Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
1) “Brazil”—-Wire
2) “Protest and Survive”—-The Varukers
3) “Already Dead”—-Beck
4) “My Baby Likes To Boogaloo”—-The Woggles
5) “Hungry Mouth”—-The Nurses
6) “Tighten Up”—-Archie Bell & The Drells
7) “Violet”—-Frank Black
8) “Can’t Wait”—-Hepcat
9) “Havana Gang Brawl”—-The Zutons
10) “Please Take Care Of Our Love”—-Lee Dorsey & Betty Harris
So, why am I in San Diego? Well, barring some horrible obstacle, a friend of mine and I will be in Del Mar tomorrow night to see Devo. I’m so excited. I’m not saying they’re my favorite band, but you know. I have a picture disk LP of their first album framed on my wall (along with the VU’s first album). And my favorite DVD to show people is a live Devo concert where you watch their genius performance win over a largely indifferent audience at Lollapalooza. I don’t own an energy dome, but I seriously considered it if it would help me get to the front of the stage tomorrow. On one hand, it’s a geeky obsession. On the other hand, they are a classic 70s-era punk band. So, really, it’s kind of inevitable. Luckily, my friend I’m going with is, if anything, a bigger Devo geek than me. He’s the one who found out about the show and figured he had the frequent flier miles to get us here, so there you go.
Title a teaser for an argument I’ll be making later. But for now—-10 songs at random from your MP3 player of choice. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
1) “Shoplifters of the World”—-The Smiths
2) “99”—-Screeching Weasel
3) “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing”—-The Minutemen
4) “Southern Belles In Long Sing”—-The Faint
5) “Guns of Navarone”—-Maritime
6) “Sparkle”—-Marion
7) “We Are The Pipettes”—-The Pipettes
8) “Long Way To Be Happy”—-Darlene Love
9) “My Stupid Life”—-The Mr. T Experience
10) “Sing For Joy”—-Frank Black
Sorry about the radio silence yesterday afternoon. See edition title for why.
Ten songs from your party shuffle on iTunes, or however you shuffle your music.
1) “Bob George”—-Prince
2) “You’re A Big Girl Now”—-The Stylistics
3) “Suzanne Is Getting Married”—-Screeching Weasel
4) “I Had A Talk With My Man”—-Mitty Collier
5) “Milk Lizard”—-Dillinger Escape Plan
6) “Someone Great”—-LCD Soundsystem
7) “Forty Miles Of Bad Surf”—-The Lively Ones
8) “Deep Red Bells”—-Neko Case
9) “Rushholme Ruffians”—-The Smiths
10) “Grip Like A Vice”—-The Go! Team
I’ve been tagged with a meme that I’ll be replacing the Friday Random Ten with—-five songs in your MP3s that you feel guilty about. In proper Insufferable Music Snob fashion, I’ll try to explain these away.
1) “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama. This song has a bad reputation, unfairly in my eyes. It’s all guilt by association from the movie that it was featured in—-“The Karate Kid”. It’s also a victim, like many of my guilty pleasures, of rank sexism. I can’t help but notice how many of my guilty pleasures that are considered unworthy fluff are all-female bands or just have female leads. I think this has something to do with it, though I fully expect that no one will ever admit that.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
1) “Perfect Day”—-Lou Reed
2) “Loud Pipes”—-Ratatat
3) “Don’t Look That Way At It”—-White Denim
4) “Fascination Street”—-The Cure
5) “Have Clav Will Travel”—-Money Mark
6) “Me-I”—-TV On The Radio
7) “So Broken”—-Bjork (NIN cover)
8) “This Is All I Came To Do”—-Dinosaur Jr.
9) “Sequenced Sunshine”—-Tor Bruce
10) “The Commercial”—-Wire
Ten songs at random from the iPod or other MP3 player. Leave yours in comments.
1) “Oh Cha Cha And Once Again Ladies”—-Man Or Astroman?
2) “Tattoo”—-The Who
3) “Top of the Pops”—-The Rezillos
4) “Radar Love”—-Archie
5) “Darkest Days”—-Jackie Lee
6) “Six Days”—-DJ Shadow (Soulwax remix)
7) “Broadcasting”—-Diversion
8) “It’s A Vanity”—-Gabo & Orchestra Poly-Rhythmo
9) “Sex (I’m A)”—-Lovage
10) “Simple Things”—-Belle & Sebastian
Ten songs at random from your MP3s. Leave ‘em in comments.
1) “Do Your Love Me”—-Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
2) “Gold Lion”—-The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3) “Who Cares”—-Gnarls Barkley
4) “Stop, Look, and Listen”—-Devo
5) “Never Gonna Give You Up”—-Cake
6) “No One Knows”—-Asa
7) “Brace Yourself”—-Les Savy Fay
8) “Crooked Cigarette”—-The Reverend Horton Heat
9) “Escape”—-Blitz
10) “Cold hands! Hot body!”—-You Say Party! We Say Die!
Okay, my vanity can’t take it any longer. Confession time: The picture yesterday was staged. I thought the voluminous amount of drool (actually water, though I was willing to move onto Vaseline if that didn’t show up properly under the flash) was a dead giveaway, as is the oversized (borrowed from boyfriend) sweatshirt that would be murderously hot this time of year in Texas. It was my attempt to satirize the “blogging femme fatale naps with her favorite weapon” picture in the NY Times profile of Emily Gould.
Like Penn and Teller, first I show you the trick and then I explain it.
Okay, you know the drill. Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection.
1) “If You Stayed Over”—-Bonobo
2) “Him For Me”—-The Ex-Boyfriends
3) “Sock It To Me”—-John O’Brien Docker
4) “A Love Problem”—-Eldrige Holmes
5) “Up To You”—-Conner
6) “Panic”—-Fifty On Their Heels
7) “If You Should Try To Kiss Her”—-Dressy Bessy
8) “Jocko Homo”—-Devo
9) “You Ain’t Woman Enough To Take My Man”—-Loretta Lynn
10) “Furnace Room Lullaby”—-Neko Case
I found a cat picture on the camera when I was downloading that shot yesterday. I’ll try to be more on top of it, I promise.
Ten songs at random from your MP3 collection. Leave ‘em in comments. Here’s mine:
