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Friday unRandom Ten: Chimes of Freedom Flashing Edition

Fridays usually bring The Friday Random Ten to this blog, but Tuesday’s elections have me in a decidedly unRandom state of mind. So:

unRandom quote from Thomas Jefferson to get us in the mood:

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Taylor, 1798

Now, onto the unRandom Ten. To play in this week’s special edition of the Friday Random Ten, fire up your digital music player, search your music library for words like “freedom” and “victory” and “sanity” and “balance,” and list your ten favorite tracks.

Here are my top ten “freedom” tracks:

1. “The Freedom in the Loot,” The Drones (Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By)
2. “Freedom (Fila Brazilian Mix),” DJ Food (Ninja Tunes: The Zen Art of Relaxation, Vol. 1)
3. “Streets of Freedom,” The Gladiators (Back to Roots)
4. “Freedom Rock,” Frank Black (Teenager of the Year)
5. “Chimes of Freedom (live version),” Bob Dylan (No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7))
6. “Chimes of Freedom,” Bob Dylan (Another Side of Bob Dylan)
7. “End of Freedom,” Wilderness (Wilderness)
8. “Freedom Hangs Like Heaven,” Iron & Wine (Woman King)
9. “One Road for Freedom,” Ben Harper (Fight for Your Mind)
10. “Pardon My Freedom,” !!! (Louden Up Now)

Song that best expresses the energy I feel after this election: The Drones, “The Freedom in the Loot”
Song title that best describes the Bush Administration’s first six years: “The End of Freedom” (one of my favorite songs of the last few years — follow those drum-lines as you listen to it)
Album title that best describes the 2006 Election: “Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By”
Song lyric that best describes the 2006 Election:: “Chimes of Freedom”

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

6 Comments on "Friday unRandom Ten: Chimes of Freedom Flashing Edition"

OutOfContext:

I Shall Be Free–Bob Dylan–The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Stone Free–Jimi Hendrix–Smash Hits
They Are There (Fighting for the People’s New Free World)–Kronos Quartet–Black Angels
Let’s Go Free–Moby–Everything Is Wrong
Rocking In the Free World–Neil Young–Freedom
The Free Design–Stereolab–Oscillations from the Anti-Sun
Free Money–Patti Smith–Horses
Radio Free Europe–REM–Murmer
I’m Free–The Who–The Ultimate Collection
I’m Set Free–The Velvet Underground–Peel Slowly and See

Song that best expresses the energy I feel after this election: I’m Free–The Who
Song title that best describes the Bush Administration’s first six years: Free Money
Album title that best describes the 2006 Election: Smash Hits
Song lyric that best describes the 2006 Election::
“I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound
Let me tell you people
What I found
I saw my head laughing
Rolling on the ground

And now I’m set free
I’m set free
I’m set free to find a new illusion”

11.10.06 2:25 pm

Matt:

Well played, OoC!

11.10.06 2:32 pm

Comandante Agi:

here’s a few more for you:

I Feel Free - Cream
40 oz. to Freedom - Sublime
I’m So Free - Lou Reed

11.11.06 7:08 pm

Matt:

Thanks, Agi. For what it’s worth, this post is a little misleading — I didn’t so much select these ten songs as the term I used to find them. They’re the only ten songs with “freedom” in the title that I have on iTunes. I should have searched for “free,” too.

11.12.06 1:08 pm

frankie:

here’s another unrandom quote from dylan to seal the point:

some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

- It’s Alright Ma (I’m only bleeding)

12.07.06 12:48 am