Time for Friday Random Ten, where you hit "shuffle" on your favorite digital music player (for me my Windows MediaPlayer at work) and report on the first ten songs that it spits out.
A lot of pain and heartbreak in this week's batch. Sing along if you'd like.
Here goes:
1. "Hold My Life" - The Replacements
Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, drone, time for this one to come home
Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, die, time for this one to come alive
And hold my life until I'm ready to use it
Hold my life because I just might lose it
Because I just might lose it.
2. "Birds In Perspex" - Robin Hitchcock
Perspex Island she's my girl,
Away above the chimney tops.
And when the sun goes down on her,
So beautiful my heart just stopped.
Birds in Perspex come alive,
Come alive.
3. "Song For Kelly Huckaby" - Death Cab For Cutie
Photographs of the best time you had,
Windows smudged by the speed.
Leaving home with our bags from Iron street
As morning turned into California.
4. "Terrible Vision" - Rhett Miller
You've got terrible vision if you don't see,
That I'm in love with you and how that means everything.
5. "I Feel Alright" - Steve Earle
I was born my papa's son
A wanderin' eye and a smokin' gun
Now some of you would live through me
Lock me up and throw away the key
Or just find a place to hide away
Hope that I'll just go away.
6. "Tank Park Salute (Live)" - Billy Bragg
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand.
7. "Razor Love" - Neil Young
Now all I've got for you,
Is the kind of love
that cuts clean through.
All I got for you is razor love
It cuts clean through.
8. "Falling From The Sky" - Gutterball
It's raining down in Eastern Pawtucket
It's raining down in Philly, too
Stood outside praying to get wet
And I ended up with mud all over my shoes.
9. "Mystery Train" - Little Junior's Blue Flames
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone.
10. "She's Too Good For Me" - Warren Zevon
I could hold my head up high and say that I left first
Or I can hang my head and cry
Tell me which is worse.
Least favorite song from this week's list: "Birds In Perspex."
Most favorite song from this week's list: "Hold My Life."
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