Hey guys. Good Friday from Europe.

1. One way or Another – Blondie
2. Homeward Bound – Simon and Garfunkel
3. Comin’ up from Behind – Marcy Playground
4. Steady as she Goes – The Raconteurs
5. Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America – Gym Class Heroes
6. Atomic Dog – George Clinton
7. And it Stoned Me – Van Morrison
8. Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
9. Grace – Supergrass
10. Do you want me? – Salt-N-Pepa

and because it’s already Friday in the Grand Duchey
11. Too Lost in You – Sugababes
12. Wonderwall – Oasis

Didn’t embarrass myself too much there, I hope. Have a great day everyone.

Open Up, Leftfield
Just An Object, Ween (easily the creepiest serial killer ballad Nick Cave never wrote)
Idiots are taking over, NOFX (first and best anti Bush-era album I bought, this one’s a beauty)
Keep Fishin, Weezer (video = best Muppet Show ever)
Weapon of Choice, Fatboy Slim
Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz, Mr Bungle
I Will Not Die, Front End Loader (awesome, now defunct Aussie indy rock)
Spitalfields, Red Snapper
Stink Foot, Frank Zappa
Prison Sex, Tool

Bonus: Medical Love Song, Monty Python. Gotta love a song with the opening line “Inflammation of the foreskin, reminds me of your smile”

Randomosity is on hiatus this week, as my iPod is currently being used for the entire BBC Radio version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

“Don’t Panic”. Truly a message for these times.

Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst
after a hard day of nothin’ much at all
Summer’s passed, it’s too late to cut the grass
There ain’t much to rake anyway in the fall

And sometimes I just ain’t in the mood
to take my place in back with the loudmouths
You’re like a picture on the fridge that’s never stocked with food
I used to live at home, now I stay at the house

And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?

Well a drinkin’ buddy that’s bound to another town
Once the police made you go away
And even if you’re in the arms of someone’s baby now
I’ll take a great big whiskey to ya anyway

Everybody wants to be someone’s here
Someone’s gonna show up, never fear
’cause here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one who feels ashamed?

Kneeling alongside old Sad Eyes
He says opportunity knocks once then the door slams shut
All I know is I’m sick of everything that my money can buy
The fool who wastes his life, God rest his guts

First the lights, then the collar goes up, and the wind begins to blow
Turn your back on a pay-you-back, last call
First the glass, then the leaves that pass, then comes the snow
Ain’t much to rake anyway in the fall

1. Everybody Hurts – R.E.M. (live)
2. Satellite – Son Volt
3. Way It Goes – Vic Chesnutt w. M. Ward & Howe Gelb
4. In The Evening – Led Zeppelin
5. Lord Of This World – Black Sabbath
6. Don’t Cry – Neil Young
7. You Could Have It So Much Better – Franz Ferdinand
8. Ballad Of Carol Lynn – Whiskeytown
9. Here Comes A Regular – The Replacements (live)*
10. Corner Soul – The Clash

Bonii:

11. Trail Of Fire – The Frames
12. Here Comes Alice – Jesus & Mary Chain

*From my alltime favorite-named bootleg, “Shit, Shower & Shave”

“All I know is I’m sick of everything that my money can buy/The fool who wastes his life, God rest his guts” is one of the great lines in popular music.

1. “Az Idvözitöt Regenten” ­ Anonymous 4
2. “School” ­ Nirvana
3. “This Jesus Must Die” ­ Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
4. “Swan Lake: Guests Arrive” ­ P.I. Tchaikovsky
5. “Mass in C Major ‘Coronation’: Credo” ­ W.A. Mozart
6. “This Fire” ­ Franz Ferdinand
7. “I¹m Five Years Ahead of My Time” ­ The Third Bardo
8. “Sweet Hony Sucking Bees” ­ John Wilbye
9. “Bloomdido” ­ Dizzy Gillespie
10. “Jesu Mein Herzens Freud” ­ J.S. Bach

Bonus:
11. “Slavonic Dance Op. 46 #5″ ­ Antonin Dvorak
12. “Did I Tell You” ­ Yo Lo Tengo

Yo Lo Tengo. I am now officially cool.

Side One
Andrew Bird – The Naming Of Things
Gillian Welch – Pocahontas
NOD – Disguise
Unconscious Objector – Tinnitusstimulus
…Trail Of Dead – After The Laughter

Side Two
Stereolab – Infinity Girl
Adam Richman – Mary-Anne
Robyn Hitchcock – Nocturne (demise)
Billie Holiday – Swing Brother, Swing
Rob Zombie – Call Of The Zombie

1. Tania – Camper Van Beethoven
2. The Thrill of It All – Roxy Music
3. Love Love Love – The Mountain Goats
4. These Flowers – Martha Wainwright
5. The Gateway Song – Super Furry Animals
6. The Forgotten Fridays – The Minus 5
7. Opposite Day – Andrew Bird
8. Save the Country – Laura Nyro
9. Hello Amsterdam – American Music Club
10. Objects of My Affection – Peter Bjorn and John

A little too much indie rock, but other than, not bad.

1-Fast Car-Tracy Chapman
2-Slim Slow Slider-Van Morrison
3-My City of Ruins-Bruce Springsteen
4-Memphis in the Meantime-John Hiatt
5-Cute As A Bug-Lyle Lovett
6-Barroom Girls-Gillian Welch
7-Blue Eyes-Uncle Tupelo
8-Fake Empire-The National
9-Precious Time-Van Morrison
10-North to Alaska-Johnny Horton

Bonus: King of Pain-The Police

Like tbogg, I like my list this week.

1. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Blue Lights
2. John Spencer Blues Explosion – Brenda
3. William Bell – Eloise (Hang On In There)
4. The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
5. Sun Kil Moon – Space Travel Is Boring
6. Annie – Always Too Late
7. Death Cab For Cutie – Soul Meets Body
8. Pink Floyd – Breathe In the Air
9. Unwound – Abstractions
10. The Notorious B.I.G. – Respect

Bonus
The Fruit Bats – Spelled In Bones

“Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.”
-Baggy Trousers

1. Baggy Trousers – Madness
2. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her – Simon and Garfunkel
3. Green Flower Street – Donald Fagen
4. Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi – Dervish
5. Rehab – Amy Winehouse
6. Make a Circuit with Me – The Polecats
7. Bring Me to Life – Evanescence
8. Train in Vain – Annie Lennox
9. Single Girl – Lush
10. Elfin Knight – Kate Rusby

Bonus:
One of Our Submarines – Thomas Dolby

That’s a pretty good start to the day.

killing him – amy lavere
song against sex – neutral milk hotel
these days – st vincent
shade and honey – sparklehorse
the mess we’re in – pj harvey
shoot out the lights – richard thompson
dollars and cents – radiohead
astral weeks – van morrison
tangled up in blue – bob dylan
you know who i am – leonard cohen

Never mind the random tens – did you last through the whole 22 innings?

People ask if I’m in love with you
Because I’m sitting here with
Your picture and smiling to myself
I’m kinda lost in my own thoughts of you
My heart speaks before my mind thinks through
And I blush as I say, “Yes”

“So What Chu Sayin?” – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
“Honky Tonk Christmas” – Alan Jackson
“Imperia” – Fountains Of Wayne
“Inoculated City” – The Clash
“Picasso Moon” – Grateful Dead
“Sand In My Shoes” – Dido
“Perfectly Good Guitar” – John Hiatt
“Loving Me 4 Me” – Christina Aguilera
“Show Me A Little Shame” – Ben Harper
“Sexy Sade” – The Beatles

And Special Guest Track: “I Want It That Way” – Kid Power

Just how I like my women, random and shameful.

“World Without You” – Kelly Willis
“See Those Eyes” – Altered Images
“You’re Not Up to Much” – The Fall
“Missing Presumed Drowned (George Martin Knew My Father mix)” – Straitjacket Fits
“Paradise Here Abouts” – Howe Gelb
“Giga Dance” – Deerhoof
“The Girl From Well Lane” – Biff Bang Pow!
“Donna Sumeria” – Mission of Burma
“Misery Loves Company” – The Lovemakers
“Young Liars” – TV on the Radio

Bonus #11: “Rhoda” – Slint

As for an actual random ten:

Tear Stained Letter – Richard Thompson
Christe, Du Lamm Gottes (JS Bach) – Anthony Newman, organ
It’s Been So Long – Trent Summar (covering Webb Pierce)
Take the Coltrane – John Coltrane
Reoccurring Dreams – Husker Du
Rip Off – T. Rex
Walking the Long Miles Home – Richard Thompson
The Emptiest Arms in the World – Merle Haggard
Once Upon a Time: The Story of a Darning Needle (Rogers) – Eastman-Rochester Orch./Hanson
Tone Roads no. 1 (Ives)Detroit Chamber Winds

bonus 11: The Cup Bearers – Sir roland Hanna

JS Bach, Coltrane, Husker Du, Merle, RT – life is good.

once again, from the nano:

Driving with the Brakes On — Del Amitri, Hatful of Rain
One of These Days — Pink Floyd, Meddle
I Know I’ll See You — A Place to Bury Strangers, A Place to Bury Strangers
Careless — Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day
Nothing Ever Happens — Del Amitri, Hatful of Rain
Poor Poor Pitiful Me — Jackson Browne, Enjoy Every Sandwich, a tribute to Warren Zevon
Visionary — Husker Du, Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Like a Hurricane — Neil Young, Live Rust
New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down — LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
Selina’s Melodie Fountain — Sereena Maneesh, Sereena Maneesh

bonus: Shoot Out the Lights (Live) — Richard Thompson, Watching the Dark

fuck, great playlist. what’s that? hey, i like del amitri.

even better, my red sox bopped the detestable yankees yesterday on manny’s 2 HR and beckett’s who’s-yr-daddy pitching. life is gooooood.

danny federici has died.

The New Jersey musician, ‘through his playing and personality, contributed an essential element’ to the spirit of Springsteen’s band.
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
April 18, 2008
Danny Federici, one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, died Thursday. He was 58.

The keyboardist passed away at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after battling melanoma for three years, according to a posting on brucespringsteen.net.

His organ-playing can be heard in the classic “Born to Run,” the 1975 song that launched Springsteen’s career. He also played the organ and glockenspiel in the 1984 hit “Born in the U.S.A.”

Robert Hilburn, former pop critic for the Los Angeles Times, said Federici brought a “soulful seasoning” to the band. “Sometimes it felt like the New Jersey shore, where he came from: sometimes bright, sometimes melancholy,” Hilburn said.

“Danny was a marvelous musician, but for fans . . . his importance went beyond his keyboard work,” Hilburn said. “There has long been a sense of brotherhood and community surrounding the E Street Band and Danny, through his playing and personality, contributed an essential element to that spirit.”

Hilburn said of Springsteen’s concert last week in Anaheim, “You couldn’t help but miss Danny’s presence. Without him, the band was not whole.”

Federici, who has played with Springsteen since the late 1960s, dropped out of the group’s U.S. tour in November to undergo treatment for the skin cancer. He made a special appearance in Indianapolis on March 20.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band began last year its first full-scale U.S. and European tour in four years.

Federici was born in Flemington, N.J., a long car ride from the Jersey shore haunts where he first met kindred musical spirit Springsteen in the late 1960s. The pair often jammed at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., a now-defunct after-hours club that hosted the best musicians in the state.

It was Federici, along with original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez, who invited Springsteen to join their band.

Federici became a stalwart in the E Street Band as Springsteen rocketed from the boardwalk to international stardom. Springsteen split from E Street in the late ’80s, but they reunited for a hugely successful tour in 1999.

Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale and Saturday in Orlando were postponed.

Tu! Low! Tu! Low!

The Post-pre-Friday “glad the wife is re-employed” Random X+

1) “Ecstasty” – Rusted Root
2) “Infected” – Bad Religion
3) “What’s Your Favourite Color?” – Living Color
4) “Among the Living” – Anthrax
5) “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” – The Brodingnagian Bards
6) “Le Copa De Vida (Cup of Life)” – Pure Football Anthems
7) “Bully in the Alley” – Three Pruned Men
8: “Problems” – Love Junkie
9) “Love to Love You” – The Corrs
10) The Bugaloos” – Collective Soul

That was…mixed. Onward to the X+es!

X+1) “Wildwood Flower” – 9,999 Maniacs
X+2) “Desperado” – Johnny Cash

It’s silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man aint truly happy
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why, sign o’ the times

Badsang – Dungen
Head Title (A.K.A Distant Lover) – Marvin Gaye
Smile At You Fleetwood Mac
Waltz Darling (Introducting Lourdes & Pretty Fatt) – Malcolm Mclaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra
People Make The World Go Round – Milt Jackson
Boss On The Boat – Tosca
Lowdown – Boz Scaggs
Wanin Moon – Nicola Conte
What’s the Hurry? – Marianne Faithfull
Sign ‘O’ The Times – Prince

The Bitch Is Back – Elton John
The Cool Shades – Scott Fraser

Gotta give the prize to edub, if only for Tania and Thrill of It All. Meanwhile, I’ve got a pretty goddamn swell list of my own this week:

Johny & the Hurricanes – Crossfire
New Order – In a Lonely Place
Ebb Tides – Big Noise from Waimea
Shriekback – Exquisite Corpse
Fall – Victoria
Wire – On Returning
Ultravox – Quiet Men
Thin White Rope – Take It Home (live)
Wailers – Scratchin’
Dave Alvin – Sinful Daughter

1. Bought And Sold - Dar Williams - End Of The Summer
2. Well Come Back Home - The Byrds - Untitled
3. Boris Gudonov, Act 2, pt.7 - Met Opera - Boris Gudonov
4. Ndinotenda - Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited - Vanhu Vatema
5. Dialogues des Carmélites, opera, FP 159 - Poulenc, Francois - Dialogues des Carmélites (1 of 2)
6. Oh Danny Boy (Instrumental) - Eric Clapton -
7. Kowajo (Come and Dance) - I.K. Dairo M.B.E. & His Blue Spots - Ashiko
8. Dialogues des Carmélites, opera, FP 159 - Poulenc, Francois - Dialogues des Carmélites (2 of 2)
9. Don’t Cry for Me - The Zombies - Greatest Hits
10. I Walk The Line (Revisited) - Johnny Cash & Rodney Crowell - The Legend: Family & Friends [Disc 4]
Bonus: suddenly I felt joy - Gretchen Yanover - Bow and Cello

Brodingnagian Bards? Marc Gunn’s group – he’s got a really nice Irish and Celtic music podcast (but you already know that I’m sure).

Before I do this I always hope nothing embarrassing pops up …. All right, I guess it looks okay.

1. Old and In the Way – Angel Band
2. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm – Billie Holiday
3. You Can’t Do That – The Beatles
4. Sugar Magnolia – The Grateful Dead
5. Wild Night – Van Morrison
6. Love Sneakin’ Up on You – Bonnie Raitt
7. Longing – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
8. Come Rain or Come Shine – Ray Charles
9. New Blue Moon – Traveling Wilburys
10. You Stand By Me – The Who

1) Who never ends, Schizoïd Bass
2) Me Gustas Cuando Callas, Brazilian Girls
3) A Vez do Brasil, Flu
4) hold on hold on, Neko Case (11/05/06 Orange Haus Munich Germany)
5) 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn To Be), Jimi Hendrix
6) The Fly, U2
7) Victoria, Shane MacGowan & The Popes
Helium Heels, Darker My Love
9) A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold Suite, Neil Young (Live At Massey Hall 1971)
10) At All Ends, Yellow Swans

And to celebrate crossing the 7400 mark on songs loaded on my machine, some more:

11) Where We’re Calling From, Doves
12) Rockefeller, The Clumsy Lovers
13) The One You Really Love, The Magnetic Fields

Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready – “Masters Of War”
The Who – “Cook’s County”
Agent Orange – “Everthing Turns Grey”
Erich Kunzel: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – “Alien: Closing Title”
Enya – “Anywhere Is”
Mitsuko Uchida – Mozart: “Piano Sonata #1 In C, K 279 – 1. Allegro”
The Beatles – “Things We Said Today”
Stevie Wonder – “Jesus Children Of America”
Steve Winwood – “Hearts On Fire”
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – “Bring It On Home To Me”

Bonus #11
James Wilsey – “El Dorado”