FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

It’s Friday, Esteemed Readers, and what would Friday be without the remarkably self-indulgent exercise of posting ten Random Choons, spewed out by my Little White Choon-Box?

I am packing up for an extended sojourn in the Great White North, for which I will depart at the Butt-Crack of Dawn on Sunday. My flight - the first of two - leaves Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport With The Honkin’ Big Name at 6 o’clock Ante-Meridiem. Foo.

But the good thing is, Morris William arrives this evening, for to keep his sister company whilst I am away. It ain’t Cancun, but there you are.

Enough blather. Let’s get to the Music!

1. Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
   
2. Fear Of The South - Tin Hat Trio
   
3. Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello
   
4. Happy Hang Around - Travis
   
5. Shorty Falls In Love - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
   
6. Poor Thing - Stephen Sondheim: Sweeney Todd, Original Broadway Cast
   
7. Kid A - Radiohead
   
8. Reggae fi Radni - Linton Kwesi Johnson
   
   You nuh see how de clou’ them jus’ came sit upon me dream
   Came sit upon me dream like a dark silk screen
   A dark silk screen over de vision I had seen
   Vision I had seen, de vision I had seen
   So me say dat Walter Radni was a victim of hate
   Someone say that him gone thru heaven’s gate
   Someone dat Walter Radni shouldn’t tek up his true weight
   An’ go carry ’pon ’im back like ’im de weary man a rock
   But look how de clou’ dem jus’ came sat upon me dream
   Came sit upon me dream like a shout or a scream
   A shout or a scream or a really ugly scene
   Dat awake me from the dream an’ alert me to de scheme
   So me say dat Walter Radni was a prisoner of fate
   Someone say dat him gone thru de hero’s gate
   Someone say dat Walter Radni couldn’t tek his true weight
   So ’im tek it off ’im back an’ go pick it ’pon ’im lap
   An’ go fall in a trap, an’ Sam Burnham get it drop
   But look how me dream come jus’ get blown to smithereen
   Came blown to smithereen ina de middle of de dream
   Middle of de dream before de people dem come in
   Peeple dem come in, the people dem come in
   So me say dat Walter Radni was no shark fi de sea
   An’ all dat him did wan’ was fi set ’im people free
   Wi’ de workers an’ de peasan’s him should a corporate
   But like a fish to de hook, ’im go bite ’pon Burnham bait
   You nuh see how me dream come jus’ get blown to smithereen
   An’ blown to smithereen ina de middle of de dream
   Middle of de dream before de really crucial scene
   De really crucial scene when de people dem come in
   
   
9. (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired - Traffic
   
10. Accentuate the Positive - Johnny Mercer
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?