FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Hey! It’s Friday, time yet again for the weekly collection of Random Musical Selections as spewed forth by the iPod d’Elisson.

Let’s take a look and see what’s playing today:

1. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
   
   
2. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
   
   Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
   With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
   The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
   So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
   
   Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
   With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
   For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
   They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
   
   Roland the Thompson gunner...
   
   His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
   But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best
   So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
   That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland’s head
   
   Roland the headless Thompson gunner
   Norway’s bravest son
   Time, time, time
   For another peaceful war
   But time stands still for Roland
   ’Til he evens up the score
   They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
   In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun
   In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun
   
   Roland searched the continent for the man who’d done him in
   He found him in Mombasa in a barroom drinking gin
   Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn’t say a word
   But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
   
   Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
   
   The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
   Now it’s ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
   In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
   Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland’s Thompson gun and bought it
   
   
3. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor; K626 - 13. Agnus Dei - Herbert Von Karajan
   
   
4. Bustin’ Surfboards - The Tornados
   
   
5. Thinking About You - Radiohead
   
   
6. Someone In Your Garden - Philip Glass, Notes on a Scandal
   
   
7. Cemetery Polka - Tom Waits
   
   
8. The Mikado, Act II: The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down - D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
   
   
9. The Cold Part - Modest Mouse
   
   
10. One Note Song - Tenacious D
    
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?