Ten songs at random from your iPod or other MP3 playing device. Leave yours in comments.
- “Peel Back The Moon, Beware”—Elf Power
- “You Don’t Smile Anymore”—Mr. Suitcase
- “Fire Sign”—The Gossip
- “Country Feedback”—REM
- “My Juvenile”—Bjork
- “Teri Sadi”—DJ Rekha
- “House of Cards”—Radiohead(this is who I was out of town to see last weekend
- “You’re The Kind of Girl”—Mixel Pixel
- “Girls On Film”—The Living End (Duran Duran cover)
- “Crimes and Nightcalls”—Femme
I always liked this REM song the most of all of theirs. Stipe gets his voice to break in that perfect country break form. He does that in a lot, but in this song, the weepy nature of the break is absolutely perfect. Hank Williams would be impressed.
I usually hate the cell phone camera videos of concerts, but this one of The Gossip doing “Fire Sign” really captures how great one of their shows is:
Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments.
- “Your Eyes Are Liars”—Sound Team
- “Run For Cover”—The Dells
- “Let’s Get Small”—Trouble Funk
- “Tennessee emmpp”—Silver Jews
- “No Comply”—The Studio
- “We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling”—Of Montreal
- “There’s A Ghost In My House”—R. Dean Taylor
- “She’s Gone”—NOFX
- “Murder Me Rachel”—The National (I haven’t decided if I hate this band or not. Probably.)
- “We’re All Stress”—The Illuminoids (a super huge mash-up based around Bowie’s vocals on “Starman”, which could make a music box sound awesome)
I’m trying to get all my videos from Vimeo now, because it’s just a lot better layout and quality than YouTube. Let’s see if lazy conformity takes over. It labels it for you and everything, so you don’t have to offend people who are at work or have dial-up and can’t watch videos but are dying to know what they’re missing out on. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as comprehensive, so it’s hard to find stuff.
of Montreal - “Rapture Rapes The Muses” - Debaser - Malmö, Sweden - May 5, 2007 from ofmontreal on Vimeo.
That said, this person had cool shit up.
Ten songs at random, leave yours in comments.
- “Who Are You/Time To Die”—Void
- “Spit Shine Your Black Clouds”—The Blood Brothers
- “Re-Make/Re-Model”—Roxy Music
- “Shake Our Trees”—Rosebuds
- “I Love You”—The Pipettes
- “See Through”—Guana Batz
- “Mr. X”—Pauline Murray
- “I Know There’s An Answer”—Sonic Youth (Beach Boys cover)
- “Surfin’ Chihuahua”—Rat Holic
- “I’m Not Afraid”—Shimura Curves
I remember a number of years going to the Austin Museum of Art to see a show about rock and roll in art (read: lots of Mapplethorpe), and it seemed that not just a couple of the artists represented had a thing for Roxy Music. I should have guessed. They had that Art School appeal, of course, but it was still funny seeing how well that worked out for them. If you like Roxy Music, that marks you as a certain kind of pretentious geek. Of which there are many.
Like the band that named themselves after this song:
And this scene made me a sucker for this movie:
The iPod is an Anglophile today.
- “Demon Days”—The Gorillaz
- “Big Man”—Charlie Rich
- “Mint Car”—The Cure
- “Save It For Later”—The English Beat
- “You’re A Nightmare”—Pulp
- “What Is There To Say”—Sonny Rollins
- “Blitzkrieg Bop”—The Ramones
- “Feelgood By Numbers”—The Go! Team
- “First Time”—The Boys
- “Jolene”—Me First And The Gimme Gimmes (Dolly Parton cover)
Lot of good stuff to pick from that actually might be on YouTube. There are some weeks when there’s like nothing on the list I can find to match to YouTube, and then I have to think creatively on very little coffee. In sum, yea for Anglophilia.
A friend of ours had the foresight to realize that if one wanted tickets to see The Cure when they came to play a relatively small venue in Austin, one should get online and buy them as soon as they went on sale (and sure enough, they sold out in like 15 minutes). That sort of thinking is utterly alien to me, since 99% of shows I’ve seen in my lifetime involve shoving cash in the hands of a doorman, so I am very grateful to him for getting me a seat to see a band that I’ve watched many of a concert video of, in proper awe of their mad skillz. They’re playing in June.
The Go! Team at Coachella. This video makes me dance around in the kitchen in slippers, looking like a dork. But it’s okay. It’s The Go! Team.
Ten songs at random from the MP3 player. Leave yours in comments:
- “Straight To Hell”—The Clash
- “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing”—The Minutemen
- “I Keep Forgettin’”—Chuck Jackson
- “Tom Courtenay”—Yo La Tengo
- “Linkwalk”—The Blakes
- “Creep”—The Afghan Whigs (I’m somewhat so-so on this band, but this really is a fucking badass cover of a song that was already something that I liked, though I suppose TLC is something of a guilty pleasure because they’re such sellouts to the man. You can tell, because they set sales records.)
- “Bip Bop Boom”—Mickey Hawks And The Night Raiders
- “Sven G Englar”—Sigur Ros
- “Lullaby”—Melys
- “Upside Down”—The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus and Mary Chain, because I can:
“Straight To Hell”, live:
You can see the rest of the video at the BSG website.
The long hiatus of “Battlestar Galactica” has sent fans into a speculation frenzy, and I think that’s going to cause some inevitable disappointment when the first episode of the last season airs tonight, and only a little bit of the various mysteries is revealed. I’m sure we’re going to have to wait until the end to find out what’s up with Starbuck and who the last Cylon is. And above all, what is the Cylon plan? Are there different Cylons with different plans? We won’t be much wiser come Saturday morning, which is something to keep in mind. Unfortunately, there’s going to be a hiatus between the first and second halves of the season, due to the writer’s strike, as well. This is going to be a slow tease.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 playing device.
- “Gimme Danger”—Iggy Pop
- “Hock It”—The Blow
- “Toothpaste”—The Martial Arts
- “Nightclubbing”—Iggy Pop (my iPod has a preference today)
- “I Believe In A Woman”—Sly Williams
- “Send Me A Postcard”—Shocking Blue
- “I Want You Back”—Jackson 5
- “Melody Day”—Caribou
- “Do The 45″—Ryan Shaw
- “Cottage For Sale”—James Brown
Do not let this band’s name—the Ting Tings—distract you from how fucking awesome they are.
The Shocking Blue:
I’m digging the ladies with the rocking voices this morning.
My iPod is already packed, since I’m leaving soon for the WAM conference, but it would be wrong of me not to give everyone else the opportunity to leave their ten random MP3s. But because Friday morning is for celebrating music, here’s some links.
Discussion question: What music do you like, but the fans can really put you off? For rather complex reasons, I’m going to have to honestly admit that Ween fits in here. Not all their fans, but why they manage to attract so many odious Phish-heads is beyond me. I’ve seen them play at ACL Fest a couple of times, so I was able to keep my distance and keep the patchouli off me, and I saw them once at Stubb’s, but for reasons too complex to get into here, I was lucky enough to be backstage. And still the hippie got on me, in the form of some barefoot girl in a gauzy dress that kept dancing into my personal space. Apparently, her flower child muse didn’t respect politeness.
Even though I’m flying out today, I had to go out to see this band last night. If you’ve never listened to the Dirtbombs, you are missing out.
No gimmicks, just dirty rock mixed in with influences that range from Stevie Wonder to Iggy Pop to Yoko Ono.
All the cool kids (well, people in their 30s and 40s) were on our side of Emo’s. The actual kids were next door watching The Hold Steady. Which is Austin for you, I suppose.
Today, before we all hit “shuffle” on our iPods, computers, or whatever device we have for playing MP3s, and list the first ten tracks that come up, I want to talk about the embarrassing problem that is so humiliating, so secret, and yet so common. No, not back acne. That makes you a freak. I mean shit that sneaks into your MP3 collection.
We’ve all had it happen. You’re sitting around, listening to your iPod on “shuffle”, enjoying the fine sounds of Cibo Matto, the Hold Steady, and Le Tigre, when all of a sudden a song by John Mayer pops in. Or Phish. (For example. I’m not about to tell you what tragedies have popped up on my iPod.) You rip the headphones off, or perhaps fumble to skip the song before the suck leaks in and takes hold of your brain, and there’s only one question that pops to your lips: “How’d that get on there?”
No one knows. Some people theorize that the songs sneak on there by the force of your subconscious desire to hear that shit, which guides your hand to the iTunes store in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping or perhaps with the aid of alcohol. Reputable scientists deny this theory, however, pointing out that even sleepwalkers and drunks find John Mayer repulsive, perhaps especially sleepwalkers and drunks. Some suggest that your friends are fucking with you, downloading stuff behind your back, which is a good argument for not making your password easy to guess. And others think it’s the Unlistenable Crap Fairy, which you unwittingly invite into your life when you buy Apple products, a secret punishment the universe gives you for being a follower.*
However it happens, there is hope for your problem. Instead of skipping over the errant song, carefully slip the headphones off and punch the button on the iPod (maybe other MP3 players have this function) until you reach the ratings section. Give the song one star. When you get home, you can arrange the songs by star rating, and then delete everything with one star on it. Problem solved. Until the Unlistenable Crap Fairy strikes again.
Onto the random ten. Leave yours in comments.
Boy, Dr. Laura is a one-trick pony, isn’t she? Once again, I have to wonder if I wouldn’t be able to cash the big checks if I just started blaming women for everything, especially their own victimization at the hands of others, and especially of men’s.
- “Do the 45″—Ryan Shaw
- “Dokumentaristen”—Peter Schirmann
- “Anarchy in the UK”—The Sex Pistols
- “18″—The Shocking Pinks
- “Such Fun”—The Blood
- “Crazy”—Gnarls Barkley
- “Defeated by Technology”—Hot Chip
- “Our Haunt”—Palomar
- “Dirty Dream Number Two”—Belle & Sebastian
- “Shake Our Tree”—Rosebuds
I am an uninspired YouTuber today. My apologies. Hopefully I’ll be 100% soon. Leave your random ten in comments!
Ten songs at random from your MP3 player. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
- “Maybe I Know”—They Might Be Giants
- “I Can’t Turn Around”—Isaac Hayes
- “The Mole From the Ministry”—The Dukes of Stratosphear
- “Boule de flipper”—Corinne Charby
- “Tourniquet”—Rasputina
- “Boston Not L.A.”—The Freeze
- “Field Day for the Sundays”—Wire
- “My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)”—David Ruffin
- “A Fool In Love”—Ike & Tina Turner
- “Grandbag’s Funeral”—The Happy Mondays
Has anyone heard the rumor that Danger Mouse is going to produce a new Happy Mondays album? Well, either way, here’s a video from them:
And the Gorillaz song featuring Shaun Ryder:
Hat tip to Lauren for this.
In other sex news (since the category does promise it on occasion), it appears that some scientists have shown that the G-spot exists using ultrasound. They also found that some women don’t even have one. Some feminists are angry about this study, pointing out that it’s another example of women’s word being doubted until some random instruments shows (surprise!) we aren’t especially delusional creatures living in a fantasy land. There’s also the issue, apparently, that some straight men appear to be only interested in the G-spot because they think it’s a way you can bully her if she can’t come by vaginal intercourse. If that’s true, then whether or not the existence of the G-spot is real is irrelevant to these guys’ desires; everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound like a lot more finger work than the clit ever could be.
On the whole, I’m pleased. I agree that some of the debate over whether or not there’s a G-spot does fit into the long historical problem of men assuming they know more than women about sexuality, and therefore inventing things like the vaginal orgasm or finding the clit to be a useless piece of skin. While that’s all no doubt part of this, the other part is that there’s an actual physical disparity between women that is genuinely frustrating to actual women who aren’t stupid. Why can some do it and some can’t? Well, this research seems to indicate that it’s because women are physically different. This research is going to relieve the minds of a lot of women who aren’t stupid, but just have read and believed accounts by women who have ejaculation-level G-spot orgams, and are frustrated that they can’t. So I applaud that.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 player or computer. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
- “New Words”—Bugs in the Dark
- “On Repeat”—LCD Soundsystem
- “Dirty Laundry”—Bitter:Sweet
- “Brickwall”—The Big Boys
- “Silent”—The Field
- “Block Alarm”—The Strays
- “Dry”—William Elliot Whitmore
- “Tramp”—Otis Redding
- “Les Cavaliers Du Ciel”—Les Fingers
- “Dry”—PJ Harvey
Videos below the fold.
Image by Ann.
Ten songs at random from your iPod or other MP3 playing device or software. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
- “Disco Dance With You”–Teki Latex
- “Favorite”—Neko Case
- “Woman”—Wolfmother
- “Superheroes”—Daft Punk
- “The Oogum Boogum Song”—Brenton Wood
- “No War No Hate”—Red London
- “Infiltrate”—Sean Paul
- “Hallucinex”—Stereolab
- “Glory Days To Come”—Johnossi
- “Class War”—The Exploited
In honor of Bitterest Day, some good, bitter songs.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
- “George”—Patrick Fitzgerald
- Oh, awesome. “It’s A Living Thing”—ELO
- “Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head”—The Gorillaz
- “White Rabbit”—Sleater-Kinney (cover of Jefferson Airplane, of course)
- “Bowling Green”—Neko Case
- “Faces”—The Hangman
- “Jenny Come On”—Dressy Bessy
- “+81″—Deerhoof
- “Household Names”—Stereolab
- “Slave of Desire”—The New Dawn
I was listening to a podcast review of “Persepolis” the other day (which made me realize I need to see it, which I’ll be doing this weekend), honor of the movie, they were listing some of their favorite “coming of age” movies. I thought it was an intriguing topic, so I thought I’d list a few and open the floor: What’s your list of favorite “coming of age” movies?
- Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Call it the anti-John Hughes.
- Hairspray. The original John Waters movie. Not the recent remake, which I finally watched and which made me want to cry, it was so bad.
- The Tin Drum. A movie about a young boy who magically refuses to age, and comes of age anyway. Oh, and there’s Nazis.
- Rushmore. It’s amazing how many people relate to a fundamentally weird kid.
- Ghost World. The thing with the older man was something I couldn’t relate to, but the friendship between the girls hit close to home. Different and not from the book. I’m not going to judge which one is definitively better. They both have their strong points.
Sleater-Kinney. This video rocks, seriously:
Dressy Bessy—is my age showing yet?:
No new cat pictures. However, I highly recommend this set of pictures of cats playing, via Lauren.
The time has come to admit that I wanted a Mac Book Pro now that my old computer was barely functioning. I am really happy about going that way, though I had a moment of doubt when I saw all the twee marketing materials when I opened the thing. I just really hate being condescended to, even from some marketer far away who doesn’t know me from Adam.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave yours in comments.
- “Temptation”—New Order
- “Chronic Generation”—Chronic Generation
- “Enemy”—Jesca Hoop
- “The Code of Living”—Code Pie
- “Jezebel”—Creepin’ Charley and the Boneyard Orchestra
- “Pump”—Palermo Disko Machine
- “Shit From An Old Notebook”—The Minutemen
- “Rise Up With Fists”—Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
- “She’s In The City”—Hey Lover
- “Signs of Life”—Every Move A Picture
This made me laugh:
Cat pics below the fold.
Back from San Francisco and considering making my computer-buying move towards a Mac Book. Here’s the random ten, leave yours in comments:
- “Banano’s Bar”—Plastilina Mosh
- “Kiskaniyorum”—Mavi Isklar
- Number One”—Miss Fairchild
- “Tenderoni Renaud”—Chromeo
- “Trevor Dust The Bedsheets”—Everthus the Deadbeats
- “How Much More”—The Go Gos
- “Miss You”—Groove Da Paia (Rolling Stones cover
- “Deep Blue Day”—Brian Eno
- “Cough Syrup”—Butthole Surfers
- “Big Bird”—Eddie Floyd
Thanks for all the recommendations, everyone! I tried to go to the MoMA, but it was closed, so I went to the MoAD next door, of which I enjoyed the musical display the most. I went to some stores recommended on Valencia, and just generally liked the whole area in there. (Thanks to Samhita especially for taking me to The Attic, where there was some good music being spun.) Union Square was a disappointment, since it’s way commercialized with a bunch of stores that were imposingly expensive. In fact, everything in San Francisco is imposingly expensive. The Valencia/Mission area reminded me of Austin, except it was about 3 times cooler and 1/3 as irreverent. I’d like to go back just to hang out, and was reminded that book touring in the spring could create my excuse to go back.
Here’s some videos and then I get to go play that oh-so-fun game called “catch-up”.
Peeping Tom:
The Dirtbombs:
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:
I’m in Boulder, CO for a meeting with the great folks of RH Reality Check, so not much in the way of time to pull out my iPod and generate 10 songs at random for your reading/bragging rights pleasure. But feel free to do the Friday Random Ten in comments, of course!
But I won’t leave you hanging in terms of celebrating Friday with a bit of tuneage. Any time is a good time to celebrate 80s post-punk with clips from “Urgh! A Music War“.
For Lauren, some Pere Ubu:
Because explicitly feminist punk rock predates the Pacific Northwest music explosion, the Au Pairs:
Wall of Voodoo:
Ten songs at random. Leave yours in comments. Here’s mine. Click the links to hear the songs.
- “Mint Car”—The Cure
- “One Fine Day”—Even In Blackouts
- “I Burn Today”—Frank Black
- “When I See My Baby”—Blondell Breed & The Imports
- “Nothin’”—Townes Van Zandt
- “It Was Easier To Hurt Her”—Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters
- “A Different Age”—The Dead 60s
- “Sleep The Clock Around”—Belle & Sebastian
- “Avec les Oreilles”–Monique Thubert
- “Alice The Goon”—Quasi
The Dead 60s:
Quasi with Elliot Smith covering “Paint It Black”:
You want a cat picture, here’s a cat picture:
Apple’s war on Christmas
Ten songs at random. Leave yours in comments. Click the links to hear the songs.
- “Danger Heartbreak”—The Marvelettes
- “I’m Mad”—William Mabon
- “Thirteen”—Mary Lou Lord
- “Myriad Harbour”—The New Pornographers
- “Nitroglycerine”—The Gories
- “Hold On, Hold On”—Neko Case
- “Half Invisible”—The Shivers
- “Cyclone”—Invisible Eyes
- “Everything Disappears When You Come Around”—Of Montreal
- “Mockingbirds”—Grant Lee Buffalo
Because it’s almost Christmas and I want to, a new Of Montreal song:
And all stripped down with a cover:
Ten songs at random. Leave yours in comments. You can click the link to hear a couple in my list.
- “Leather and Lace”—The Smoking Popes
- “Hit The Disco”—Steinski
- “The Loving Sounds of Static”—Mobius
- “You Are What You Love”—Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins
- “Always On My Mind”—Willie Nelson
- “Chick Habit”—April March
- “I Did Acid With Caroline”—Daniel Johnston
- “Rise Above”—Black Flag
- “Groovin’ High”—Dizzy Gillespie
- “Song For Clay”—Bloc Party
Willie Nelson:
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins:
Ten songs at random from your MP3s. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine. Click the links to hear the songs.
- “Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth”—The Minutemen
- “Where Did My Baby Go”—Howard Tate
- “Smiley Faces”—Gnarls Barkley
- “4 little joeys”—Kiiiiiiii
- “Wonderlust King”—Gogol Bordello
- “Put The Funk Back Into Funk”—The Higsons
- “Wanderlust”—Bjork
- “Whenever There Is You”—Koop
- “Big Rocket Of Love”—The Reverend Horton Heat
- “White Wedding/Rebel Yell”—cover by The New Morty Show
Gnarls Barkley:
The Reverend Horton Heat:
Ten MP3s at random. Leave yours in comments.
- “Shoplifters of the World Unite”—The Smiths
- “West Germany”—The Minutemen
- “Peaches En Regalia”—Frank Zappa
- “Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Willie Nelson
- “Ein Atom”—Jeans Team
- “This Is The Day”—The The
- “Must Be The Moon”—!!! (Hot Chip remix)
- “The Crush”—Annie
- “Sleep”—The Dandy Warhols
- “Tunnel”—MARS
The Smiths:
The Dandy Warhols:
The Punkasses are cracking me up. Marc found this cartoon that strongly resembles a certain morning routine that a certain cat puts me through. I thought other cat owners could relate:
Better/worse than having a hairball lobbed into your eye? You decide.
Shuffle the songs on your iPod or other MP3 playing device and share with everyone here. There’s a country and rockabilly bent to the first half of the list today.
I feel bad about neglecting Panda Songs, but to make up for it, I linked a couple MP3s in this list and have a bonus up at the bottom.
- “Here Today”—Joey Wildgoose
- “I Still Remember”—Neko Case and Her Boyfriends
- “Crazy Fever”—High Noon
- “Nothin’”—Townes Van Zandt
- “Don’t Fall”—The Chameleons
- “Tommy”—The Morgans
- “Limbs”—Emma Pollock
- “Empty House”—Dee Rangers
- “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time>”—The Delfonics
- “Mansion In The Valley”—The Ms
Bonus song: “Firing Squad” by Penetration, a 70s punk band with a Rezillos-esque sound and a singer named Pauline Murray who is pretty amazing.
Videos below the fold.
Ten songs at random from your MP3s. Leave ‘em in comments:
- “Rat Blues”—Rat Holic
- “It’s Karate Time”—Travis Wammack
- “Mother Of Pearl”—Roxy Music
- “Ono”—Devo
- “I’m Coming Home”—The Spinners
- “Kill The Cool Kids”—Gay For Johnny Depp
- “A Girl Like You”—The Mexican Institute of Sound
- “Desolation Sound”—Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
- “The Last Resort”—The Dead 60s
- “Bad Loser”—Naomi & The Boys
Mexican Institute of Sound:
The Dead 60s:
Love is gross:
Ten songs at random from your MP3s. Leave ‘em in comments. Mine:
- “Tribulations”—LCD Soundsystem
- “Avalon”—Roxy Music
- “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town”—Cake
- “Wash Me”—The Grates
- “Sister Midnight”—Iggy Pop
- “Bye Bye Love”—Slender
- “Flossing At Lawson”—BS 2000
- “She’s My Best Friend”—Of Montreal
- “Automobile”—Human Television
- “Fire Sign”—The Gossip
Of Montreal is silly:
The Gossip is groovy:
Notice the bit of religious devotion to the one true church at the end.
More songs, since my random 10 is heavy on stuff you can actually find on You Tube.
Ten songs at random from your MP3s. Leave ‘em in comments:
- “Cunts Are Still Running The World”—Jarvis Cocker (A song for those who thought the good token female at the Atlantic blogs should be a silly apologist for neofeudalism.)
- “Heart Attack”—Amplified Heat
- “Guns of Brixton”—Nouvelle Vague
- “Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart”—The Supremes
- “Etheric Device”—Glass Candy
- “Whenever There Is You”—Koop
- “Wake Up, Ma and Pa Are Gone”—Bound Stems
- “Hoodie”—Lady Sovereign
- “Bertha Lou”—Johnny Faire
- “I Love Rock And Roll”—Joan Jett
Man, the mix is really kicking ass today.
Feeling the old school Jarvis love:
I love the way he whispers and screams—sarcasm distilled. The set-up of the song is corny, but the line, “You’ll never fail like common people/You’ll never watch your life slide out of view/And dance and drink and screw/Because there’s nothing else to do,” just is a bit of perfection.
I think “Guns of Brixton” is the best Nouvelle Vague cover:
Dusty is cute, after the fold.
A couple of my random ten are up at the MP3 blog. Leave yours in comments.
- “Distant Radio”—Devics
- “Action”—The Charms
- “Keep It Clean”—Charley Jordan
- “Heartfelt”—The Butchies
- “Satan Said Dance”—Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah
- “Second Skin”—The Chameleons
- “Listen”—The Stiff Little Fingers
- “The Last Time”—Gnarls Barkley
- “Cause = Time”—Broken Social Scene
- “Baby Hold On”—The Grass Roots
This weeks’s videos are bands we didn’t get a chance to see this year at the Austin City Limits Festival, due to time constraints or being tired and sick from allergies or whatever:
Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah:
Ten songs off your MP3 player at random. Leave ‘em in comments.
- “A Little Story”—Daniel Johnston
- “Spy vs. Spy”—Pizzicato Five
- “Midnight Blues”—Charlie Rich
- “Dirty Mind”—The Pipettes
- “Dirty Old Man”—The Electras
- “Bad Moon Rising”—Rasputina
- “Big Tears”—Elvis Costello
- “Cheer It On”—Tokyo Police Club
- “Otis”—Duritti Column
- Social Fools”—Devo
Videos to liven up Friday, from FRT artists:
Cat pictures below the fold!
To steal Jenn’s joke, now that I will be turning 30, I probably no longer qualify as a “young feminist”. My birthday is Sunday, so my parents are coming down for the weekend, which might mean blog posts will be short. I can go on a rant about the ups and downsides of having your birthday always fall on or around Labor Day weekend, but I won’t. I’ll just say now that I’m not in school, it’s nice that people can visit for my birthday.
Ten songs at random from your player. Leave them in comments. Hear some of mine at the MP3 blog.
- “Terry”—Twinkle
- “Tears of a Clown”—The English Beat
- “America Is Not The World”—Morrissey
- “Death Culture Blues”—Quasi
- “Desperado”—Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- “Double Yellow Line”—The Music Machine
- “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat”—Goldie and the Gingerbreads
- “Remake/Remodel”—Roxy Music
- “Chicks and Dicks”—Junior Senior
- “The Raven”—Freddy Countrymen
The English Beat’s cover of “Tears of a Clown” is just really good:
The original:
