Earlier this week on his blog, Roon noted the Wednesday Random Ten as “a meme [I] used to feature on [my] blog.” That got me thinking… Why don’t I do it anymore, at least once in a while? Since I am trying* to get back on the blogging wagon, today seemed as good a day as any to revive it. Play along in the comments if you so desire.
- Fast Car, Tracy Chapman
- Top of the World, Patty Griffin
- Least Complicated (live), Indigo Girls
- Just Like California, Old 97’s
- Wash Away, Joe Purdy
- Levater, Yael Naim
- Too Much Time on My Hands, Styx
- Judas My Heart, Belly
- Without Expression, John Mellencamp
- A Sorta Fairytale, Tori Amos
Wow. For the most part, that’s way too mellow a list for first thing in the morning — I need something peppier to get me going. I don’t even recall hearing the Old 97’s song; I had to go back and look when I realized my count and my iPhone’s count were not the same. The first three tracks had, apparently, lulled me to sleep a bit.
* I know, I know… “Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Caveat – Between losing a third of my music from my external drive and re-building said library onto my new iPod Touch, my current playlist is woefully small. This probably won’t be that exciting but here goes…
1. Shooting the Moon – New Moon Soundtrack
2. How to Save a Life – Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack
3. Silent Night – Sarah McLachlan (Time for Xmas music!)
4. Multiply – Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack (see? dups already!)
5. My Immortal – Evanescence
6. Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise) – Spring Awakening Original Cast Recording
7. I’m Free – Soup Dragons
8. Uninvited – Alanis Morissette
9. Gloria – U2
10. You Won’t Succeed on Broadway – Spamalot Original Cast Recording
Hmmm, that turned out to be more eclectic than I thought.
From the work computer:
1. “Secret Blue Thread” — The Winterpills
2. “Crazy, Crazy, Crazy” — Michael Franti & Spearhead
3. “Big Red Machine” — Justin Vernon & Aaron Dessner
4. “Here Comes My Baby” — Cat Stevens
5. “Some Other Town” — Susan Werner
6. “All I Have” — A.J. Croce
7. “I’m a Believer” — Smash Mouth
8. “Beesting” — The Winterpills (Huh! Guess that shows random works…)
9. “Any Way I Do” — Tracy Grammer
10. “Something To See” — Tracy Chapman (Two Tracy’s in a row!)
What this exercise really points out is that I do not have enough Christmas music in the office…
P.S.: From one grammar snob to another: Italics?
@sprite – Italics rather than quotes, you mean? I tend to think that a numbered list plus quotation marks plus comma/em dash to offset the artist just equals too much punctuation, at least online. And while I am a grammar snob, I’m a flexible one to some extent.
The rule in most U.S. style guides is:
– Italics for album titles
– Quotes for song titles
– Indifference for artist names
Or something like that.
Now, for my (sorta) random 10, plucked only from 2009 releases:
1. “Round Here” – Middle Distance Runner (from The Sun & Earth)
2. “Intro” – N.A.S.A. (from Spirit of Apollo)
3. “Alcoholics Unanimous” – Art Brut (from Art Brut vs. Satan)
4. “I Am Your Skin” – The Bravery (from Stir The Blood)
5. “I’m Free” – The Smithereens (from The Smithereens Play “Tommy”)
6. “Blackie’s Dead [Demo]” – Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson (from Break Up)
7. “A Loaded Smile” – Adam Lambert (from For Your Entertainment)
8. “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” – Radar Bros. (from RAM On L.A.)
9. “I Am” – Richard Shindell (from Mariana’s EP)
10. “Outro (AKA: I’m A Fool To Want You)” – M. Ward (from Hold Time)
I’ll be posting my own random 10 on my blog sometime today, as well.
We’ve switched to the radio stations playing 24/7 Christmas music. Gives our ipods a break…and boy does everything on the ipod sound GREAT and FRESH come the 26th!!!
Me too CL — glad to know someone younger than me likes “elevator” music too especially at Christmas.
Snow!!! On a 65 degree day! Awesome!
@Mom & @Common Loon – I’ve been listening to Christmas music since Thanksgiving morning. I just took a break from it yesterday. And Mom, Christmas music doesn’t have to be elevator music. I have some quite peppy and rock and rolly stuff.
@sprite – It actually showed up yesterday. I apparently forgot to uncheck the box at the end of last year, so it showed up automagically. I like that it’s snowing on a photo of a burning-hot sun in Wadi Rum.
@ Sarah & Mom: One of my favorites is the BNL & Sarah McLachlan – not exactly elevator music. Oh, and the there’s the BOSS!!!
Hey, I know its four days later, but that’s when I’m reading this. And since I’m actually listening to my iPod…
1. Without Rhyme Or Reason — Bob Dourough
2. Canibal Surf Babe — Marillion
3. Black Dahlia — Porcupine Tree
4. What A Day That Was — Talking Heads
5. I’m Afraid Of Americans — David Bowie
6. The Color Of Right — Rush
7. Good Old Wagon — Don McLean
8. Bee of the Bird of the Moth — They Might Be Giants
9. Johnny Saucepan — Moxy Fruvous
10. Exit Music (for a Film) — Radiohead
And I like how your list includes Too Much (clap clap) Time On My Hands 😉