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Friday Random Ten XXV (sleep comes like a drug)

Not much time, so I might have actually skipped through the second half of longer tracks. Still, it’s random, I swear. (Other examples of randomocity: Andrea, Ben, Bob, Fred, Kim, Luna, Mac, Marisa)

1. In God’s Country – U2 (The Joshua Tree)
2. Up in the Morning – Lost Dogs (The Green Room Serenade – Part Tour)
3. Angel – Dave Matthews Band (Everyday)
4. Days Go by – Duncan Sheik (Duncan Sheik)
5. Face in the Crowd – Laughing Mad (demo, click for details)
6. Suspicion – R.E.M. (Up)
7. Sugar – Tonic (Sugar)
8. Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House (Recurring Dream…)
9. Long Lost – Better than Ezra (Friction, Baby)
10. Dominated Love Slave – Green Day (Kerplunk)

Disclosures:

• Favorite song: a startling majority of the list is in contention, so you’re all winners today…
• The first appearance ever of a Karl Martino song in my random ten: 5
• The mad rush of the love songs: 3, 4, 7, 8 & … 10?
• Random favorite line: there were many to choose from, but “my possessions are causing me suspicion, but there’s no proof” takes the prize today—how many people know the song?
• The “sixteen pairs of hands and feet” award: to Fred, for being the first person I’ve ever seen post an old Frogs song in a random ten, and a great one, at that. (The Frogs, in this case, refer to a now-defunct local band that might have been compared to TMBG or BNL, if anyone had heard of them, that is.)

Friday Random Ten

You know what day it is! Time to put your digital music player on shuffle, click play, and list the first ten songs that show up. You must resist the temptation to click past the bad or embarrassing songs.

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” (U2)
&…

The Frogs in digital format? This IS news. The absolute best band that nobody’s ever heard of (assuming, of course, somebody’s actually heard of the Lost Dogs). Where do I sign up.

… ooh-n-oh-yeah… that’d be Crowded House, no?

Yes, Crowded House it is. Such a famous song, but few people seem to know the words.

And yes, the Frogs album in question is (I believe) Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, which I did possess on CD for a while, but something happened to it—I haven’t seen it in years. I’d be wholly interested in finding it in that format again.