Alright, folks, it's Friday. You know the drill.
1. The Replacements, "Cruella de Ville" -- There's something perverse about the Mats covering a Disney song. 7/10
2. Black Keys, "Have Love, Will Travel" -- Yeah, yeah, it's been used in a bad truck commercial. But still an excellent song. 8/10
3. The Arcade Fire, "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" -- Just saw Death Cab for Cutie in NYC tonight. Man, I'd love to catch Arcade Fire too. Phenomenal work. 9/10
4. William Shatner, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" -- The beauty of this song is that Captain Kirk is apparently on LSD as he records this. 8/10
5. Irma Thomas, "Time is on My Side" -- Beautiful, beautiful cover. I can't listen to the Stones version anymore, this soul twist is so great. 9/10
6. De La Soul, "Keepin' the Faith" -- One of my favorite hiphop bands, but one of their lesser works. 6/10
7. Wanda Jackson, "Riot in Cell Block #9" -- Great old rockabilly song about a riot in a women's prison. Jackson later appeared in Budweiser ads with Brian Setzer as the "Guitar Granny." 9/10
8. Ramones, "Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns!" -- Just 23 seconds long, but a nice little Simpsons clip. 6/10
9. The Velvet Underground, "Who Loves the Sun" -- Sounds nothing like the rest of their work, and it somehow still works. 8/10
10. Urge Overkill, "Positive Bleeding" -- An old favorite band of mine, with a late recording. Nice, embrace-the-irony rock. 8/10
Alright, that gives me a straight 8.0 on the coolness meter, right between Floyd the Barber and Pink Floyd.
Please feel free to drop your own random ten in the comments, with or without the coolness self-audit.
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1, Ghost-riders In The Sky - Burl Ives - Imagine Burl singing another morality song, like Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, except, with cowboys, ghosts and demon horses AND it's still not cool. 3/10
2. Wounded Horse - XTC - Bitter angry lyrics ( "Well I bit out my own tongue like a wounded horse" ) from a pompous british band - what more in life would I want? 8/10
3. Christmas Song - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - One the worst winter holiday songs ever (and I am including Kwanzaa, Tete, Chanukah ). 2/10
4, Outta Me Onto You - Ani DiFranco - Angry bisexual folk music that ROCKS! 10/10
5. Don't Panic - Coldplay - Blah blah blah blah - it's coldpay again. 7/10
6. A New England - Billy Bragg - Angry heterosexual folk music that that ROCK! 10/10
7. Work Song - Cannonball Adderley - Before there was funk, there was Cannonball. 8/10
8. Fly By Night - Rush - Rock from the great white north two octaves higher than ever it should be. AHHH SALESMAN 7/10
9. Wild Horses - Elvis Costello/Lucinda Williams - This is from a CMT Crossroads recording. Great cover of a great tune. 10/10
10. These Days - Nico - From the "Royal Tenebaum" soundtrack. Great for this movie, not much else though. 6/10
Yossarian way cool shoutout for Cannonball Adderly -- the man so cool that Miles Davis played backup for him. You lose some points quoting Spirit of the Radio during Fly By Night, but only from Rush fans.
1) The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy. I swear that I only have like three songs by these guys, but they keep popping up on this stuff. Sheesh. 6/10
2) The Move - Boom Bip. It's got a nice beat, and I can dance to it. 6/10
3) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme - Schooly D. Meatwad makes the money, see? Or something like that. I've heard this a million times and I still don't understand the lyrics. That doesn't stop me from giving this a 10/10.
4) One Evening - Feist. The free iTunes downloads come out in force today. For free this ain't bad, though they try a little hard to get that cool groove going 5/10
5) Untitled 1 - Songs: Ohia. Now this is what the internets were invented for. Songs: Ohia is a band I would have overlooked because of the lame name. Ditto its spawn Magnolia Electric Company. But these are some effing awesome work - moody, southern-tinged rock. The song is a good one, too 8/10
6) Club Foot - Kasabian. Another free iTunes song. The descriptions they give the songs sure are appealing. This is a great song to put on a soundtrack, but not so great to listen to without an emotional attachment. 5/10
7) A Bit of Arson Never Hurt Anyone - Matson Jones. Low-fi indie chick rock. Some bisexuality might help it out a bit. 5/10
8) Baby C'mon - Stephen Malkmus. Great single off his OK third album. Pavement lives. 8/10
9) I Want to Live in a Dream - Clearlake. It's probably not PC to say this, but this song is totally gay. 1/10
10) Spirit Journey - Shake & Zakk Wylde. Now this is how to get pumped up for the weekend! Another ATHF classic, Shake's version of this song isn't quite as good as Matt Maiellaro's, but I'm still giving it a 10/10.
Rod - the album "Something Else" was supposed to be released by Miles Davis, but due to a contract hold up, he decided to to put it out under one of his sidemen's name - Cannonball.
Also I have been burned more times than I care to admit by free iTunes downloads.
I'll support the Cannonball Adderly shout-out. "Walk Tall" is one of my favorite songs -- not just for the music, but for the opening speech. "There's a lot of funny stuff goin' on in this ghetto, but you gotta walk tall, walk tall, walk tall!"
So much knowledge from Yos. I'm starting to think he's Jonathan Lipnicki from "Jerry Maguire." How much did Adderly's head weigh?
I found that Wanda Jackson song the other day. Love it.
Malibu - What was the best band that night - Blur, Elastica, or (yet another Canadian Band) Our Lady Peace? And Who headlined that show?
Otto - Cannonball Adderley's head weighed 9.6 pounds - he was a big man ( hence the name Cannonball)
1. Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis
2. Friend of Mine - North Miss All Stars
3. Six ways from Sunday - Mofro
4. Conspiracy - Black Crows
5. Throughout All Time - Dwight Yoakham
6. Skeleton on Display = Now It's Overhead
7. Honestly OK - Dido
8. Evaporated - Ben Folds Five
9. Can't knock the hustle - Jay Z(or Jay Zed for our neighbors to the north.)
10. Wiser Time - Black Crows
Not bad.
Well done, Studio. Is Mofro the giant moth from the Godzilla movies? Man, that guy's versatile.
1. one more cup of coffee - the white stripes - so yeah - these guys are fun, but way too much hype, and with such an amazing Dylan tune, try as they might they couldn't fuck it up. 7/10
2. sex weed - r. kelly - girl, your shit is the chronic - he is a goofy, arrogant bastard with lame lyrics and a pathetic fascination with teenage girls but damn the man lays the shit down, "girl you got that bomb shit, sex so good it gets me high...." yeah 7/10.
3. closet freak - cee lo green - he might be talking about r. kelly, but I don't think so, "yes ya'll there's a freak in all of us" but none as freaky as you, you freaky funky chunky monkey.... 7/10
4. verandi - bjork - I have to be int eh right mood to listen to bjork, I'm not right now....5/10
5.the art of driving - black box recorder - oh art rock, "you are quite precocious ... you've been taking things too far/who do you think you are" .. I should hate these guys but I love 'em. 8/10
6. patty - half japanese -
the sing-songy lof-fi punk minded stalwarts half japanese put out yet another great recording and some great rocking songs to augment the sloppy sincerity, truly the band that would be king. 8/10 (extra points just for being half japanese even after losing key member, brother david)
7. silent films - her space holiday - marc bianchi makes amazing guitar based electronica pop that is custom made for copious amount of drug use, and that my friends rocks, (in a hazy pop sort of way). 8/10
8. same day - j mascis & the fog - so yeah i love all things dinosaur jr but REALLY love j, erratic weirdo that he is, he makes amazing ear-bleeding country and for that he is god, or some bizarre facsimile there-of or in depending on something or other ...8/10
9. anesthesia (live)- luna -- an amazing band that sadly recently called it quits. building on the framework of the lo-fi mellow psychedelia of Galaxie 500 dean wareham has made consistently superior pop music that went widely unnoticed even with extensive critical acclaim --- plus he has an amazing sense of humor and the addition of the smoking hot and quite talented Britta Phillips. 9/10
10. cripple creek - mark lanegan -- not exactly the right tune to kick off the weekend (unless of course you want to shoot a bunch of heroin and chase it with wayyyyy too much bourbon and maybe a little meth for good measure). I actually ache listening to this -fuck me, langegan is awesome. 10/10
Dido?
J Mascis and Half Jap? Didn't I room with you in college?
otto -- I don't think so (of course the college days are a bit hazy) but there was that one amazingly magical night of breathless ecstasy and unbridled erotic adventure (or was that unbridled ecstasy use and autoerotic asphyxiation???) – I can’t remember if it was otto or ozzy???
Yeah, that sounds like Ozzy.
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