Hooray!

Man, you just can’t make up your mind about this Random Ten thing, it keeps going back and forth, up and down, round and round, but it’s still so enticing. Kind of like…something. Can’t figure out what.

Anyway:
Love or Confusion – Jimi Hendrix
Blue Eyed Soul – Wilco
Face to Face – Yes
Who Wants to Live Forever – Queen
The Man I Love – Coleman Hawkins
Suffragette City -David Bowie
A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to Be Free – Elliott Smith
Fragments- Manic Street Preachers
Anasthasia -Boheme
Polka Power! – Weird Al Yankovic
Broken-Hearted Savior – Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Sure, why not.

Just Like A Butterfly That's Caught In The Rain – Diana Krall
Amen – Leonard Cohen
Factory Girl – The Rolling Stones
Madison Time – Donald Fagen + The New York Rock & Soul Revue
Sweet Bird – Herbie Hancock (from River – The Joni Letters)
One To Grow On – Matthew Grimm & The Red Smear
If I Needed Someone – The Beatles
The Battle Of New Orleans – Jimmie Driftwood
The Oldest Baby In The World – John Prine
Is Anybody There? – John Hiatt

Bonus: Revue – World Saxophone Quartet

Love Yo La Tengo!

Have you send this? David Byrne and St. Vincent.

Robert Palmer’s version of “Sailin’ Shoes” without “Hey Julia” and “Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley”? Dude, you do know that you can join CD tracks in iTunes, right?

Thank somewhat popular jeebus! I needed this tonight. Tough week.
And the wheels of the bus go round and round, round and round…..

1. I Wanna Be Your Dog – Iggy Pop
2. Orange Sky – Alex Murdoch
3. Expresso Love – Dire Straits
4. Meyerbeer: L’Africana – O Paradiso
5. Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe – Okkervil River
6. Bankrobber – The Clash
7. Smack My Bitch Up – Prodigy
8. Sleepyhead – Passion Pit
9. In the Mood – Robert Plant
10. Last Stop: This Town – Eels

Bonus: Snowden – Doves

Shostakovich Stmphony No. 10, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko cond.
“Roads Cross,” Ravi Coltrane
“Hand Jive,” Miles Davis
“Rio Part IX,” Keith Jarrett
“Bagful,” The Very Best
“Ashes,” Hilary Hahn & Hauschka
“Be Assured,” Dan Tyminski
“Yuma,” Viktoria Mullova with the Matthew Brady Ensemble
“Come to the River,” The Jayhawks
“Bridal Veil Falls, ” Chris Thile

Tradition! Excellent selection of…um…I’m sorry, you were saying? I was distracted by mesmerizing motion, which (mesmerizing motion) would be a pretty fair name for a band, come to think of it.

Crying Over – Patty Griffin
Little Wing – Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
Indian Ernie – Rory Block
Sputnik – Webb Wilder
Piece Of My Heart – Big Brother and the Holding Company
You Drive Me Crazy – Greg Brown
Hostage-O – Warren Zevon
Rarity – Lucinda Williams
My Blood – Neville Brothers
Please Please Please – James Brown

Ok. She has a decent one. With so many other problems on the planet it appears to me to be the case that what was once about to celebrate life is now being pushed very hard and very aggressively to distract people from problems in need of real solutions and to pacify those who have given up or never really cared and are just passing thru life.

The bad news is this. Someday you will die of something. Then, you may think you float away to the clouds or nirvana or some such nonsense never to return. But there is a problem with that. If you never return, many more will never return. And a previous infinite number are never returning. And an infinite number to be will never return. Now if your brain is in gear and working, you will realize that this logic is impossible. And….. it is as impossible as the limit you would otherwise place with it. Which means, you would be full of crap to tout an impossibility and expect to be believed by anyone who is not full of crap.

Let’s suppose you are just half way dumb. Let’s suppose that forgetting the past, a limited number of lives would never return (to Earth – which excludes the people out to lunch on Kolob). So according to you – not the author here but the person reading this comment – life would exist one time everywhere i suppose and then that’s it. The universe would become empty and devoid of life and nothing but a spaceland of rocks and fires – without purpose. Forever, soon enough.

Are you nuts? According to the geniuses who insist on holding onto “live once die forever”, if you otherwise accept that life is unlimited and goes on forever then you are stuck with the “how long has that been going on” and “where is the limitless supply coming from”.

The physically reality based answer is that there is a finite number of resources at any given location. The law of matter and energy apply. And resources RECYCLE.

So the bad news is, if when you die you think the pain is all over? WRONG. You have to return. And given that we are mammals, i will declare right here that the mess you leave behind you must come back to.

HAPPY LANDING!

Do NOT drop the Brown ACID – it’s gone off…

Shakira’s ASS!

1. Caravan – Van Morrison
2. Got to Get Better in a Little While – Derek and the Dominoes
3. Togary Mountain – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
4. The Pump – Jeff Beck
5. Don’t You Ever Learn – Todd Rundgren
6. Girlfriend Says – Michelle Wilson
7. Back to the Island – Leon Russell
8. Low Down Ways – Marshall Tucker Band
9. Big Fat Woman – Leadbelly
10. Juan – Wynton Marsalis
Bonus: I Shot the Sheriff – Bob Marley

I’ll take the sound track for Not Fade Away for $500, Alex.

heh…

It’s not specifically too good.

The iShuffle got boggled, I think (it was previously on Harmonia & Eno but Shakira just threw it for a loop):

Child of Nature — The Beatles (home recordings; aka On the Road to Rishikesh)
I’m a Long Time Traveling Away — Allison’s Sacred Harp Singers
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Jimmy Webb
I’m Happy Just to Dance With You — Johnny Mann Singers
Do Wah Diddy Diddy — Manfred Man
Wicked Messenger — Bob Dylan (Rome 10.3)
One of These Nights — The Eagles
Simple Man — Graham Nash
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby — The Beatles
Big River — Grateful Dead

Turning it up to 11: I Ain’t Superstitious — The Jeff Back Group

Summer In The City – Lovin’ Spoonful
All Kindsa Girls – The Real Kids
Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello and The Attractions
Kill The Sexplayer – Girls Against Boys
Up The Junction – Squeeze
Buena – Morphine
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Don’t Give It Up Now – Lyres
Tired Of Sex – Weezer
Never Stop – Echo and The Bunnymen

New iTunes won’t let you generate a random ten without first giving it a song to start with, so I searched for Robert Palmer and these are the next ten songs that came up:

Piensa En Mi – Duo Pérez Rodriguez
These Times – Ernest Ranglin
I Wish I Were Twins – Coleman Hawkins
Les Nuits – Nightmares On Wax
Joe Cool (instrumental) – Vince Guaraldi
Hysterical Strength – St. Vincent
Electrorloge – Troublemakers
El Evangelio – Wganda Kenya
Mommy Daddy You And I – Talking Heads
Story of Mr. Paul – King Radio
and Team Clermont from Momus and no, none of these songs reminded me much of Robert Palmer although I do miss the old button configuration which Apple changed on the new iTunes because, well, I guess because they could, Apple now vying to become the new Microsoft.

Ok. She has a decent one.

At least the start of your post made sense….

I got nothing except adoration of Shakira’s Ass. As for the music, whatever.

The thing I most loved about that announcement, that gave me almost naive flourishes of love for human personality, was the “I mean, it’s your own trip” part. I just adored that. They’re not gonna come and slap it out of your hands, but they’re worried you’ll get hurt, so they want to give you a warning. That was lovely. I adored it.

Totally with you; I see it as anarchic instincts (of which I approve) vs libertarian ones (of which I generally do not) … (is this the Garcia/Weir perplex?) … mind you, instincts are not prescriptions for political again (he adds quickly, with yet another parenthetical)

Tbogg and I saw Jimmy Webb perform at a local venue here in North Park about 2 years ago. The venue is a church and so the acoustics were amazing with just Webb and a piano. His version of “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and “Wichita Lineman” were the highlights of the concert…but everything was amazing. Thanks for the reminder….

I’d love to see him in that context. The version I have is from a “Produced by George Martin” compilation and bit tasteful for my taste if you see what I mean. I’d go for solo or the full kitchen-sink productions, as in Isaac Hayes and Donna Summer doing his material!

Shakira, you say?

Thanks – stuck in the 60′s and 70′s with Cream, Traffic, Santana, Hendrix, Doors,etc, but there was something intriguing about Yo La Tengo and the video you posted. Will be listening to more of their songs.