Random Ten - 11/16/09

Random Ten:


10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  Elvis Costello - 5ive Gears In Reverse
2)  Elvis Costello - Motel Matches
3)  BeauSoleil - Zydeco Gris Gris
4)  Reverend Horton Heat - Big Red Rocket Of Love
5)  Colin James - Jumpin' From Six To Six
6)  John Lennon - Nobody Told Me
7)  Afro Celt Sound System - Whirly 3
8)  The Jayhawks - Blue
9)  The Jayhawks - See Him On The Street

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Miss Williams' Guitar" by The Jayhawks. 

Random Ten - 10/26/09

Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  The Chieftains - Txalaparta
2)  The Chieftains - Maneo
3)  Joe Jackson - The Uptown Train
4)  Joe Jackson - King Pleasure Time
5)  Jimi Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner
6)  Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home
7)  INXS - Beautiful Girl
8)  Cream - Spoonful
9)  The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Still Raining, Still Dreaming

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Dear Someone" by Gillian Welch

Random Ten - 10/19/09

Here's the Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  The Who - Doctor Jimmy
2)  Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better
3)  Roy Orbison - Mean Woman Blues
4)  Smashing Pumpkins - Dross
5)  Smashing Pumpkins - Blue Skies Bring Tears (version electrique)
6)  The Beatles - I'm So Tired
7)  Los Lobos - Two Janes
8)  Coldplay - A Message
9)  Buckwheat Zydeco - Zydeco Boogaloo

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Wah-Wah" by George Harrison

Random Ten - 10/12/09

Gettin' random:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
2)  Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
3)  Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
4)  Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning
5)  Liz Carroll - Spinning Out Of The Turn/Tom and Martin
6)  Dixie Chicks - Lil' Jack Slade
7)  Johnny Cash - Greystone Chapel
8)  David Gilmour - Astronomy Domine
9)  BeauSoleil - Jig Francais

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Stray Cat Strut" by The Stray Cats

Speaking of cats . . .

Random Ten - 10/5/09

Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)


1)  BeauSoleil - Reel De Nez-Pique
2)  BeauSoleil - Evangeline Waltz
3)  Brian Setzer - Hell Bent
4)  Brian Setzer - Lonely Weekends
5)  The Jimi Hendrix Experience - I Don't Live Today
6)  Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
7)  Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
8)  Elvis Costello and Jimmy Cliff - Seven Day Weekend
9)  Sleater-Kinney - Little Babies

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Reel De Dennis McGee" by BeauSoleil

Random Ten - 9/28/09

I'm a little late with this.  Oh well.  It's from the Music Memoirs, of course:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)


1)  Elvis Costello - Little Triggers
2)  Elvis Costello - This Year's Girl
3)  ZZ Top - I Thank You
4)  Gavin DeGraw - Dancing Shoes
5)  David Gray - A Century Ends
6)  U2 - With Or Without You
7)  The Beatles - Dear Prudence
8)  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Through The Morning, Through The Night
9)  Cream - I Feel Free

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "You Never Know" by Wilco

Random Ten - 9/21/09

Anyone want a Random Ten?

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  Madness - Our House
2)  Ashley MacIsaac - Beaton's Delight
3)  Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
4)  Natalie MacMaster - The Ewe With The Crooked Horn
5)  Joe Jackson - Another World
6)  Los Lonely Boys - Hollywood
7)  George Harrison - Wah Wah
8)  Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
9)  C.J. Chenier - Zydeghost

SONG OF THE WEEK:  "Baby Come Back" by UB40 and Pato Banton

Hey, I have a photo this week!  It's the new theater complex at the University of Oregon.

Random Ten - 9/14/09

Here's the Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1)  Ella Fitzgerald - If It Weren't For You
2)  The Beatles - Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!
3)  The Beatles - Getting Better
4)  The Beatles - A Day In the Life
5)  Altan - King Of The Pipers
6)  Dhol Foundation - Seven Heaven
7)  Boys Of The Lough - Valentia Harbour/The Jug Of Punch/MacArthur Road
8)  BeauSoleil - Parlez-Nous A Boire
9)  Pete Yorn - For Us

SONG OF THE WEEK:   "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" by Cannonball Adderley.  This is the best thing I heard all weekend.

Random Ten - 8/31/09

This week's Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People
2) Coldplay - Life In Technicolor
3) Neil Finn - Driving Me Mad
4) Ray Charles - Unchain My Heart
5) Afro Celt Sound System - Dhol Dogs
6) The Sugarcubes - Birthday
7) Dave Matthews Band - Don't Drink The Water
8) Los Lonely Boys - La Bamba
9) Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Mountain Road" by Natalie MacMaster

Random Ten - 8/17/09

Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Melody Gardot - Who Will Comfort Me
2) Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
3) Sorten Muld - Bonden Og Elverpigen
4) Missy Higgins - Steer
5) C.J. Chenier - Road Dog
6) The Killers - When You Were Young
7) The Who - It's Not Enough
8) BeauSoleil - Bon Temps Rouler
9) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by David Gilmour

Random Ten - 8/3/09

Weekend ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Sleater-Kinney - Dance Song '97
2) Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
3) The Chieftains - Dueling Chanters
4) The Chieftains - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
5) Leona Naess - Charm Attack
6) Altan - Andy De Jarlis
7) Jimi Hendrix - Room Full Of Mirrors
8) Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
9) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Your Long Journey

SONG OF THE WEEK: "The Drama You've Been Craving" by Sleater-Kinney

Random Ten - 7/19/09

Music Memoirs:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Dhol Foundation - Tere Bina
2) Dhol Foundation - Drummer's Reel
3) Bothy Band - The Blackbird
4) Delerium - Silence
5) Los Lobos - Our Last Night
6) Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
7) Alison Krauss + Union Station - Union House Branch
8) Swåp - Red Jacket
9) Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Pump It Up" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions

This week's photo is from my trip to the Saturday Market:

Random Ten - 7/5/09

Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Dhol Foundation - Seven Heaven
2) Dhol Foundation - Shin The Mechanic
3) Dhol Foundation - TDF Meet DCS
4) Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper
5) Errol Garner - The Man I Love
6) BeauSoleil - Rouler Et Tourner
7) Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack
8) Lunasa - Dr. Gilbert/Devils Of Dublin/Black Pat's
9) Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Eik Din" by Dhol Foundation.

Random Ten - 6/29/09

Here's the Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Afro Celt Sound System - Whirly 3
2) Afro Celt Sound System - My Secret Bliss
3) Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle
4) Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
5) Pat Kilbride - Anne's Favorite/Kitty's Wedding
6) Dave Matthews - So Damn Lucky
7) Touchstone - Invisible Wings/Faoilean
8) The Clash - The Right Profile
9) Joseph Arthur - Tattoo

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. This is Michael's best song, I think.

I have a photo for you this week! Here's the new bus station at the mall in the town next to us:

Random Ten - 6/21/09

Come and get the Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
2) U2 - The Fly
3) Audioslave - Jewel Of The Summertime
4) The Pretenders - Swinging London
5) Goo Goo Dolls - Ain't That Unusual
6) Moving Cloud - Mooney's Mazurka/Kinloch/Humours of Toomagh
7) No Doubt - Spiderwebs
8) Gillian Welch - Everything Is Free
9) Pink Floyd - Money

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Original Fire" by Audioslave

Random Ten - 6/15/09

Music Memoirs is a wonderful site:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Liz Carroll - The Jump Ball/Whipple Hill/How We Spent The Christmas
2) BeauSoleil - Reel Cajun/465 North St. Joseph St.
3) Missy Higgins - Scar
4) Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer
5) The Beatles - Revolution
6) Pete Yorn - Can't Hear Anyone
7) Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly
8) Audioslave - Yesterday To Tomorrow
9) Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
10) Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie

I can't really pick one for song of the week this week. They're all equally great.

Random Ten - 6/8/09

Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
2) Jeff Buckley - What Will You Say
3) Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
4) Coldplay - In My Place
5) Coldplay - Glass Of Water
6) Nickel Creek - Scotch and Chocolate
7) Roy Orbison - Running Scared
8) Afro Celt Sound System - Nevermore
9) BeauSoleil - The Problem

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Mojo Pin" by Jeff Buckley

Random Ten - 6/1/09

*Insert my annual complaint about it being June already here*

Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Jonny Lang - If We Try
2) The Chieftains - Boil The Breakfast Early
3) U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky
4) George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
5) The Who - Drowned
6) No Doubt - Sunday Morning
7) Pete Yorn - Closet
8) Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues
9) Smashing Pumpkins - Try, Try, Try

SONG OF THE WEEK: "Long Time Coming" by Jonny Lang

Random Ten - 5/25/09

Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

This week's ten has a theme. Can you spot it? It's not Elvis Costello, by the way. Those are songs from my latest album purchase.

1) Elvis Costello - Strict Time
2) Elvis Costello - Clubland
3) Elvis Costello - Shot With His Own Gun
4) Los Lobos - Serenata Nortena
5) Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
6) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
7) The Beatles - I'm So Tired
8) The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
9) The Beatles - Come Together
10) The Beatles - She Said She Said

Random Ten - 5/17/09

Random Ten:

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

1) Audioslave - Gasoline
2) Natalie MacMaster - Capers Jigs
3) Smashing Pumpkins - Here Is No Why
4) Leona Naess - Heavy Like Sunday
5) Damien Rice - Delicate
6) Elvis Costello - Opportunity
7) Jeff Buckley - Forget Her
8) Afro Celt Sound System - Johnny At Sea
9) Tim Buckley - Pleasant Street

SONG OF THE WEEK: "The Kings Set" by Natalie MacMaster, in honor of the Eugene Scottish Festival, which I was not able to attend this year. Maybe next year!