No FR10 for me, I’m listening to the Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Carl Pilkington complete 1st season, which I just downloaded from the iTunes.

Brilliant.

Yes We Can – Lee Dorsey
Free Four – Pink Floyd
Big Wheel – Tori Amos
Sly – The Cat Empire
Always Love – America
Seminole Bingo – Warren Zevon
Down in Mississippi – Mavis Staples
Yolanda Hayes – Fountains of Wayne
Louisiana 1927 – Aaron Neville
Happy Song – Melissa Ferrick

Happy into the New Year, I hope…

Ok, post-Xmas, pre-Friday:

1. Acony Bell – Gillian Welch
2. Myrna Lee – Blue Mountain
3. American Without Tears – Elvis Costello
4. Someday Baby – Bob Dylan
5. Johnny 99 – Bruce Springsteen
6. My Money – Bap Kennedy
7. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Richard Thompson (yesss!)
8. Turd on the Run – Rolling Stones
9. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – John Lee Hooker
10.Windfall – Son Volt

And a recession-proof bonus:

11.One More Dollar – Gillian Welch

The ‘pod’s on a winning streak, I’d say. Cheers,

Hockeysuit!

“Jacob’s Ladder” – Bruce Springsteen
“It’s Over” – Roy Orbison
“Theme From Endless Summer” – The Sandals
“Uneasy Rider” – BR5-49
“Summertime Blues” – Eddie Cochran
“Mother Nature’s Son” – The Beatles
“4th Time Around” – Bob Dylan
“Moon’s Boogie” – Ralph Mooney
“Torquay” – The Challengers
“Big Mess” – Devo

Bonus #11
“The Call Of The Wrecking Ball” – X

From my less-than-5gb MP3…

“Paper Planes” – M.I.A.
“Unless it Kicks” – Okkervil River
“Neighborhood 1″ – Arcade Fire (ha!)
“Reanimator” – Amon Tobin
“Brighter Day ft. Jukali” – Pinch
“Holy Ghost” – The Bar Kays
“Are You for Real?” – Nino Moschella
“Have You Had Enough?” – ROTFLMAO (Ricki Lee Jones)
“Tell Me” – Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
“Vapor” – Little Big Town

Bonus #11
“Kamera” – Wilco

Bonus #12
“Archangel” – Burial (my non-random choice)

Well, here’s my Random 10 (plus one for extra flavor!) Hope everyone had a lovely holiday, and a good New Year’s coming up.

1) No Excuses – Alice in Chains
2) Protege Moi – Placebo
3) Run – Snow Patrol (ONe of my favorites!)
4) Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to f#@* with – Wu-Tang Clan (sorry bout that one. I like the wu-tang.)
5) Sparks – Coldplay
6) Wild Horses – The Rolling Stones
7) Come Back Around – Feeder
Everybody’s Fool – Evanescence
9) Hear You Me – Jimmy Eat World (Actually not a bad song)
10) She Hates Me – Puddle of Mudd
Bonus 11) I Am the Resurrection – The Stone Roses

If you’ve never heard a Stone Roses album, buy the first one, as it’s amazing. Thanks everyone.

1. Secondary Waltz – Mark Knopfler
2. Lounge – Modest Mouse
3. Political Science – Randy Newman
4. Come On – Lucinda Williams
5. Call To Arms – The Black Angels
6. They Say Its Wonderful – Frank Sinatra
7. Always In Love – Wilco (Live in Montreal 2005)
8. The Late Greats – Wilco

Whoops! Accidentally hit submit before I was done – sorry for the double post.

1. Secondary Waltz – Mark Knopfler
2. Lounge – Modest Mouse
3. Political Science – Randy Newman
4. Come On – Lucinda Williams
5. Call To Arms – The Black Angels
6. They Say Its Wonderful – Frank Sinatra
7. Always In Love – Wilco (Live in Montreal 2005)
8. The Late Greats – Wilco
9. Warning – Notorious B.I.G.
10.Spell – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bonii:

11.Suffer – Staind
12.No One Will Do – Mary J. Blige

Other than two Wilcos in a row (out of 6500 songs), pretty nice variety here.

Desperate for Someone–Minus 5
Not a Second Time–Smithereens
Confession (Harmony Rocket #4)–Charlie Chesterman
Ahead by a Century–Tragically Hip
Rocks and Trees–Arrogant Worms
Meet Me Under the Table (A Drinking Song)–Uncle Bonsai (Did this come up last week, too? Weird.)
They’ll Need a Crane–They Might Be Giants
One Foot in the Grave–Eric Idle
Zebra–Magnetic Fields
Season Cycle–XTC

Bonus, because I have some making up to do for number 2:
This is the Life–Weird Al.

Perhaps I need a bigger iPod.

An arm’s just an arm till it’s wrapped ’round a shoulder
Looped side by side they go steppin’ out together
A note’s just a note till you wake from your slumber
And dare to discover the new melody.

1. God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
2. “No Time At All” from Pippin – Irene Ryan
3. “Scarbo” from Gaspard de la nuit – Ravel (J-P Collard, pno)
4. Hills of Morning – Bruce Cockburn
5. Moody Accordion – Jon Kull
6. Flamenco Sketches – Miles Davis
7. Sweet Is The Melody – Iris Dement
8. It’s Good To Be King – Tom Petty
9. Sleigh Ride – Bugler’s Olde English Xmas
10. “I Guess I’ll Miss The Man” from Pippin – Jill Clayburgh

Stocking Stuffer: Let It Snow – Ella Fitzgerald

Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad – Grateful Dead – Dicks Picks 2: 10/31/71
El Nicoya – Santana – Abraxas
Hate To Lose Your Lovin’ – Little Feat – Let it Roll
Workin’ To Do – Morgan Heritage – Three in One
Who Knows – The WIld Magnolias – Life is a Carniva
54 46, That’s My Number – Toots and the Maytals – Time Tough
Empty Arms – Stevie Ray Vaughn – The Sky Is Crying
Come as You Are – Nirvana – MTV Unplugged
All Things Must Pass – George Harrison - ATMP
Everything Happens to Me – Sonny Rollins – On Impulse

Seems to be a theme happening…
Bonus: Walk On – Neil Young – Decade
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan – Biograph

Auto-Suggestion – Joy Division
Acadian – Mole
Find The River – R.E.M.
Controversy – Prince
Out On The Street Again – Etta James
How Much Are They? – Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay
Mon Coeurv – Micatone
It Don’t Hurt Now – Teddy Pendergrass
Don’t Explain – Billie Holiday (Dzihan & Kamien remix)
Genius of Love – Tom Tom Club

Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys – Equals
Funky Nassau, Pt. 1 – The Beginning Of The End

She’s Nineteen Years Old – Muddy Waters
Innocence Maintained – Jewel
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Over Time – Lucinda Williams
Faht – Phish
Worked It Out Wrong – Chris Isaak
After the Rain has Fallen – Sting
Boy in the Bubble – Paul Simon
Teenage Dope Fiend – Flickerstick
Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World – U2

I’m sorry about the Jewel album, but I do own it. Really. Sorry.

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don’t we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

It’s the fourth day of Christmas, but some randomness ensues:

1. “Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me?” – John Dowland (the non-Sting version)
2. “Sonata VI, Op 2” – Gaetano Boni
3. “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” – The Choir of Kings College (some Christmas lingers)
4. “El Mois de Mai” – London Early Music Consort (Goth Musick)
5. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – Johnny Mathis
6. “Every Day I Write the Book” – Elvis Costello
7. “High Hattin’” – Noel Lester (saw him in concert a few weeks ago)
8. “Brandenburg Concerto #4: 1. Allegro” – J. S. Bach
9. “The Love for Three Oranges: II. Le Magicien Tchelio Et Fata Morgana Jouent Aux Cartes” – Serge Prokofiev
10. “Farewell Speech” – Lou Gehrig (”I consider myself…”)

Bonus:
11. “Two Part Invention #4 in d” – J.S. Bach
12. “A Hard Day’s Night” – Beatles

Looks like a 700-year span. Uncool never sounded quite like this. L&TC, I hope you’re having a good break.

1. Walk On By – Asleep At The Wheel
2. Dirty Love – Frank Zappa
3. Night Life – Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash
4. Tell All The People – The Doors
5. I Bid You Goodnight – Aaron Neville
6. Walls Of Red Wing – Bob Dylan
7. Blues As Blues Can Get – Delbert McClinton
8. Some White People Can Dance – Greg ‘Fingers’ Taylor
9. Mr. Tambourine Man – The Byrds
10. Going Down To Big Mary’s – The Palladins
Bonus: The Hoochi Coochi Coo – Taj Mahal

sick.

Side One
My Morning Jacket – Dancefloors
Crash Test Dummies – At My Funeral (WTF???)
Bowie – Lady Stardust
Midori, Mehta, NY Orch – Dvorak: Violin Concerto Am Op53
Hector – Naked

Side Two
Bauhaus – Silent Hedges
Son Volt – Streets That Time Walks
Kinks – It’s Too Late
Pixies – Mr Grieves
Cassandra Wilson – Blue Light Til Dawn

Neutral Milk Hotel – “Conversation With Robert Schneider”
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – “Nashville Parthenon”
Maria Kalaniemi – “Yxi Kaunis Papillinen Polska”
Black Tambourine – “For Ex-Lovers Only”
The Inhalants – “Kolchak”
Test Dept. and Brith Gof – “Sarff”
Radiohead – “Lucky”
My Bloody Valentine – “Don’t Ask Why”
Silversun Pickups – “Common Reactor”
Dýrðin – “prinsialogum”

Bonus: Galaxie 500 – “Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste”

watching the detectives – elvis costello
give and take – broken family band
we are underused – pavement
black hole sun – soundgarden
quite victories – shipping news
6′1″ – liz phair
because the night – patti smith
how to disappear completely – radiohead
there is no love in this war – gunshy
spaceboy – smashing pumpkins

OK, one more week of ’holiday’ filtering & then it’s back to the stodgy old post-punk:

Swete was the song [anon. c. XVI] – Andrew Lawrence-King
Christmas Time Is Here – Blue Girl
little drummer boy – Kissing Wendy
Little Saint Nick – Toru & Kojima
Christmas On The Block – Go Home Productions
Ebenezer – Children’s Chorus & Bruce Haack
Jingle Bell Rock – Inpatient Music Therapy Program
Santa Claus Tells About His Toy Shop – Gilbert Girard
Goodnight Elephant – Greg D’Amato & Bruce Haack
If You Play ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’ One More Time, I Am Going To F*cking Kill You – ATM

Bonus tape-splicing classic:
Pat-a-Cake; Three Blind Mice; Jingle Bells – The Singing Dogs

I swear this was random:

1. “Lob des hohen Verstandes” (from Mahler, “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”) – Thomas Quasthoff
2. “Everybody Hurts” – R.E.M. (live in Koln)
3. “Festival in Bahia” – McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars
4. “Allerseelen” – Thomas Quasthoff
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 9, “II. Im Tempo Eines Gemachlichen” – Leonard Bernstein
6. “Penetration” – The Stooges
7. “I Know How It Feels to Be Lonely” – Morgana King
8. “Imitation of Life” – R.E.M.
9. “Letter Never Sent” – R.E.M.
10. “Homeward Bound” – Simon & Garfunkel

Bonus non-random (you can tell it wasn’t generated by the IPOD because it’s not Mahler, Thomas Quasthoff or R.E.M.): “Smiley Faces” – Gnarls Barkley

Late. As usual.

cleek, I hope you feel better soon, if you are actually sick and that was not just an editorial comment.

1. Such A Pretty Lie–The Wrens
2. You & I–Cut Off Your Hands
3. Candela–Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, Buena Vista SC
4. Pushover–The Long Winters
5. O Pallanhaare–Lata Mangeshkar & Udit Narayan
6. Black Heart–Calexico
7. Hot You’re Cool–General Public
8. Train From Kansas City–Neko Case
9. Nub–The Jesus Lizard
10. Policy of Truth–Depeche Mode

BONUS: Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft–Robert Pollard

Stop laughing. I still like General Public and I listen to them every day. Well, OK, not every day, but a lot.

Also: Bassets! Beckham looks even more evil than usual in this week’s photo. Satch still looks like a Botticelli angel to me. Maybe it’s the jowls…

1. Cheap Trick – Daytripper (Live)
2. Jonny Lang – Lie To Me
3. Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
4. Derek & The Dominoes – Layla
5. John Lennon – Whatever Gets You Through The Night
6. Riverboat Gamblers – Not The Guy
7. Rush – Summertime Blues
8. Kiss – Deuce
9. Peter Wolf & The Houseparty 5 – You’re Breakin’ My Heart
10. Stranglers – Golden Brown

Bonus:
11. Rush – Red Barchetta
12. Reel Big Fish – Take On Me
13. Ani DiFranco – Cradle And All

You’re Breakin’ My Heart is the song that destroyed Harry Nilsson’s recording career. I used to go to a small bar that played it every night- the bartenders spun the best music! And yes, I have Kiss on my MP3 player. You had to be there to understand it!

All stuff acquired in 2007:

Shriekback – Glory Bumps
Jorge Ben – Ponta da Lance African (Umbabaraumba)
Sleater-Kinney – One Song for You
Cibo Matto – Le Pain Perdu
Mulatu Astatqe – From All the Time I Have Passed
Hüsker Dü – Too Far Gone
Ultravox – My Sex
Roky Erickson – Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)
Sonics – Don’t You Just Know It
Love & Rockets – Kundalini Express

Ha. I even generated the random ten + 1 two days ago and mailed it to myself so I could post while visiting the grandchild in Alabama.

1. Zur Neidhohle fuhr ich bei Nacht - Richard Wagner - Siegfried (Disk 2 of 4)
2. Let It Grow - Grateful Dead - bootleg
3. White Trash Wedding - Dixie Chicks - Home
4. Long Time Gone - Dixie Chicks - Home
5. Pachelbel’s Frolics - Eileen Ivers - Eileen Ivers
6. Weary Blues - Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
7. Blues From an Airplane - Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
8. Jam on Jerry’s Rocks [From Darling Corey] - Pete Seeger - Darling Corey&Goofing-Off Suite
9. Duke’s Travels - Genesis - Duke
10. Feedback - Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Bonus: Not Yet Remembered - Harold Budd and Brian Eno - AMBIENT 2 The Plateaux of Mirror

Neighbor, Neighbor • Maya Angelou
Shame • Lewis Taylor
Thirteen Men • Miss Ann-Margret
This Is the Last Time • Keane
Let The Four Winds Blow • Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation
Stone Cold Dead In The Market • Maya Angelou
Vertigo • U2
Trains & Boats & Planes • Fountains Of Wayne
Feel • Joe, Marc’s Brother
Caravan • 80 Drums Around the World
I’ll Reap My Harvest In Heaven • Maddox Brothers & Rose