So I came across this as I was wandering the web, and it seems to be an example of a phenomenon (But then, what isn't? I'm reminded of a conversation of several years ago wherein someone described one of the early bloggers as "a phenomenon". He was promptly told "I'd hardly say this counts as a phenomenon! It's just some guy's thoughts. Look up "phenomenon" you twit!" His point, of course, was that "phenomenon" should mean something far more spectacular. Of course, if you did look up "phenomenon", you'd discover that it actually does not mean that at all). I'm a little (okay, a lot) amazed by the choices of songs in this random ten, and in the others surrounding it. See, I'm not nearly as hepcat cool swinging indie with great love of obscure music as a lot of people, but my tastes are far from mainstream. And yet I know a lot of these, and rather like them, especially the Elvis Costello song which donated the epigram and which, until now, I believed I was the only person in the world who remembered.

So anyway, it got me thinking. As well you know, I'm always the first to jump on the bandwagon two years late. I don't know how long I can keep it up (but hey, I've been on time with Inappropriate Thoughts for a whole month now), but for the time being, here they are, a Random Ten...

1. Fable, Robert Miles
2. Tonight and the Rest of My Life, Nina Gordon (Prettiest Song Ever)
3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot
4. Mona Lisa, Shawn Colvin
5. Joey, Concrete Blonde
6. In The House of Stone and Light, Martin Page
7. Knightrider 2000, Jan Hammer
8. Across the Universe, Rufus Wainwright
9. After the Rain, Nelson
10. Never Been to Spain, Three Dog Night