Your RBR Friday Random Ten is Under the Covers

…in the whole wide room (Pandora-induced).

1. Flight Of The Conchords – Mutha’uckas
2. Stephen Lynch – Best Friends Song (Live)
3. Jonathan Coulton – Baby Got Back
4. Flobots – Fight With Tools
5. Flight Of The Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room
6. Tenacious D – Kickapoo
7. The Lonely Island – Dick In A Box
8. Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
9. Tenacious D – Car Chase City
10. Stephen Lynch – Dr. Stephen (Live)

1. Wait for Sleep – Dream Theater
2. To the Edge – Lacuna Coil
3. Cult of Personality – Living Colour
4. Behind My Camel – The Police
5. Sunshine – Buckcherry
6. Sunshine the Werewolf – The Dillinger Escape Plan
7. Daddy’s Cup – Drive-by Truckers
8. Achilles’ Heel – Atomic Opera
9. We Are the Storm – The Dillinger Escape Plan
10. Suck My Kiss – Red Hot Chili Peppers

in that book. The cover makes it look like a gripping read. Scandalous liaisons, passion, lust, and intrigue…fraught with conflict.

R.E.M. – Supeman (The Clique)
The Gourds – Gin and Juice (Snoop Dogg)
The Pop-O-Pies – Truckin’ (The Grateful Dead)
Love Tractor – Got to Give it Up (The GAP Band)
Ben Folds Five – She Don’t Use Jelly (The Flaming Lips)
DEVO – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
Superchunk – 100,000 Fireflies (Magnetic Fields)
Placebo – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
Steve & Eydie – Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
Dash Rip Rock – Delta Dawn (Helen Reddy)

1. Longing Town – Duncan Shiek
2. Hold You in My Arms – Ray LaMontagne
3. Come Together – Third Day
4. Slow Dancing In A Burning Room – John Meyer
5. Do Ya – Electric Light Orchestra
6. Turn To Stone – Electric Light Orchestra
7. I’ll Take You Back – Brad Paisley
8. Happy Jack – The Who
9. Dead In The Water – David Gray
10. Locked In My Room – Shawn Mullins

1. Graceland – Paul Simon
2. Ade – David Byrne
3. Dream Song – Widespread Panic
4. You Shook Me – Muddy Waters
5. What A Day That Was – David Bryne
6. Woke Up Laughing – Robert Palmer
7. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
8. Carefree (Egyptian Fantasy) – The Sun Ra Arkkestra
9. Ride Me High – J.J. Cale
10. Beauty Of My Dreams – The Del McCoury Band

…that Adrienne Young cover of “Brokedown Palace” is phenomenal. It’s been one of my favorite covers for years.

I said to myself “Oh how the mighty have fallen”…

01: Mastodon – “Island”
02: Arctic Monkeys – “Fake Tales of San Francisco”
03: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “Tupelo”
04: Leftover Salmon – “Better”
05: The Prefabricated Quartet – “End”
06: Dan Deacon – “Woody Woodpecker”
07: Deerhunter – “Agoraphobia”
08: Six Organs of Admittance – “A Thousand Birds”
09: Gogol Bordello – “Immigrant Punk”
10: Bob Marley & the Wailers – “War”

Bo Diddley – Road Runner
The Who – Join Together
The Black Keys – Goodbye Babylon
Dinosaur Jr. – Whatever’s Cool With Me
R.L. Burnside – Can’t Let You Go
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Don’t Ask Me No Questions
Howlin’ Wolf – Poor Boy
Django Reinhardt – Lady Be Good
Doc Watson – Ramblin’ Hobo
Guns N Roses – Reckless Life

Over on my site, here is what I got:
10. Open Up – Dispatch

9. Shoot Down the Stars – Gym Class Heroes

8. Meanwhile Rick James… – Cake

7. Yearnin’ – The Black Keys

6. In Memory – Shinedown

5. Maybelline – Foghat

4. The Party Song – Blink-182

3. Freak Me Out – Weezer

2. Either Way, I’ll Break Your Heart Someday – Augustana

1. Glass Onion – The Beatles

1. “Get Down Make Love” – Nine Inch Nails (Queen)
2. “Smoke 2 Joints” – Sublime (Bob Marley/Jimmy Cliff)
3. “Hurt” – Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor)
4. “(You Are My) Shining Star” – Grateful Dead (Manhattans)
5. “Can’t Get Used To Losing You” – English Beat (Andy Williams)
6. “Peter Gunn” – Art of Noise (Henry Mancini)
7. “Red Red Wine” – UB40 – (Neil Diamond)
8. “Take Me to the River” – Talking Heads (Al Green)
9. “Helpless” – Moby (Neil Young/CSN&Y)
10. “Got To Get You Into My Life” – Earth, Wind, & Fire (Beatles)

Just a few of my favorite covers! There’s too many to add to the list. I’ll just leave it at this.

I just got home and listened to each of your selections. Awesome!