FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Friday already!??!

Not that I’m complaining, mind you. But this week seems to have flown by. That may be because it was a short workweek, with the Missus and I returning from a long weekend in Texas Monday afternoon.

But that was then, and this is now. Which means it’s time to check out the Little White Choon-Box to see what sort of Random Madness it will spew forth. Lessee...

1. Another Generation - Fishbone
   
2. Flamenco Sketches - Miles Davis
   
3. MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
   
   Spring was never waiting for us, girl
   It ran one step ahead
   As we followed in the dance
   Between the parted pages and were pressed
   In love’s hot, fevered iron
   Like a stripèd pair of pants
   
   MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
   All the sweet, green icing flowing down
   Someone left the cake out in the rain
   I don’t think that I can take it
   ’Cause it took so long to bake it
   And I’ll never have that recipe again
   Oh, no!
   
   I recall the yellow cotton dress
   Foaming like a wave
   On the ground around your knees
   The birds, like tender babies in your hands
   And the old men playing checkers by the trees
   
   MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
   All the sweet, green icing flowing down
   Someone left the cake out in the rain
   I don’t think that I can take it
   ’Cause it took so long to bake it
   And I’ll never have that recipe again
   Oh, no!
   
   [break]
   
   There will be another song for me
   For I will sing it
   There will be another dream for me
   Someone will bring it
   I will drink the wine while it is warm
   And never let you catch me looking at the sun
   And after all the loves of my life
   After all the loves of my life
   You’ll still be the one
   
   I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
   I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
   I will have the things that I desire
   And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
   And after all the loves of my life
   After all the loves of my life
   I’ll be thinking of you
   And wondering why
   
   [extended break]
   
   MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
   All the sweet, green icing flowing down
   Someone left the cake out in the rain
   I don’t think that I can take it
   ’Cause it took so long to bake it
   And I’ll never have that recipe again
   Oh, no!
   Oh, no
   No, no
   Oh no!!
   
   
4. Fakin’ Jamaican - Skankin’ Pickle
   
5. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
   
6. Sunset Road (live) - Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
   
7. Metamorphosis Three - Philip Glass
   
8. Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again - Tom Waits
   
9. Human - Goldfrapp
   
10. Big Eyed Beans from Venus - Captain Beefheart
    

I couldn’t resist posting the lyrics to MacArthur Park, possibly the most bombastic, bloated, overwrought pop song to come out of the 1960’s. Complete with ridiculous lyrics, Richard Harris’s breathless, quavery vocal, the extended Go-Go-style instrumental break, and the Mr. Bill refrain (Oh, no!), MacArthur Park is still a Guilty Pleasure. Sure, it sucks...but it sucks so good!

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?