Random 10 for November 19, 2008
1. Keane, “Spiralling.” A great new single from Perfect Symmetry, a deeply guilty pleasure considering that more than half of the disc sounds almost nothing like the Keane of a few years ago, and everything like, oh, Simple Minds or Icehouse. Icehouse (!) – holy crap, that’s an odd reference!
2. Otis Redding, “Shake.”
3. Death Cab For Cutie, “Long Division.”
4. Devo, “Head Like a Hole.”
5. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, “Rise Up With Fists!!” In which our heroine cops style tips from Donna Fargo or Lynn Anderson or Dottie West for a “Hee Haw” parody, begun with characteristic good taste by Great Schlep mastermind Sarah Silverman. All hail Sarah for getting the bubbies out, which as Chase can explain, is not as dirty as it sounds and doesn’t mean what you want it to mean.
6. The Flaming Lips, “It Overtakes Me/The Stars Are So Big, I Am So Small… Do I Stand a Chance?”
7. M.I.A., “XR2.”
8. The Kooks, “Always Where I Need to Be.”
9. Zero 7, “Out of Town.”
10. Echo & the Bunnymen, “Seven Seas.” From one of my all-time favorites, Ocean Rain, which the Bunnies recently performed in its entirety with an orchestra at Radio City Music Hall — one of those shows I would have taken out a small loan for if I’d known in advance. As for the video, Ian is disturbingly convincing in drag. The same cannot be said of the guys dressed as fish and penguins.
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All hail Sarah! And Jenny Lewis, for that matter. And those two hotties, while we’re doling out the plaudits.
Well, I forgot to bring my iPod to work this morning, so here’s my Random 10 if I had my iPod here and had the power to predetermine my random 10 for what I want to hear right now.
1. Nina Simone, “Go to Hell”
2. Elvis Costello, “Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head”
3. The Bloodhound Gang, “Ballad of Chasey Lain”
4. Muddy Waters, “I Just Want to Make Love to You”
5. Electric Light Orchestra, “Mr. Blue Sky”
6. Black Kids, “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You”
7. The Airborne Toxic Event, “Sometime Around Midnight”
8. The Dickies, “Manny, Moe and Jack”
9. X, “The New World”
10. Dinosaur Jr, “Freak Scene”