Random 10 for June 24, 2008
1. Stars, “Your Ex-Lover is Dead.” The Torquil/Amy duets are always the best, and this captures their frosty chemistry at its finest, contrasting nicely with the opener, featuring a creepy old guy in a burning house.
2. J Dilla, “Wild.”
3. Beck, “Dark Star.”
4. Feist, “So Sorry.”
5. Lavender Diamond, “Like a Prayer.”
6. Starlight Mints, “Inside of Me.” The Mints indulge in the kind of arresting stop-action work that Peter Gabriel and the Talking Heads helped kick off during the mid-’80s.
7. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, “Born Secular.”
8. Brookville, “Golden.”
9. The Delgados, “The City Consumes Us.”
10. Propellerheads, “History Repeating.” No one ever accused Shirley Bassey of possessing too much nuance and subtlety.
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I am curious to hear “Evening Gown.” I didn’t know the Left Banke did anything of note other than “Walk Away Renee” or “Pretty …” something or other.
1. Management, “Coffeeshop Girls”
2. Reunion, “Life Is a Rock (but the Radio Rolled Me)”
3. Modern English, “I Melt with You”
4. The Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait”
5. King Curtis & the Kingpins, “Memphis Soul Stew”
6. Eartha Kitt, “C’est Si Bon (It’s So Good)”
7. Dishwalla, “Counting Blue Cars”
8. Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, “Who Do You Think You Are”
9. Lit, “My Own Worst Enemy”
10. Tricky with Frusciante, “#1 Da Woman”
Random 11
“Get Up” – James Brown
“Fill Me with the Gobi Dessert” track – Eddie Izzard
“Walk, Don’t Run” – The Ventures
“Combat Rock” – Sleater-Kinney
“Upstarts in a Blowout” – Cody Chestnut
“Very Metal Noise Pollution” – Pop Will Eat Itself
“Old Mrs. Cuddy” – The Real McKenzies
“Sweet Soul Music” – Arthur Conley
“Blow S* Up” – The Nancys
“Synthesizer” – Electric Six
“Cornish Acid” – Aphex Twin
Eartha Kitt’s a gmilf. Just in case you didn’t know that already.
FYI – That mints video was created by Norman animator Shawn Downey, who went on to animate the Fellowship Students as puppets and make George shatter into a million pixels in “Rainbow around the Sun.”
1. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – Sufjan Stevens
2. “Wild is the Wind” – Cat Power
3. “Joan Jett of Arc” Clem Snide
4. “The Weaver” – Paul Weller
5. “Spy of Love” – INXS
6. “Something in the Way of Things” – The Roots
7. “Love” – Brian Jonestown Massacre
8. “Twice as Bad as Love” – Ryan Adams
9. “Stone” – Small Faces
10. “The Champ is Here” – DJ Green Lantern
1. B & S, “String Bean Jean”
2. Michael Nesmith, “Little Red Rider”
3. Pixies, “Debaser”
4. The Who, “Sensation”
5. The Cast Of ‘National Lampoon’, “Listener Sponsored Radio #5″
6. Left Banke, “Evening Gown” (my fantasy karaoke song, and I would swing the microphone around on it’s cord and everything)
7. Jackie Wilson, “Whispers (Gettin’ Louder) (sniff…i truly miss the house of vegas soul all nighters)
8. Ron Sexsmith, “Heart’s Desire”
9. Tomorrow’s World, “Kites Are Fun” (decent cover, but you know, who can beat the original? No-one, that’s who.)
10. Waylon Jennings, “Black Rose”