Random Friday
The weeks, they go by quickly!
It's time for a Random Friday once again. Here are a couple of rules: Get out your digital music player and hit shuffle. Report back the first ten songs it spits out. No skipping or rationalizing or "apron-wringing."
Here are the tunes:
1. Busy Driving (I Love You and What You've Done With the Place) -- Burn Disco Burn
2. Kamera (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) -- Wilco
3. Shattered (40 Licks) -- Rolling Stones
4. Laughing (Winterpills) -- Winterpills
5. Lost Myself in Search of You (Please) -- Matt Nathanson
6. I Don't Believe You (i) -- The Magnetic Fields
7. The Wind Blew All Around Me (Baby Blue) -- Mary Lou Lord
8. Long Ride Home (1000 Kisses) -- Patty Griffin
9. Natural Anthem (Give Up) -- The Postal Service
10. Stowaway (Disenchanted Hearts Unite) -- Tullycraft
General Thoughts: My inner indie rock snob is showing! First the Magnetic Fields, next some chunky black glasses...
Did I just break the rules? Does self-deprecation count as "apron wringing"? Aw, screw it. I amused myself.
Seen Live: Wilco, Matt Nathanson, Mary Lou Lord, Patty Griffin
Favorite Song: It's definitely "Long Ride Home." Something that I love about Patty Griffin is that she makes it so easy to get lost in the music itself, even sometimes at the expense of the lyrics. I'm a big lyrics person and music, for me, is often a fusion of the emotional and the intellectual. But when I'm so moved by the emotion of a song that I forget the intellect of it, it's extremely refreshing. I can't think of too many singer-songwriters who completely capture me in this way. Patty has a rare gift.
Least Favorite Song: "Natural Anthem" is a funny choice given that I LOVE The Postal Service. In fact, Give Up is a close second favorite album from this batch. However, I really don't like this track. It's the one clinker on the record.
Favorite Album: 1000 Kisses. This is actually one of my favorites of all time. See above.
And speaking of Patty: One week from today MS, DD and I will be sitting in the front row at the Scottish Rite, mesmerized by her musical splendor...
posted by popscholar @ 11:16 AM
5 Comments:
YAY FOR PATTY! WOO HOO!
I really must check out this Patty chick ;)
Off to complete my random Friday--hope you are well!
You don't like Natural Anthem? Boo. ;)
My ten:
IOU - Metric (from Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?)
Galaxy Song - Monty Python (from Monty Python Sings!)
Theme From Toyko - Bis (from Social Dancing)
Me, Myself and I - Billie Holiday (from the Ken Burns Jazz CD)
Thought Process - Goodie Mob (from Soul Food)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship - Natalie Merchant (from Retrospective)
Exit - U2 (from The Joshua Tree)
Dave Has a Problem...Seriously - De La Soul (from Buhloone Mind State)
Secret Agent Man - Dickies (from a ska/punk cover disc)
The Shining - James (from Pleased to Meet You)
General Thoughts - A strange ten, loaded with non-singles, b-sides or other general album filler.
Seen live - Metric (five times), Bis (twice), Goodie Mob (once), Natalie Merchant (8? 9? Something like that), U2 (four times), De La Soul (five times), James (twice)
Favorite song: IOU, probably, with The Shining close behind. IOU has one of the greatest non-choruses I've heard - "Every 10-year-old enemy soldier thinks faling bombs are shooting stars sometimes. When she wishes, she wishes for less things to wish for, more things to work toward."
(NOTE: #11 in the shuffle was "Anthems for a 17-Year Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene, and that would have trumped any of these ten.)
Least favorite: I almost didn't include "Dave Has..." because it is essentially an interlude on the disc - a 53 second phone message. But my least favorite actual song, suprisingly enough, is "Come Take a Trip on My Airship," mainly because the singing kids takes the cheese level to 11.
Favorite album: Retrospective, but that's cheating. Favorite regular album would be "Old World Underground..."
MS -- Yes, YAY for Patty is right!
Kris -- You must, absolutely.
RS -- You win the "Most Eclectic Set" award. A bit of everything there, from ska to hip hop. Nice!
And, it's almost *like* cheating for us to choose Natalie's album as the fav in the set, even when it's a "real" record (as opposed to a greatest hits compilation). ;)
that bitch patty never plays LA :(
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