There is currently nothing dancing better than Dancing Elaine except for the piano-legged roof top dancer in the pop-up mortgage ad that comes and goes and that is probably protected by ninja legal teams. Leave her be.

You won’t get any complaint from me. If I had my way, bassets would monopolize Thursday.

Re the name, there’s always “hump day” but that may be considered indelicate.

Technically, Wednesday is still pre-Friday.
As Lesley suggests, ‘Hump Day’ is an option but phrases such as “Random Hump Day Selection” may offend the well-established delicate sensibilities of your key demographic.

Wednesday is “the hump” day. “The Hump Day Random 10″ has the added benefit of its implied sexual overtones to offend the virgin eyesockets of lurking wingnuts, giving them yet one more example of the alleged moral decay of the liberal elite to whine about.

Wondered wtf.

What I’ve been listening to this evening as randomly generated by iTunes:

Oye Mira – Pacha Massive
Almada (Desalmada mix) – Clorofila
Aspettando Te – Cocktail Mood
The Green Box – Black Tape for a Blue Girl
You Stayed – De Phazz
Shock Treatment – Pizzicato Five
mirando a las muchachos – instituto mexicano de lsol
Sugar Cane – The Bahama Soul Club
1958 (Quantic Remix) – Skalpel
1958 (Skalpel Remix) – Skalpel

Hump it up!
Hump up the Volume!
Might as well…HUMP! Go ahead and HUMP!
The Humpty Dance is your chance so do the Hump!

I need help…

I was gonna suggest Webensdabay Rabandobom Teben, but I like Hump Day too.

Oh, and yo la tengo rules.

Tbogg, do you think Wednesday randomness has a different vibe to it?

Truth – Neil Finn
Half-life – Duncan Sheik
Easy Money – Rickie Lee Jones
The Voices – Nada Surf
Trip With My Dad – Dada
No More Love Songs – Lloyd Cole
Too Tough – Joe Jackson
Masquerade – Swing Out Sister
A Beautiful Lie – Bill Lloyd
Wonderwall – Ben Folds Five
+ 11: Black Mirror – The Arcade Fire

1. “Dancing Nancies”- DMB- Charlottesville, VA. 4/18/09
2. “Root Down (Pp Balloon Mix)”- Beastie Boys- Root Down [EP]
3. “Louder Than A Bomb”- Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
4. “Pigs On The Wing, Pt. 2″- Pink Floyd- Animals
5. “No Use Lying”- Black Crowes- Lions
6. “Kingsport Town”- Bob Dylan- The Bootleg Series
7. “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels)- Jim Croce- Photographs and Memories
8. “I Just Don’t Know”- The White Stripes- Elephant
9. “Control Freaq”- Felix Da Housecat- Kittenz And Thee Glitz
10. “From Creation”- Thievery Corporation- The Richest Man In Babylon

and…

“Son Of Neckbone”- Beastie Boys- The In Sound From Way Out!
“Dead Shrimp Blues”- Robert Johnson- The Complete Recordings Of Robert Johnson
“Pena”- Federico Aubele- Panamericana

We really don’t have enough Hump Day activity, so that’d be my vote, too.

I assume that Hump Day Random Ten posts will continue to feature music I’ve never heard, performed by people I’ve never heard of, but I’m cool with that. I enjoy seeing what the youngsters are listening to, and I get a special thrill when I recognize something like one out of thirty or so items.

Hump Day? Feh…

Pre-Thursday? Pre-Basset?

All right thinking people know that if Thursday is Pre-Friday, then Wednesday must be Pre-Pre-Friday.

“Wednesday at Random”

“Random Wednesday”

Fuck it. Go with “Hump Wednesday”

Blue, Turning Grey Over You – Hot Fives and Sevens (Louis Armstrong)
Believing is Art – Spoon
Soul On Fire – Spiritualized
Some Other Time – Bill Evans
Kita Kita – Gesper Lawal
Skin Is, My – Andrew Bird
Chief Inspector Blancheflower — The Fiery Furnances
Russian Lullaby – John Coltrane
Soccer Song – Armchair Martian
Willie the Wimp – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

BONUS: I Wanna Sleep – Weirdo Rippers

Temporary Like Achilles- Bob Dylan
Tremoloa Debut- Broken Social Scene
Your Cheatin’ Heart- Patsy Cline
Pass That Stage- Van Dyke Parks
People Like Me- K’naan
Inconvenience- Super Furry Animals
Pity For The Lonely- Luther Ingram
Happy Jack- The Who
City of Women- Chris Whitley
4th of July- The Sweet

Bonus: With Candy- Lilys

Technically, Wednesday is also post-Friday.

Because “Shut Up is why” works for me.

This prolly breaks the rules, but I find myself harnessing the power of the iTunes Genius®©™ more and more. So here’s my ‘leven, seeded by Los Angeles by los combo X.

Los Angeles | X | Los Angeles
Tattooed Love Boys | The Pretenders | Pretenders
Clampdown | The Clash | London Calling
Radio Free Europe | R.E.M. | Murmur
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)? | The Buzzcocks | Product [Disc 1]
Lust for Life | Iggy Pop | Trainspotting Soundtrack
Monkey Gone To Heaven | Pixies | Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of Pixies
E=MC2 | Big Audio Dynamite | Planet Bad Greatest Hits
Teen Age Riot | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation
Police On My Back | The Clash | Sandinista
Never Say Never | Romeo Void | Never Say Never

For The Love Of You, Parts 1 & 2 – Joss Stone
Radio Operator – Rosanne Cash
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
High Time We Went – Joe Cocker
We Care A Lot [Original Version] – Faith No More
Devil’s Arcade – Bruce Springsteen
Evil Ways – Santana
Let’s Explode – Clem Snide
Monkey Man – The Rolling Stones
Continental Trailways Blues – Steve Earle

and: Accidentally Like A MaFor The Love Of You, Parts 1 & 2 – Joss Stone
Radio Operator – Rosanne Cash
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
High Time We Went – Joe Cocker
We Care A Lot [Original Version] – Faith No More
Devil’s Arcade – Bruce Springsteen
Evil Ways – Santana
Let’s Explode – Clem Snide
Monkey Man – The Rolling Stones
Continental Trailways Blues – Steve Earle

and: Accidentally Like A Martyr – Warren Zevon

Eric Clapton – “Double Trouble”
Bob Dylan – “Desolation Row”
The Moody Blues – “Forever Afternoon – Tuesday?”
Roy Buchanan – “The Blues Lover”
Lou Reed – “Foot Of Pride”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – “The Sky Is Crying”
Yes – “Starship Trooper”
Santana – The Calling
Peter Gabriel – “Biko”
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – “The Drifter”

Bonus #11
B.B. King – “Call It A Stormy Monday”

How about naming it “Post Hump Random Ten”.

Hey, I’ve got YLT Cred. I’ve seen Yo La Tengo live four or five times starting around 1991. My favorite album is still “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One”. I wonder if we’ll get any from the `pod today…

Dr. Dre – Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)
Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
The Replacements – I’ll Buy
Beat Happening – Hot Chocolate Boy

The Allman Brothers – Ramblin’ Man
The Beatles – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Pentree Wrth y Mor (Village By The Sea)
Chuck Berry – Too Much Monkey Business
Big Black – Kasimir S. Pulaski Day

Post Hump #11
Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut

Boo Hoo. No Yo La Tengo.

Well, Wednesday is already the peak of the week, as it is new comic book day.

So – something like Wednesday Random 10 Superfriends? nah, that sucked.

Here;s a math equation for you

Yo Lo Tengo = Win

random humping?

Slap Slap Lickedy Lap – Instant Funk
Bodilizer Bodilsizer – The Emperor Machine
It’s a Long Way There -Little River Band
Is Jesus Your Pal? – GusGus
These Days – Joy Division
Just One Time – Juicy Lucy
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown – Augustus Pablo
Switch Off – Puccio Roelens
Ebony Eyes – Rick James
Feel Alright – Komiko

Mambo – Wally Badarou
Another Knife In My Back – One-Two-Three

Yo La Tengo = My Favorite Band
Also: Since the seminal film Big Wednesday starred the now MIA Jan-Michael Vincent, I cast my vote for “Random Jan.”

Creature Fear – Bon Iver
Squalor Victoria – The National
Rainy Night House – Joni Mitchell
Santo – Pixies
Nanook Of The North – Thee Headcoats
Stardust – Willie Nelson
All Over Again – Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
About You – Teenage Fanclub
Twice Born – Fucked up
Beat On The Brat – The Ramones

Eleven:
Give Everybody Some – Mickey & The Soul Generation

Florence Sur Les Champs Elysees – Miles Davis
Caprice Viennois, Op. 2 – Fritz Kreisler
Ramblin’ Man – Hank Williams
Downbound Train – Chuck Berry
Soy Tu Destino – Arsenio Rodríguez
American Dreams – Lucinda Williams
How Much I’ve Lied – Gram Parsons
Hawa Dolo – Ali Farka Toure
Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) – Joe Ely
Hate This Place – Goo Goo Dolls
The Girl From Ipanema – Stan Getz & João Gilberto

Post-Tuesday Tenner Post

Thirteen Pre Basset Humping:

Downed [LA Forum, 12/31/79] – Cheap Trick
I Cried Last Night – Junior Kimbrough
Do the Strand – Roxy Music*
French Film Blurred – Wire
Barbecutie [Carling Academy, 2008] – Sparks
Open Letter to the Older Generation – Dick Clark
Ein Atomkitten In Einem Kraftwerk – Soundhog
(Do The) Total Drop – The Homosexuals
Moustache – Sparks
I Don’t Care [single version] – The Ramones
Try Me – James Brown
dreammachine – Throbbing Gristle
Wonderful/Look – The Beach Boys

Ten Tune Wednesdays

Jukebox Wednesdays

TBogg’s Random Ten

TBogg’s Midweek Random Ten

Tbogg’s Ten Tunes

Following up on the inspired bits above, I propose Random Music to Hump By, or Random Music for Humping.

Dangling modifier and all.

Pre- Pre-Friday Random Ten.

Pre-Bassett Beat Bonanza?

Do the Hump Day iPod Dance!

How about post-Tuesday? But really, I like the Hump Day Variations.

Baghdad — The Offspring
Within You Without You — The Beatles
Abebe — Telek
Hold On Tight — ELO
Treat Her Like A Lady — Jimmy Buffett

One After 909 — The Beatles
Wreck of the Old 97 — Mac Wiseman
Dear Angie — Badfinger
Stop the World (And Let Me Off) — Waylon Jennings
Communication Breakdown — Led Zeppelin

Bonus — This Little Girl of Mine — Ray Charles

I’d prefer to see the dancing Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, but that’s just me. Who doesn’t love Tom Jones?

Hump Day Hits

Mr. TBogg’s Wednesday Evening Musical Soiree and Dance Cotillion

Start-Stop – Medeski, Martin & Wood
Not Over Till The Fat Lady Plays The Demo – De La Soul
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World – Sonny Rollins
Drunks with Guns – Pavement
Newport Up – Duke Ellington
Lively Up Yourself – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Drunken Ira Hayes – Johnny Cash
Roll Um Easy – Little Feat
Blue, Red And Grey – The Who
Kuyobanjani Na? – Vusi Mahlasela

Bonus: Dark Streets Of London – The Pogues

Yo La Tengo oneupsmanship: Georgia sat down next to me at the bar at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland before a show but wouldn’t let me pay for her beer. Best band ever.

Stolen Car – Beth Orton
Baby Blue – Mary Lou Lord
I Wanna Destroy You – Yo La Tengo
Misty Water – YLT
Our Way To Fall – YLT
Demons – YLT
Temptation Eyes – Blake Babies
Little Honda – YLT
Route 66 – YLT
A Bottle Of Buckie – Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
and Broken Face – Pixies

(OK, it’s an 8GB Nano, but still…)