Friday Non-Randon Ten

Alex Chilton "Thank You John"
Big Star "Thank You Friends"
Fairport Convention "Now Be Thankful"
Holmes Brothers "Thank You Jesus"
Luna "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel"
Talking Heads "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel"
Same & Dave "I Thank You"
Yo La Tengo "Be Thankful for What You Got"
William DeVaughn "Be Thankful for What You Got"
Sly & The Family Stone "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"

bonus
The Three Wise Men "Thanks for Christmas"

Spot the theme, or, they call it a smart playlist for a reason. And yes there are duplicates, but you can't say thanks for an angel too many times, or be too thankful for what you got. And you know who you are, friends.

Not Just to Be Consumed by Rock n' Roll

This week's Random ten wasn't so great. As a way to fix that, and since it's my new weekly thing to steal something from Heather, it seems, here's what happens if you ask Pandora to create "Mekons Radio":

The Mekons "Hello Cruel World" On the Edge of the World
Minus Story "Gravity Pulls" The Captain is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance
BIS "Sweet Shop Adventures" The New Transistor Heroes
Helen Love "MC5" Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Muzik
The Mekons "Amnesia" The Mekons Rock N' Roll
The Fall "Edinburgh Man" Shift-Work
Tralala "Yellow Taxi" Is That the Tralala
The Fleshtones "I Am What I Am" Beachhead
The Undertones "True Confessions" The Best of the Undertones: Teenage Kicks
The Mekons "East Is Red" Where Were You?: Hen's Teeth And Other Lost Fragments Of Unpopular Culture Vol.2

bonus
Dan Baird "I Want You Bad" Buffalo Nickel

Not bad--certainly more things of interest than my random list. Plus I didn't know Helen Love and Tralala and now hope to know more of both. Female-led power-punk-pop! How can you not love a band whose influences are "misunderstandings, love, debauchery, whiskey and pop music"?