If anyone (even S. J.) knew when I was lying, I’d be posting this from a federal supermax facility.

(And shouldn’t that be either Santa Jesusa, or San Jesus?)

Ok, then.

1. I’ll Fly Away – Allison Krause & Gillian Welch
2. All Down the Line – Rolling Stones
3. Ventilator Blues – Rolling Stones
4. Chief of the Fuzzers – The Gourds
5. Drown – Son Volt
6. Cotton Fields – Creedence
7. Downtown – Neil Young
8. Barely Losing – Richmond Fontaine
9. Walkin’ Down the Line – Bob Dylan
10.Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon

And a big performance-enhancing Bonus:

11.Rose in the Vine – Cheri Knight
.
Cheers,
Hockeysuit!

I made a Resolution – Sea Wolf
Love Song – The Cure
Hollaback Girl – Gwen Stefani
All this Time – Heartless Bastards
Ventura Highway – America
Natural’s Not in It – The Gang of Four
Look Into the Air – Explosions in the Sky
Mirror in the Bathroom – The English Beat
Watching The Detectives – Elvis Costello
Saturday Morning – The Eels

Bonus track:
Subdivisions – Rush

ok. i’m breaking into the middle of Slanted and Enchanted for this, so it’d better be damned good!

Side A
Micha Maisky & Pavel Giliov – Brahms Cello Sonata No 1. in Em. Op 43
My Bloody Valentine – Blown A Wish
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Modern Romance
Dinosaur Jr – Sludgefeast
Apollo Sunshine – Flip!

Side B
Andrew Bird – Masterfade
Robyn Hitchcock – The Cheese Alarm
Sufjan Stevens – Riffs and Variations On a Single…blabhlbhablblabhah
Micha Maisky & Pavel Giliov – Brahms Cello Sonata No 1. in Em. Op 71
Silversun Pickups – Rusted Wheel

big night for Brahms!

1. Standin’ Round Crying – Eric Clapton
2. B.A.B.Y. – Carla Thomas
3. Thanks Again – Willie Nelson
4. I Want To Be With You Always – John Prine
5. Can’t You See – The Marshall Tucker Band
6. Trouble In Mind – Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
7. Little Wing – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
8. Sandy Beaches – Delbert McClinton
9. Mr. Tambourine Man – The Byrds
10. Faded Love – Barefoot Jerry
Bonus: Drive – Todd Rundgren

I just received the new Sea Wolf in the mail today.

Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits
Texas Ruby Red – Cris Williamson
Don’t You Cry for Me – Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance
Low Budget – Kinks
When You Were Mine – Prince
Shake off the Demon – Shipley and Brewer
Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
Good Noise – John Gorka
Riley B. King – Keb’ Mo’
The “Ella B” – The Amazing Rhythm Aces

No Ipod

Again, me with no panties .. oh well, here goes …

1. Have a Coke and a Smile — Barry and The Southsiders

2. Funk Me! Funk Me Harder Daddy! — Blue Dog Hoyer and the Nancy Boys

3. The War on Christmas — Grumpydick O’Falafelface

4. Desert Nights (mean never having to say you’re sorry) — Hally and The Burtons

5. Pump Me Up! — Sammi, Joselito and Raffy (with guest appearances by Marky-Snark, Needledick Stumpy and Barry)

6. Love is like a Root Canal — Lil’ Dave and The Tooth Fairies

7. Two Americas (and one bad haircut) — Johnny Breck and The Cattleprods

8. Love Nest No. 7 — Rudy, Judi and the NYPD Memorial Marching Band (recorded live at the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade)

9. Backstroke Boogie — Onionhead Mike and The Jailers (featuring Gonzo The Great on the Waterboard)

10. American Woman (live, acoustic, original cover version) — Clenis McGrabbytits and the Flowers

Yikes, only one from this decade! Sad… Prine plays here in Nashville Sunday, woohooo!

Christmas in Prison – John Prine
The First and Last Time – Billy Joe Shaver
Get On With Your Life – The Allman Brothers
Too Bad – The Faces
I Put a Spell on You – CCR
Reconsider Baby – Doug Sahm
Bayou Drive – Clifton Chenier
Scalped – Dick Dale
Oh Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash

Oops …

Bonus Track …

11. Where Ah’m At? — Deejay Dee-Kaye and The Uninvited

Interrupting my Brian Eno reverie (see Lester Bangs post below)

1.I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now – Johnny Cash
2. You Got This Car – Kasey Chambers
3. Onion Soup – Vic Chesnutt
4. Old to Begin – Pavement
5. O Mary Don’t You Weep – Bruce Springsteen (I was singing this earlier tonight — how does Steve Jobs read my mind?)
6. Indian Wars – Bruce Cockburn
7. Moby Octopad – Yo La Tengo
8. Johnsburg, Illinois – Tom Waits
9. Automaton – Pernice Brothers
10. We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Going – Simon and Garfunkel

pretty damned good, again! FDL Top Ten Lists have been berry berry berry berry berry good to me (Chico Escuela on steroids!)

Saw Prine last summer (’06) here in San Antonio. It’s a damn shame he’s had to restore songs like Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore and Sam Stone to his playlist. But he still puts on a damn fine show.

I love The War on Christmas by Grumpydick O’Falafelface! In fact, that entire CD (A Fox Family Christmas, of course) is a favorite this time of year — who can forget LC Spud’s version of “I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus?”

From the iPod (The “i” stands for “imaginary.”):

“Black Plague” — Pontius Pilate & the Nail-Pounding Four
“Let the Eagle Soar” — Ashcroft & Simpson
“No Talent Sluts From Hell” — Pussycat Dulls
“Never Again” — DJ Dickwad
“Pull the Plug” — Nation of Sheep
“Crab Lice Boogie” — The Dreadful Grate
“You Belong to Me” — L. Ron Hitler
“Farmer John” —- The Premieres
“Voices in My Head” — DSM IV
“Say What?” — Manny, Moe & Melvin

Bonus: “What Kinda Fascist Bee Ess Is This?” — The All New FDL Common Taters

As the ships and the steel
Slip away to the cry of ‘compete’
There’s a message for us
We can get there by bus

“Takin’ It To The Streets” – Doobie Brothers
“Killermont Street” – Fountains of Wayne
“I’m Only Out For One Thang” – Ice Cube
“Joy To The World” – Ed Ames
“The Judgment” – Elvis Costello
“Sweet Dreams” – Air Supply
“Babylon” – David Gray
“Lil’ Homies” – 2pac
“Goodnight Louise” – Boz Scaggs
“One Step Closer To You” – Michael Franti and Spearhead with Pink

Special Bonus Track: “Church” – Big Boi

Barefoot Jerry? That’s incredible!

Yeah, he did both those when he played The Ryman on his Fair and Squared tour, and they were very timely still, unfortunately. This time he has sold out the new symphony hall, playing w/ Mac Wiseman some Standard Songs for Average People. The joys of living in Nashville hit home last Christmas. I was shopping at Target on Dec. 23 and picked up a copy of Sweet Revenge for my nephew. About five minutes later, in the electronics section, I ran into Prine. I just smiled and nodded, as did he. Almost as awesome as sitting next to Lucinda Williams at the bar at 12th & Porter for a show…she was drinking red wine…

Yikes, only one from this decade! Sad…

This decade is vastly overrated. I would be far more ashamed of having only songs from this decade.

Husker Du – No Promise Have I Made
Cracker – Low
84 Rooms – Tell Me All About Her
Shonen Knife – My Favorite Town Osaka
Johnny & the Hurricanes – Buckeye
New Order – Mesh
Kristin Hersh – Trouble
Thin White Rope – Sack Full of Silver
Ultravox – Blue Light
Velvet Underground – Waiting for the Man

iTunes is in an oldies mood tonight:

“I stay away” – Alice in Chains
“”Times they are a changin’” – Bob Dylan
“Corcovado” – Miles Davis & Gil Evans
“A Pillow of Winds” – Pink Floyd
“Sing a Simple Song” – Sly and the Family Stone
“American Idiot” – Green Day
“Thousand miles from nowhere” – Dwight Yoakum
“Cisco Kid” – War
“Mississippi queen” – Mountain
“Little Green” – Joni Mitchell – Alice in Chains

Bonus #11: “Umi Says” – Mos Def

Where the hell did “Mississippi Queen” come from?

Nice! Something to Du by The Replacements popped up on the shuffle recently. Had to pull up some H.D. after that.

I’ve been wanting to play this game for a long time, and I finally got an iPod…

Le Disko (TS Brooklyn Fire Remix)- Shiny Toy Guns
Always Be There – Basement Jaxx
Killing An Arab – The Cure
Mr. Blue Sky – ELO
The Cubist News – Fila Brazilia
Girl U Want – Devo
Stand Together – Beastie Boys
Killer On The Rampage – Eddy Grant
Earthquake Weather – Beck
Headland – Johnny Marr
BONUS: Soledad – Mano Negra

Wow. Pretty new-wave influenced list. Didn’t even plan it or nothin’.

Fuck you Tipper Gore!

And fuck the PMRC.

Tommy The Cat–Primus
The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin’)–The Beastie Boys
Penny Lane–The Beatles
Ghost–Phish
Prosthetic Head–Green Day
My Friend Fats–Primus
Bad Town–Operation Ivy (Yessss!!!!!!)
Romance–R.E.M
Thank You–Led Zeppelin
The Reflex–Duran Duran

The reflexive numero onze:
Fins–Jimmy Buffett

Duplicate Primus song replaced by:

Soma–The Strokes

OP IVY FUCKING RULES!!!

Operation Ivy Pre-Friday No. 10–

Sound System
Take Warning
The Crowd
Bombshell
Unity
Bankshot
Vulnerability
Caution
Artificial Life
Healthy Body

OP IVY RUCKING FULES!!!

Long-time reader, first time participant

Best of My Love – Eagles
’s Wonderful – Ella Fitzgerald
When the Stars Go Blue – Ryan Adams
Mama’s Pearl – Jackson 5
Don’t Know How – Joss Stone
Last night I Had the Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Pony – Kasey Chambers
Pocahontas – Johnny Cash
Spiderwebs – No Doubt
Minority – Green Day

Bonus (obscure as it is):
To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament – Sufjan Stevens

Now that is a random ten (with only mild embarrassment involved)

Sharks, Tragically Hip
Golem II, Mr Bungle
Lathe, Jimmy Silva (Off the Scott McCaughey album “My Chartreuse Opinion”)
Funeral Flowers, Thom Beckman
They Got Lost, They Might Be Giants
Song for Dennis Brown, Mountain Goats
Sleeping With Nero And Dreaming Of Smokey The Bear, Charlie Chesterman
I Crush Everything, Jonathan Coulton (squid!)
Get Back in Line, Minus 5
Mr Pinstripe Suit, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Bonus: Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon

We started pretty well. Most of the middle stuff was pretty good. I’m amazed it took to number 9 to get a Minus 5, and we should have stopped there. Number 10 probably made JesuSanta cry, but believe me it could have been worse.

ackfoo–

We’re all merely participants.

First timers, five hundredth timers.

It’s just an exercise in musicity.

Also a long time lurker, first time w. the random ten…

Regard de Hauteurs – Messiaen
Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash
I Was A Teenage Werewolf – The Cramps
Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello
Turn It Up – The Didjits
He Can Only Hold Her – Any Winehouse
Barbarella (Deep Dish Armageddon Breakdown Remix – Sasha and Digweed
In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning – Frank Sinatra
Goodbye Mr. Policeman – The Didjits
Manha de Carnival – Luiz Bonfa
– Sin City Disciples

Bonus track 11 =
Bubblegum – Sonic Youth

oops, don’t know how this happened…

Garter Belt – Sin City Disciples

Jeez, Amy Winehouse, need a preview button…

Good Evening everyone. (Or Morning as I’m in Europe posting this.)

Random 10
1) Starry Eyed Surprise – Oakenfold
2) Inbetweener – Sleeper
3) Down in a Hole – Alice in Chains (wow, that’s not depressing in the morning.)
4) Right Here Right Now – Jesus Jones
5) Anybody Seen My Baby – Rolling Stones
6)(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister – The Stone Roses
7) Cleaning Windows – Van Morrison
Last Living Souls – Gorillaz
9) Deeper Shade of Soul – Urban Dance Squad
10)Lie in our Graves – Dave Matthews Band (how’d that get in there!)

Bonus Random Track
11) Nice Weather For Ducks – Lemon Jelly

Hope everyone has a great Friday.

Tom, for what it’s worth, “Slave to Love” is solo Bryan Ferry and not a Roxy Music cut, even when it comes off that very good comp that melds them together.

Music of the Season et al.:

Cool Yule – Kurt Elling
Don’t Smoke In Bed – Peggy Lee
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen – Unknown Jazz Pianist
Manhattan Island – Herbie Hancock
Smile Please – Stevie Wonder
Sex Kills – Joni Mitchell
It’s A Good Day – Peggy Lee
Leave Me Here – Hem
Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales #3 – Ravel (A. Rubinstein, pno)
Cinema Paradiso – Ennio Morricone

Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don’t say “when.”
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens,
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.

On Christmas Day you can’t get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.

‘Tis the season, so here is a pre-Friday set of random Christmas tunes:

1. “Primo Tempore Alleviata” – Anonymous 4 – A Star in the East
2. “Away in a Manger” – The Night Heron Consort – A Celtic Celebration
3. “Go Tell It on the Mountain” – Mahalia Jackson – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
4. “Uebers Gebirg’ Maria Geht” – Dresden Kreuzchor – Silet Night – Famous German Carols
5. “Bransle de Poictou/La Bona Novella” – Boston Camerata – A Renaissance Christmas
6. “Frosty, the Snow Man” – Canadian Brass – A Canadian Brass Christmas
7. “The Boar’s Head Carol” – Revels – The Christmas Revels
8. “What My Father Did on Christmas Eve” – Veggie Tales – The Incredible Singing Christmas Tree (how did that get here?)
9. “In Dulci Jubilo” – The Choir of Kings College – A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
10. “O Holy Night” – Bobby Clifton Orchestra – Santa’s Little Helper (my wife bought this…honest)

Bonus (please no clunkers – I should have cheated):
11. “Maoz Tzur” – Revels – Sing We Now of Christmas
12. “J’ay Ouy la Voix” – Revels – Sing We Now of Christmas

Whew. Finally. One of my better CDs.

I’ve got 24 stations on Pandora (no IPod) and put them all on a random
“QuickMix” and this is the first 10:

1. “Pills I Took” — Hank Williams III
2. “Craziest” — Naughty By Nature
3. “Wake Me Shake Me” — The Blues Project
4. “Slow Death” — The Flamin’ Groovies
5. “Today” — Smashing Pumpkins
6. “Come Stranger” — Johnny Cash (early version)
7. “A Soldier’s Dream” — Sleep Station
8. “New Rose” — The Damned
9. “The Shoop Shoop Song” — Betty Everet
10. “Dropout Boogie” — Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Bonus track: “Art Star” — The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Man, it’s tough around here for East Coasters. gotta get up pretty early in the morning to get an early comment.

Well, here goes nothing:

The Doug Martsch Orchestra: The Night Has Opened My Eyes (Smiths Cover Live @ St. John’s Pub)
The Bob Dylan Orchestra: Backwater Blues (Leadbelly)
The Crackerbash Orchestra: Bite
The Iron & Wine Orchestra: Watch and Chain (Live The Social, Orlando)
The Minutemen Orchestra: Corona (Live Berkley Square)
The Yo La Tengo Orchestra: Somebody’s Baby (T. Petty cover Live @ Lounge Axe)
The Bonnie “Prince” Billy Orchestra: The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (Live Ljubljana)
The Mountain Goats Orchestra: Pure Honey
The Sebadoh Orchestra: Rebound (Live @ Shepherds Bush 1995)
The Minders Orchestra: More and More

Bonus Youtube video highlight:
Talking Heads Live Soundcheck 1982 Wembley Arena (My Big Hands)

dsidhe:

Song For Dennis Brown is a beauty. Ever heard hm do it live? It is haunting.

Tom, for what it’s worth, “Slave to Love” is solo Bryan Ferry and not a Roxy Music cut, even when it comes off that very good comp that melds them together.

That’s what I thought, but last night I couldn’t recall which album it was originally on (Boys & Girls).

Phoenix City – Roland Alphonso
Karma – Pascal
Fade Away – Thomas Leer & Robert Rental
The Jitterbug – Judy Garland
Housewives Choice – Derrick Morgan & Patsy Todd
Singin’ In The Rain – Judy Garland
Magic Moments – RIAA
Technique Street – The Homosexuals
Portofino #2 – Raymond Scott
In My Room – The Langley Schools Project

bonus:
[phone calls re lost dog] – Mrs. McWiggin
According to “preview” this page isn’t letting me create proper links, so the story on this one is at blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/365-days-230—.html in case http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/…..8212;.html is not clickable.

Ah, now the link does work. Just don’t believe “preview”.

I thought I was the only Rundgren fan-TBogg reader. Sweet! Drive would make a great ringtone.

Broken Boy Soldier – The Raconteurs
Boredom – Ninja Custodian (Hooray for USB input devices and cassette tapes from the 90s! The best band to ever emerge from Burlington, VT. Would’ve destroyed Phish in a rock-off.)
Tribute – Tenacious D
Uncle Walter – Ben Folds
Catch a Wave – Beach Boys
Gravity – Embrace
Leif Erikson – Interpol
The Divide – Tenacious D
Reel Around the Sun – Riverdance (Ouch. And I was doing so well with my underground music street cred.)
The Ploughman – Dervish (On the other hand, the mix of newage celtic into true celtic folk was quite pleasant. Definitely better than the other way round.)

Bonus: (2 because the Divide is 30 seconds of nonsense)
Wipe it Off – Lonnie Johnson
Suddenly I See (Live) – KT Tunstall

1-The 59th Street Bridge Song – Simon and Garfunkel
2-The Way Young Lovers Do – Van Morrison
3-Birdhouse in Your Soul – They Might Be Giants
4-Don’t Go Back to Rockville – REM
5-The Best Is Yet To Come – Frank Sinatra
6-Born In The 50’s – The Police
7-Love Letter-Bonnie Raitt
8-A Pirate Looks At 40 – Jimmy Buffett
9-Can’t Let Go – Lucinda Williams
10-The Hardest Part – Ryan Adams

Bonus-Tenth Avenue Freeze Out – Bruce

Wow, kind of an easy listening set until the end. Why does my shuffle always play so much Frank?

No Surprises Radiohead
Here Comes A City The Go-Betweens
Young Man Blues The Who
Gravity Talks Green On Red
Just Got Lucky JoBoxers
Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers
Diamond In Your Mind Solomon Burke
Hideaway Grateful Dead
Girl Inform Me The Shins
Out of the Picture Son Volt
The Light Pours Out Of Me Magazine

‘Tis the season, so here is a pre-Friday set of random Christmas tunes:

Posted my own (non-random) Christmas list at the home blog. This week, it’s the hip & snarky stuff.

No longer pre-Friday random 10. Definitely nothing from the last decade.

1. “My Town” – Kate and Anna McGarrigle
2. “It’s Not Funny Anymore” – Husker Du
3. Something from one of the Mahler symphonies — “Part I: Hymnus ‘Veni, Creator Spiritus’” – Leonard Bernstein & the Vienna Symphony
4. “Cello Suite # 4 in E Flat, S1010″, Allemande – Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
5. “Please Mister Postman” – The Beatles
6. “Becalmed” – Brian Eno
7. “The Invisible Eagle” – John Philip Sousa, Band of the Grenadier Guards
8. “Mut” from “Winterreise” – Schubert, Bernard Weikl
9. “War” – Edwin Starr
10. “Super Freak” – Rick James

Bonus track: “Skating in Central Park” – Bill Evans & Jim Hall

When the movie is made of my life, “Becalmed” will be played at the end as the camera tracks up and over the ocean.

map of africa – map of africa
visions – stevie wonder
sweet thang – shuggie otis
cosmic messenger – jean-luc ponty
spelling bee – missy elliott
revolution solution (f. perry farrell) – thievery corporation
dreamland – joni mitchell
5 8 6 – new order
languta – hugh masekela
one more night (12″ Mix) – phil collins

get into my groove – incognito
jimmy james – the beastie boys

The Friday and my machines aren’t running Random tennish

1) “Cast From the House of Trip” – Berzerkistan
2) “Hateful” – The Clash
3) “I Don’t Need a Hero” – Concrete Blonde
4) “All For One” – Spamalot: Cast Recording
5) “Antface” – Ghetto Scheist
6) “The Long Black Veil” – The Chieftains feat. Mick Jagger
7) “Spirits in the Material World” – The Police
VIII) “The Reflex” – Duran Duran
9) “At the Zoo” – Simon & Garfunkel
10) “Speak” – Queensryche

Bonus “where the hell are my damn earphones?!” tracks

11) “Fortune Plange Vulnera” – Carmina Burana: Prague Festival Orchestra
12) “Good Luck to the Barley Mow” – The Irish Rovers
13) “Sweating Bullets” – Megadeth

Wow…double love for old school San Diego metal, with a bizarre mix of everything else.

1. I’m Just a Lucky So and So – Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
2. When Prince was a Kid – Jonathan Fireater
3. Get Back – The Beatles
4. Pili Me Ka`u Manu – Israel Kamakawiwo`ole
5. Gamelan Beleganjur – Gilak
6. Right Before My Eyes – Moby Grape
7. Got Me Under Pressure – ZZ Top
8. Yahliw (You Little Beauty) – Hassam Ramzy
9. Wrecking Ball – Neil Young
10. Crying – Roy Orbison

Thanks for the Operation Ivy. Never heard of ’em, I’ll be searching for more. From that one song I get a Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet vibe — nice. (Speakinawitch: Updated for the Bush era: ”6 American 5 Canadian”…)

1. Run - New Order - the best of New Order
2. Insight - Joy Division - The Complete BBC Recordings [Live]
3. She’s Not There [Stereo Underdub Version] - The Zombies - Greatest Hits [Super Audio CD]
4. Long Black Veil - Grateful Dead -
5. Dig A Pony - The Beatles - Let It Be
6. Gavotta con due variazioni - Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella
7. Victim or the Crime - Grateful Dead - Without a Net (2nd set)
8. Give Up the Funk - Parliament - Tear the Roof Off: 1974-1980 (
9. Grand Canyon - Pepper D’Agostino - Every Step Of The Way
10. Laride – An Dro - Kornog - Premiere
Bonus: Johann Pachelbel- Canon & Gigue - The Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood - Pachelbel Canon- Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck

(Speakinawitch: Updated for the Bush era: ”6 American 5 Canadian”…)

You know, I’ll never be able to hear that song the original way again.

“Cool Dry Place” – Travelling Wilbury’s
“Yellow Bird” – The Ventures
“Spoonful” – Howlin’ Wolf
“To Be Alone With You” – Bob Dylan
“What’s Wrong With Me?” – X
“A Picture From The Other Side” – Woody Guthrie
“Shiny Happy People” – R.E.M.
“Bugle Call Rag” – Benny Goodman
“Further On Up The Road” – Eric Clapton (live)
“Jungle Boogie” – Kool & The Gang

Bonus #11
“Hurt” – Johnny Cash