Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: May 17th, 2013

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I don't really know when I realized that the Breeders' Last Splash was something special. It might have been the summer of 1999. But it is, and so this was a fun read for me.

Anyways, you may now share your random tens for the week.

36 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: May 17th, 2013”

  1. 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' - Joe Cocker
    'Somebody To Love' - Queen
    'Laura' (live) - Flogging Molly
    'No More Tears' - Ozzy Osbourne
    'Letterbomb' - Green Day

    'Strangers in the Night' - Frank Sinatra
    '1979' - Smashing Pumpkins
    'Remember Me' - The Zutons
    'Fire Escape' - Fastball
    'Nothing Else Matters' - Metallica

  2. #38 at DbT is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. So, to celebrate, my 10 favorite Elton John songs:

    1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    2. Rocket Man
    3. Levon
    4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    5. Philadelphia Freedom
    6. Tiny Dancer
    7. Sweet Painted Lady
    8. Your Song
    9. Daniel
    10.Bennie and the Jets

      1. yeah, Levon doesn't rank that high with me. My list tends to skew older; Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Honky Cat, etc. would make my list

        1. Levon was released in'71, Honky Cat in '72, and Don't Let the Sun in '74. Your list might skew differently, but not older.

          /pedant

          1. I'm making two different statements.

            1) Levon doesn't rank that highly for me.
            2) My list skews older than Beau's.

            I'm not saying Levon isn't an older tune as well. The (first) Greatest Hits LP is a pretty good match for me, although Funeral/Bleeding makes the list.

            1. I think all but one of those songs was released before I was born, so they're all old 😮

    2. you know, i don't think i like a single elton john song (though a very young joe used to play "crocodile rock" over and over again). i don't have anything against him, i just haven't really liked any of it.

      1. Yeah, I'm struggling to find a song I like now that I can't make-believe that there's a song about the ageless Cuban junkballer.

      2. I used to think I liked Elton, but I've just gotten bored with so much of his stuff that now I think I don't like him, even though there are probably plenty of exceptions.

  3. From my commute...

    1. Coil “Heaven's Blade” The Ape of Naples
    2. Cypress Hill “Insane in the Brain” Black Sunday
    3. Underworld “Pearls Girl”* Secound Toughest in the Infants
    4. Mr. Scruff “Blackpool Roll” Keep It Unreal
    5. Huff2 “AMR” Other MP3s

    6. Everything But the Girl with Deep Dish “Future of the Future (Stay Gold)” Temperamental
    7. Dave Aju “Xibalbanasazi” The Tables Turn
    8. Fila Brazillia “Monk's Utterance” Jump Leads
    9. Roger Knox & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts “Brisbane Blacks” Stranger in My Land
    T. Peanut Butter Wolf feat. Zest “Interruptions” My Vinyl Weighs a Ton
    E. Incubus & DJ Greyboy “Familiar” Spawn: The Album

    *If you ever need titles for songs, go to the greyhound track as Underworld did.

    1. Damn! I should have started with number 5.
      #15 was Grinderman "No Pussy Blues"!
      Damn!

  4. 1. "Redondo Beach" - Patti Smith - Horses
    2. "Wedding Bells" - Hank Williams - Road Trip
    3. "Wonderful" - Everclear - Songs From An American Movie
    4. "Breathe" - Greenwheel - Soma Holiday
    5. "I Try" - Macy Gray - On How Life Is
    6. "Frankie & Johnnie" - Johnny Cash
    7. "A Better Son/Daughter" - Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things
    8. "Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)" - Gary Glitter - Touch Me
    9. "Thank The Lord For The Night Time" - Neil Diamond - Just For You
    10. "North American Scum" - LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
    B: "Happy Birthday"

    1. After yesterday, I'm shocked to see Rilo Kiley on your list. Also, happy birthday to you!

      1. Especially in retrospect, right? (I didn't really pay attention to all that... do I have it right?)

  5. 1. "Ill with Want" The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
    2. "Confutatis" Las Rubias Del Norte Rumba Internationale
    3. "Miss Your Plane" T. Griffin Coraline The Sea Won't Take Long
    4. "Anna (El Negro Zumbon)" Pink Martini Hang on Little Tomato
    5. "Papercut" The Quavers Fell Asleep on a Train*
    6. "Love Song for a Schuba's Bartender" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Animal!
    7. "On a Freezing chicago Street" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat
    8. "I Left a Trail of Tears" Ben Connelly Over You**
    9. "Alibi" Dessa A Badly Broken Code
    10. "Ghost Parking" T. Griffin Coraline The Sea Won't Take Long

    *I've been freaking out for a while about how much I love this song, so I was especially happy to see it turn up. You can check it out here--it's the last song on the album.
    **CdLers, I think if Sarah Wreisner wrote songs, they'd have lyrics like this.

  7. .

    01. Mercyful Fate - "Welcome Princess of Hell", Don't Break the Oath
    02. Black Sabbath - "The Mob Rules", The Mob Rules
    03. Black Label Society - "Ain't Life Grand", Stronger Than Death
    04. Judas Priest - "Hell Patrol", Painkiller
    05. Light This City - "Remains of the Gods", Remains of the Gods
    06. Pyramaze - "Bring Back Life", The Legend of the Bone Carver
    07. AC/DC - "Love Hungry Man", Highway to Hell
    08. Jag Panzer - "The Prophecies (Fugue in D Minor)", Thane to the Throne
    09. Dysrhytmia - "Touch Benediction", Pretest
    10. Oathean - "Voice of My Soul", Fading Away into the Grave of Nothingness

    1. Imagining that Oathean is a metal Billy Ocean or Frank Ocean cover band with a lisp.

  8. .

    * Tonight - Supergrass - In It For the Money
    * Calm Like a Bomb - Rage Against the Machine - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
    * Big Man With a Gun - Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
    * The Day the World Went Away - Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been
    * Voiceless Laughter - Parallel 41 - (self-titled)
    * She Found Now - My Bloody Valentine - m b v
    * Leap of Faith - Suicide Machines - Steal This Record
    * Incense of Death - The Goslings - Occasion
    * All Hands Against His Own - The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
    * Elect the Dead - Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead

    Either there were a lot of long songs in this list, or I was particularly impatient this morning.

    I really haven't been visiting my usual new music haunts as much this month, so not much in that vein. The iPod randomizer has been serving up Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons recently. After starting off pretty lukewarm on it, I like it more every time I listen to it.

    The pitchfork review inspired me to listed to Pharmakon - "Crawling on Bruised Knees". The opening bit is cool, but I don't feel like the song goes anywhere, so the opening bit is the middle bit is the closing bit.

    1. Your first NIN song is a short one.
      Glad to see you're digging the Black Dice.
      Things Will Never Be the Same as you find Endless Happiness.

  9. .

    1. Lighthouse James Taylor
    2. Perfect Stabbing Westward
    3. Camouflage Third Eye Blind
    4. Who Wants the World The Stranglers
    5. We Will Make a Song Destroy Rogue Wave

    6. I Feel Good All Over The Drifters
    7. Rattled The Traveling Wilburys
    8. Warehouse Dave Matthews Band
    9. Black And Blue Miike Snow
    10. Come See About Me Diana Ross & The Supremes

    B. Forest System Of A Down

  10. 1. Wasted -- Black Flag -- No Thanks! The '70's Punk Rebellion
    2. Bored And 19 -- Gear Daddies -- Can't Have Nothin' Nice
    3. Oh Lucinda (Love Becomes A Habit) -- The Only Ones -- Zero A Martin Hannett Story 1977-1991
    4. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying -- Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
    5. Judy And The Dream Of Horses -- Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
    6. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting -- Elton John -- Elton John Greatest Hits
    7. Because I Do -- X -- The X Anthology
    8. Wild Honey -- U2 -- All That You Can't Leave Behind
    9. Ice Cream Man -- Van Halen -- Van Halen
    10. Oh, Pretty Woman -- Roy Orbison -- The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison

    11. Paul Revere -- Beastie Boys -- Licensed To Ill
    12. Shakespeare's Sister -- The Smiths -- Louder Than Bombs

    Notes:
    First time in months no GBV or GBV-related song

    Nice to have an Elton John song after the discussion above

    I could be a college radio DJ playing a Van Halen song from first album and then immediately follow up with Roy Orbison's version of Oh Pretty Woman.

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