![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Well, I don't think Hooker completely has his sight back (he loses it during epileptic fits), but he's up and moving around and seems okay -- I hope he'll clean himself off soon; he's rather icky and stinky still.
So, I'm relaxed enough to go ahead with a Random Ten for the day. The iPod stands at 19,054 songs, 65 GBs. What comes up?
1. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" - Phluph - Phluph
Dylan cover from next-to-unknown late-60s Psychedelia band. Not a psych-style cover, though, kinda peppy and upbeat for them. Funny. Actually does point up the humor of Dylan a bit more.
2. "La Bamba" - Dusty Springfield - Dusty volume 2
Rather kitschy. Not Dusty's most shining moment, though, as always, she sings great. Eventually I'll cull out the lesser Dusty tracks -- right now I just have all of them on here, without judgment. Oooh, very "Vegas" ending; yeah, this'll go at some point.
3. "Simon Says" - The Shangri-Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama
Nice early R&B single from the Queens girls before Shadow Morton grabbed them and changed their whole sound and act. Didn't know they could rock like this until I got this comp (finally! after years of waiting for a good Shangri-Las comp, though this one is from the UK with a smart-ass name and liner notes far far more interested in the lives of the girls and the record business rather than the music).
4. "Misery Goats" - Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero (1980-1982)
Great spiky track from the tail part of the first, "classic," Ubu period. No idea what LP this is on originally right now, as the Datapanik box just puts all the tracks in order across several CDs . Love Ubu, but don't have all of my fave tracks in the iPod, as some of them just don't work on random.
5. "This World" - World Party - Egyptology
Lovely airy pop-R&B number. Only listened to this album for the first time last year when putting songs into the iTunes. Tim Cusack bought me this album as somewhat of a joke when it came out in 1997, as I was directing him in Richard Foreman's play with the same title as the album at the time. Didn't look like my bag, so I filed it and never listened to it. Pulled it out to check when going through all the CDs and discovered a handful - two handfuls, actually - of good tracks to put into the massive randomizer. Lesson there.
6. "Dis-Nous Dylan" - Les Five Gentlemen - Pebbles volume 12 - The World
"Il est un vietnik." No idea what they're saying for most of this, but they're asking Dylan (and {ahem} Donovan) to speak and sing to them of important things. Silly, amusing pop.
7. "Santa Dog" - Poxy Boggards - Eyesore: A Stab at The Residents
Excellent acoustic cover from a Residents tribute CD, based mainly on the '72 version, maybe a bit on the '78 one, too. Suddenly it's a traditional folk song.
8. "I'm Trouble" - Sado-Nation - Sado-Nation 7" EP
Punk on the edge of Power Pop. Terrific.
9. "Raide Raide Raide" - Les Innocents - Post-Partum
Pleasant French folk-pop I got somewhere, no idea where. No idea also when it's from. Pretty.
10. "It's My Pride" - The Guess Who - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3
UK garage rock, late-60s. Young, loud, and snotty. Gotta love it.
Okay, stuff to do today and stuff I want to write later. Got to get going, got to check on the cat.
So, I'm relaxed enough to go ahead with a Random Ten for the day. The iPod stands at 19,054 songs, 65 GBs. What comes up?
1. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" - Phluph - Phluph
Dylan cover from next-to-unknown late-60s Psychedelia band. Not a psych-style cover, though, kinda peppy and upbeat for them. Funny. Actually does point up the humor of Dylan a bit more.
2. "La Bamba" - Dusty Springfield - Dusty volume 2
Rather kitschy. Not Dusty's most shining moment, though, as always, she sings great. Eventually I'll cull out the lesser Dusty tracks -- right now I just have all of them on here, without judgment. Oooh, very "Vegas" ending; yeah, this'll go at some point.
3. "Simon Says" - The Shangri-Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama
Nice early R&B single from the Queens girls before Shadow Morton grabbed them and changed their whole sound and act. Didn't know they could rock like this until I got this comp (finally! after years of waiting for a good Shangri-Las comp, though this one is from the UK with a smart-ass name and liner notes far far more interested in the lives of the girls and the record business rather than the music).
4. "Misery Goats" - Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero (1980-1982)
Great spiky track from the tail part of the first, "classic," Ubu period. No idea what LP this is on originally right now, as the Datapanik box just puts all the tracks in order across several CDs . Love Ubu, but don't have all of my fave tracks in the iPod, as some of them just don't work on random.
5. "This World" - World Party - Egyptology
Lovely airy pop-R&B number. Only listened to this album for the first time last year when putting songs into the iTunes. Tim Cusack bought me this album as somewhat of a joke when it came out in 1997, as I was directing him in Richard Foreman's play with the same title as the album at the time. Didn't look like my bag, so I filed it and never listened to it. Pulled it out to check when going through all the CDs and discovered a handful - two handfuls, actually - of good tracks to put into the massive randomizer. Lesson there.
6. "Dis-Nous Dylan" - Les Five Gentlemen - Pebbles volume 12 - The World
"Il est un vietnik." No idea what they're saying for most of this, but they're asking Dylan (and {ahem} Donovan) to speak and sing to them of important things. Silly, amusing pop.
7. "Santa Dog" - Poxy Boggards - Eyesore: A Stab at The Residents
Excellent acoustic cover from a Residents tribute CD, based mainly on the '72 version, maybe a bit on the '78 one, too. Suddenly it's a traditional folk song.
8. "I'm Trouble" - Sado-Nation - Sado-Nation 7" EP
Punk on the edge of Power Pop. Terrific.
9. "Raide Raide Raide" - Les Innocents - Post-Partum
Pleasant French folk-pop I got somewhere, no idea where. No idea also when it's from. Pretty.
10. "It's My Pride" - The Guess Who - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3
UK garage rock, late-60s. Young, loud, and snotty. Gotta love it.
Okay, stuff to do today and stuff I want to write later. Got to get going, got to check on the cat.
