Not a very inspiring lot this week, so that means it's time for the weirdest music video evah:

Y'all know how to play, so get to it.

1. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Cody Cody
2. Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
3. Two Dollar Pistols - Where Was Love (When You Needed Me)
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - It's Just a Thought
5. Joy Divison - Twenty Four Hours
6. Hank Williams, Jr. - This Ain't Dallas
7. Lucero - Nights Like These
8. Mandy Barnett - The Whispering Wind (Blows on By)
9. Bruce Springsteen - Across the Border
10. Jimmy Eat World - The World You Love

Until we fully figure out everything on the new platform, I'm going to have to give you a YouTube instead of a streaming song for my Random 10 contribution this week. For those of you out there that are Tom Waits fans, he announced his summer tour this week and he'll be stopping in Birmingham and Mobile! View his press conference below. This is the greatest presser in the history of pressers!

Since the iPod started us off right with a little Chuck Berry, I thought I'd post this clip from the amazing Hail! Hail! Rock N' Roll documentary of him performing Carol with Keith Richards and just generally being kind of a pain in the ass about the "right" way to play the opening lick. If you haven't seen that movie, you have to rent it this weekend if only for the hilarious and constant bickereing between Berry and Richards and the incredible "my, Keef is looking a healthy shade of blue today, isn't he?" drunken moment after the concert where Richards details how proud he is that Berry once punched him in the face and he didn't fall down. Just an amazingly revelatory documentary. I think I'm going to Best Buy tonight to pick up a copy....

1. Chuck Berry - Carol
2. Pat Green - Threadbare Gypsy Soul
3. John Hartford - Because of You
4. George Strait - You Look So Good in Love
5. Neko Case - Look For Me (I'll Be Around)
6. The Stanley Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
7. Miles Davis - Dr. Jackle
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - As Sure as the Sun
9. The Cure - Same Deep Water as You
10. Diana Krall - If I Had You

Update [2008-5-2 9:52:5 by Nico]:

Anybody else going to see Radiohead in Atlanta next week? Here's one from them and one from opening act, Liars.

Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"

Liars - "Plaster Casts of Everything"

...is all over the place this week, so I'll just use the inclusion of "Let the Good Times Roll" as an excuse to post a block of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown YouTubes.

For anyone that doesn't know how to play, just put your iPod/iTunes/Zune/whatever on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up. It's just that easy!

1. Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow Reprise
2. The Lemonheads - Come Back D.A.
3. MC5 - Motor City is Burning
4. Jet - Come Around Again
5. Ben Harper - In the Lord's Arms
6. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Let the Good Times Roll
7. Lefty Frizell - I Love You a Thousand Ways
8. The Stanley Brothers - I Love No One But You
9. Pavement - No Life Singed Her
10. Muddy Waters - Things I Used to Do

[editor's note, by Nico]
I crashed out early last night and forgot to add my songs into this post. Today, we're having a double dose of bands from Alabama. One from yesteryear and one from today. First we go old school with The Louvin Brothers singing "Alabama." Then we kick things up with the Huntsville based surf rock band Daikaiju.

The Louvin Brothers - "Alabama"

Daikaiju - "Daikuju Die!

Can't go wrong with Parliament book ends...

Y'all know how to play by now, so get to it.

1. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)
2. Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender
3. The Jayhawks - Bottomless Cup
4. Louis Armstrong - Chinatown, My Chinatown
5. Haley Bonar - Am I Allowed
6. John Lee Hooker - This is Hip
7. Hank Williams - Won't You Sometimes Think of Me
8. Lucero - Hearts on Fire
9. Miles Davis - Pinocchio
10. Parliament - All Your Goodies Are Gone

[editor's note, by Nico]
...and now for a double dose of Nico tunes...

The Dirtbombs - "Chains of Love

Arctic Monkeys - "On the Run From the MI5"

...is so very tired.

You know how to play.

1. Chad King - Naomi
2. Pavement - Hands Off the Bayou
3. Memphis Slim - Me, Myself and I
4. Weezer - Jamie
5. Hank Williams - Low Down Blues
6. Elton John - Come Down in Time
7. Hot Rize - Standing in the Need of Prayer
8. Wilco - My Darling
9. Muddy Waters - Just to Be With You
10. The White Stripes - The Denial Twist

Update [2008-4-11 9:8:28 by Nico]:
...and for Nico's song of the week I'm back to California with L.A.'s own Dengue Fever, the world's premiere Khmer language rock band.

Here's the song "Seeing Hands":

Yeah, so there's some recurring themes of man-lovin' in my random ten this week. A disturbing amount, actually:

1. Charlie Rich - I Love My Friend
2. Willie Nelson - My Own Peculiar Way
3. The Rolling Stones - Little Queenie
From the album "Get Your Ya-Yas Out," no less...
4. Aerosmith - The Grind
5. R.E.M. - Nightswimming
6. Sonic Youth - Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your Dog
From the album "Confusion is Sex."
7. Magnapop - Satellite
From the album "Mouthfeel"
8. Aerosmith - Come Together
9. Paul Westerberg - Love Untold
Possible Alternate Title: The Love That Dare Not Speak It's Name?
10. Jimmie Rodgers - Pistol Packin' Papa

Update [2008-4-4 9:39:20 by Nico]:
Hopefully Todd won't mind me jumping in on this post, but I don't want to have two music posts on the main page. I'm now introducing "Nico's Pick of the Week." Some of you dug that last song I posted, some of you though it strange. Anyway, I'm going to start putting a tune a week on this post. Here's "Everybody" by Bassnectar, who is playing tonight at Zydeco in Birmingham.

You KNOW I'm going to this show.

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So I guess now is as good a time as any to post that picture of Jason Taylor the ladies (and apparently my iPod) have been hankering for:

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The top two videos are songs that I inexplicably loved as a child, so much so that whenever they are heard by my parents they still ask me if I remember walking around singing them as a youngster and how cute it was, while the bottom two are songs that I have stated on many occasions to many a person I want played at my funeral.

Anywho, y'all know how to play, so get cracking.

1. Kenny Rogers - Lucille
2. Fishbone - Sunless Saturday
3. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sweet Illusions
4. Buddy Guy and Junior Wells - That's All Right
5. The Stanley Brothers - Angel Band
6. Van Morrison - Mule Skinner Blues
7. Elvis Presley - Peace in the Valley
8. B.J. Thomas - Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
9. Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby
10. Johnny Cash - Walking the Blues

It's that time again, kids, when we all get together and try to see who's musical tastes are the coolest and/or most embarassing. Mine? Eh. I'm fairly certain I haven't had a Random Ten this year without Johnny Cash, and we all know how cool consistency is, but other than that it's a fairly bland mix. It does, however, give me an excuse to post a block of Sonny Boy Williamson YouTubes, so I have that going for me, which is nice.

1. Johnny Cash - Where We'll Never Grow Old
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop the Rain?
3. Randy Travis - Is it Still Over?
4. Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby
6. Sonny Boy Williamson - Bye Bye Bird
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
8. Stanley Brothers - Uncle Pen
9. Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
10. The Queers - Hi Mom, It's Me!

For those of you that don't know how to play, put your iPod/iTunes/Zune/whatever on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up in the comments. No cheating to make yours look cooler, so if that copy of Touch My Body "your girlfriend downloaded on your laptop" comes up, be prepared for some merciless ridicule.

My Teddy Bear was in the mood for classic rock this week.

1. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
2. Eric Clapton - Afer Midnight
3. Robert Earl Keen - Merry Christmas From the Family
4. Johnny Cash - Like a Soldier
5. Shelby Lynne - Where I'm From
6. Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love
7. Led Zeppelin - That's the Way
8. Hot Tuna - Rock Me Baby
9. Van Halen - When It's Love
10. Ryan Adams - Nobody Girl

Y'all know how to play, so get cracking. My iTunes was feeling a little funky this week, given the James Brown book ends.

1. James Brown - I Don't Mind
2. Muddy Waters - Short Dress Woman
3. Ryan Adams - Chin Up, Cheer Up
4. K.C. & the Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
5. Rod Stewart - Find a Reason to Believe
6. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
7. You Say Party! We Say Die! - Midnight Snack
8. Morphine - Sheila
9. The Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power
10. James Brown - Papa Don't Take No Mess