My most negative Friday Random Ten yet:
1. No Business – Bonnie Raitt
2. No Cause – Trish and Darin
3. No Hiding Place Down Here – Mutual Admiration Society
4. No Left Turns In Jersey – Eddie From Ohio
5. No Matter What Goes Right – Trout Fishing In America
6. No More Mr. Nice Guy – Alice Cooper
7. No One Does It Like You – Department of Eagles
8. No Phone – CAKE
9. No Song Sad Enough – Asylum Street Spankers
10. No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
What’s got you shaking your head this week?
Entire song list report: Started with “Big Shot”, by Billy Joel. Ended with “Born to Run”, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Yes, you read that right. I have two versions by the Boss (the original and a live version from his 1975-1985 concert album), and this is a pretty faithful cover. Am I the only one who remembers that Frankie did this recording back when “Relax” was dominating the world? I think I even heard it on the radio once. Anyway, it’s song #507, meaning I listened to a whopping 168 tunes this week. I don’t think I’ll match that any time soon.
Quite a few, it turns out.
No Business — Bonnie Raitt
No Fair At All — The Association
No Gettin’ Over You — Bonnie Raitt
No Memories Hangin’ Round — Rosanne Cash
No More Cane — The Limeliters
No More Cloudy Days — The Eagles
No More Lies — The Moody Blues
No More Tears — Barbra Streisand With Donna Summer
No More Walks In The Wood — The Eagles
No One Said It Would Be Easy — Sheryl Crow
No Quarter — Led Zeppelin
No Questions Asked — Fleetwood Mac
No Reply — The Beatles
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature — The Guess Who
No Surrender — Bruce Springsteen
No Time — The Guess Who
No Way To Treat A Lady — Bonnie Raitt
No Wonder — Neil Young
No Words — Paul McCartney & Wings
The songs that are bumping around in my head this weekend are the Green Day/U2 collaboration “Saints are Coming” and several cuts from Paul Simon’s Graceland album, particularly “Boy in the Bubble” “Graceland” “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and “That was your Mother.”
No scrubs! (TLC of course)