Put your digital music player on shuffle, click play, and list the first ten songs that come up. Resist the temptation to click past the bad or embarrassing songs, or to mess, in any other way, with the sacredness of the random ten.
Here’s my list:
1. “Won’t Give In” — Finn Brothers
2. “Caught” — Saturday Looks Good to Me
3. “What’s the Use” — Jaime Lidell
4. “PDA” — Interpol
5. “Badlands” — Bruce Springsteen
6. “Our Name” — Clouddead
7. “Dub Revolution” — Lee Perry & The Upsetters
8. “Over Fire Island” — Brian Eno
9. “Touched” — My Bloody Valentine
10. “He Needs Me” — Nina Simone
Song I like Most: “He Needs Me”
Song I like Least: “Our Name”
Favorite Album on this List: Loveless
What’s on your list?
3 Comments on "Friday Random Ten"
the smedley log » Blog Archive » Friday Random Ten XIV(…lead us not into Penn Station):
[…] Fire up your favorite high volume digital music player and hit the shuffle button. See what comes up. (Other random spinnings to check out are Heliologue, Mark, Matt, Bob, Feministe & Fred, …) 1. Falling - Matthew Sweet (The Best of Matthew Sweet) 2. Nice Dream - Radiohead (The Bends) 3. Home - Sheryl Crow (Sheryl Crow) 4. Moth - Over the Rhine (mp3) 5. Let Me Know - Bonehead (EP) 6. 29 - Gin Blossoms (New Miserable Experience) 7. Sick Day - Fountains of Wayne (Fountains of Wayne) 8. I Don’t Wanna Fight - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Echo) 9. Wish You Were Here - Limp Bizkit w/Johnny Rzeznick (America: A Tribute to Heroes) 10. One Flight Down - Norah Jones (Come Away With Me) […]
jmorrison:
1) my sweet lord- george harrison
2) all spice- mf doom (metal fingers)
3) waiting for a superman- flaming lips
4) chocolate buttermilk- earth, wind & fire
5) only a fool would say that- steely dan
6) mrs. parker of k.c.- eric dolphy
7) empty bottles of water- the people under the stairs
8) strange piano- quasimoto
9) lonely- tom waits
10) reincarnation of a love bird- charles mingus
most: tie- only a fool would say that/lonely
least: strange piano (because
i have barely listened to this record yet
and don’t know what the song even is)
album: tom waits, closing time.
Agi:
Matt,
I like your #4. I prefer the first Interpol album to their second. The first is darker and reminds me of Joy Division. I dig the vibe on the first, although the second has some great tunes as well.
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