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Friday Random Top 10

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Here it is! In the tradition of American Idle, every Friday I will turn the I-Pod to shuffle and see what it spits out. This Friday's Top Ten:

1. A Mutual Friend - Wire
2. Don't Worry About the Government - Talking Heads
3. Highway 61 Revisted - Bob Dylan
4. Can't Tame a Wild Woman - Washboard Hank and the Squirrels
5. Go Limp - Matt McGinn
6. I Wanna Live - Ramones
7. I Love You - G. Love and Special Sauce
8. Decauter - Sufjan Stevens
9. Cocaine Lil - Mekons
10. This, Too - Mieka Pauley

Favorite song this week? Chicago from Sufjan Stevens. Now I don't get the whole Sufjan Stevens thing, I can't even get through his album Illinois but I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't like Chicago. Great lyrics, a haunting melody, and oh those strings. How can someone make a song so perfect on an album so wretched?

What's your top 10?

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FreaK's Top 11 Random * Saturdaze Style 11/4/06

#/SONG/TIME/ARTIST/ALBUM

1] Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic 9:39 Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul
2] When You Dance I Can Really Love 3:42 Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Rust
3] Oh, Baby 4:58 The Time The Time
4] The Streak 3:17 Ray Stevens Dr. Demento's Country Corn
5] The Prize 3:03 Accident Clearinghouse '05 Family Reunion Promo CD
6] Breathless 3:13 Nick Cave Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus [UK]
7] My Kind Of Soldier 2:36 Guided By Voices Earthquake Glue
8] Volcano 5:17 Damien Rice Cities 97 Sampler, Vol. 16
9] Oh So Beautiful 4:38 Curtis Mayfield New World Order
10] Three Strange Days 6:59 School of Fish (unknown)
11] Any World (That I'm Welcome To) 3:55 Steely Dan Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980 (Disc 3)

*My reaction-> Well, let’s see: Funk, rust, cheese, nudity, infidelity, theft, friendship, lust, trust, awakening, dreamvision... What else do you need??

My song/fave for the week-> As a nod to my deviant Top 11, this week’s freak song is “The Eleven� by the good ole Grateful Dead, which is obscure as it is prolific. A timeless vault of a deep space ode to be certain. Do the math.

A closet passion of mine: Quicksilver Messenger Service & any of the music of (the late) John Cippolina. Good friends in music & life, Garcia was hugely influenced by John. Nuff said.

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