The game: crank up your digital music player, set it to random, and hit play. List the first ten songs that come up. I’m looking forward to seeing your lists in comments and trackbacks.
Here’s mine:
1. “Welcome to Earth” — Robin Hitchcock
2. “Skanky Panky” — Kid Koala
3. “Poncho & Lefty” — Townes Van Zandt
4. “Who the Fuck” — PJ Harvey
5. “Same Team, No Games” — Gang Starr
6. “Hallelujah” — Jeff Buckley
7. “Game for Fools” — Jamie Lidell
8. “Black and White Town” — Doves
9. “Down at the Rock and Roll Club” — Richard Hell and the Voidoids
10. “Made Up Dreams” — Built to Spill
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Rod:
1. Echo Beach (Sushi Version) - Martha and the Muffins
2. Wood Beez - Scritti Politti
3. Talking Loud & Saying Nothing, Pt. 1 & Pt 2 - James Brown
4. Don’t Wanna Fall in Love - Jane Child
5. Favourite Shirt (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100
6. All That She Wants (Bhangra Version) - Ace of Base
7. Frontin’ On Debra (DJ Reset Mashup) - Beck, Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams
8. Welcome to the Terrodome - Public Enemy
9. If I Don’t Love You, Grits Ain’t Groceries - George Jones
10. Since U Been Gone - Ted Leo
The Long Cut:
Friday Random Ten - 08.05.05
Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit shuffle on your favorite digital music player (for me my Windows MediaPlayer at work) and report on the first ten songs that it spits out. Since I have the time, I thought
the smedley log » Blog Archive » Friday Random Ten XI ( “you can’t even remember what I’m trying to forget”):
[…] And now the random links to other folks in the loosely-governed FRT club: The Long Cut (with a list made entirely of legal downloads), Schrodinger’s Cat is Dead, Tattered Coat and Slacktivist. […]
Kate:
Por Debajo del Agua — Los Tigres del Norte
Mama — Salif Keita
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights — Freddy Fender
She Needs Her Mama — Dale Watson
Nobody — The Replacements
The Hitter — Bruce Springsteen
Hearts of Stone — Los Lobos
Sweet Lorraine — Chet Baker
Spanish Joint — D’Angelo
Teeth in the Grass — Iron & Wine
Hey Rod, Haircut 100! Wow! I haven’t heard them in forever. Ah, sweet memories…
Matt, this is just too much fun. You rock, brother.
Night Bird:
Matt - my favorite…
“Pavement Cracks”
The city streets are wet again with rain
But I’m walkin’ just the same
Skies turn to the usual grey
When you turn to face the day
And love don’t show up in the pavement cracks
All my water colours fade to black
I’m goin’ nowhere and I’m ten steps back
All my dreams have fallen flat
(Love don’t show in the pavement cracks
There will be no turning back)
Time and space will pass us by and by
When we don’t see eye to eye
I would have done anything
For happiness to bring …
But it don’t show up in the pavement cracks
I can’t even cover up my tracks
I’m goin’ nowhere and I’m light years back
Ooh I wish you well
How come
Every day
I’m still waiting for the change?
How come
I still say
Give me strength to live?
Where is my comfort zone?
A simple place to call my own
‘Cause everything I wanna be
Comes crashing down on me
And it don’t show up in the pavement cracks
I can’t even recognise my tracks
You and I can’t turn the whole thing back
Ooh I wish you well
Rod:
Yes, Haircut 100, and it was the 12″ version so it lasts close to eight minutes. That’s one funky song.
In other news, I belong to a mix club, and I just made one for the month of August, tracklist as follows, if anyone wants to make it for themselves:
“The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism”
1. London Calling - The Clash
2. Welcome To The Terrordome - Public Enemy
3. Black Steel - Tricky
4. Goon Squad - Elvis Costello
5. Babylon’s Burning - The Ruts
6. Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
7. The Clampdown - The Clash
8. Listening Wind - Talking Heads
9. Hell Is Around The Corner - Tricky
10. Meet Me At The Airport - Baader Meinhof
11. Waiting For The End Of The World - Elvis Costello
12. Ghost Town - The Specials
13. Guns Of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague
14. Babylon’s Burning - Lee Perry and the Upsetters w/Maxie
15. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
16. Tommy Gun - The Clash
17. Justice Tonight/Kick It Over - The Clash
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