TBOgg, thank you for Elbow. Been praising them a long time.

My 10 from Luxembourg.
1) Johnny I hardly Knew ya – Dropkick Murphys
2) Long Way Home – Lost Prophets
3) Do Right – Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
4) (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone – Monkees
5) Special K – Placebo
6) Step On – Happy Mondays
7) Spoonman – Soundgarden
You Blew Me Off – Bare Jr.
9) Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney and Wings
10) Orange Crush – REM

and two more for the long weekend
11) I can see for Miles – The Who
12) Let’s Push Things Forward – The Streets

Wow, good 10 today. Have a good weekend y’all.

1. Billy and Bonnie – Steve Earle
2. Stars On The Water – Rodney Crowell
3. Your Lucky Day In Hell – Eels
4. Judgement of the Moon and Stars – Joni Mitchell
5. Blood Red River – Beth Orton
6. Behind That Locked Door – George Harrison
7. Shut Your Mouth – Garbage
8. The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix
9. King of the Jailhouse – Aimee Mann
10. Mother John Lennon

and if all else fails …
11. Get Myself Arrested Gomez

Epistrophy- Thelonius Monk Quartet
Memories of Professor Longhair- Dr. John
Stepped in What?- Johnnie Johnson
Yakety Axe- Mark Knopfler
Brain Cloudy Blues- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Flamenco Sketches- Miles Davis
Fantasized- Robert Cray
Rosa Majeur- Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band
A Sunday Kind of Love- Etta James
Dance a La Negres- Dr. John

Bonus 2-

The Georgia Grind- Craig Ventresco
Christmas Ball Blues- Leon Redbone

Program 1
AC/DC – Walk All Over You
The Feelies – Moscow Nights
Son Volt – Straightface

Program 2
Jennifer Nettles Band – Change
Soft Boys – Song #4 (outtake)
Silver Jews – The Moon Is The Number 18

Program 3
The Wrens – 13 Months in 6 Minutes
Pavement – Spit On a Stranger
John Hiatt – Learning How To Love You

Program 4
The Rapture – Open Up Your Heart

Last week, someone mentioned an LP Random 10. I can report that this is possible to do using a tape measure and an on-line random number generator. Algorithm available upon request. I should add that record collecting stopped some time around 1983 when grad school soaked up my disposable income, and that I was trying to build the ultimate classical music collection.

Side 1 (in keeping with the spirit)
1. “Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat major: Movement 4 – Allegretto grazioso” – Johannes Brahms
2. “Siegfried, Act 2, scene 2” – Richard Wagner
3. “Glow Worm” – Spike Jones
4. “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act 2 scene 6” – Richard Wagner
5. “A Poem on the Underground Wall” – Simon and Garfunkel

Side 2
1. “Ave Verum Corpus” – William Byrd
2. “Piano Quintet in A Major ‘the Trout’: 3. Scherzo: Presto” – Franz Schubert
3. “Slavonic Dance Op 72 #7” – Antonin Dvorak
4. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” – Bing Crosby
5. “Götterdämmerung, Act 1, scene 1” – Richard Wagner

Bonus (45 rpm):
A. “Up on the Housetop” – Eddy Arnold (we must have inherited that one)
B. “Symphonie Espagnole: 3: Intermezzo: Allegro non troppo” – Edouard Lalo

Oh yeah, I was big into Wagner at the time.

Checkin’ It Out – The Donnas (American Teenage Rock ‘n’ Roll Machine)
Weapon Of Choice – Fatboy Slim (Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars)
T34 – Mark Norman (Paul Van Dyk/The Politics of Dancing 2)
Cops And Robbers – The Humpers (Positively Sick on 4th St.)
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65: II, Allegretto – London Symphony Orchestra/Mistislav Rostapovich (Shostakovich Symphony No.
Voices (Slacker’s Dumbstruck Mix) – Sasha and Digweed (Sasha and Digweed Communicate (Disc I)
Shine On Moon – Lightnin’ Hopkins (The Essential Recordings)
Hook It Up – The Donnas (Get Skintight)
Passing Cloud – The Stooges (The Weirdness)
Sanctuary – Jimmy Van M @ Sanctuary (John Digweed/Global Underground 019)

and some bonus tracks for the double dose of Donnas & Digweed above…

Pipeline – Johnny Thunders (Have Faith)
Don’t Mix The Colors – Beat Happening (Beat Happening)
Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time – Funkadelic (America Eats Its Young)

This has been one of my favorite Random Tens, I love almost all of these songs, and it’s more representative of what I listen to.

Oh, and Paul Van Dyk called to apologize, said he didn’t want to throw gasoline on the fire; I thought that was the Humpers job…

Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
I Am Not My Hair – India Arie & Akon
The Moment Slipped Away – Christine Lavin
Only When you Leave – Spandau Ballet (I was dreading this day…ah well.)
Hodja – Todd Rundgren
Cigarette – Ben Folds Five
Ring the Alarm – Beyonce
Cliche – Todd Rundgren
Heartbreak World – Matt Nathanson
Beat the Drum – Great Big Sea

Bonus:
Saved by Zero – The Fixx

No complaints but that is a pretty nerdy set.

1-Broke Down – Slaid Cleves
2-Lean On Me – Bill Withers
3-Holiday – Green Day
4-U+Ur Hand – P!nk
5-Jacksonville Skyline – Whiskeytown
6-Either Way – Guster
7-Feels Like Rain – John Hiatt
8-Everybody Wants To Rule the World – Tears for Fears
9-The Hands That Built America – U2
10-Sex and Candy – Marcy’s Playground

Bonus: Willin’ – Little Feat
Bonus Bonus: Barricades and Brickwalls – Kasey Chambers

My most representative ten (twelve) EVAH.

TBogg,

We’re digging that modern sound of Foxboro Hot Tubs as well…

Here’s the ten:

Please Don’t Rock Me Tonight–Fountains Of Wayne
Her Majesty–The Beatles
Stink Foot–Frank Zappa
Waiting In Vain–Bob Marley
Canary–Liz Phair
Inside–Chomsky
She–Green Day
Come Home To Me–Steve Earle
Indoor Fireworks–Elvis Costello
Let Me Just Follow Behind–Bette Midler

Weatherman – Shoulders – Trashman Shoes (1992)
Blueprint – Russian Spy Camera – You Are a Vulture (2006)
Sunshine – The Prostitutes – Get Me Out Of Here (2006)
Jerusalem – Sinéad O’Connor – The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
Title Track – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (2007)
Sidewinder – Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (1991)
Woke Up New – The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely (2006)
Sad Sad Song – Tilly and the Wall – Sad Sad Song 7″ (2003)
Dancing Lights/Slow Machines – The Foundry Field Recordings – Fathers as Robots EP (2003)
Big Ships – Audrey – The Fierce and the Longing (2008)
Bonus Tracks
A Knife for the Ladies – Sort Sol – Everything That Rises, Must Converge (1987)
Le Chaos – Miou Miou – La La Grande Finale (2006)

1/The Samples/St.Mary’s Bell
2/Harry Connick Jr./I’ll Dream Of You Again
3/Erik Satie/(something too long to type)
4/John Coltrane/My Shining Hour
5/Slim Cessna’s Auto Club/Cheyenne
6/Erik Satie/(another one too long to type)
7/The Cranberries/No Need To Argue
8/Vigilantes Of Love/Unsuccessful
9/R.E.M./Let Me In
10/Leonard Cohen/First We Take Manhattan

that sucked

1. Curiosity Killed the Cat, “Mile High” (Keep Your Distance)
2. Front 242, “Tragedy (For You) (Punish Your Machine Mix 7”) (“Tragedy (For You)” CDS)
3. Prime Movers, “Strong As I Am” (Manhunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
4. Fini Tribe, “I Want More” (“I Want More” 12” single)
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark, “The Beginning and the End” (Architecture and Morality)
6. Cabaret Voltaire, “Talking Time” (The Crackdown)
7. Wire, “Ahead” (The Ideal Copy)
8. New Order, “True Faith” (Substance)
9. Big Audio Dynamite, “Around the Girl in 80 Ways” (Megatop Phoenix)
10. Peter Godwin, “Baby’s In the Mountains” (Images of Heaven)

One more to continue the 80s collage rock theme:

11. The Heartthrobs, “White Laughter” (Cleopatra Grip)

1. Number One Zero – Audioslave
2. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her – Simon & Garfunkel
3. April She Will Come – Simon & Garfunkel (???)
4. Trusted – Ben Folds
5. You’re Supposed to Be My Friend – 1990s
6. I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash
7. Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
8. John Saw That Number – Neko Case
9. Sometimes – Alejandro Escovedo
10. Crown of Love – Arcade Fire

Not bad, although for a second I thought my majical Ipod shuffle-izer thingie might be broke.

I’m a lifelong Democrat but I’m voting for war hero John McCain. You should too.
-Liberal Puravida

1. Make You Feel My Love- Adele
2. Lust For Life- Iggy Pop
3. Walk Like An Egyptian- The Feeling
4. Small Black Flowers That Grow In the Sky- Manic Street Preachers
5. What Katie Did- The Libertines
6. You’re So Vain- Carly Simon
7. Revolution- Jim Sturgess
8. Let’s Go Crazy- Prince
9. The Man Who Would Be King- The Libertines
10. Are U That Somebody?- The Gossip

Bonus-
11. New York, New York- The Fratellis
12. Don’t Look Back In Anger- Maroon 5

1. Blues Inn — Jackie McLean
2. It Only Takes a Minute — Tavares
3. Crazy — Patsy Cline
4. Solitude — Billie Holiday
5. In Your Own Sweet Way — Miles Davis
6. Toby — Count Basie
7. Fell in Love with a Boy — Joss Stone
8. C-Jam Blues — Oscar Peterson
9. Nida — Nicholas Payton
10. Mercy — Duffy

Not bad–lotsa good jazz, some of my favorite female singers–but allow me to apologize right now for Tavares. How the hell’d THAT get in there??

Miles Davis – “Freddie Freeloader”
Leonard Cohen – “Tower of Song”
Beth Orton – “She Cries Your Name”
Cowboy Junkies – “‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel”
It Still Moves – “Steam Engine”
Van Morrison – “Playhouse”
Lyle Lovett – “If You Were To Wake Up”
Van Morrison with Georgie Fame – “How Long Has This Been Going On?”
Devo – “Gut Feeling”
James McMurtry – “Down Across the Delaware”

This stormy midwest weather must be affecting the iPod, when Van Morrison is the most upbeat track out of a dozen.

Gary Burton – “Glad Rags and Handbags”
Marvin Gaye – “Let’s Get It On (live)”

1. Moody Blues – The Night: Nights in White Satin
2. Bald Eagle – Jammin’ the Wedge
3. Patton Oswalt – Beautiful People and a Bridge Troll [by the way, do comedy tracks count?]
4. John Lennon – I Found Out
5. Sir Stanley – I Believe I Found Myself
6. Amon Tobin – Ton Mantis
7. Ravi Shankar – Dadra
8. LCD Soundsystem – On Repeat
9. Radiohead – Lucky
10. The Fiery Furnaces – Spaniolated

BONUS

X – Los Angeles

Two of these songs I haven’t heard yet. With high capacity iPods nowadays it’s easy to just through whatever you find on there and listen to it later.

“Love Blues” – Keb’ Mo’
“Paradise” – Vanessa Carlton
“Where You End” – Moby
“I’ve Got A Lot To Learn” – Brooks & Dunn
“Jacquimo Tells The Story” – Don Bluth’s Production of Thumbelina
“Megalomaniac” – Incubus
“Live at Red Rocks 7-7-78 2nd Set” – Grateful Dead
“Love Will Keep Us Alive” – The Eagles
“Yer Blues” – The Beatles
“R ‘n R Uzbekistan” – Camper Van Beethoven

And Special Guest Track: “What’s Forever For” – Billy Gilman the Boy Country Singer

The Dead Set was: Cold Rain and Snow, Beat It On Down the Line, and Scarlet/Fire

Yah, deech, I was rigorous about generating random 7-digit binary numbers (plus whatever it took to choose a track) by flipping coins, but eyeballed it when I had to jump 1/2^n way (or not) through a box). It’s the acme of tedium. You should have waited about 15 years to build that classical vinyl collection. I started mine in ‘99 when Half Price Books offered them for 0.25 to 1.00. I got a bit carried away – I still have cartons I haven’t heard yet – but at least I kept the Wagner under control.

This week it’s back to using the Miracle Of Technology to choose:

Black Man Land – Prince Far I
The Finest Drops – Wire
Please Let Me Wonder – Toru & Kojima
Eight Day Can Can – MP3J
Carry Go Bring Come – Justin Hinds
One Leg Too Few – Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
I Remember Nothing [Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, 11/79] – Joy Division
Poptones [Old Grey Whistle Test 1979] – Public Image Ltd.
Gratuitous Sax – Sparks
Nuh Skin Up Dub – Keith Hudson & the Soul Syndicate

riders on the storm – the doors
smokers outside hospital doors – the editors
lilybelle – the geraldine fibbers
the needle and the damage done – neil young
warrior king – lou reed
what’s good – lou reed
the ballad of you know who – richard swift
oleta – el jezel
the mess we’re in – pj harvey
us and them – pink floyd

1. Don’t Let the D’Evil In–The Flower Kings
2. Wreck–Gentle Giant
3. Variables–Bolt
4. The Court of the Crimson King–21st Century Schizoid Band
5. Adagio Sastenuto, Moonlight Sonata–California Guitar Trio
6. Frame by Frame–King Crimson (Live, Vroom, Vroom)
7. Summer’s Growing Old–Leo Kottke
8. Three of A Perfect Pair–Adrian Belew (Live, Salad Days)
9. I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)–Lena Horne
10. With–Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon

I get the feeling I knew thaflix in college. Listened to the same music, anyway.

Mermen – Ocean Beach
Nick Cave – Abbatoir Blues
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Korea
Johnny & the Hurricanes – Traffic Jam
Nortec Collective – Tengo La Voz
Wooden Shjips – Losin’ Time
Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
Stranglers – Grip ‘89 (Get a Grip on Yourself)
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Case of the Missing Ladyfingers
Los Destellos – A Patricia

TomHilton May 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 am 23:

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Korea

If this goes, “An example of life in old Korea…” the title is “Seoul Music” (echhh – please, may I never pun in a foreign language). If it doesn’t, what is it & where on earth did you get it???

Brandy Alexander – Feist
Serve The Servants – Nirvana
Red Hot – Jurassic 5
Radio Radio – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Friend of Mine – Lily Allen
Sunday Part I – Cibo Matto
Kamikaze – PJ Harvey
Rapture – Blondie
Orange Mécanique – Stereo Total
Boys Who Love Girls – The Rosebuds

1. Bob Dylan: Just Like a Woman (live, Albert Hall)
2. Billie Holiday: Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
3. The Tiger Lillies: Just Another Loser
4. Easy Star All-Stars: Electioneering
5. Bob Marley: No Woman No Cry (Laswell rmx)
6. Urban Species: Religion & Politics
7. Bill Bruford: It Needn’t End In Tears
8. Madlib: Dollar Bill (instrumental)
9. Dingobats: Demolition Woman
10. Black Sabbath: Evil Woman

Yes, I did cheat. Why do you ask?

Betty Davis — “Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes”
Satelliters — “For You”
Cars — “Night Spots”
Leadbelly — “You Can’t Mistreat Me”
Nirvana — “All Apologies (live)”
Max Cady — “Gun Crime”
Rezillos — “Destination Venus”
Blowfly — “Destructo Cock”
Pennywise — “Waiting”
Seeds — “I Tell Myself”

I need to put a slight caveat on my book recommendation…it will likely be “fascinating” to a group of women (and maybe men) of a certain age with a love of a certain genre of music. As is the case with most books….it’s appeal has limits. But I am enjoying it immensely. However,I’m not sure Tbogg feels the same way when I keep interrupting him to read a passage out loud…

1. Badly Drawn Boy– “Camping Next To Water” — The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
2. Modest Mouse – “Dance Hall” — Good News For People Who Love Bad News
3. Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music – “Do The Strand” — Street Life – Greatest Hits
4. Van Morrison – “Tir Na Nog” — No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
5. Phish – “The Squirming Coil” — A Live One
6. Nat King Cole Trio – “Somebody Loves Me” — The Nat King Cole Trio Recordings
7. Django Reinhardt – “It’s Only A Paper Moon” — Django Reinhardt – Djangology 49
8. Bruce Hornsby – “Country Doctor” — KFOG Live From The Archives 10th Anniversary**
9. Modern English – “Let’s All Dream” — Pillow Lips
10. Shelby Lynne – “Black Light Blue” — I Am Shelby Lynne

**Bonus** Elvis Costello – “Pidgin English” — Imperial Bedroom

**Not sure how this got on my iPod; I must not have been paying attention when uploading that CD. I hate Bruce Hornsby and his noodling piano style.

Thanks for the recommendation MrsTbogg, I’m of the correct gender and age to certainly like this book!

Pixies – Something Against You
Talking Heads – Totally Nude
Pixies – Dig for Fire
Bill Evans Trio – All of You (Take 1)
Bob Dylan – Every Grain of Sand
Glenn Gould – Variation 3
The Beatles – Mother Nature’s Son
R.E.M. – The Lifting
The Smiths – This Charming Man
The Clash – If Music Could Talk

Ah, thanks for the correction. I downloaded it from eMusic–it’s on a great compilation called Disco/Not Disco – 1974-1986–and they had the artist/title info wrong. So I sort of had to guess at the title.

Haydn60, I would be happy if the vinyl could magically turn digital. I have this dream of converting some of the stuff to CD and MP3, but never get around to it. For a while (around 1980) I was able to find some Japanese import EMI LPs with nice performances from the 1930s – Vienna Philharmonic with Bruno Walter conducting and playing piano for a Mozart piano concerto – and that sort of thing in the cutout bin for about $1.99. Of course, the liner notes are a bit difficult to read.

The Fantastic Baggies – “Summer Means Fun”
Long Hunter John – “Flippin’ Fingers”
The Monkees – “She”
The Beach Boys – “Shut Down”
The Lovin’ Spoonful – “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind”
The Beatles – “Memphis, Tennessee”
Roy Orbison – “Ooby Dooby”
Stray Cats – “My Heart Is A Liar”
Eddie Cochran – “Rock ‘n Roll Blues”
Slim Harpo – “I’m A King Bee”

Bonus #11
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – “The Sky Is Crying”

One Love – Massive Attack
Circle – Miles Davis
Chakiti Island – Swimming Pool
Here On Earth – Love and Rockets
Sunshower – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
Crystal – Fleetwood Mac
Yah Mo B There – James Ingram with Michael McDonald
Hollywood – Rick James
Jesus Children Love America – Stevie Wonder
An Echo, A Stain – Bjork

The Marriage of Figaro, Act IV – Mozart
You’re So Good, You’re So Bad – Barry White

1. Fantasies Come True - D’Abruzzo, Stephanie/John Tartaglia/Rick Lyon - Avenue Q
2. Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine - Johnny Cash & Tommy Cash - The Legend: Family & Friends [Disc 4]
3. Movement I- Mercy - Jonathan Elias - The Prayer Cycle
4. old_hag_in_the_kiln__banis - -
5. Pickin’ Time - Johnny Cash - The Legend [Disc 2]
6. Cerulean Skies - Maria Schneider - Sky Blue
7. Newgrange - Clannad - Magical Ring
8. Pray For The Lights To Go Out - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Take Me Back to Tulsa Disc 2 (Cherokee Maiden)
9. Midnight Ravers - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch a Fire
10. IN MY LIFE - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Bonus: Krafty - New Order - Waiting for the Sirens’ Call