Friday Random 10 plus 5

It's been a while since I let the iMac pull up a random bunch o' songs with the Party Shuffle function, so here goes:

Around the Sun Redux - Album Sampler/R.E.M./Around the Sun Redux - Album Sampler

Memorial Day/James McMurtry/Childish Things

Highway 61 Revisited/Bob Dylan/Highway 61 Revisited

Imaginary Diseases/Frank Zappa/12/2/72 --Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO

Secure Yourself/Indigo Girls/Indigo Girls

Eon Blue Apocalypse/Tool/Lateralus

Climbing The Walls/They Might Be Giants/The Else

Future Boys/Electric Six/Senor Smoke

Gimme luv and turn on the light/New York Dolls/One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

You Left A Song/Heather Nova/Storm

Radio Spot and Intro/Warren Zevon/1978-04-24 - The Roxy

Sold Me/Seether/Disclaimer II

I`d Rather Be The Devil/John Martyn/Solid Air

Pull_Out/Death from Above 1979/You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

Up Around The Bend/Creedence Clearwater Revival/Chronicle, Vol. 1

To Be Myself Completely/Belle and Sebastian /The Life Pursuit

Now THAT'S an ecclectic mix. Dylan, They Might Be Giants, Zappa, Indigo Girls, New York Dolls---it's enough to make yer head reel!

For the hell of it, there's another James McMurtry song available for free here. It's called Cheney's Toy, and the lyrics are pure gold:

"Cheney's Toy"

Words and Music by James McMurtry

Another unknown soldier

Another lesson learned

Kick the gas can over

Strike a match get back and watch that sucker burn

Keep smiling for the camera

Keep waving to the crowd

Don't let up for an instant

Stay the course and make your mama proud

You're the man

Show'em what you're made of

You're no longer daddy's boy

You're the man

That they're all afraid of

But you're only Cheney's toy

Another unknown soldier

Who's seen it all before

All in the name of Jesus

Behind the razor wire and shackled to the floor

Just keep smiling at the cameras

And keep that twinkle in your eye

We don't need to know the answers

Long as we're safe, just hit your marks and say your lines

You're the man

Show 'em what you're made of

You're no longer daddy's boy

Take a stand

Give 'em what they paid for

'Cause you're only Cheney's toy

They'll take a fork and turn you over

While the fat lady sings

One more pin on one more shoulder

Is all the future brings

For another unknown soldier

Who don't know his own name

And he won't get any older

And he can't see for the shrapnel in his brain