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Friday Random Ten XXI
(I’ve got a plan to lose it all)

It’s Friday once more. Time for the not-so-secret society of the Random Ten-ers to be called to order (Bob, Fred, Heliologue, Marisa, Mark and Matt—and coming in just under the wire, the lovely Luna. Oh, wait… there’s also Kim. )

1. Breathing – Jayy Mannon (mp3)
2. Crazy (Acoustic) – Seal (single B-side)
3. Here With Me – Dido (No Angel)
4. The Loser – Switchfoot (Learning to Breathe)
5. Star Me Kitten – R.E.M. (Automatic for the People)
6. Plowed – Sponge (Rotting Pinata)
7. One – Tait (In the Name of Love)
8. Circle – Sarah McLachlan (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
9. Innocent – Fuel (Something Like Human)
10. Goes Without Saying – Vigilantes of Love (Audible Sigh)

Statistics and disclosures:

• Best misheard lyric: From 6
  “When I’m lost and I’m found and I can’t touch the ground,
  I married Paula Zahn.” (source)
• Songs I know you can download for free: 1 and 10 (10 comes from PasteMusic.com’s free mp3 collection—from which you can lift an impressive number of tracks, all of them guilt-free, and many of them quite excellent)
• Quite possibly still my favorite song of all-time, even when covered: 7.
• Artists I’ve seen in person: 1, 6 & 10

Friday Random Ten – 10.14.05

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. As promised, all free and legal (I

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God, I love that Sponge album. It’s the only one I have of theirs, but it’s pretty freaking great in my opinion.

Dido came up on your shuffle this week?! Maybe it’s a Media Player thing.

“One” is the song that got me into U2. Came out when I was in highschool and I couldn’t get enough of it on the radio, so I stole my brother’s copy of Achtung Baby and the rest is history. Tait does a surprisingly good job. Love his vocals. I thought Toby Mac rendition of Mysterious Ways was just a lazy, sucky version of the dance remix.

I have exactly TWO Dido tunes on my computer. I downloaded them a while back. But they don’t come up too often.

I find that there are some pretty prolific artists (at least as far as my media library goes) that rarely get played. But I guess part of randomization is that it has no representative obligations…