Friday Random Ten XXXVII
(midnight is where the day begins)
1. Lovely Man – Lost Dogs (Real Men Cry)
“Hey little mama, be my friend;
you can be the trouble that you think I’m in.”
2. The Year New York Fell Down – John Francis (Fire in the Marrow)
“Jesus, Jesus, of a thousand sorrows;
Jesus, Jesus, of the thorny crown;
is there room inside your kingdom for me
‘cause this one is falling down…”
3. Lemon – U2 (Zooropa)
“And these are the days when our work has come asunder.
And these are the days when we look for something other.”
4. Is It for Me – Toad the Wet Sprocket (Fear)
“Bradley’s leg healed badly—at least he still can walk.”
5. Cruel and Pretty – Over the Rhine (Changes Come)
“Electric lines and wispy jet contrails;
ships at sea and B&O train rails;
a tunnel of light like the Seven Eleven;
meet me on the backstreets of heaven.”
6. In Your Eyes – Jeffrey Gaines (Live at the World Cafe 10th Anniversary Edition)
“Love, I don’t like to see so much pain.
So much wasted, and this moment keeps slipping away.”
7. On My Own – Familiar 48 (Wonderful Nothing)
“Well I can see you looking over my direction.
Thought it was a good thing; I guess I was wrong.”
8. Parting Shot – Vigilantes of Love (Blister Soul)
“There’s a knowledge I traded a long time ago.
Well I bartered it off for these rags I call clothes.”
9. Christopher – Stargazer Lily (That’s O.K., I Can Sleep at Work)
“I’m looking over the edge of the world…”
10. Worldwide – Adam Again (Dig)
“We all love that desert thunder, we put some sticker on our bumper,
3 billion nothings in the world—why should anybody bother?”
Apparently there’s an mp3 of the live version of #9 (here), in case you’re interested. And on a tangential note, I picked up the Stargazer disc at a battle of the bands sort of thing at the Troc where both Stargazer Lily and Familiar 48 (then Bonehead) were playing. And of course, the local music fans will recognize one or two other Philly flavors from this list. That said, I like pretty much every song on the list (the more obscure the more I tend to like them), but the bookends are especially strong in my opinion.
Others generating random-ness this Friday: Andrea, Ben, Brian, Fred, Josh
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