This morning featured a rather dramatic entry for winter: high winds, heavy rain, and a dramatic drop in temperature over the course of 30 minutes. Good times. And here are ten songs that randomly popped up in iTunes this morning (per the usual rules: take the first ten songs that play in your music player, no skipping due to potential embarrassment):
- “Candy and a Currant Bun” – Pink Floyd (from The Pink Floyd Early Singles
)
- “How Could I Be Such a Fool” – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (from Freak Out!
)
- “Black Betty” – Joe Brown (from Down To Earth
)
- “Whistle For The Choir” – The Fratellis (from Costello Music
)
- “23 Mile Ride” – Mojo Nixon (from Frenzy
)
- “Midnight Radio” – Dar Williams (from Promised Land
)
- “A Method” – TV on the Radio (from Return to Cookie Mountain
)
- “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues” – Bob Dylan (from The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3
)
- “Golden Bird” – Levon Helm (from Electric Dirt
)
And since this is the first day of the meteorological winter, why not ten more songs? Seems right to me, given that winter is my favorite season:
- “Apartment Zero” – Mojo Nixon (from Whiskey Rebellion
)
- “However Much I Booze” – The Who (from The Who By Numbers
)
- “Day Tripper” – The Beatles (from Mono Masters [from The Beatles in Mono
box set])
- “From Me To You” – The Beatles (from Anthology 1
)
- “Skiing Billy” – Ray Conrad & Rosalee Sorrels (from “The Cotton Picking Lift Tower” and Other Skiing Songs)
- “Square One” – Coldplay (from X&Y
)
- “They Made My Dream Come True” – The Who (from Endless Wire
)
- “Birthday” – The Beatles (from The Beatles [i.e. The White Album]
)
- “Let It Loose” – The Rolling Stones (from Exile on Main Street
)
- “Jesus Walking On The Water” – Violent Femmes (from Add It Up [1981-1993]
)
So what ten (or twenty) songs are playing in your workplace, living room or headphones today?
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