Tag Archives: Friday random ten

All there is is more songs that start with “All”. 1. All God’s Children Got Rhythm – Stan Getz 2. All I Ask – Adele 3. All I Ever – GEMS 4. All I Wanna Do – The Chesterfield Kings … Continue reading →

Lacking new ideas, I’m going to do lists based on the first word of a set of songs. I think you’ll get the theme. 1. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Extreme Party Animals 2. Ain’t Gone ‘n’ Give Up … Continue reading →

One other big source of new music for me last year was NPR Music’s The Austin 100 (2016), which was a free download of over 100 songs. Here’s a selection of them 1. Ugly Cherries – PWR BTTM 2. Every … Continue reading →

We come to the end of this long-lived theme. 1. I Wonder – Yma Sumac 2. Walking On Thin Ice – Yoko Ono 3. How ‘Bout You – Yonder Mountain String Band (Allie Kral) 4. Nightswimming – You Say Party! … Continue reading →

As easy as X – Y – (next week) Z 1. Keep On The Sunny Side – The Whites (Sharon White, Cheryl White) 2. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Whitney Houston 3. Born Blonde – Wild Moccasins (Zahira … Continue reading →

Down to the last three. 1. Where Do You Run To – Vivian Girls (Cassie Ramone, Katy Goodman, Ali Koehler) 2. Launderette – Vivien Goldman 3. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses (Patty Donahue) 4. Do You Know The Way To … Continue reading →

I’m so happy, ’cause today I found my friends… 1. Icicle – Tori Amos 2. Heart And Soul – T’Pau (Carol Decker) 3. Fast Car – Tracy Chapman 4. Crimes Of A Misspent Youth – Trish & Darin (Trish Murphy) … Continue reading →

The boogie fever, it is going around. 1. Blue Shadows On The Trail – Syd Straw 2. Boogie Fever – The Sylvers (Olympis, Charmaine, Angelia, and Patricia Sylvers) 3. Heartbeat – Taana Gardner 4. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Taken … Continue reading →

So put me on the highway, and show me the sign. 1. Giver – The Suffers (Kam Franklin) 2. Back In My Arms Again – The Supremes (Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, Barbara Martin) 3. Oh My Soul – … Continue reading →

We built these Friday random ten lists on rock and roll. And other types of music. 1. Ditch Diggin’ – Southern Culture On The Skids (Mary Huff) 2. I Want To Be Relieved – Spirit Family Reunion (Maggie Carson) 3. … Continue reading →

March already. We need more months to go by this quickly. 1. Feel So Different – Sinead O’Connor 2. Spellbound – Siouxsie And The Banshees (Susan Ballion, a/k/a Siouxsie Sioux) 3. Papa Dean – Sister Nancy (Ophlin Russell) 4. He’s … Continue reading →

Up, up to the sky… 1. Fill Me Up – Shawn Colvin 2. Little Saint Nick – She & Him (Zoey Deschanel) 3. 9 to 5 (Morning Train) – Sheena Easton 4. Thought It Would Be Better – Shelby Lynne … Continue reading →

My library votes 3-2 in favor of not having an “H” in “Sara(h)”. 1. Rare Find – Sara Melson 2. Sweetness Follows – Sara Quin featuring Kaki King 3. The Pins – Sara Radle 4. Fallen – Sarah McLachlan 5. … Continue reading →

I’m not kidding around. 1. Antidote – Rosie Carney 2. Why Can’t It Be Christmas Time All Year – Rosie Thomas 3. The Look – Roxette (Marie Fredriksson) 4. Cherry Bomb – The Runaways 5. Wildside – Sabrina Carpenter and … Continue reading →

I don’t know exactly how many more of these there are to go, but we are getting into the home stretch. 1. Last Dance – The Raveonettes (Sharin Foo) 2. Dream On – Rebecca Turner 3. We Belong Together – … Continue reading →

One week down, 195 to go… 1. We Crawl – The Polyphonic Spree (many members) 2. September – Pomplamoose (Nataly Dawn) 3. The Resurrected Lover – The Poor Clares (Betsy McGovern) 4. Brass In Pocket – The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde) … Continue reading →

And so it begins. 1. Not Bad For A Broad – Patty Larkin 2. In The Highways – The Peasall Sisters (from “O Brother Where Art Thou”) 3. Love/Hate – Pebbles (“Beverly Hills Cop II”) 4. Gonna Be An Engineer … Continue reading →

This is the last one of these during the Obama presidency. 1. Nowhere Man – Of Montreal (Dottie Alexander) 2. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Oleta Adams 3. Magic – Olivia Newton-John 4. The Cap And … Continue reading →

One last gasp of Christmas. 1. It’s Merry Christmas Time – Miranda Dodson 2. Hold it Like It Was Your Own – Miss Molly 3. Came For A Dance – The Mollys (Nancy McCallion and Catherine Zavala) 4. Just To … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to say Goodbye to 2016. 1. Every Time We Say Goodbye – Julie Murphy 2. Good-Bye – Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin 3. Goodbye Girl – Squeeze 4. Goodbye Liza Jane – … Continue reading →

A little bit of Texas in this list. 1. Roadside Attractions – Marcia Ball 2. You And I – Margaret Glaspy 3. Black Magick – Marie Minerva 4. Love is Teasin’ – Marianne Faithful and The Chieftains 5. This Is … Continue reading →

There’s nothing funny about this list. 1. I Don’t Want To Be Funny Anymore – Lucy Dacus 2. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding – Lucy Kaplansky 3. Mechanical Flattery – Lydia Lunch 4. Knocked Up – Lykke … Continue reading →

Moving through the letter L. 1. Ant In Alaska – Liz Phair 2. Take It Back – Liza Anne 3. Ill Wind – Lonette McKee 4. Royals – Lorde 5. Cowardly Lion – Loreena McKennitt 6. Stay With Me – … Continue reading →

This is the part of me that’s glad the election is almost over. 1. Part Of Me – Katy Perry 2. Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson 3. Peter Pan – Kelsei Ballerini 4. Dancing In The Dark … Continue reading →