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Friday Random Ten XIII
(she even hates her friends)

To further randomize the most predictable weekly event here at tsl, I’m listing the shout-outs first: Mark, Matt, Bob, Heliologue, Fred, and Kim …

And now for the disclosures:

• Bands I’ve seen in person: 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10
• Three lyric snippets I would’ve used in the post title if I hadn’t picked the one I did:
  “She never read much, but she loved to quote” (song #1)
  “Closing walls and ticking clocks” (song #4)
  “Impaled on the horns of your sacred cow” (song #8)
• Song by an artist not likely to be on anyone else’s Random Ten list: If not for Bob’s list, it would have been #1, but now I have to go with #6

And finally, the songs:

1. Love is a Dead Language – Chagall Guevara (Chagall Guevara)
2. Crumbs from Your Table – U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)
3. Fall Down – Toad the Wet Sprocket (Dulcinea)
4. Clocks – Coldplay (Rush of Blood to the Head)
5. Have You Seen My Love? – Barenaked Ladies (Everything to Everyone)
6. Strike a Match – John Francis (Fire in the Marrow)
7. Android – Green Day (Kerplunk)
8. Real Downtown – Vigilantes of Love (Blister Soul)
9. Better Man – Pearl Jam (Vitalogy)
10. The Lazarus Heart – Sting (Nothing Like the Sun)

You definately picked an excellent lyric though. Glen Phillips has put out a few solo albums that I have heard good things about. From what I hear there’s enough Toad there to keep fans happy without being just Toad without the Wet Sprockets.

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Maybe its not short enough to be a snippet, but the BNL song has this one I always liked:
“There is a dream that we both used to share
And we swore we would never wake
Now the dream’s a nightmare, and the truth to be fair
Is that dreaming was the first mistake”

Leave it to me to keep it light. Now everyone go fall in love.