neko Case – That Teenage Feeling
3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – O’Malley’s Bar Part 1
4. The Blow – True Affection
5. Radiohead – Suck Young Blood
6. The Mountain Goats – Minnesota
7. Band of Horses – The Great Salt Lake
8. Tom Waits – Misery Is The River Of The World
9. The Avett Brothers – The Day That Marvin Gaye Died
10. Chick Corea – Medieval Overture

Second Friday Video is another song I’ve had stuck in my head for far too long. I don’t listen to the radio here so I have no idea if the Ting Tings are getting air time, but I did watch a lot of MTV in Thailand, and this song is apparently a big hit over there:

In other music news, I really, really want to go to this. And for all you Canadians, you should check out Feist.

Also, Meghan McCain: WTF?

Friday Random Ten – The Delicious Meme-alicious Edition

Now featuring FRT, Guilty Pleasures, Music I’m Not-Ironically Into, and Friday Cat Blogging, all in one single post! Warning: this post is very heavy on video, ego-stroking, and bad taste.

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Because if it’s Friday somewhere, we might as well.

1) Tanya Stephens – Man Fi Rule
2) Whale – Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe (I should have saved this one for the Guilty Pleasures list. For shame.)
3) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat (Acoustic)
4) The Meteors – Who Do You Love? (See guilty pleasures list, No. 1)
5) The Cramps – Human Fly
6) The Chameleons UK – I’ll Remember
7) Daniel Johnston – Love Not Dead
8) The Howling Hex – Teenage Doors
9) Jens Lekman – Do You Remember the Riots?
10) Chromeo – Way Too Much

I’m just excited I get two days off in a row this week.

Guilty Pleasures: I have a second hard drive dedicated to 100% legitimately downloaded, non-pirated music, which means that approximately 5/6ths of my computer is dedicated to crappy music I found online. I also use this second hard drive to store stupid pictures that I can whip out later on my website, but somehow never manage to remember when they’re most astute. I’ve been sitting on the one to the right for years.

Now thanks to Jill, I can expose you to the crap I hide from others — even though Jill’s list embarrasses me. Ashley Simpson? Eve 6? Damn, girl. Meanwhile Physioprof’s looks like a regular mixed CD at my house.

1) A lot of people poo on a wide spectrum of cover songs because they think any music that is so blatantly referential is shoddy and masturbatory at best. I, on the other hand, like to find a bit of irony and dignity in a well done cover song. I download and keep every unusual cover I’ve ever come across which saddles me with travesties like The Yeti Girls covering ELO (Don’t Bring Me Down) and a bored cabaret version of Blur’s Boys and Girls, and even Tim Curry doing a reggae version of the Beatles’ I Will. This obsession also gives me two cover songs by one band that I will defend to the death if given the opportunity, one the best and one the worst of my entire collecton: the Butthole Surfers singing Summer in the City (the worst; Lovin’ Spoonful cover) and Butthole Surfers’ Hurdy Gurdy Man (the best; Donovan cover):

I will not defend the video.

2) Duran Duran – Rio
Did I mention this is my ringtone?

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Friday Random Ten – the Voluntary Homicide edition

As in, I’m going to commit one if the bar isn’t over soon. But this video relieves my anger (how cute is this?):

I saw her last week and she was fabulous. Now, the 10:

1. Mark Lanegan – Come to Me
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Is This Love?
3. Santogold – Your Voice
4. Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie
5. Regina Spektor – That Time
6. The Capstan Shafts – Drop Dead Innocuous
7. Jans Lekman – Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
8. Charles Mingus – Body and Soul
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Opium Tea
10. Feist – When I Was a Young Girl

And because I just can’t study any more, I’m going to take a cue from Megan and make it a Meme Friday: Your top 5 best break-up songs. Except I’m doing way more than 5, because I’m bored. And no, I’m not going through a break-up either, as I am happily married to BarBri (and seeing this one guy on the side), but everyone has their rotating list of what they listen to when they’re hurting in the heart, right? So here are mine (leave yours in the comments):

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Friday Random Ten – the Independence edition

1. Modest Mouse – Bury Me With It
2. Bill Evans Trio – All of You (take 2)
3. Jens Lekman – It Was a Strange Time in My Life
4. Ryan Adams – My Blue Manhattan
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Sugar Sugar Sugar
6. Bob Dylan – Corrina, Corrina
7. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed
8. Tom Waits – Johnsburg, Illinois (live)
9. Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
10. Alceu Valença – Morena Tropicana

And, because it’s USA Day, a video from one of my all-time favorite Americans:

Friday Random Ten – the Officially Burned Out edition

Do I really have to do this Bar study BS for another month? Isn’t it vacation time yet?

And, since I know at least a few other Feministe readers are in the same boat, a question: What makes you want to scratch your own eyes out more, Property or Wills? (I vote Property, even though the fabulous Paula Franzese and her little songs make it much better).

1. Sally Shapiro – Jackie Junior (Junior Boys Remix)
2. Death Cab for Cutie – Little Furry Bugs
3. Rhett Miller – I Want to Live
4. MIA- Come Around
5. Tom Waits – How’s It Gonna End?
6. Guided by Voices – Glad Girls
7. Mogwai – Kids Will Be Skeletons
8. Bill Evans Trio – Stan’s Blues
9. The Elected – Greetings in Braille
10. Jill Scott – Free

Friday Video is pretty: