Area 151

Well, although I did the last contract task during my lunch hour yesterday, ESPN’s Thursday Night Baseball kapt me from getting to bed as early as I’d expected.  Meaning that it’s yet another bleary-eyed Friday morning.

But bleary eyes or no, Friday morning brings with it the beloved bloggy tradition of the Friday Random Ten,* and so here’s mine:

1. Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester; Sex Bomb [Super Hits]
2. Craig D. Booker; Waiting for Evelyn [Vintage Chill, vol. 3: Autumn]
3. Sting; Fields of Gold [Ten Summoner's Tales]
4. Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester; Super Trouper [Super Hits]
5. Henry Rollins; Breaking Up is Hard to Do [Hammer of the Rok Godz]
6. Sabu f. Arabian Fantasy; Yala Habibi [Desert Roses 2]
7. Alicia Keys; Girlfriend [Songs in A Minor]
8. Harry Connick Jr.; The Bare Necessities [Simply Mad about the Mouse]
9. Indigo Girls; nashville [Rites of Passage]
10. Augustana; Stars and Boulevards [All the Stars & Boulevards; iTunes free single]
11. BONUS: Michelle Nagy; Moon River [Art Musuem]

Seen live: Max Raabe and Henry Rollins.  How’s that for an odd couple?

Drives me crazy: If Alicia Keys is such a god-damned musical prodigy, why did she insist on capitalizing her album title in that fashion?  yeah, I know there’s a pun on her youth in the whole “A Minor” thing, but every time I see that capitalizing rather than the “a minor” that should denote the key in question, I go grrrr!

Newish addictions: A couple months ago, I started making a deliberate effort to download each and every free iTunes single of the week. I have also recently added a slew of chillout (or electro-lounge or whatever the hell you call it) albums to my collection.  I think I have become an old woman.

Nostalgia points: There was a stretch, early in my time here in Philly, where Sting and the Indigo Girls featured prominently in my chosen soundtrack, alongside other usual suspects like 10,000 Maniacs.  Yes, cliches become cliches for a reason.

* Still need guidance? It’s simple: mp3s, shuffle feature, and then tell us what popped up.

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