Friday, August 21, 2009

Friday Random Ten (Slightly South of SB Edition)

Syd Straw "Almost Magic" Surprise
Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson "Kitty: Tommy, Quick, Get Up, I Can Hear Clogs Goin' Up the Street; Tommy: Well Stick Mine Out and See If They'll Go with 'Em" Industry
Glenn Gould "Prelude No. 1 in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1" Thirty-two Short films about Glenn Gould
Moe Tucker "S.O.S." I Spent a Week There the Other Night
David Byrne "The Great Intoxication" Look into the Eyeball
California Guitar Trio "Presto Agitato, Moonlight Sonata" Pathways
The Handsome Family "So Long" Twilight
Brian Eno "Backwater" Before and After Science
Johnny Dowd "Vietnam" Pictures from Life's Other Side
Belle & Sebastian "Waiting for the Moon to Rise" Fold Your Hands, Child, You Walk Like a Peasant

bonus
Little Walter "Tell Me Mama" His Best

I promise, the iPod did it all by itself, finding that Byrne cut on the weekend that I'm in San Diego for tomorrow's Stone Beer Festival. Music just knows, folks. Otherwise, this list is next to eclectic in the dictionary.

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Blogger Generik said...

1. Turtlehead - Camper Van Beethoven
2. Straight To The Top - Tom Waits
3. Rosetta - Nat King Cole Trio
4. Theologians - Wilco
5. The Water Pump - D. L. Menard
6. Einmal Belsen War Wirflich Bortrefflich (Belson Vos a Gassa) - Ronnie Biggs
7. Mil Congojas - Ibrahim Ferrer
8. Message Of Love - Jimi Hendrix
9. I Found A Love - Eric Clapton w/ Buddy Guy
10. I Can Feel The Fire - Ronnie Wood & Mick Jagger

**Bonus** Burning Down The House - Talking Heads

I agree with the premise that iPods can sometimes exhibit a sentient intelligence. For instance, mine is obviously trying to make me feel better about a long couple of work weeks. I love my iPod.

2:28 PM  
Blogger Marty said...

Damien Jurado, "Desert," Ghost of David
Guided by Voices, "Choking Tara (Creamy Version)," Everything is Nice: Matador 10th Anniversary Anthology
Jenny Lewis, "Jack Killed Mom," Acid Tongue
Elliot Smith, "Everything Means Nothing to Me," Figure 8
Beatles, "Wild Honey Pie," The White Album
The Goddamn Gallows, "Ghost o' th' Rails," Ghost o' th' Rails
Hayden, "In September," Everything I Long For
Yo La Tengo, "I Should Have Known Better," I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Goddamn Gallows, "Saint O' Killers," Gutterbilly Blues
Hem, "Pacific Street," Eveningland

Bonus: Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music, "More Than This," Street Life

Theme of violence, so I hope ipod isn't as clairvoyant as it was for you, George.

3:47 PM  
Blogger Mike said...

I'm in San Diego for tomorrow's Stone Beer Festival

Oh, the life of George!

4:48 PM  
Blogger ahab said...

Papercuts, "Sandy" Can’t Go Back
Marcus Roberts, "Early Rehearsal" Blues for the New Millennium
Peter Blegvad, "Meantime" King Strut & Other Stories
Guy Clark, "Instant Coffee Blues" Old No. 1
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "Love is Here to Stay" Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Lucinda Williams, "Learning How to Live" West
Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" Swordfishtrombones
The Shins, "Caring is Creepy" Oh, Inverted World
Billy Childish & His Famous Headcoats, "The Wond'rous Day" Balling the Jack: The Birth of the Nu-Blues
Charlie Parker, "Ko-Ko" Bird: The Savoy Recordings

Bonus: Richard Buckner, "Were You Tried & Not As Tough" Impasse

Put me down for ECLECTIC.

6:01 PM  
Blogger ahab said...

The iTunes five-star rating scale stops about two places short of the mark struck by that Waits track.

Just sayin'.

6:08 PM  
Blogger E-6 said...

Coulda sworn I dropped this off earlier. Damn cough syrup...

1."Transfiguration #2" M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent
2."What Woman Do To Men" Trashcan Sinatras Weightlifting
3."Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun" Al Green Call Me
4."Very, Very Hungry" Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
5."LSD" The Pretty Things Get The Picture
6."Bring It On Home To Me" Sam Cooke Live at The Harlem Square Club
7."Hey Man" Howe Gelb 'Sno Angel Like You
8."Silver Machines" Cardinal Cardinal
9."Barstool Blues" Neil Young and Crazy Horse Zuma
10."Family Tree" TV on the Radio Dear Science
bonus: "Danko/Manuel" Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South

8:06 PM  

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