Chicken Butt

Color me slacker grey

I attempted to capture a random Friday list last week and failed because I was too busy. So I started a special edition Random Music Saturday post because I was working. I got three songs and then had to stop.

I started a list today. This is how far I got:

1. Let's Go Crazy - Prince and the Revolution (Purple Rain)

Yep, it is a sad state of affairs when I can't take time to document ten songs on a Friday morning. But the big rush is done and things should be back to normal next week. The happy news is that I will not be working this weekend.

I've been so busy and preoccupied with work that I've had little to say on other subjects. Since I don't wish to discuss relational databases, test cycles, TCERs or disastrous projects, I'll stop now.

Random Music Friday - Mock everything

I'm crazy busy at work. Yes, I'm working at work. Overtime even. This is starting to become a habit. Yes I agree, long overdue.

Here is my random list. I broke the rules (no skipping) because two of the iTrip station setting tracks came up. The tracks are 3 seconds long and take 10 times that to document. Plus, after the first time it gets really boring. I swear, those are the only tunes I've skipped on my Friday Shuffle:

1. Plain Tiger - Cocteau Twins (Tiny Dynamine)
2. I'll be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - Louis Armstrong (1928-1931)
3. Bridal Dancing Queen - Wedding Band (Muriel's Wedding Soundtrack)
4. What Do I Get? - The Buzzcocks (Singles Going Steady)
5. Pass the Dutchie - Various Artists (Reggae Pulse)
6. Float On - Modest Mouse (Good News For People Who Like Bad News)
7. Low Key Lightly - George Fenton (Living Out Loud Soundtrack)
8. Some Fantastic - Barenaked Ladies (Stunt)
9. Walking the Long Miles Home - Richard Thompson (Mock Tudor)
10. Feels Like A Woman - Zucchero (French Kiss Soundtrack)

Fav tune - Float On - I keep thinking I'll get sick of this song, but so far I haven't. This song is one of my ring tones. Nobody seems to recognize it. I thought this song was in the mainstream now.

Fav Album - Mock Tudor - I only discovered Richard Thompson about five years ago. Love this album. I'm thinking about the first time I listened to it. I was at work and had purchased on my lunch hour. I spent the afternoon blown away. I think I heard of him listening to a rock and roll talk show, I can picture the guys, but can't remember their names. I've seen them on Chicago tonight.

Best Title - I'll be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You - I think this is the second time this song has appeared in my Random Music Friday.

Random Music Friday - Bare ankles edition

I'm taking advantage of the new summer dress code today. Capris and sandals. Yeah. Oh wait, no ma'am these are not sandals, that would be against the rules. These are mules that just happen to be open at the toe. Um, yes they do sound like flip-flops, but they definitely are not. Nope. Hey, look over there, she's sleeveless. (Discreetly flopping back to me cell)

Okay, I have not been confronted, but I live in fear. Considering the flaunting I've seen around me I shouldn't worry. But I do. I'm nuts.

1. I would Die 4 U - Prince and the Revolution (Purple Rain)
2. How Long Has it Been - Oak Ridge Boys (Fancy Free)
3. 1982 - Randy Travis (Greatest Hits Vol. 1)
4. What Do I Get? - The Buzzcocks (Singles Going Steady)
5. Fantino - Sebastian Tellier (Lost in Translation Soundtrack)
6. Migration - Jimmy Buffett (Meet Me in Margaritaville)
7. Friend of Mine - Liz Phair (Liz Phair)
8. This and That - Michael Penn (March)
9. Rachel's Fiat - Badly Drawn Boy (About a Boy Soundtrack)
10. All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints - Paul Simon (Graceland)

Fav tune & Fav album - Graceland rules. I was worried because nothing jumped out at me in the first nine songs. I liked everything, but nothing stands out from the others. Thankfully Paul Simon showed up to save the day (Or at least this Random Music Friday post). I can listed to Graceland on repeat for days, and don't think I haven't.

General - I wonder what the random algorithm is because out of 3013 songs, I keep seeing the songs from the same albums. Last week I heard both Oak Ridge Boys and Buzzcocks. Weird.

For more random goodness check out Marisa over in Apartment 2024

Random Music Friday - Wabbit Cwazy

I'm having an emotional over-reaction to the return of the VW Rabbit. I want one. It does not matter that I have a perfectly good car. I want one now. The four-door because it has an optional sun roof. I drove my dad's rabbit in high school for a while. It was the first manual car I drove. Even though towards the end I had to jiggle a connection to the alternator to make it start, I loved it.

Okay, on with the tune-age. iPod set to shuffle. List the first ten songs that play. No skipping, no excuses.

1. Muzzle of Bees - Wilco (A Ghost is Born)
2. Dream Come True - Ta-Gana (The Parent Trap Soundtrack)
3. We've Been Had - The Walkmen (Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone)
4. Lettle melody - Bongo Boys (Pompatus of Love Soundtrack)
5. Two-Faced Love - Richard Thompson (Mock Tudor)
6. Why Can't I Touch It? - The Buzzcocks (Singles Going Steady)
7. Wicked And Cruel - Squeeze (Play)
8. Head Over Heals - Tears for Fears (Raised on the Radio)
9. When Love Calls You - Oak Ridge Boys (Fancy Free)
10. New Frontier - Counting Crows (Hard Candy)

Favorite Tune-age: Nothing really grabbed me today. Head Over Heals made me think of a high school friend. Brian loved Tears for Fears. He had the band name drawn on the back of his jean jacket. I should give him a call this weekend.

Favorite Album: As usually, rank sentimentality wins out. Have to go with Fancy Free today. This album (on cassette) was one of the few that both my dad and his offspring could enjoy, so it was a constant on road trips. I still know most of the words to every song.

General: This play list is all over the map. Nothing ties any song to another other than I bought all the CDs at some point. Guess I'm pre-occupied with work today.

Random Music Friday - Souvenir

Last day before a four-day weekend! Oh joy! I don't care if it does rain all weekend, I'm going to enjoy it. So let's get right to the point. Shuffle and play:

1. Ain't Misbehaven - Count Basie (The Best of Big Bands)
2. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (Tracy Chapman)
3. Savoy Shuffle - Beatles (White Album)
4. Texas On a Saturday Night - Mel Tillis and Willie Nelson (Revolutions of Time)
5. It's A Shame - The Spinners (Radio Soul)
6. Committed - Pete Yorn (Day I Forgot)
7. How - The Cranberries (Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We)
8. We're Just Friends - Wilco (Summer Teeth)
9. Dancer In A Daydream - Ace of Base (The Sign)
10. Alice's Restaurant Massacree - Alro Guthrie (Alice's Restaurant)

Fav tune - Fast Car. There are other Tracy Chapman songs I like better, but this one still hits me in the gut when I hear it. I just perk up with interest and affection for this song.

Fav album - Alice's Restaurant. Clocking in at 18 minutes, 37 seconds I don't hear this song very often. I have it on vinyl. Love this record. Not only does it have Alice's Restaurant, it has Ring-Around-A-Rosy Rag, Now and Then, and The Motorcycle Song. If you haven't heard these songs your music education is sadly deficient. I also love the movie they made based on this epic anti-draft song. It is very hard to work productively on a test script while laughing along with this story.

General - Bonus Song #11 - Souvenir - OMD (Architecture and Morality) - I love this song. It makes me ache and dwell in this song. The moment it starts I know I'm going to hit repeat at least one time. I listened to this song and the album obsessively in high school and into college. It was originally tied to a boy I was obsessed with, but now stands on it's own. Still linked in my soul to teen angst and longing, now heavily tinged with nostalgia. I was an ass then, and remain one today.

Happy Fourth to everyone!

Random Music Friday - Decaying media

I am down to the last few boxes left to unpack since moving twenty-two months ago. I have three boxes of books left, two boxes of stamping/scrapbooking supplies, and about five boxes of assorted crap that may not need to be unpacked at all. One of these boxes is full of audio tapes.

These tapes are an assortment of favorite mix tapes somehow separated from the rest, cases missing tapes, tapes missing cases, and lame tapes from my adolescence that didn't make the trip to college with me. These abandoned tapes sat on shelves in my bedroom closet for decades before being packed away in the box. These include Amy Grant, Carmen, and Club Neauvo. Scary stuff. I have another Rubbermaid container that holds the more favored tapes.

The point is, I've pruned my library, if feels like time to prune the tapes. I never listen to them anymore. But I have strong sentimental attachments to many of them.I may not enjoy most hard-core punk anymore, but I love the tapes for the memories and the sake of the boy who made it for me. I think I can easily get rid of some store-bought stuff. But what to do with the rest? Do I hold on to it until the tapes crumble away? I grabbed a few this morning to listen to in the car, but the Soup Dragons didn't thrill me and even Wire was a bit dull.

What have you done with old tapes?

Okay, on with the show. Here are the first ten songs that played on my iPod this morning:

1. EZ - Pete Yorn (Music for the morning after)
2. Take - The Lupins (Dumb and Dumber Soundtrack)
3. Beautiful - Carole King (Tapestry)
4. Waiting for Conrad - Shooglenifty (Live At Selwyn Hall, Box)
5. Middle of the Road - The Pretenders (The Singles)
6. Ikebana - Kevin Shields (Lost in Translation Soundtrack)
7. Da Eye Wufey/Woods No. 1 - Shooglenifty (A Whisky Kiss)
8. Red Rover - Fleetwood Mac (Say You Will)
9. Like A River - Carly Simon (Reflections: Cary Simon's Greatest Hits
10. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (Best of)

fav ditty - Da Eye Wifey. The first bars of this song take me to the first time I heard it. It was Shooglenifty's first gig in the U.S. in Seattle at Bumbershoot and it was perfect. It was a clear and cool breezy night and the audience was mostly dancing and twirling. They were as enchanted as I was. I sat on some steps to the right of the stage where I could see the band and the audience. The wind was in my face and I felt happy. It was of those beautiful moments where I was conscience of living a perfect moment. The ache of perfection and wanting the moment to go on forever are tied to this song.

fav album - Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions. I don't feel the need to explain this choice.

Happy randomness - Red Rover works so well after Shooglenifty. There is a similar strings thing going on, and yet entirely different. makes me wish I was more knowledgeable about music theory so I could explain.

Want more random goodness? Marisa has a list of lists over at Apartment 2024.

Random Music Friday

Yep. It's Friday again. Time for random iPod fun.

1. I Love Paris - Toos Thielemans (French Kiss Soundtrack)
2. Pale Clouded White - Cocteau Twins (Echoes in a Shallow Bay [EP])
3. Comet Chop Suey - Louis Armstrong (West End Blues)
4. Come To Me - Otis Redding (The Ultimate Otis Redding)
5. Monsters and Angels - Voice of the Beehive (Honey Lingers)
6. Talk - Coldplay (X&Y)
7. Goodnight L.A. - Counting Crows (Hard Candy)
8. I'm So Wasted - Adam Sandler (They're All Gonna Laugh At You)
9. Feels Lie a Woman - Zucchero (French Kiss Soundtrack)
10. She's My Baby (And She's Outa Control) - Palmer-Jost (Fast Times At Ridgemont High Soundtrack)

Of the 3013 tracks on my iPod I get two from the same soundtrack today. What ya gonna do?

Fav Tune - Today I'll go with Goodnight L.A. It was the first tune to sort of vibrate at the same level as my soul. I can feel it play throughout my face, neck and chest. (No, I didn't change the volumn. Don't be cheeky.)

Fav Album - I pick Honey Lingers. Voice of the Beehives is one of the few bands I found on my own. I saw a video on MTVs 120 Minutes and was hooked. Since I've mostly had friends who are much deeper into music than I am, it was one of the few times I introduced friends to something new.

Random Music Friday

1. Everybody has Something to Hide except Me and My Monkey - The Beatles (The Beatles)
2. World Goes Round - Saigon Kick (The Lizard)
3. Don't Talk - 10,000 Maniacs (In My Tribe)
4. Hang In Long Enough - Phil Collins (...But Seriously)
5. Don Octavio Del Flores - Micheal Kamen (Don Juan De Marco Soundtrack)
6. Sell, Sell, Sell - Barenaked Ladies (Maroon)
7. Why Should You Come When I Call - Counting Crows (Hard Candy)
8. 95.7 - Griffen Technology (iTrip)
9. Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Legend)
10. Dona Ana - Micharl Kamen (Don Jaun De Marco)

Favorite Song - Don't Talk. This was "our song" when I was in love with Matt. We bought this album together one rainy winter day on a trip to Chicago. We brought it home and listened to the the record through twice, end to end. I listened to this album obsessively during our ill-fated relationship and our ugly breakup. The lyrics have nothing to do with us, it was just our favorite song. I was a foolish 18-year-old, but I had good taste in music.

Favorite Album - In My Tribe (see Fav song)

Favorite Soundtrack song - New category! Don Octavio Del Flores. I forgot how much I like this soundtrack. Haven't listened to this in years and then got two songs in one Friday list. Wierd.

Seen Live  - Ah yes, Saigon Kick is a remnant of my belated metal phase. This was around 1995 and I was hanging out with a guy in the shipping department where I worked. Under his influence I saw Saigon Kick live and bought four of their CDs. I still like them, but not enough to put on their music by choice. I also purchased my one and only Ozzie Osborne album and saw Korn live during this phase. I hated Korn, but since Jason listened to them I figured maybe if I saw them live I'd find some redeeming quality I had overlooked. I never did. Korn blows live harder than they do recorded. The audience was lame too, I had already passed through punk and was uninpressed with the mosh pit and attitude. Been there, done that. Yawn.

I've been distracted by life events and haven't felt up to posting light general banter here at CB. I've written about it over on WIT. Feel free to go read my OA blog, but it ain't pretty or sweet. In fact it sucks ass to be me right now.

Random Music Friday - Too much Shaggy?

A busy morning prevented me from even thinking about RMF until after lunch. It is a gorgeous day outside. A day when I wish my office had a retractable roof.

So, down to business. Rules: Set iPod to Shuffle. Write down the first ten or so songs. No skipping or justifying. Go.

1. The End of the World - Vonda Shepard (Songs from Ally McBeal)
2. Tennessee Stud - Johnny Cash (Jackie Brown Soundtrack)
3. The Entertainer - Billy Joel (Greatest Hits Vol. 1)
4. Insomniac - Echobelly (Dumb and Dumber Soundtrack)
5. Brick is Red - Pixies (Surfa Rosa)
6. Shake Shake Shake - Shaggy (Lucky Day)
7. Nobody Slides, My Friend - Willie Nelson (Revolutions of Time...the Journey)
8. Why Me Lord? - Shaggy (Hotshot)
9. Deck The Stills - Barenaked Ladies (Barenaked for the Holidays)
10. Want - Rufus Wainwright (Want One)

Favorite Song: Today I really enjoyed Insomniac. I would never think to add this song to any of my playlists, but I guess that's why I love the shuffle feature and Friday Random Music.

Favorite Album: Want One. This song isn't one I recognize on its own, but it reminds me of why I listened to Rufus Wainwright endlessly when I first bought it.

Shortest song: At 32 seconds and only four five words used in varying order, Deck the Stills is the shortest of songs I heard today. Barenaked Ladies make my soul skip with joy.

General: Two Shaggy songs in one list? Weird. My sister turned me on to Shaggy. I love Hotshot and mostly dislike Lucky Day.

Marisa has a list of links to the usual suspects and Rick has expanded his playlist in time to play with a fuller deck this week.

Random Music Friday - Teen Angst

Quick rule review: Set your iPod to shuffle. Post the first 10 or so songs. No skipping, no excuses. Here we go:

1. Street Life - Randy Crawford (Jackie Brown Soundtrack)
2. Haven't Got Time For The Pain - Carly Simon (Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits)
3. Your Winter - Sister Hazel (10 Things I hate About You Soundtrack)
4. File Me Away - Badly Drawn Boy (About a Boy Soundtrack)
5. 90.1 - Griffin Technology - iTrip
6. You Don't Have to Be Strong - Breanna (Breanna - EP)
7. Tear Stained Letter - Johnny Cash (American IV: The Man Comes Around)
8. Later Tonight - Pet Shop Boys (Please)
9. Pictures - Statler Brothers (The Best of the Statler Brothers)
10. Suedehead - Morrissey (Viva Hate)

Non-song - 90.1 is one of the station-setting files for use with iTrip.

Involuntary Download - I don't remember downloading this song. Sometimes these free download songs just seem to show up in my library. Anyone else experience this? I think I should get tougher about deleting songs I don't like.

Favorite tune - Sentimental Favorite - Pictures ties with Later Tonight. Both take me back to a specific time in my life

Favorite Album - Viva Hate. I love this album and this song. Morrissey and the Smiths just reach into my guts and take hold. It's the same now as when I was an angst-rid teen. I really want a turntable.

General Memory - Right after I bought American IV I loaned it to a friend. Tao was as enthusiast as me about the album and summed it up beatifully, "This album is awesome! I'm going to go kill myself now." The content and pace are overwhelming as a whole. Now when I hear this album I thing of Tao and giggle.

Marisa has a great list of other people doing Random Music Friday. It's fun to see what people have to say aobut the songs that show up.