Your Friday RBR Random Ten
Hola! Kleph here. Todd's all busy getting "Yea Alabama!" finished up and he asked me to handle the random ten this week. A couple of interesting if obscure selections popped up on my MP3 player but one I want to make special note of is the incomparable Nick Drake.
A fantastically obscure artist, Drake recorded only three records before his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26. The power of his music inspired a legion of guitarists and songwriters - although he was almost completely unknown beyond that. Then, in November 1999, Volkswagon debuted TV spot shown above featuring the title song from Drake's final album Pink Moon. Within a month, more of his records sold than had over the three decades prior. His songs have been steadily gaining popularity ever since.
Drake's music is often described as "goth-folk" or "autumnal" but, as the VW spot demonstrates beautifuly, it's also perfect for those warm nights of summer. Kleph says, "check it out." Now... on with the list:
1) Mission of Burma - "Max Ernst"
2) The Cure - "The Perfect Girl"
3) Massive Attack - "Mezzanine"
4) Kashmir- "Petite Machine"
5) The English Beat - "Rotating Head"
6) Ed Motta - "A Vontade"
7) The Shins - "Red Rabbits"
8) Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
9) Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - "Unsettled"
10) Sonic Youth - "Totally Trashed"
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All over but the proofin'
All but one article is submitted for Yea Alabama (Nico, I better not see a random ten from you until it’s in my inbox!), so for all intents and purposes we are done. Hallelujah.
1. Aeroplane Pageant – All the Days
2. John Hammond – Back Door Man
3. The Light Wires – The Hum of Black Machines
4. Miles Davis – Jeru
5. Prince – Raspberry Beret
6. CCR – Long As I Can See the Light
7. Gov’t Mule – I Think You Know What I Mean
8. Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds – How Will It Go
9. Del Shannon – Runaway
10. BeauSoleil – Bunk’s Blues
Also...
….just checked Sonic Youth’s website. July 12, Sloss Furnace. Think I just wet myself a little.
sloss furnace...
…now there’s a name outta my past. i saw both the replacements and husker du play there in the mid-80s.
easy boys, there’s plenty of poser cred to go around :)
by deeringcrossfire on May 15, 2009 10:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Don't you read my comments...
…I’m (essentially) done! You have no idea the relief I’m feeling over a free Saturday.
I was...
…at the Replacements show, which still seems surreal to this small-town boy.
by NiceLittleSaturday on May 15, 2009 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
RBR meetup?
At the Sonic Youth show?
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.
by That Other Dave on May 15, 2009 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Lovin' the Nick Drake...and my 10
1. Jack Johnson – “Breakdown”
2. South Austin Jug Band – “Jack -Ass”
3. The Butterfly Effect – “Gone”
4. Deftones – "Be Quiet and Drive(Far Away)
5. Santana – "Hope Your Feeling Better)
6. Foo Fighters – “Exhausted”
7. The Redwalls – “On My Way”
8. 311 – “Whiskey and Wine”
9. DBT – “Easy On Yourself”
10. Danzig – “Twist of Cain”
" Official Ambassador of RBR"
R 10
RHCP-Stadium Arcadium
Gang of Four-Damaged Goods
Bob Dylan-Knockin on Heaven’s Door
The Chemical Brothers-Piku Playground
Ryan Adams-Two Hearts
Juvenile-Holla Back
Iggy Pop-Lust 4 Life
Sleater-Kinney-One Beat
Wilco-Sky Blue Sky
Dead Boys-I need Lunch
I've said it before...
…a day without Iggy is a day without sunshine.
by NiceLittleSaturday on May 15, 2009 2:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Pandora ruined an otherwise nice random 10 with some gay girl folk straight off the Felicity soundtrack (though that WAS a great show)
The Byrds-Eight Miles High
Johnny Cash-Heart of Gold
The Pretenders-Back On The Chain Gang
Ryan Douchebag and the Cardinals-Evergreen
Sufjan Stevens-Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
John Prine and Steve Goodman-Souvenirs (live)
Kris Delmhurst-Arm’s Length
Tom Waits-Shiver Me Timbers
Robert Earl Keen-I’m Going Home (live)
Guster-Careful
by deeringcrossfire on May 15, 2009 10:43 AM CDT reply actions
How early is it now? Damn, don't people sleep still.
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on May 15, 2009 11:17 AM CDT reply actions
I always keep one eye open like CBS...
I'm so very tired...
by SpockJenkins on May 15, 2009 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions
You know what?
That’s dope!
‘Cuz you’re right!
(but what’s funny about the “eye” of CBS, is now I know I’ve been wrong all along. i thought it resembled a marble. you know? the ones with the “wavy” sh_t in the middle? one of those marbles. who’da thunk?)
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on May 15, 2009 11:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm feeling totally un-V8 right now
However, show that V8 a heinous splash of Vodka and I might let’cha try swaying me on things, this, or that.
1. Nervous Acid – Bobby Converse
2. Baker St. – Jerry Rafferty
3. Parachutes – Coldplay
4. 1999 – Prince
5. Mustang Sally – Buddy Guy
6. Supermagic 2000 – Chris Isaak
7. Already Gone – Eagles
8. Bowling Tango – Rolfe Kent
9. Love Is Blindness – U2
10. Only You – Allison Moyet
I hope breakfast is better than my wardrobe. Someone’s-not-mine jeans, St. Patrick/clover argyle socks, blue suede pajama slippers, Pendleton /no undershirt or wifebeater (and i’m itchy, yet satisfyingly warm), George Jetson-snap-on-hairdo (it’s actually how i woke up. unreal? but. . . . .i washed my hair last night?), someone’s-not-mine REALLY NICE SUNGLASSES.
No wallet, where’d it go? I had it last night, bought jerky and Stellas- haven’t seen it yet. Maybe that wad of wet dollars dried in my truck? Praying that I have enough for something with biscuits/gravy, wads o’bacon, hectacre of potatoes, a few eggs to splash it all about and make it SING!
Right. . . . newspaper and coffee. Someone else’s cigarettes.
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on May 15, 2009 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions
do you have your own blog yet...
you’re writing is both ridiculous and fantastic and I. Am. Hooked…
I'm so very tired...
by SpockJenkins on May 15, 2009 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Spock-ee-poo!
Homegrown! You are kind and the words you wrote. . .coming from you. . . I gotta tell you bro, that means a lot to me. I tried calling out an all-points bulletin once in a thread a month or two ago to find out how you are? where you been? and to let you know i’m honored to have you backin’ us all up. You got the toughest GIG OUT THERE BROTHA! And you’re doing it! I will say, I love you man. and I’ve missed your rapier wit and homeboy charm. You used to be killin’ it, That’s how I have you down.
(btw: i read what you posted over on that one dude’s “Chizik” opus. daaaaaaang! surgical precision)
I’m gonna put up a fanpost sometime this weekend. Has you in it, roundabout. (pssss! ’member those discs i “supposedly” burned for Nico2.0 ???? i way lagged. still got ’em. got to get ’em out to Neek (there are a few for you too! the Drum & Bass, early Ska, and Dub ones)
I’ll get on that good foot right quick, aight. (hugs to Nico. Man??? I so sorry. I just got “clocked” on that by my g-friend. she didn’t know what to do with “all these un-labeled discs” getting shoved back and forth and about my pad. Sorry broheeem.Way sorry.
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on May 15, 2009 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions
see?!?
rapier wit??? CLASSIC!
yea, I’d love to hear those tapes…
hit me up anytime, Bix…and keep the posts coming…
I'm so very tired...
by SpockJenkins on May 18, 2009 5:12 AM CDT up reply actions
1. All Nightmare Long – ‘Tallica
2. Folsom Prison Blues – The Right Reverend Horton Heat
3. Children of a Worthless God – Exodus
4. Straight to Hell – Drivin’ and Cryin’
5. Guarded – Disturbed
6. Done – Anew Revolution
7. Get Stoned – Hinder
8. I Get Off – Halestorm
9. I Hate My Life – Theory of a Deadman
10. Cemetary Gates – Pantera
Bee-utiful music dude!
Exodus, Disturbed, Halestorm, & Pantera. . . all in the same shuffle set for RBR Random Friday?
Gladly up off my chair and enviously clapping for a Standing Ovation!
That’s some serious bump, MetallibamA. Damn!
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on May 16, 2009 7:48 AM CDT up reply actions
Today's Tardy Tunes:
1. 311 – Misdirected Hostility
2. The Flaming Lips – March of the Rotten Vegetables
3. Steve Miller Band – Serenade
4. Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
5. The Clash – Stop the World
6. Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch
7. Johnny Cash – Big River
8. Steve Miller Band – Jungle Love
9. Lenny Kravitz – I Build This Garden For Us
10. Beastie Boys – Slow and Low
by NiceLittleSaturday on May 15, 2009 2:09 PM CDT reply actions
my itunes genius if aparantly a colorado fan. (that, or i have alot of hippie music)
modest mouse – paper thin walls
guns and cigarettes – atmosphere
Blink 182 – wasting time
Jimi Hendrix – night bird flying
bob dylan – masters of war
sublime – smoke two joints (a personal favorite in 7th grade…)
bob dylan – i want you
belle & sebastian – stars of track and field
peter tosh – johnny b goode
the black keys – all hands against his own
welcome to the SEC kiffykins...
doh.... atmosphere sings "guns and cigarettes"....uggh
welcome to the SEC kiffykins...
by tempebamafan on May 15, 2009 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions

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