Too Long and Too Quick

The drive to Maine today took 90 minutes longer than usual due to weather and inexplicable traffic backups. I'm in no mood for posting. Still, it's the day for the Always Must Happen post, but I need to make it brief and get to bed, so . . .

Here's the good ol' Friday Random Ten, out of 25,551 tracks in the iPod, with more links to actual versions of the songs by the actual artists than usual . . .

1. "We Got the Neutron Bomb" - The Weirdos - Dangerhouse Volume Two
2. "Tiny Montgomery" - Bob Dylan & The Band - A Tree With Roots
3. "To Love Somebody" - Janis Joplin - Those Classic Golden Years 12
4. "Can't Steal My Way Around" - Barney Burcham - Tennessee Rock 'n Billy 1955
5. "The Thrill of Your Love" - Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back!
6. "Holy Flypaper!" - Nelson Riddle - Batman - Exclusive Original Television Soundtrack Album
7. "When You Walk In The Room" - Jackie De Shannon - The Definitive Collection
8. "Teclo" - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
9. "The Reverend Goes To Hell (from "Edgar Wallace")" - The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Film Musik
10. "Have Love Will Travel" - The Sonics - !!!Here Are The Sonics!!!

And, yes, this date brings back a lot of memories, but I'll simply share (in videos) three songs that were circling my head for much of the year following (and if you're on Facebook, you'll have to check back at the original post to see them).

First, Bob Dylan's "High Water (for Charley Patton)," in a live version at Niagara Falls:

The classic video for Laurie Anderson's "O Superman (for Massenet)":

And David Bowie's "Heathen (The Rays)":

Which makes three songs with bit of their titles in parenthesis that I love and which make me full of sadness and dread.