Friday Random Ten (plus two)

It has been a while since I pulled up one of these Random Ten lists. My computer hard drive died in December, and it has taken me this long to get it replaced and loaded with a respectable amount of music again. Ah, the wonders of this digital world!

So, here we go: a random sampling of my computer's music selection, chosen by my iTunes DJ function, with absolutely no editing.

Rubbin' Me The Wrong Way/Electric Six/Kill

The Parting Glass (Bonus Track)/The Pogues/Rum Sodomy & The Lash

She's A Six/Jesus H Christ and The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse/Jesus H Christ and The Four Hornsmen Of The Apocalypse

Shake Your Hips/The Rolling Stones/Exile on Main Street

Me And My Dad/Wall Of Voodoo/Dark Continent

Big Mistake/The Hunting Accident /Infrasonic Sessions

Whippin' Post/Frank Zappa/Them Or Us

Steam Engine/My Morning Jacket/Okonokos

The Moneymaker/Rilo Kiley/Under The Blacklight

Feral/Radiohead/The King Of Limbs

Give Judy My Notice/Ben Folds/Speed Graphic

A little more Jesus H Christ:

Friday Random 10 + 1

Once again, a random sampling of my iMac's music files, picking by the robot who does the iTunes DJ selections. Enjoy the list:

Dirty Looks/Electric Six/I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master
Play Your Part (Pt. 1)/Girl Talk/Feed The Animals
World Keeps Turning/Tom Waits/Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Clawhammer Medley/Steve Martin/The Crow: New Songs For The 5 String Banjo
Morning Dew/Jeff Beck/Truth
Play In The Sunshine/Prince/Sign O The Times
The Warning/Nine Inch Nails/Year Zero
White Rabbit (Mono Single Version)/Jefferson Airplane/Surrealistic Pillow [Bonus Tracks]
The Needle And The Damage Done/Duran, Duran/So Good They Named Them Twice
All the Way to Louisville/Ronny Elliot/Hep
Door Number Three/Steve Goodman/Jessie's JIG & Other Favorites

Thursday Random 10 plus 1

Here's a random sampling of the musical collection (ever expanding) on my iMac, chosen by the iTunes DJ function:

Let's Go/Ministry/The Last Sucker (From their last album. Sure do miss Al and the boys!)

Honey Bee/Lucinda Williams/Little Honey

Hey Tonight/Creedence Clearwater Revival/Pendulum 40th Anniversary Edition

Great Purification/Corrosion Of Conformity/Blind

Tin Roof/Steve Martin/The Crow: New Songs For The 5 String Banjo

Nobody Listens/Bad Religion/The Grey Race

Radio Ga Ga/Electric Six/Senor Smoke

Fly...Night Bird/Roy Buchanan/Sweet Dreams: The Anthology (2 Of 2)

Haruspices/Hammers of Misfortune/Fields

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes/Crosby, Stills & Nash/Woodstock:Three Days of Peace and Music

Niteliner/Urge Overkill/Rock & Roll Submarine

Here's E6 live with Radio Gaga:

Friday Random 10 plus 1

Once more, a random sampling from my iMac picked by the iTune DJ function, with no editing by me:

Shadowland/Chris Whitley/Live at The Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, CA 7/24/2005
These Hills/Iris DeMent/Infamous Angel
When Worlds Collide/Neil Young/Fork In The Road
Race Of Doom/Devo/New Traditionalists
Just Got Paid/Ministry/Cover Up
Ladders/Califone/Roots & Crowns
Time Bomb!/The Ramones
Desert Island/Magnetic Fields/Holiday
My Little Brother/Art Brut/Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Easier/The Heavy Circles/The Heavy Circles
Particle Mo (Raleigh)/They Might Be Giants/Almanac Live 2004

Ministry does ZZ Top:

And here's Art Brut:

Friday Random 10 plus 1

It has been a while, but here's a random sampling of what's on my computer's hard drive auditorially, chosen by the iTunes DJ.

Let's Take A Trip Together/Morphine/Cure For Pain

That's Not My Name/Ting Tings/We Started Nothing

Ahead Of The Curve/Monsters Of Folk/Monsters Of Folk

This Is My Second Show/Bill Hicks/I'm Sorry, Folks

Winterness/Pousette-Dart Band/Amnesia

Never The Same Again/Moonlight Towers/Veronica Mars Unofficial Soundtrack Season 3

Cool Vee/The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Controversial Negro

Echoes In The Well/Corrosion Of Conformity/Blind

I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man/Prince/Sign O The Times

Jetstream/Doves/Kingdom Of Rust

Someday/Neil Young/Freedom

Don't know who Bill hicks was? There's a documentary coming:

Friday Random 10 plus 1

Here's a random sample from my iTunes DJ function, showing the diverse types of music on my computer's hard drive . . . or something like that:

16 Military Wives/The Decemberists/Picaresque

I Wanna Be Confused/The Shatners/Sad Encounter with Shirtless Boy on Short Bus Ride

Hell Hole/Spinal Tap/This Is Spinal Tap

Stranger/Dr. Dog/Shame, Shame

La La Love You/Pixies/Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, Minnesota 2004-04-13

Get Out/The DeTractors/Last Tractor Out Of Town

Working In The Coal Mine/Devo/New Traditionalists

Night Vision/Electric Six/Switzerland

PDA/Interpol/Turn On the Bright Lights

Shake It Off/Supersuckers/Mid-Fi Sampler

Valley Winter Song/Fountains of Wayne/Welcome Interstate Managers

Here's a little more Supersuckers fer ya!

Friday Random 10

Here is a bit of random sampling from my 'puter's music library, picked without editing by the iTunes DJ:

The Things (That) I Used To Do/Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble/The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble [Disc 1]

Flavor/Tori Amos/Abnormally Attracted To Sin

Sleepytime in the Western World/Blitzen Trapper/Furr

Travelling Woman/Bat For Lashes/Two Suns

Astral Plane [Live]/Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers/Roadrunner

Amateur/Aimee Mann/I'm With Stupid

The Mountain/Polly Jean Harvey/White Chalk

Right_Where_It_Belongs/Nine Inch Nails/With Teeth

The Body Says No/The New Pornographers/Mass Romantic

I Saw A Light/Bat For Lashes/Fur & Gold [Bonus Track]

Dancing on the lip of a volcano/New York Dolls/One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

Tori Amos, Bat for Lashes, Amiee Mann, P. J. Harvey . . . the Robo DJ is in a feminine mood. And that's fine by me!

Friday Random 10 plus 5

A random sample from my iMac's library, chosen by the iTunes Dj function. A very ecclectic mix today:

Devil In Disguise/The Flying Burrito Bros/Last Of The Red Hot Burritos

Life By The Drop/Stevie Ray Vaughan/The Sky Is Crying

Sitting on Top of the World/Cream/Wheels of Fire

The Ways Of Love/Neil Young/Freedom

Marie/Steve Earle/Townes

This Side/Firesign Theatre/Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers

Holiday Home/Rotary Downs/Chained to the Chariot

Swimmin' Hole Blues/Benbenek/BENBENEK - Charity Shop Pop!

billys_bones/The Pogues/Rum Sodomy & The Lash

Wanderlust/Frank Black/Fast Man / Raider Man

Hillbillies On Speed/Hillbilly Hellcats/Rev It Up With Taz

Blood Bank/Bon Iver/Blood Bank

Put It On Paper/Mike Birbiglia/My Secret Public Journal Live

Bop Deluxe-beauty Secrets/Be-bop Deluxe/Sunburst Finish

A Apolitical Blues/Little Feat/The Last Record Album

Stevie Ray plays Hendrix. One of the best!

Friday Random 10

Okay, posting has been pretty sparse lately, but I was visiting the step daughter and grand daughter over the weekend. Lemme make it up to you with a random selection of tunes picked by my iTunes DJ:

The Hollows/Matt Pond PA/Measure

billnick.11/Magnesium Cake/Recliner By the Side of the Road Album

Your Mouth/Frank Zappa/Waka Jawaka

Nature of Love (Cruelty Mix B)/Ministry/Twelve Inch Singles

My Tourniquet/Evanescence/Not for Your Ears

There's Something Very Wrong With Us So Let's Go Out Tonight/Electric Six/Switzerland

Take A Holiday/Mindy Smith/Stupid Love

Zone Doubt/Sebadoh/Harmacy

Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn/The White Stripes/Icky Thump

Winter/The Dodos/Visiter

And here's an oldie from Ministry, back when Dubya was pretending to be President:

Friday Random 10

A ramdom selection of music from my computer's hard drive, chosen by the iTunes DJ function:

In My Time Of Dying/Led Zeppelin/Physical Graffiti

Corona Radiata/Nine Inch Nails/The Slip

Call Box (1-2-3)/Wall Of Voodoo/The Index Masters

INFLATION LANGUAGE/Victor Borge (yes, Victor Borge! Deal with it!)/78 Digital Downloads

Landlocked Blues/Bright Eyes/Motion Sickness

Stop The World (And Let Me Off)/Rhonda Vincent/Destination Life

Don't Talk Down/The Stills/Oceans Will Rise

Pretty Pink Ribbon/Cake/Comfort Eagle

‘Oppressed as I certainly was’/William Roberts/The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination

That's My Boy/VAST/Turquoise/Crimson

A wide range of flavors there. And what are you listening to? And here some more VAST for you:


And, while we're at it, have a little Cake:

Friday Random 10+1

A random sample of tunes from my iMac's HD, chosen by the robotic DJ within iTunes:

Burn Through Love/Matthew Sweet /Sunshine Lies

Go Long/Joanna Newsom/Have One On Me

Playmate/Pearls Before Swine /One Nation Underground

The Devil/Polly Jean Harvey/White Chalk

Methamphetamine/Old Crow Medicine Show/Tennessee Pusher

The Experts/Max and the Marginalized/Unnamed Album

On a Carousel/Benbenek/Tawdry Thrills Trash and Tongue

Little Tornado/Aimee Mann/@#%&*! Smilers

New Railroad/Crooked Still/Shaken By A Low Sound

69 Tea/Seether/Disclaimer II

Down There by the Train/Tom Waits/Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

And what the heck are you listening to???

Friday Random 10+1 (New Year's Edition)

Here's what my iTunes DJ wanted to hear on the first day of 2010:

Mister Me Live on XM/They Might Be Giants/TMBG.com

Novocain/Building A Better Spaceship/Building a Better Spaceship

Want/Disturbed/The Sickness

How Can You/Embassy/EP + More - Part 3 - Slave Cut (Comp)

Descarga Inez - Jose Conde Y Ola Fresca/Various Artists - Music Resource Group/Independent Music Awards Winners 2008

Story of Isaac/Suzanne Vega/The Right Way and The Way That Was Not So Right

Sound It Off/Mates Of State/Team Boo

Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)/Steve Earle/Songwriter Sessions @ WPLN Nashville

Little Red Corvette/Prince/Prince Live at Coachella (Disc 1)

Mercy/Duffy/Rockferry

Soft Fun/Grin/The Very Best Of Grin

Grin, Nils Lofgren's first band, was a local group in my area of Maryland when I was growing up. Here's a clip of them from a 2004 reunion gig in Rockville, Maryland. Nils is still smoking on guitar!

Friday Random 10+1

Ah, it's Friday, so I get a chance to let my iMac be the DJ and pick 10 + 1 tunes from the music library that resides on it's hard drive. The results?

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!/Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds/Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Out Come The Freaks/Was (Not Was)/Mutant Disco Volume #2
All Along/Supersuckers/Mid-Fi Sampler
I Touch Myself/Saucy Monky/Veronica Mars Unofficial Soundtrack Season 1
Storm Warning/dB's/Stands for Decibels & Repercussion
Woman/Wolfmother/Wolfmother
Tribal Gathering/The Byrds/The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Parachute Woman/The Rolling Stones/Beggar's Banquet
Lost Woman/The James Gang/Yer' Album
Short Stuff/Swimming Pool Q's/The Deep End
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask/Frank Zappa/Weasels Ripped My Flesh

The Swimming Pool Qs are one of those bands who have been around for decades that seem to stay mostly below the radar, making incredible music. Check 'em out:

And lest we forget, this is the first day of Zappadan. Let us now praise famous Franks . . . .

Friday Random 10+1

Here's a random sample of the music on my iMac's hard drive:

Emily/Joanna Newsom/Ys

monks/King Missile III/Failure

Silver Apples II (for Simeon)/Tom Rapp/A Journal Of The Plague Year

No Self Control/Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel 3

Halleluljah/Leonard Cohen/The Essential Leonard Cohen

The Law Of The Jungle/Link Wray & His Ray Men

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb/Spoon/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Bonus Disc Get Nice)

Song of the Chief Musician (Part 2)/The Sadies/Favourite Colours

One of These Days/Foxglove/http://music.download.com

Evil Ways/Black Mountain/In The Future

I'll Slow You Down/Warren Zevon/Life'll Kill Ya

King Missile makes the kind of music that kicks reality's ASS! Check it out:

What's on YOUR computer's playlist?

Friday Random 10

A random sample of my 'puter's music selections, chose by the iTunes DJ for your listening and dancing pleasure:

 The Same Rope/Asleep At the Wheel/Still Swingin'

Take Me Away/Roger McGuinn/Cardiff Rose

Little Things/Pomplamoose/Pomplamoose VideoSongs*

Particle Mo (Raleigh)/They Might Be Giants/Almanac Live 2004

I Only Have Good Days - Chris Gray/Various Artists - Music Resource Group/Independent Music Awards Winners 2008

Black And White/dB's/Stands for Decibels & Repercussion

Computer Cowboy (AKA Syscrusher)/Neil Young/Trans
Metropolis Dawn/Deciduous Intent/As The Leaves

Difference Is Time/Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band/Outer South

Spend Some Time/Weezer/The Black Album

*You haven't heard Pomplamoose yet?!!?? Go here and listen before doing anything else! Or, listen to this:

Friday Random 10+1

Time for a random sampling of my iMac's music library. At this point in time I have 11,118 songs in there somewhere, but who's counting? Take it away, iTunes DJ:

Longarm/Wall Of Voodoo/The Index Masters

O give me a little love/United Society of Shakers/Early Shaker Spirituals*

Just One Day/Better Than Ezra/Paper Empire

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song/Fleet Foxes/Fleet Foxes

You Won't See Me/The Beatles/Rubber Soul

Fais Do Do/Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell/Catch the Moon

All That You Are/Mudvayne/Lost And Found

Pilgrim/Steve Earle And The Del Mccoury Band/The Mountain (Remastered)

Egyptian Cream */Robyn Hitchcock/2004-01-09 - Maxwell's

The Wind And More/Roky Erickson And The Aliens/The Evil One (Plus One)

Problem Drinker/Asleep At the Wheel/Still Swingin'

*I did some sound design for a play a while ago, and we needed some Shaker songs. The Shaker still of singing is very eerie, even more so than most religious music. And those Shakers loved to give witness in song . . . .

Friday Random 10+1

Yeah, more random tracks from my 'puter's music library. Can you dig it?

Firecracker/The Wailin` Jennys/Firecracker

Can You Feel It?/Apples In Stereo/New Magnetic Wonder

Flavor/Tori Amos/Abnormally Attracted To Sin

Two Years/Midnight Movies/Lion the Girl

Fourth World War/Ted Leo & the Pharmacists/Living With The Living

Cold, Cold Ground/Tom Waits & Kronos Quartet/Healing The Divide (Live New York, 09.21.2003)

The Pot/Tool/10,000 Days

Ordinary People/Neil Young/Chrome Dreams II

Sunshine Of Your Love/The Ventures/Underground Fire

Who's Gonna Help Brother Get/Lee Dorsey/New Orleans Funk

Lightly At First/Stewart Pack & the Royal Treatment/The Royal Treatment

What's on your random playlist?

Friday Random 10+1

It's been a while since last we rocked, so here's a random sample of my iMac's iTunes library, chosen without editing by the iTunes DJ:

Birds/Neil Young/After The Gold Rush

Yesterday Never Tomorrows/Stills/Logic Will Break Your Heart

Winter In My Heart/VAST/Turquoise/Crimson

The Ballad of the Kingsmen/Todd Snider/East Nashville Skyline

I Feel For You/Prince/Prince Live at Coachella (Disc 1)

Chitlins Con Carne/Stevie Ray Vaughan/The Sky Is Crying

Straight To Hell/The Clash/Combat Rock

What Is And What Should Never Be/Led Zeppelin/How The West Was Won [Disc 2]

Dreamin'/Weezer/Weezer (The Red Album)

Evenin/Jesse Colin Young/Song For Juli

Love Song No. 7/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/Some Loud Thunder

Friday Random 10+1

Celebrating diversity in musical taste or the lack thereof, here is a random sampling from my iMac's music library, chosen by the iTunes DJ function:

To Your Love/Fiona Apple/When The Pawn

Bad Things/L7/The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum

The Bomber: Closet Queen/Bolero/Cast Your Fate to the Wind/James Gang/Rides Again*

Pendulous Threads/Incubus/Light Grenades

The Three Great Alabama Icons/Drive-By Truckers/Southern Rock Opera+

Numberjacks Are On Their Way Medley/Numberjacks/Hey Hey (Big Songs for Little People)

Moving Forward/Hoobastank/Every Man For Himself

Night Flight/Led Zeppelin/Physical Graffiti

Don't Wanna be the One/Midnight Oil/Oils on the Water

Looking For Nothing/Aimee Mann/@#%&*! Smilers

The Long Black Veil/Johnny Cash/At Folsom Prison

*Back in the day, I used to play this medley over and over on my plastic Mongomery Wards stereo, much to my parent's consternation.

+This CD is an incredible masterpiece of modern day southern rock. Get it NOW!!!

Friday Random 10+1

A random sampling of the music library on my computer's hard drive, chosen by the iTunes DJ funtion:

The Cisco Kid/War/'70s Classic Rock

The Swimmer (for Kurt Cobain)/Tom Rapp/A Journal Of The Plague Year

Badlands/Day For Night/eMusic SXSW Birthday Sampler

So Beautiful/Dashboard Confessional/A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar

Computer Age/Neil Young/Trans

BIRD/The Charlatans/You Cross My Path

Fruit Machine/Ting Tings/We Started Nothing

Getting Better/The Beatles/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

I Saw A Light/Bat For Lashes/Fur & Gold [Bonus Track]

Make It Right/Tim Buckley/Greetings From L.A.

Twistin' The Night Away/Sam Cooke/One Night Stand! Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club

I've often wondered why, with so many Beatle's tunes on my computer, the random selection hardly ever chose the Fab Four for these lists (something to do with Apple and the Mop Tops' legal hassles?) Anyway, I guess it's getting better . . . .