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Friday Random Ten

First FRT of 2007 Edition

Guilty — The Bad Plus
Fresh — Kool & The Gang
Ronnie and Neil — Drive By Truckers
Tell Her Tonight — Franz Ferdinand
Just a Test — Beastie Boys
The Art of Easing — Digable Planets
She’s My Baby — The Spikedrivers
Maturity — Endpoint
First Comes Sunday Morning — TransChamps
Sans Revival — Early Day Miners

Clearly, with two […]

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Last FRT of 2006 Edition

Little Sound Disko #06 — USK
Pick Up the Pieces — Average White Band
5:15 — The Who
Shakes — The Jim-Jims
Shun the Mask — 108
Violently Happy — Björk
June — Mike Reeb
Six Days The Remix — DJ Shadow featuring Mos Def
Heavenly Action — Erasure
Björkbergspolskan — Väsen

Ten Years Ago Ten

1997
This is the year I started moving away from hardcore/punk and more into indie rock.

Trans Am
Cake
No Doubt
The Promise Ring
Beastie Boys
Shelter
Cornershop
Cibo Matto
Björk
Rachel’s

1987
I got a jambox for my 10th birthday the year prior; the first two albums I owned were Run-DMC’s Raising Hell and Beastie Boys’ License to Ill. Then, the year after 1987 I attended my […]

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Countdown to Extinction Edition

Only In My Dreams — Debbie Gibson
Retarded Cowboy Run Country Now — Hello Lobster
Nothing Better — Postal Service
Here (In Your Arms) — Hellogoodbye
Wheels of Steel — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
You Give Me Problems About My Business — The Mercury Program
Leave The City — Magnolia Electric Co.
The Awful Truth Of Loving […]

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Looking Forward to a Week Off Edition

Bananeria (Rae & Christian Mix) — Bebel Gilberto
Stop! — Erasure
Egypt — The Mercury Program
James Brown Is Dead — L.A. Style
The Maestro — The Beastie Boys
Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying (Live) — Belle & Sebastian
Mothers Talk — Tears For Fears
One Small Day — Ultravox
Pourin’ Rain — BR5-49
Valerie — […]

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Will This Semester Never End? Edition

Simplesmente — Bebel Gilberto
The Bottle Let Me Down — Merle Haggard
Humankind — Mark Mallman
Tricycle — Psapp
A Shot In The Arm — Wilco
Brother — Murder By Death
Dare Me — Into Another
Govinda-Virahena — 108
Symptom Finger — The Faint
Such Pretty Eyes For A Snake — Magnolia Electric Co.

Friday Random Ten

Adderall Is Kickin’ In Edition

Character — Falling Forward
I Disappear — The Faint
Russian Roulette — Hot Water Music
Futureworld II — Trans Am
God’s Own Singer — The Flying Burrito Brothers
Weekend — Aloha
Compromised — The Spikedrivers
Less Than A Moment — Shannon Wright
Smoke — Alkaline Trio
Africa Dream — Talib Kweli