Posted by Amanda Marcotte January 11, 2008 in Uncategorized, Illicit Sex, Friday Random Ten and a Cat Pic
Ten songs at random. Share in comments! Click the links to hear the songs.
- “Breaking the Law”—Slapping Suspenders
- “Following You”–Jack Arel
- “Just One Look”—Doris Troy
- “Dogs Were Barking”—Gogol Bordello
- “My Way”—Sid Vicious
- “Plowed”—Sponge
- “I Will Always Love You”—Dolly Parton
- “Broken-Hearted Bachelor”–Yol Aularong
- “Rock and Roll”—The Velvet Underground
- White Noise”—The Vacation
“Rock and Roll”:
Dolly Parton:
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Help! I’m Surrounded by G Minor Edition:
HAYDN: Symphony Nº 39 in g, (iv, Allegro molto) - The Esterhazy Orchestra/David Blum
Ahead - Wire
Things (Your Mother Never Told You) - Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
Academy Award Performance - Sparks
No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In (Heigh Ho!) - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Heroin [Scepter demo] - The Velvet Underground
Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
Sidewalker - If-Then-Else
Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison
MOZART: Symphony Nº 25, ‘Little G Minor’ (iii) - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover
I love Plowed!
1. Sea of Love - Tom Waits
2. Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
3. Paranoid Eyes - Pink Floyd (badassness)
4. A Pillow of Winds - Pink Floyd
5. So Many People - Neurosonic
6. For A Pessimist, I’m Pretty Optimistic - Paramore
7. Born For This - Paramore (double shots today)
8. Verdi Cries - 10,000 Maniacs
9. Ordinary Morning - Sheryl Crow
10. Crushcrushcrush - Paramore (or triple…)
Bonus:
Entangled - Genesis (Phil Collins: The Faerie Years…)
My Random Ten:
01. The Fall of the House of Usher [entire suite] [16:11] — Alan Parsons
02. Never Say Die [03:48] — Black Sabbath
03. Darlington County [live] [05:13] — Bruce Springsteen
04. One of These Nights [04:46] — Eagles
05. Stairway to Heaven [live] [10:57] — Led Zeppelin
06. Dear Mr. Fantasy [05:34] — Traffic
07. Southern Woman [07:55] — Marshall Tucker Band
08. Driving the Last Spike [10:08] — Genesis
09. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [13:37] — Iron Maiden
10. Interstellar Overdrive [09:41] — Pink Floyd
Liz’s art show, Ghosty’s record premiere, dance all night, hot girls- spin
1. The Organ “Steven Smith”- ooh… Katie Sketch…mmm
2. Sound Team- “Afterglow Years”
3. Team Dresch- “Musical Fanzine”
4. Codebreaker- “New Poetic”
5. John Vanderslice- “You Were My Fuji”
6. Frodus- “Down With Flames”
7. Teriyakis- “You Can Hear a Pin Drop”- old Lawrence, KS faves.
8.Hot Snakes- “Paid in Cigarettes”
9. The Juan Maclean- “Dance Hall Modulator Dub”
10. Q and Not U- “Little Sparkee”- when they were at their best: “No Kill, No Beep Beep”
bonus- Sleater Kinney- “One More Hour” *sigh* *so sad*
Random Yes songs: (1) Going for the One (2) America [yes, a Simon and Garfunkel cover, but one that goes for 10.5 minutes] (3) Perpetual Change (4) No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed [a Richie Havens cover; compare and contrast with Nina Simone’s cover] (5) Looking Around (6) Run With the Fox (7) Long Distance Runaround (8) A Venture (9) Madrigal (10) Harold Land.
Next thing they’ll be wanting is “Danny Boy” edition:
1. “The Lost Vikings” - Dethklok
2. “Rockin’ The Bronx” - Black 47
3. “Anchor” - The Minutemen
4. “Uncontrollable Urge” - Devo
5. “Charlotte Breakdown” - Dan Reno & The Tennessee Cutups
6. “Sensi Breeze” - Junior Reid
7. “Add It Up” - The Violent Femmes
8. “Sweet Dreams (Of You)” - Patsy Cline
9. “Somebody’s Cryin’” - Bo Diddley
10. “One Night In Arabia” - Gogo Girls
Bonus: “November Has Come” - Gorillaz
1) “I’m Confused” - The Muffs
2) “Number 39″ - Bishop Allen
3) “Looking for a Rainbow” - Talulah Gosh
4) “Every Pretty Girl” - Barbara Manning
5) “Video Store” - Darren Hanlon
6) “Judy and the Dream of Horses” - Belle and Sebastian
7) “Knockin on Mine” - Paul Westerberg
8) “Seagirl” - Thumb of the Maid
9) “Happiness is a Warm Gun” - The Beatles
10) “ColdMarble” - Clyde Federal
Bonus: “Wind in the Rigging” - Young Marble Giants
here’s my list:
1. “the street parade” - the clash
2. “birds” - quasi
3. “saigon pickup” - john zorn and Naked City
4. “plastic jesus” - toe jam jug band
5. “sneak chamber” - tsutchie
6. “gay bar” - electric six
7. “continuum” - jaco pastorius
8. “abidan” - masada guitars
9. “a million bubbles” - david sedaris (not music, i know…)
10. “dirty harry” - the gorillaz
1. Life is One Link — Bathtub Shitter
2. Hedgehog — TAD
3. Round We Go — Dizzee Rascal
4. Corpsewielder — The Mass
5. Cock Back — Terror Danjah
6. Wanna Find Love — Ram Jam
7. Fever Frey — Nebula
8. Sea Above, Sky Below — Dirty Three
9. Summertime Rolls — Jane’s Addiction
10. The Extreme North — Solar Anus
1. Waitin’ ‘Round To Die - Townes van Zandt
2. Remember - Air
3. Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon
4. Grey Stripe - Aphex Twin
5. Real Earth - Cannibal Ox
6. My Disco - Big Black
7. Lakodalmas - Gyorgy Ligeti
8. Flower - Sonic Youth
9. P. Power - Nation of Ulysses
10. The Revolution Starts Now - Steve Earle
And the bonus: It’s Tricky - Run-DMC
“What I Like About You” - The Romantics
“The Riches” - Jane’s Addiction
“Lagrimas Negras” - Bebo Valdes & Diego “El Cigala”
“I’ll Cover You” - Jesse L. Martin & Wilson Jermaine Heredia
“Sleeping In” - The Postal Service
“Wish You Were Here” - Incubus
“The Swing” - Everclear
“Young Hearts Run Free” - Ky Mazelle
“F*ck the World” - Insane Clown Posse
“The Boogie Bumper” - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
1. Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
2. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
3. Running On Faith - Eric Clapton
4. Bold As Love - The Pretenders
5. 20 Flight Rock - Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen
6. Where A Country Boy Belongs - The Marshall Tucker Band
7. Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um - Don Covay & Angela Strehli
8. Tweeter And The Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys
9. Tin Cup Chalice - Jimmy Buffett
10. So Cold In VIetnam - Johnny Shines
Bonus: Hamp’s Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
10. Who the Hell are You? (Illicit Mix)–Madison Avenue
9. Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)–The Staple Singers
8. Poetry in Motion–LaBouche
7. Let It Be Me–Indigo Girls
6. Symphony 2, Movement II (Mahler)–Kaplan, LSO
5. Why’d You Lie To Me–Anastacia
4. Soir (Faure)–Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin
3. Crazy Life–Toad the Wet Sprocket
2. The New Workout Plan–Kanye West
1. Symphony 5, Movement III. (Bruckner)–Haitink, Wiener Philharmoniker
Bonus: Godchild (live)–Miles Davis
Jovan1984, I need to bum your iPod. Or at least put Tales of Mystery and Imagination on mine…
OK, so I found this drag performance last night AND I LOVE IT. I’ve actually seen that queen, and if you go here, I’ve had one of my favorite experiences at that very bar.
“Our Hearts Don’t Change” - Celebration
“My Old Unlucky Home Far Away” - Catherine Irwin
“Immortal Memory” - Lisa Gerrard & Patric Cassidy
“Time and Again” - Bad Livers
“Young Lungs” - Stereo Lab
“Rumba De España” - Manitas da Plata
“Jord Och Himmel” - Ale Möller
“Autum Leaves” - Cannonball Adderley
“Ghost Highway” - Mazzy Star
“Goodby” - The Postmarks
And the I can’t count bonus:
“On Repeat” - LCD Soundsystem
ugh..two links…forgot about moderation…grr
the really snarky misanthropy edition:
10. Sewn Back Together Wrong - Dethklok
9. Who’s Gonna Be the Junkie? - Dj Greyboy
8. Let’s Have a War - FEAR
7. Slaughterama - GWAR
6. Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before - The Smiths
5. Jesus, Where’s the sugar? - Gitane Demone / Christian Death
4. Astro Zombies - The Misfits
3. W.A. Mozart “Requiem - Confutatis” Vienna Philharmonic
2. How fortunate the man with none - Dead Can Dance
1. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
BONUS TRAX: A) “Vagrancy” - Tsutchie; B) 15 Step - Radiohead
1. Shoplifting - The Slits
2. Strobelight - The B52s
3. Blue Monday - New Order
4. I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Sinead O’Connor
5. Lithium - Nirvana
6. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
7. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
9. This Charming Man - The Smiths
10. Liar - Bikini Kill
Beyond Electric Dreams - Bad Religion
Cold Lonesome Wind - Wayne Hancock
The Kill - Fugazi
Holding Pattern - Junior Brown
Striped Stockings - Whitacre Family
Bye, Bye Birdie - Ann-Margret
Cowboy Stomp - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
What The World Needs Now - Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston
Sittin’ By Sittin’ Bull - Eddy Arnold
Helsinki Mood - Tom Waits
Is that Dolly Pardon or Rudy Giuliani? It’s so hard to tell…
Sarcastro and The Crapture, i love you both for having Dethklok on your random tens…
Artist — “Song”
The Roots — “Web”
Count Basie — “Seventh Avenue Express”
Dream Theater — “One Last Time”
The Rapture — “House of Jealous Lovers”
Jimi Hendrix — “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
Johnny Cash — “I Walk the Line”
Nappy Roots — “Good God Almighty”
System of a Down — “Question!”
Nelly — “Oh Nelly”
Franz Ferdinand — “40′”
Matthew, I’m going to get me a Zune 30 or 80 in March.
If you have WinMX, I’ll give you the entire CD song by song. The Fall of the House of Usher suite will remain together as one.
Jovan1984,
Oh, I’ve got the disc. Just haven’t ripped it yet. Sometimes people who trash Alan change their mind upon hearing the Poe record. He did produce Dark Side of the Moon, after all…