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Random Friday Ten IX (we know who we are)

Random play on the digital music machine. Mixed bag, no skips:

1. The Difference – King’s X (Gretchen Goes to Nebraska)
2. Something’s Gotta’ Change – Garrison Starr (… live at the 9:30 Club)
3. Dig – Adam Again (Dig)
4. Walk On – U2 (America: a Tribute to Heroes)
5. Told You So – Barenaked Ladies (Stunt)
6. Penny is Poison – The Verve Pipe (Villains)
7. Hold of Myself – Cracker (Gentleman’s Blues)
8. High … and Lonesome – Bill Mallonee (Dear Life)
9. Cemetery Drive – My Chemical Romance (Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge)
10. Anna Begins – Counting Crows (August and Everything After)

-Prettiest song about a dysfunctional relationship: Penny is Poison
-Best vocals: The Difference
-Album that I initially fell in love with, but haven’t heard all the way through in a decade (or more): August and Everything After
-Percentage of performers on this list I’ve seen in person: 60

Usually, since I post this at some ungodly hour of Friday morning, there are no other FRT posts to link to until I come back and edit the post mid-day. But today, Matt beat me to it. Then Schodinger’s Cat is Dead (who added to the Dracula enlightenment) threw in his weekly installment, and Mark came through as well, and for a new flavor, I also refer you to the American Idle version of FRT

Friday Random Ten – 07.22.05

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 very special FRT this week, made

Stay tuned for next week’s “Random Friday Ten X” which, being translated is “Random Friday Ten Ten”… Random 100?

Great tunes as usual… You have great taste… because, of course, it usually agrees with my taste.

I just didn’t see the Roman numeral thing backfiring on me that way—it may be that I never expected to stick with it past the first five or six weeks.

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