Your RBR Friday Random Ten...

will always sneak in a showtune…

The Perfect Space – The Avett Brothers
These Are Days – 10,000 Maniacs
Paradise – Brice Springsteen
All or Nothin’ – Lee Dixon (from Oklahoma!)
It Was a Very Good Year – Frank Sinatra
X-Ray Man – Liz Phair
I Know – Barenaked Ladies
Daysleeper – REM
Change – Blind Melon
Nikorette – Conor Oberst

Skin and Bones – Foo Fighters
Boll Weevil – Presidents of the USA
Westbound Sign – Green Day
Careful – Guster
I Shot the Sheriff – Eric Clapton
Dancing Nancies – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead
King Without a Crown – Matisyahu
Amber – 311
Don’t Cry (Original) – Guns ’n Roses

Grateful Dead-Wake Up Little Suzie
Lil Wayne-Tie My Hands
Lightnin Hopkins-Rocky Mountain Blues
MuteMath-Reset
DeerTick-Straight in a Storm
T-Bone Walker-T-Bone Jumps Again
Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze
R.L. Burnside-Shake Little Baby
Django Reinhardt-In a Sentimental Mood
The Black Keys-Just a Little Heat

1. Motley Crue – Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
2. The Offspring – The Kids Aren’t Alright
3. Coal Chamber – Dreamtime
4. Days of the New – The Downtown
5. Mushroomhead – Saviour Sorrow
6. The Offspring – Amazed
7. Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole
8. Static X – Love Dump
9. Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall
10. Yin Yang Twins – I Ya Ya
Bonus –
Hatebreed – In the Ahses They Reign

1. Midnight Moonlight – Old And In The Way
2. Ride Me High – J.J. Cale
3. Mouna Bowa – Jean-Luc Ponty
4. Make Me Down a Pallet On Your Floor – The Wood Brothers
5. Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
6. Jack, I’m Mellow – Sidney Bechet
7. (Late Night At The) Maple Leaf – Stanton Moore Trio
8. Lost Cause – Beck
9. Already Free – Derek Trucks Band
10. The Weight – Aretha Franklin

Ambient music, Malian folk pop, avante-garde, metal, Icelandic music sung in a made up language, etc.

01: Moby – “Ghost Return”
02: Starflyer 59 – “I Drive A Lot”
03: Melvins – “Spineless”
04: Clutch – “The Yeti”
05: Eyvind Kang – “Lamentatio”
06: Morrissey – “You’re the One For Me Fatty”
07: Rokia Traoré – “Yorodjan”
08: White Zombie – “Cosmic Monsters, Inc.”
09: King Khan & The Shrines – “I See Lights”
10: Sigur Rós – “Vaka”

…and of course any time King Khan shows up in the Random 10, that means the ladies get to see one of their many favorite pictures:

1) The Throwing Muses – “Dragonhead”
2) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – “Mary’s New Car”
3) Graham Parker & the Rumor – “Love Gets You Twisted”
4) Rubberbullet – “Cold”
5) Cake – “Rock n’ Roll Lifestyle”
6) Jesus & Mary Chain – “Take It”
7) X – “Riding With Mary”
8) Green on Red – “Narcolepsy”
9) Johnny Thunders – “In Cold Blood”
10) Yo La Tengo – “Tiny Birds”

…Anyhow, Anywhere…

1. Beastie Boys – Car Thief
2. Pink Floyd – Don’t Leave Me Now
3. The Flaming Lips – One More Robot
4. Steve Miller Band – Threshold
5. Bruce Springsteen – Working on the Highway
6. The Beatles – Run for Your Life
7. Bruce Springsteen – No Surrender
8. Led Zeppelin – The Lemon Song
9. The Flaming Lips – Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
10. The Who – Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere