I think we all need to take a deep breath and realize that things here will not be that different.

After an evening of throwing all the good china around and kicking over the furniture, I think the klatscher-types are going to largely steer clear of their crazy drunk uncle’s room.

When someone like Pachacutec shows up, they just seem to want to make sure we haven’t set anything on fire and offer a comment or two.

Why should they care what happens in here?

As they say, it’s Mr. TBogg’s show, and it’s a good one.

They’re bound to want to see teh crazy in action.

When someone like Pachacutec shows up, they just seem to want to make sure we haven’t set anything on fire and offer a comment or two.

Or maybe we don’t have any ulterior motive except curiosity or a desire to join in the fun. Why the knee jerk hostility? Aren’t visitors welcome here?

Just askin’

Oh, and:

Frizzle Fry–Primus
The Man Who Sold The World–David Bowie
Escapism (Gettin’ Free)–Digable Planets
Instant Death–The Beastie Boys
Fire–The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pretty Vacant–Sex Pistols
Scattered–Green Day
Round the Bend–Beck
Missionary–Operation Ivy
Sound Check (Gravity)–Gorillaz

msmolly–

My point exactly.

Welcome to the funhouse.

Now where’s your random ten?

I don’t think they fit in….all classical, and I’ve just had an iPod (iPhone) a few weeks). But I love the IDEA of the random ten. Maybe next Thursday I can be ready with some better choices.

i agree, everything is in its right place:

Accuracy - The Cure
God Is Love (Detroit Mix) - Marvin Gaye
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Oh What a Night for Dancing - Barry White
Magic (Asadoya Yunta) - Erykah Badu
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing - The Main Ingredient
Anything to Say You’re Mine - Etta James
Heartbeat - Taana Gardner
Cucurrucucú Paloma - Caetano Veloso

Say A Prayer For Two - Crown Heights Affair
Taste What’s Rhythm - Swamp Children

I usually play this game over at Pnadagon on Fridays but here goes a Thursday round:
1. Well All Right - Blind Faith
2. Lafayette Railroad - Little Feat
3. Half As Much - Emmylou Harris
4. Seven Days - Bob Dylan
5. Hideaway - Todd Rundgren
6. Big Joe And Phantom 309 - Tom Waits
7. The Thrill Is Gone - BB King
8. Who Killed Davey Moore? - Bob Dylan
9. Fat Man In The Bathtub - Little Feat
10. Without Your Love - Roger McGuinn
Bonus: Give Up The Funk - Parliament

Goddammit! I still don’t have a goddamned pod-thing. Fuck it, here are the top ten songs running through my head as I type (yes, all 10, simultaneously) …

1. Jeremiah was a bullfrog (is that even a title?) — by the guys who sang the “Jeremiah was a bullfrog” song

2. Yo’ Momma smells like old cheese — Lil’ Moonie and the Times

3. Please Mister, don’t take my cupcakes away — Red State

4. I feel pretty — Obama and The Dark Lips

5. Just a little more war (1979 remix with Jagger and Eddie Cleanhead Vinson)– Dick and The Cocknozzles

6. Why don’t you love me anymore? — Dill McFlyly and the Stalkers

7. There’s Brown People in My Soup — Tom and The Militia

8. Oomph! Pow! thhhpppppttttt — Rudy and the Rangers

9. Skibbertyjibbit (with guest appearances from Ricky Skaggs, Muscle Head Moonshine and the Lawrence Welk Singers) — Huck, Chuck and Muck-a-Fuck

10. You’re the wind beneath my Wings — Clenis McGrabbytits and the Fosters

Hurdy Gurdy Man–Donovan
Fantasia Lindum–Amazing Blondell
Hide Your Love Away–Eddie Vedder
Love is Just a Four-Letter Word–Joan Baez
Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon–The Nice
L’enfant–Vangelis
Court of the Crimson King–King Crimson
Ecstasy of Gold–Yo Yo Ma
Dearg Doom–Emm Gryner
Pigs on the Wing 2–Pink Floyd

Huh. Nothing’s on fire. I’ll be darned.

humboldtblue,
The song is Joy To The World by Three dog Night, written by Hoyt Axton

Chicken

Tanks brudda …

Hoyt Axton wrote that?

humboldtblue–

If I didn’t know any better I’d think you made some of that up.

Never a better band name than Three Dog Night. Never. Ever.

Hah!

Sorry, I’ve got no ipod to randomize — not a luddite, but everytime I’m ready to put down the $$ to get one, it seems like the muffler drops off the car or something else happens to put it on hold. One of these days, though . . .

But I enjoy the game, even if all I can do is look over your shoulders at your tunes.

I wasn’t checking on you, I was only ever greeting you fuckers.

Pleeez, don’t get awl wingnutty pah-rah-noyd on me. Jes cuz yooo study teh enemy, dew not bekum awl Jeff Goldstein wifout Haldol on me!

Oh-Kay. First FireDog Random Ten..
1-Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder - John Hiatt
2-Hey, Jack Kerouac - 10,000 Maniacs
3-Jubilee - Alison Krauss
4-The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
5-The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
6-I Like to Move It - Madagascar 5
7-Roxanne - The Police
8-Sex and Candy - Marcy’s Playground
9-Rock and Roll Doctor - Little Feat
10-Naima - John Coltrane

Bonus-Tell Her This - Del Amitri

I want everyone to know that I’m GLAD Madagascar 5 came up. I’m glad, because it proves the importance of not cheating. Yeesh.

So, I don’t have an i-pod but here’s my list anyway (from my you-tube playlist):

Faraway Girl-The Subdudes
What’s Going On-Marvin Gaye
Ball of Confusion-Temptations
Jackson-Johnny & June Cash
Come By Me-Harry Connick Jr.
It’s Raining-Irma Thomas
Sylvia’s Mother-Dr. Hook
It’s Too Late-Carole King
Dixie Chicken-Little Feat
Drown in My Own Tears-Ray Charles

Hoyt Axton wrote that?

Yep. He also wrote things like Neveer Been To Spain (also Three Dog Night),The No No Song (Ringo), The Pusher (Steppenwolf), and bunch of others. IIRC his mother wrote Heartbreak Hotel as well.

I don’t have an iPod either but I can set the iTunes on the mac to shuffle play which works fine.

Hoyt Wilhelm threw baseballs … a lot of baseballs. Hit them too. Ol’ Hoyt.

And A.J. Foyt drove cars really, really fast. Lots of them.

Benoit lost his shoes.

Peter Benoit is like Colbert, cheeser.

Luyt (Van Den Gryffun) of Clogsheaderbach Nederland once stuck his finger in a dike. He never could explain how he got his ass kicked, though.

1) Jeepster — T-Rex
2) The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave — Butthole Surfers
3) Oops I did it Again — Britney Spears
4) United — Throbbing Gristle
5) War on the Terraces — Cockney Rejects
6) Satisfaction — The Residents
7) Security — Otis Redding
Good Night Sweet Josephine — The Yardbirds
9) The soundtrack to Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
10) Code Blue — T.S.O.L.

IPod? Yeah…I’ve heard those are really cool…

This is not a “FireDog Random Ten” this is the TBogg Pre-Friday Random Ten.

1. Every Breath You Take / Peter Gunn - Police & Henry Mancini
2. I Can’t Explain - Who
3. Simple Sister - Procol Harum
4. This Is The Time - Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies
5. Space Oddity - David Bowie
6. Shake Down Cruise - Jay Ferguson
7. Louie Louie - Sonics
8. Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield
9. Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
10. Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen

Bonus:
11. Red Cobra No. 9 - Mummies
12. Blood & Roses - Smithereens
13. Jimmy Olsen Blues - Spin Doctors

Man, I have to take the Spin Doctors off this thing. I like the Jay Ferguson. Funny Joy To The World pops up after the above discussion. However, random is not evenly distributed. In addition TDN was my first rock concert. Some blond guy fronting a little known band known as The Faces opened.

Pineapple Head - Crowded House
Let Go - Frou Frou
Miles Ahead - Miles Davis
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Crowded House
Thank you for lettin’ me be myself - Sly & The Family Stone
Every Grain Of Sand - Emmylou Harris
Revelator - Gillian Welch
Edith & The Kingpin - Elvis Costello
Fisherman’s Daughter - The Waifs
Death Cab For Cutie - Bonzo Dog Band

Man, I thought I had purged all Joni Mitchell tribute songs from the library; that shit ought to be against the law.

Pachacutec–

Perhaps I could have made my point more delicately, but that’s what I was trying to say.

Thanks for the welcome.

Long time reader of your stuff on the main site as well.

Your snarkitude will only add to the overall experience.

No Haldol-free Godlsteins here.

Gawd. I played in bar and wedding reception bands a long time ago and people used to ask for “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog’ all the time. The other popular request was for “Rollin’ On The River”. I’d put those memories behind. There are few tasks as thankless as being the band at a wedding reception.

I’d add a top ten but it would be 10 songs from New Moon by Elliot Smith. I don’t have an i-pod.

1. Hello, Dolly - Louis Armstrong
2. I Want You Around - Fountains of Wayne
3. Wave - Sarah Vaughn
4. I Like It Like That - Tito Puente
5. Blue Skies - Louis Armstrong
6. Going Back to Georgia - Nanci Griffith
7. Please Mr. Postman - Backbeat Band
8. Cheryl - Charlie Parker, Miles Davis
9. There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York - Joe Henderson
10. Forgetting You - James Carr

heh- i just finished listening to side b of the vangelis lp, ‘earth’…

“Indelible & Nocturnal” - Wynton Marsalis
“Ships On The Ocean” - Junior Wells
“My Way” - Eddie Cochran
“Dolphin’s Smile” - The Byrds
“Close To You” - Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
“Michelle” - John Bayless
“A Teenager In Love” - Dion & The Belmonts
“Dual Soliloquy” - Roy Buchanan
“Beautiful Dreamer” - Roy Orbison
“Stop! In The Name Of Love” - Diana Ross & The Supremes

Bonus #11

“Late Night Dancer” - Kapono Beamer

I think Cliff105 is faking his first tune.

1. Peace Call - Eliza Gilkyson
2. Financing His Romance - Bottle Rockets
3. Lonesome Fiddle Blues - Old & In The Way
4. Lover’s Return - Parton/Ronstadt/Harris
5. Po’ Lazarus - James Carter & the Prisoners
6. Valerie - Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
7. All Down the Line - Rolling Stones
8. Love 24 Hours a Day - The Blasters
9. Side O’ The Road - Creedence
10.The Ghosts of Belfast - Bap Kennedy

…and a congrats-Tbogg bonus:

11.Please Mrs. Henry - Bob Dylan & the Band

Hockeysuit!

Lots of Bowie around here tonight. It appears to be Steve Earle night on my shuffle, kicked off by The Champ:

1) Theme from Ali and His Gang v. Mr. Tooth Decay, Muhammad Ali, Oxford America 2006 Sampler
2) Apple Suckling Tree, Dylan, The Basement Tapes
3) Mustapha Dance, The Clash, Super Black Market Clash
4) John Peel, Paul Burch, East to West
5) Old Man, Neil Young, Decade
6) Me and the Eagle, Steve Earle, Sidetracks
7) Normal, Foo Fighters, Times Like These
All These Little Cowboys, Cory Branan, 12 Songs
9) Hillbilly Highway, Steve Earle, Ain’t Ever Satisfied Collection
10) Factory Belt, Uncle Tupelo, No Depression

Yeah, Blasters and Bap! Is Valerie a cover of the Richard Thompson song?

Anybody here still have an iPod with buttons, or is it just me?

gttim, first concert I ever went to was The Faces opening for Savoy Brown. Faces were just incredible. During the concert, the 8-track player was stolen out of my dad’s car.

Gah! I haven’t done this in forever.

1. Joni Mitchell–Lead Balloon
2. Istanbul’s Secrets feat. DJ Napoles–Up, Bustle and Out
3. Gilberto Gil–Quilombo, O El Dorado Negro
4. Band of Horses–The Great Salt Lake
5. Costello Show–Suit of Lights
6. Faunts–Memories of Places We’ve Never Been
7. Shins–So Says I
8. Jonatha Brooke–Secrets and Lies
9. Pink Floyd–Pigs (Three Different Ones)
10. Crowded House–Better Be Home Soon

There. Nothing too cringe-inducing this time.

Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues
Jealous Guy - Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music
Beat the Retreat - Richard and Linda Thompson
Pink Bullets - The Shins (notice above Pink Floyd and the Shins - too weird!)
Between Days - Red House Painters
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Funhouse - Red House Painters (okaaaayyyy…)
Measuring Cups - Andrew Bird
She Heightened Everything - Pernice Brothers (representing WMass)
Rise Up With Fists!!! - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

not bad for my first FDL top ten, actually.

1. Naked - The Great Escape
2. Paul Westerberg - AAA
3. Buddy Guy - Little-Dab-A-Doo
4. Genesis - it.
5. Beverly Craven - Castle in the Clouds (where the fuck did that come from? I’ve never heard of this chick, and she’s on my iPod?)
6. Nine Days - Absolutely (this is where the cringe inducing comes in, right?)
7. Rusted Root - Infinite Tamboura
8. Everclear - El Distorto de Melodica
9. Lyle Lovett - Election Day
10. John Whelan - THere Were Roses

Bonus 11. Peter Himmelman - Closer

No really. You don’t want Beethoven and Mozart.

Your list @8 damn near made me fall off my chair laughing! I can’t top that!!

Don’t have a pod of my own, but I do have an old-time music clogging video sung in Chinese: http://firedoglake.com/2007/12…..eak-o-fat/

“Take Me to the River” Talking Heads
“Threshold Apprehension” Black Francis
“Blue Dress” Depeche Mode
“Words That I Employ” Coach Said Not To
“Moby Dick” Led Zeppelin
“Mystery” Inspiral Carpets
“Will Never Marry” Morrissey
“Bitters & Absolut” The National
“Work Is a Four-Letter Word” The Smiths
“Moving” Supergrass

…”Gwn” Ffa Coffi Pawb

Hell, edub, that’s not hardly cringy at all. My first ones were sorta embarrassing, I didn’t have very much music on my itunes yet (I don’t use an ipod) and so I would have like 8 Elvis Costello songs in a row or something. And then maybe two Bollywood numbers. Everyone laughed at me.

But you! You got Teh Pogues! And Andrew Bird! And don’t you just love that Jennie Lewis/Watson Twins thing? That’s one of my faves from that album, too.

And yes, I was the person just above you who had both The Shins and Pink Floyd in her list. I am SUCH a looser!!1!!1

I have more Tom Waits than anything, I’m sure. Can’t help it. One Tom Waits CD (or collection) and pretty soon it’s about 33% of your playlist.

You got Band Of Horses. And Faunts, who I’ve never heard of but will research. Now if only Jens Lekman would show up on one of these playlists. . .

edub! Red House Painters - twice. I think I have one of their disks downstairs that hasn’t been ripped yet.

Ok, rule check. If a video comes up in the random ten (which fucking sux when that happens, and Apple should fix it so it fucking doesn’t do that) do you post that? So if the 2007 Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Oklahoma comes up, I post that? Or must it be songs?

Wiping liquids off monitor.

So if the 2007 Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Oklahoma comes up, I post that? Or must it be songs?

File that under “Biggest TV-watching Fuckups of my Life,” because I turned the game off before I witnessed a humiliating Boise State loss. Of course, that didn’t happen.

I’d post that shit, myself. Or just change the title to your favorite Built to Spill song and be done with it.

Rip the RHP, and get Sun Kil Moon, too, if you like RHP.

The last songs in my headpod:

Nick Lowe — I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
Greatful Dead — Box of Rain
” ” — Friend of the Devil (hey, I like the Dead, so sue me)
Charlatans UK — The Only One I Know
Luscious Jackson — Naked Eye
Dandy Warhols — Bohemian Like You
” ” — Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
Johnny Cash — Hurt
Stevie Ray Vaughan — Pride and Joy
Brian Eno — Broken Head
” ” — Blank Frank
Nirvana — About A Girl
Suburbs — Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling

Must. Get. iPod.

1. Little One - Herbie Hancock
2. Subterranean Homesick Alien (Radiohead) - Christopher O’Riley, piano
3. Quiet Now - Bill Evans
4. Silent Night - Sara McLachlan
5. Rigaudon from Le Tombeau de Couperin (Ravel) - J.P. Collard, piano
6. Medley: Deck the Hall/What Child is This? - The Swingle Singers
7. Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
8. I Won’t Back Down - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
9. Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa - Sukhwinder Singh
10. Infamous Angel - Iris Dement

Bonus: Goldberg Variations: No. 21, Canone alla Settima (J.S. Bach) - Glenn Gould, piano

Hmm… a preponderance of piano, and an almost-block-party-weekend of Tom Petty. Oh, and a couple of Xmas tunes, finally in season.

I’m busted.

I’ll play right from now on…

Kels, I had to go check Ronstadt/Harris’ “Valerie” (turns out it’s a Patty Scialfa song), but in the process found Richard Thompson’s Valerie on youtube. Brilliant song!

Jeepster sure is a cool song though.

1. Blue Blue Blue Beat - The Tornadoes - The Very Best Of The Tornadoes
2. Something Fine - Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
3. Scene One- ‘Garstig glatter glitschriger Glimmer!’ (Alberich) - Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Vienna Philharmonic - Solti (CD 1)
4. Then He Kissed Me - - Now and Then Soundtrack
5. Inner Tube - Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks
6. Act Two, Scene Twelve - Houston Grand Opera, Patric Summers - Florencia En El Amazonas (Disc 2)
7. Never A Time - Genesis - We Can’t Dance
8. It’s Alright Mama - Johnny Hiland - download
9. Goodbye, Little Darlin’ - Johnny Cash - The Legend [Disc 3]
10. I’m Not Wearing Underwear Today - Ann Harada/Jordan Gelber - Avenue Q
Bonus: When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) - The Beach Boys - Sounds Of Summer

I’m thinkin’ I see TBoggs a-comin’ … Junior High JamFest ‘72!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UTFD1C4tVIg

Whatever happened to the hair?

I find it hard to get emotionally worked up over a blog. Maybe I’m a cold fish or rational or something.

You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or
Pandemonium liable to walk upon the scene

“Old Pigweed” – Mark Knopfler
“Pig” – Seether
“From A Distance” – 4 Bitchin’ Babes
“Five Pounds Of Possum” – Abita Springs Opry
“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive” – Tony Bennett
“As The World Turns” – Eminem
“Walkin’ With My Fly Wide Open” – Cledus T. Judd
“1000 Times” – Gomez
“eat you alive” – Limp Bizkit
“Right Next Door” – Robert Cray

Bonus – “Let Us Go” – King Jacob & Professor

What’s with the consecutive pig songs? Sheesh! And I’m sick of Cledus T. Judd showing up on my random 10+. I think my computer is trying to embarrass me.

Nothing by James Blunt; does that mean I get to go to heaven?

The Hop–Bajka and Radio City
Traveling Man/Beautiful Loser–Bob Seger
Toura Toura–Cheb i Sabbah
Everything She Wants–Wham (uh oh, I guess Purgatory’s my next stop)
The Supernatural–Gary Moore
Let It Whip–Dazz Band
Holiday–Roy Ayers
The Scientist–Coldplay
Mas Que Nada–Black Eyed Peas and Sergio Mendes
Broken Arrows by that blond lead singer for Faces

Bonus: The Perfect Beat–Talib Kweli

No Bowie, which is kind of amazing considering I have about 20 of his songs on my Ipod….

Well, this is my first time commenting, and glad to do it for Pre-Friday 10. (It’s actually Friday now, but I’m a little late. Sorry.)

1) Loyalty - D12
2) Your Star Will Shine - Stone Roses
3) Railroad Song - Lynyrd Skynryd
4) You don’t care about us - Placebo
5) Jolene - The White Stripes (A fantastic cover!)
6) Stand - REM
7) Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
9) One Love/People Get Ready - Bob Marley and the Wailers
10) It’s Only Rock n’ Roll - The Rolling Stones
Bonus - Gimme Some Lovin- The Spencer Davis Group

Wow, do I have random music today. Hope you guys enjoyed it.

I don’t have an iPod, but here’s my list of what I played last on YouTube:

Humble Pie - Stormy Monday
roy buchanan - peter gunn theme
James Taylor - You’ve Got A Friend ‘71
Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor - Doc Watson/Jack Lawre
Maná - Justicia, Tierra y Libertad
Weather Report - Birdland
Melanie Safka -Brand New Key
“One Season” The Roches

1. Wanderlust- Bjork
2. Call The Shots- Girls Aloud
3. The Man Who Came To Stay- Babyshambles
4. Tomorrow Never Knows- Noel Gallagher
5. Pictures Of Matchstick Men- Kasabian
6. Merry Christmas Darling- Carpenters
7. Breathless- Corinne Bailey Rae
8. Last Nite- The Strokes
9. Try All You Want- Electronic
10. Weirdo- Charlatans

Bonus-
11. Gimme Some Love- Graham Coxon
12. Pride And Joy- Stevie Ray

This is fun!

1) When I Grow Too Old to Dream – Nat King Cole
2) The Once Over Twice – X
3) I’m Not Down – The Clash
4) King Horse – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5) La Temps De L’Amour – Françoise Hardy
6) Bang a Gong (Get it On) – T. Rex
7) Nyow! Nyot Nyow! (The Pussycat Song) – Louis Prima & Keely Smith
Agony – The Muffs
9) Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying – Belle & Sebastian
10) La Bikina – Damaso Perez Prado

. . . and the Jell-O Shot: Quand On Est Ensemble – France Gall

Why does this special brew drop the number “eight” on half of our lists?

1. Day After Day — The Pretenders
2. How Deep is the Ocean — Benny Goodman
3. Won’t You Ride in My Little Red Wagon — Willie Nelson
4. Easy — Pure Heart
5. Still — Foo Fighters
6. Please, Please, Please — James Brown
7. Assembly Line — Dixie Dregs
8. Yo Soy Guajiro Del Monte — La India de Oriente
9. Doin The THings We Want To — Lou Reed
10. Mixed Emotions — The Rolling Stones

Bonus:

Fried Neckbones and Home Fries — Santana

Tbogg! Wait, someone got in ahead of me.

Sure is crowded in here. Now for my un-cool offerings:

1. “Si Liet’ e Grata Morte” – Hilliard Ensemble
2. “Wishing Well” – Free
3. “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
4. “I’m Housin’” – Rage Against the Machine
5. “Getaway Car” – Audioslave
6. “Li’l Darlin’” – Count Basie
7. “Wayfaring Stranger” – Anonymous 4
8. “Violin Concerto in e: 2. Andante” – Felix Mendelssohn
9. “Kiss Me on the Bus” – The Replacements (honest – this really is random!)
10. “Peer Gynt: Morning” – Edvard Grieg

And Bonus:
11. “Come On Come On” – Smashmouth (I hide my head in shame)
12. “Mass ‘The Western Wind’: Agnus Dei” – John Taverner

msmolly, classical must be included! I can’t be the only unhip person here.

You have “Blank Frank”? Wow. “He’s the menu on your table,/he’s the knife and he’s your waiter.” Lyrics like that just don’t grow on trees. Good to see another enophile.

1. In The Mirror - Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
2. West End Riot - The Living End - The Living End
3. The Summer Of ‘91 - …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
4. Fire Eye’d Boy - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
5. Little Red Corvette - Prince - The Very Best of Prince
6. Twilight=Dusk - Jebediah - Slightly Odway
7. Ides of Swing - Andrew Bird - Thrills
8. One Day - Björk - Debut
9. Unite - The Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
10. Brahminy Kite - Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Bonus
So What Else Is New - J Mascis - Martin + Me

gttim, first concert I ever went to was The Faces opening for Savoy Brown. Faces were just incredible. During the concert, the 8-track player was stolen out of my dad’s car.

I hate to hear about your father’s loss of high end stereo equipment, but that is a hilarious story!

Savoy Brown was basically the precursor to Foghat. I bet that was a good show.

Man, where are all the old-timers? This is sad!

msmolly, classical must be included! I can’t be the only unhip person here.

OK, next Thursday I’ll try to get my current top 10 classical list up, since there’s at least one kind soul who won’t hoot me outta the joint! About the only remotely current thing I’ve heard (and liked a lot) is The Frey’s “How to Save a Life” (something like that — from Grey’s last season). Hopelessly unhip, I know. I’m from the Sting/Phil Collins/ELO/etc. generation (and I was kinda old for that).

Here’s my first at the new house, the stereo is kinda nice, but who invited all these strangers? (Just kidding, kids):

1. Peter, Paul and Iron & Wine: Trapeze Swinger (Live @ Pabst Theater)
2. Peter, Paul & Sebadoh: Mystery Gurl (Live in Montreal 3/24/07)
3. Peter, Paul & The Mountain Goats: The Young Thousands (Live @ The Earl, Atlanta, 2-18-04)
4. Peter, Paul & Built To Spill: Control This Dream (Live @Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 11-14-01)
5. Peter, Paul & Modest Mouse: Out Of Gas (Live @ First Ave, 2005)
6. Peter, Paul & Mountain Goats: Jenny (Live in Iowa City)
7. Peter, Paul & Sufjan Stevens: Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head (Live @ Crystal Pallroom, Portland OR, 10-13-06)
8. Peter, Paul & Michael Hedges: Rickover’s Dream (Live @ Arcata CA)
9. Peter, Paul & Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Big Friday
10. Peter, Paul & Jeff Tweedy: Mountain Bed (Live @ Granada Theater 1-20-07)

Wowsers, almost an entire live set this week.

Why does this special brew drop the number “eight” on half of our lists?

I’m just guessing here, but you used 8 + ) which may be seen as an emoticon. Obvs, we’re too cool for that nonsense.

Gonna try here:

7) Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

At least it wasn’t the MittSpawned karoke version!

So roll over sweet thing
Like a nuclear reprisal inbound from outer space
There’s a comparison here I’m trying to swing

God damn it’s deafening
Wish you’d shut up about everything
The future is x-rated

1. The Future is X-rated - The Matthew Good Band
2. Everlong - Foo Fighters
3. Gorecki - Lamb
4. Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
5. Cold - Annie Lennox
6. Ever Fallen in Love - Fine Young Cannibals
7. Paralyzer - Finger Eleven
8. Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
9. Are You In - Incubus
10. A Town Called Malice - The Jam

Bonus Track: Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads

“I chase the sun behind the mist of rain
I traded roses for the deadly nightshade
I find the flaw in every pretty face
I appointed myself the judge and jury”
-The Prisoner by My Dad is Dead

John Gorka - All That Hammering
Big Country - Peace in Our Time
Ash - Detonator
Nat King Cole - Away in a Manger
Carbon Leaf - This is My Song!
My Dad is Dead - The Prisoner
Beach Boys - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Guys and Dolls Soundtrack - More I Cannot Wish You
Split Enz - One Step Ahead
Jill Scott w/ Mos Def - Love Rain

Bonus:
Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice I - A Tale of Two Cities

Side One:
The Cream Experience - Spoonful
The Lucinda Williams Experience - Minneapolis
The Battles Experience - Tonto
The Joni Mitchell Experience - This Flight Tonight
The Kinks Experience - Tired Of Waiting

Side Two:
The Junior Brown Experience - Names and Addresses
The Robyn Hitchcock Experience - Oceanside
The Colorblind James Experience Experience - Buster Cornelius
The Idyll Swords Experience - Abreacion
The Blackalicious Experience - Passion

i don’t like change.

Cleek:

Nice to see you found the place. I was worried that you’d gotten lost in the tubes.

Wow–lot more classic rock here than at the old place.
Pra Que Chorar - Alcione
Hanky Panky Nohow - Yo La Tengo
O Pato - Coleman Hawkins
Ontario, Quebec, and Me - Mary Lou Lord (covering Billy Bragg)
Poise E - Elis and Tom Jobim
Panic - Billy Bragg (covering the Smiths)
Baia - Walter Wanderley
Valentine’s Day is Over - Billy Bragg
Corcovado - Astrud Gilberto
Street Choir - Van Morrison

Hesitating Blues - Leiut. Jim Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry “Hell Fighters” Band
ROCHBERG: Octet; A Grand Fantasia, 10, Molto adagio - The New York Chamber Ensemble/Stephen Rogers Radcliffe
Five Minutes - The Stranglers
(I’m) Stranded - Jim Reid
HAYDN: Sonata in Eb Major Hob XVI:52 - 1. Allegro - Edward Liu
Television Addict - The Victims
Jocko Homo [Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, 5/13/80] - Devo
The Monkey - heh, heh, heh - The Space Monkey [Newport, KY 6/8/01] - 11,000 Switches
PERLE: Wind Quintet Nº 3 (1) - Dorian Wind Quintet
Blisters - The Nightingales

Eh, preview is blank???
Yikes, even with the images on, & thus more downloads to get me fired, no preview. OK, here goes…

If there’s always room for Jello, you should have some DKs in there somewhere.

Surprisingly good random 10, Tbogg.

No randomness for me this week; I’m doing Christmas music at my place.

Yeah, I like Christmas music. You got a problem with that?

You could shuffle your Christmas music. I’ll try this in a couple of weeks for my Christmas Random Ten.

Tom, listen to what you want, and enjoy.

This does tell me one thing, though. You’ve never worked in retail. Work in retail during the holidays, and Christmas music loses all its appeal.

Nice to see you found the place. I was worried that you’d gotten lost in the tubes.

i resisted because i have issues with FDL in general. but since tbogg has his own subdomain, i don’t have to deal with the rest of it. i’ll just pretend his old site got a facelift.

win!

I did that the last couple of years, but decided to go in a different direction this time. This year I’m posting lists of 10 Christmas/holiday songs I really like (in three different categories over three successive Fridays). This week it’s the schmaltzy stuff.

Yeah, I can understand how working in retail would do that–and truth be told, I can barely stand to listen to most of the Christmas music you’re most likely to hear working in retail. I prefer the slightly more out-of-the way stuff, for the most part.

I’m always in the mood for the obscure stuff. Some of my faves:

Noels Celtiques: Celtic Christmas Music From Brittany

Sing We Now of Christmas (Christmas Revels)

also Deller Consort, Paul Hillier, Boston Camerata.

1. Reckoner - Radiohead
2. Sloop John B - Beach Boys
3. We’re Not Alone - Dinosaur Jr.
4. Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash
5. The Ruling Class - Loose Fur
6. The Broad Majestic Shannon - The Pogues
7. Crossroads (Live at Winterland) - Eric Clapton
8. The Pretender - Foo Fighters
9. Thunder On The Mountain - Bob Dylan
10. Natural Mystic - Bob Marley

Bonus

11. Fuck The World - The Vines (How Christmas-y is That!)

Actual Christmas Faves:

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

White Christmas - Otis Redding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeuucY9yxB8

Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) - Darlene Love (also, U2’s version is excellent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbzhrjz_gVc

and, of course,

The whole Charlie Brown Christmas album by Vince Guaraldi

My all-time favorite Christmas song, as written by Cyril Tawney and performed by the Watersons:

The time has come for festivity
For Christmas pudding and revelry
But as I passed out the other night
I heard a small voice next to me:

cho: There are no lights on our Christmas tree
We must not spoil the televee
No party games, no mistletoe
Just whistle “Wenceslas”, and out you go.

‘Bout once a year I become a square
I love to feel the tinsel in my hair
I love to hear the songs of days gone by
But dad and me we don’t see eye-to-eye. [chorus]

The Christmas crackers from uncle Alf
They lie unopened upon the shelf
Dad has forbid them but we’re hoping he
Won’t notice one more bang in Laramy. [chorus]

Some carol singers came to our door -
I’ve never seen dad so mad before.
He grabbed the leader by the coat
And tried to ram his lantern down his throat. [chorus]

When I grow up and become a man
There’ll be no television in my plan
With laughter gay my house will ring
I never want to hear my children sing: [chorus]

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

There is no better. Nothing gives me as much joy as my daughter (12) and son (8) singing along with Shane and Kirsty: “Merry Christmas your arse I pray god it’s our last!”

Second the Pogues love–a great, sad, lovely, gritty song.

1. Vegetable Man – The Soft Boys
2. La Coranto (Byrd) – Musicians of the Globe/Pickett
3. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone – Elvis Presley
4. Greetings to the New Brunette – Billy Bragg
5. There Is No Harm In Trying – The Chills
6. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Sousa) – Eastman Wind Ensemble/Fennell
7. No Reply – The Beatles
8. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) – Bob Dylan
9. With All Your Might – Jay Farrar
10. Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me – Elvis Presley
11. Personent Hodie (anon.) – Cambridge Singers/Rutter

The Xmas tunes squirm in at the end…
Bonus #12: Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream

“The whole Charlie Brown Christmas album by Vince Guaraldi”

With Snoopy on the Western Front? That one? yeeehaaaa, greatest of all time.

I also love a PDQ Bach Christmas, and any true wassailing from England or Ireland. Then, again, I also like cheap beer, the Phillies, and fresh crab sandwiches from the deli down the street.

eMusic has a great essay up about Vince Guaraldi and the Charlie Brown music.

Thanks for the link Tom, but I am thinking of another album. It must have come out somewhere between 69-72, because I was just a tiny little feller then. It was a Peanuts Christmas album, but the focus was on Snoopy as a pilot on the Western Front.

“Christmas bells, oh Christmas bells” was one of the tunes I believe.

Can I still play even though it is now actually Friday night?

Here goes from iTunes cuz I’m too damn lazy to go get my shuffle:
1″Breakaway” - Basement Jaxx
2 “The Bitch is Back” - Elton John
3 “Satisfaction” - Benny Benassi and teh Biz (used in a Wendy’s commercial a while back)
4 “Africa” - Toto
5 “Try” - Nelly Furtado
6 “Out Come the Freaks” - Was (not Was)
7 “Here it Goes Again” - ok go
8 “I Fall to Pieces” - Patsy Cline
9 “Sailed On” - Landon Pigg
10 “Little Red Corvette” - Prince

Bonus track: “Love Found Me” - DecembRadio

Okay, I’m stumped. I have no recollection of that, and can’t find anything about it on Amazon.

The way after pre-Friday random tennish from rainy Sandy Eggo

1. “Eep Opp Ork Ah-ah (Means I Love You)” - Violent Femmes
2. “The Star of the County Down” - The Irish Rovers
3. “Joey” - Concrete Blond
4. “Dead Mens’ Chest” - The Jolly Rogers
5. “Brave Sir Robin” - Spamalot: Cast Recording
6. “The Voice of Enigma” - Enigma
7. “Green Grow the Rashes, O” - Unknown Artist
8. “We Will All Go Together” - Tom Lehrer
9. “Electric Requiem” - Queensryche
10. “Manic Depression” - Seal & Jeff beck

No prob, I’ll just call my little sister (little, she’s a mom with two kids) I know she has the goods.

I found it Tom. It’s an album by the Royal Guardsmen …

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i…..SS500_.jpg

Absolutely awesome album. Man I love that stuff, good memories for sure.

Oh, of course–I wondered if that might be what you were talking about. Snoopy vs. the Red Baron I do remember, and I loved it when I was a kid.

Here’s a nice writeup on the whole gig …

http://members.aol.com/Shake6677/DFroyalg.html

Pet • Vagantis
This Love’s Gonna Fly • Cactus Brothers
Freakin’ • Idle Wilds
E-Pro • Beck
Voodoo Dreams/Voodoo • Les Baxter
Tequila • Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Kick Me Around • The V-Roys
Whoville • Stone Deep
Stumbling • Tak Shindo
The Girl From Ipanema • Walter Wanderley
Latin Trip • Latin Playboys

Fri. night post-10: (What fun!)
Caravan - Duke Ellington
The Fool on the Hill - Beatles
Tears Before Bedtime - Elvis Costello
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2 - Flaming Lips
Open Sesame - Prezident Brown
Call it Stormy Monday - BB King and Albert Collins
Tomorrow is the Question - Ornette Coleman
Look What You’ve Done for Me - Al Green
Second That Emotion - Garcia, Saunders,, Kahn, Vitt
Meditation - Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin