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Friday Random Ten

Here it is again, this time on Friday:

1. “Take it Back” – Garrison Starr (Somethin’ to Hold You Over)
2. “Knives” – Fuel (Something Like Human)
3. “Lemon (Jeep mix)” – U2 (Best of 1990 to 2000/B-Sides)
4. “Diminished” – R.E.M. (Up)
5. “Space Between” – Dave Matthews Band (Everyday)
6. “Best-Laid Plans” – Guilded Lilies (Zero)
7. “Imagine” – Neil Young (America: A Tribute to Heroes)
8. “You Satisfy” – Lost Dogs (Little Red Riding Hood)
9. “Offer” – Vigilantes of Love (Blister Soul)
10. “Airplane” – Indigo Girls (Rites of Passage)

Still a bit obscure, but I guess that’s the real beauty of it—at least this time I included the album information. That should help.

The Jeep mix? Is that the one that feels like it’s an hour long? I always thought they did way too many extra mixes in the early 90’s, kind of like a professional writer releasing all the things he scribbled while he was trying to write a book.

To the point now, though, there’s a reason why a song becomes a B-side, isn’t there?

Fuel? -I forgot they were still around, and I’m a Bethlehem girl, no less

Are we supposed to be guessing what common theme or idea unites these songs or is this just the last 10 things that showed up on your random music player?

It is just what it claims to be, random.

It’s one of those “meme” thingies where you’re supposed to set your digital music player to random and list the first ten songs that come up, then you post about it on you”blog” thingy—the more popular bloggers get people to post the results in the comment thread.

I like it, though, because it’s a golden opportunity to mention some really obscure tunes (since 3/4 of my digital collection could be classified as such). Speaking of which, Steve, this week’s collection turned up some Guilded Lilies. How ‘bout that?