Friday, March 23, 2007

FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Oh, boy! It’s Friday.

Last night, I returned from my ill-advised trip to Sweat City. Ill-advised, because it’s not a good idea to travel when you are suffering from Mogo on the Gogogo. Right now, I feel like hammered dogshit. Ball-peen hammered dogshit, if you will...but in a little while, I will toddle over to my physician’s office in the hope that he can prescribe a Helpful Medicament that will offer surcease from these, my sufferings.

They say that music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. Mayhap a Random Selection of Musical Arcana from the iPod d’Elisson will serve to soothe the Fevered Brow as well. Lessee:
  1. Uncle Meat - Frank Zappa
  2. The Hussein Skank - Skankin’ Pickle
  3. Freedom Jazz Dance - Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express
  4. Words Of Love - The Beatles
  5. Scene 12: Unaware Of Its Taboos - Philip Glass, Les Enfants Terribles
  6. Rock And Roll Music - The Beatles

    Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
    Any old way you choose it
    It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it,
    Any old time you use it
    Gotta be rock roll music
    If you wanna dance with me
    If you wanna dance with me

    I’ve got no kick against modern jazz
    Unless they try to play it too darn fast
    And lose the beauty of the melody
    Until they sound just like a symphony

    That’s why I go for that that rock and roll music
    Any old way you choose it
    It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it,
    Any old time you use it
    It’s gotta be rock roll music
    If you wanna dance with me
    If you wanna dance with me

    I took my loved one over cross the tracks
    So she can hear my man a-wailin’ sax
    I must admit they have a rockin’ band
    Man, they were goin’ like a hurricane

    That’s why I go for that that rock and roll music
    Any old way you choose it
    It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it,
    Any old time you use it
    Gotta be rock roll music
    If you wanna dance with me
    If you wanna dance with me

    Way down south they had a jubilee
    Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree
    They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup
    The folks are dancin’ - they got all shook up

    And started playin’ that rock and roll music
    Any old way you choose it
    It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it,
    Any old time you use it
    Gotta be rock roll music
    If you wanna dance with me
    If you wanna dance with me

    Don’t care to hear them play a tango
    I’m in the mood to kick a mambo
    It’s way too early for a congo
    So keep a-rockin’ that pi-a-no
    That’s why I go for that

    Rock and roll music
    Any old way you choose it
    It’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it,
    Any old time you use it
    Gotta be rock roll music
    If you wanna dance with me
    If you wanna dance with me

  7. How Long Has That Train Been Gone - Professor Longhair
  8. Tol’ko s Toboy - Leningrad
  9. No Reply - The Beatles
  10. Ride The Cliche - Stone Temple Pilots
Jebus. Just how many “Randomly Selected Tracks” do we have here from the frickin’ “Beatles For Sale” album, anyway?

Ahh, well. It’s Friday. What are you listening to?

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