Return of Friday Random Ten

Been a while, but herek, once more, the Friday Random Ten, for your consideration.

1. Elvis Costello - Party Girl (live)
2. Slant 6 - Are You Human? - From the dischord collection. This seems to come up a lot. Nice song, actualy - got something of a Sonic Youth vibe going. I hear it, and think, I ought to look this band up, though I haven['t done it yet.
3. New Pornographers - Jackie
4. Donovan - Mellow Yello
5. Matthew Sweet - Your Sweet Voice
6. Xiu Xiu - King Earth, King Earth - they come up a lot too, for some reason. This is pretty good - they require a bit more attention than the iPod allows, I think. I might like them more if I actually listened to their CDs.
7. Grateful Dead - Nobody's Spoonful Jam - actually, I saw this was 10 minutes long and hit the next arrow. How's that for brutal honesty?
8. Brian Eno - The True Wheel - this is a really great song. I think Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy might be one of the catchiest records ever made, strange as that might seem.
9. Charlie Parker - Klact-oveeseds-tene - jazz doesn't translate all that well to the iPod - the sounds don't cut throught he background noise enough, or something - but Bird is magnificent, after all.
10. John Lennon - Imagine (live, acoustic) - a really good version fo the song - the spare arrangement seems to me to cut off the sense of mewling hippiness it has in the official version. It's direct and sensible, heard this way.
11. Bonus, Antui-Grateful Dead track! The Minutemen - Cohesion - D.Boon's acoustic guitar piece, a minute or so long, and like most Minutement songs, packing more information into the minute, 90 seconds than the fucking Dead managed in any given year. I know, I shouln't pick on the Dead - they made a couple good songs in there (and indeed, their early 70s records at last are quite admirable in their restraint and focus. But hey - they aren't the Minutemen, one of the all time great bands.)