1. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Elvis Costello
2. When It's Over, Sugar Ray
3. Crash Into Me, Dave Matthews Band
4. Down Under, Men at Work
5. The Ballad of Chasey Lain, Bloodhound Gang
6. Bad Day, Daniel Powter
7. Hot In The City, Billy Idol
8. Layla, Derek and the Dominoes
9. When the Stars Go Blue, Tim McGraw
10. Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon
Lord have mercy how'd she even get them britches on?
1. The Bad Touch, The Bloodhound Gang
2. White Wedding, Billy Idol
3. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, Starship
4. Go Your Own Way, Fleetwood Mac
5. Down Under, Men at Work
6. The Ballad of Chasey Lain, The Bloodhound Gang
7. Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon
8. Layla, Eric Clapton
9. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healy Band
10. Glycerine, Bush
1. Sussudio, Phil Collins
2. Bad Day, Daniel Powter
3. Dead Ringer For Love, Cher & Meatloaf
4. White Wedding, Billy Idol
5. Hungry Like the Wolf, Duran Duran
6. Turn the Page, Metallica
7. Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. D'yer Mak'erLynyrd Skynyrd
9.Down Under, Men at Work
10. Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show, Neil Diamond
Then Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight, and Benito Musselini, and the Blue Meanie, and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader, Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan, all came out of nowhere lightning fast and they kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass.
Okay, so there's no karaoke tonight. Thus, you get your Random Ten early. But you also only get half of it.
1. One Headlight, The Wallflowers
2. Save Tonight, Eagle Eye Cherry
3. Glycerine, Bush
4. Down Under, Men at Work
5. When I Come Around, Greenday
Lying here in the dark, I hear a siren's wail. Sombeody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail.
1. If You Leave, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
2. Champagne Supernova, Oaisis
3. When I Come Around, Greenday
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
5. Down Under, Men At Work
6. 100 Years, Five For Fighting
7. Love is All Around, Wet Wet Wet
8. If I Had $1,000,000, Barenaked Ladies
9. Glycerine, Bush
They say that I have the best ass below fourteenth street.
1. The Sound of Silence, Simon & Garfunkle
2. Bubbletoes, Jack Johnson
3. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
4. One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head
5. Dead Ringer For Love, Meatloaf & Cher
6. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healy Band
7. She's Like The Wind, Patrick Swayze
8. Another Day In Paradise, Phil Collins
One part the fuerher, one part the pope, it's the inevitable return, baby, of the great white dope
1. Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground
2. Hook, Blues Traveller
3. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healy Band
4. Calling All Angels, Train
5. Another Night, Real McCoy
6. Champagne Supernova, Oasis
7. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
8. If I had $1000000, Barenaked Ladies
9. Stop Dragging My Heart Around, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty
10. Joy To The World, Three Dog Night
So, it's Monday I guess. Better late than never. I think you readers will understand by now that you take a backseat to the woman I love, who was in town for a glorious three-day weekend.
I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder DK18-10
Crazy For This Girl Evan & Jaron MM374-12
Love Is All Around Wet Wet, Wet DK333-8
Time of your Life, The Green Day PH518-3
Sex and Candy Marcy Playground PH518-5
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits HC523-4
Glycerine Bush SC524-5
If You Leave Orchestral Manouevers In The Dark HC523-1
Wonderwall Oasis SC524-6
Love Is Williams & McKnight MM377-2
Wild World Cat Stevens SC250-3
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight The Cutting Crew MM380-1
Remedy (I Won't Worry), The Jason Mraz THM356-17
Rock This Town The Stray Cats SC307-7
Bed Of Roses Jon Bon Jovi SC450-5
Cowboy Kid Rock SC429-5
Stacy's Mom Fountains Of Wayne SC480-6
Time of your Life, The Green Day PH518-3
Sex and Candy Marcy Playground PH518-5
Hook Blues Traveler SC519-11
You might have noticed a new feature down the sidebar, M&M Karaoke MySongs. See, I'm the webmaster of the website for the Karaoke show I frequent. Hey, Blogtimore readers, if you're ever in the neighborhood, come check it out. http://karaoke.trenchcoatsoft.com. Their entire collection of songs can be viewed on-line, and, thanks to a clever little feature I built into the site, every time you visit my page, you'll see a random assortment of ten songs from my own personal favorites list. It's the closest thing to a proper random ten you're liable to see around here, last week notwithstanding.
Anyway, you can check out my own personal list in its entirety at http://karaoke.trenchcoatsoft.com/mysongs.php?u=rraszews. If you decide to become a regular (or, for that matter, just like fooling around), you can make a list like this for yourself and avoid all that tedious looking things up in the printed songbook.
In the mean time, though, here's this week's ten:
1. The Boys of Summer, The Ataris
2. Cradle of Love, Billy Idol
3. Straw Hat and Dirty Old Hank, Barenaked Ladies
4. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healy Band
5. Making Love out of Nothing At All, Air Supply
6. Crazy for this girl, Evan and Jaron
7. Someday, Someway, Marshall Crenshaw
8. You're an Ocean, Fastball
9. In a Big Country, Big Country
10. Superman, Five for Fighting
See you next week.
Okay, so my gf came down this weekend. And while we did do some karaoke, I was really paying more attention to her than to keeping track of what I was singing. I mean, honestly, how can I be expected to keep notes when I'm enjoying the company of the woman I love? We had a pretty dandy weekend. Trivia. Dinner with friends. Frantic search for a misplaced grandmother. Dinner. Karaoke. Doctor Who marathon. Cooking. Dinner with some other friends. A hair more karaoke. Dog-sitting. In all, a weekend that would have been pretty pleasant on its own, elevated to nirvana because I got to share it with the woman I love.
So, the practical upshot is that I do not remember enough of what I sang to put together a ten list in my usual format, so I'm going to actually give you a random ten this week. I'm turning on my Rio Cali right now...
See you next week...
All of ther friends tell her she's so pretty... But she'd be a whole lot prettier if she'd smile once in a while
1. American Idiot, Greenday
2. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
3. The Downeaster Alexa, Billy Joel
4. Lullabye, Shawn Mullins
5. In The House of Stone and Light, Martin Page
6. Faith, George Michael
7. Hanging By A Moment, Lifehouse
8. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
9. Ol' 55, The Eagles
10. Stuck in the Middle With You, Stealer's Wheel
Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane,
Touched down in the land of the delta blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
1. Pink Houses, John Mellencamp
2. Another Postcard, Barenaked Ladies
3. Run Around, Blues Traveller
4. Slide, Goo Goo Dolls
5. Walking In Memphis, Lonestar
6. Karma Chameleon, Culture Club
7. Life is a Highway, Tom Cochrain
8. Steal My Sunshine, LEN (with my sister)
9. We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel (ditto)
Number ten is a little different:
10. (Music)House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
(Lyrics)O Little Town of Bethlehem Traditional
1. Father and Son, Cat Stevens
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2
3. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
4. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), Johnny Reznick
5. Fall Down, Toad The Wet Sprocket
6. Walk of Life, Dire Straits
7. Ol' Red, Blake Shelton
8. Save Tonight, Eagle Eye Cherry
9. Cradle of Love, Billy Idol
10. I Don't Want To Be, Gavin Degraw
For those who might be interested in joining us in these little outings, there's now a web page for the karaoke host with the most, and as I'm the webmaster, I get to promote it. Check out http://karaoke.trenchcoatsoft.com for showtimes and info (and pictures of us, so you know what you're getting into).
Mommy's all right; Daddy's all right; They just seem a little weird...
1. Somebody Told Me, The Killers
2. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, The Tokens
3. She's Like the Wind, Patrick Swayze
4. Hungry Like the Wolf, Duran Duran
5. Bubbletoes, Jack Johnson
6. That'll Be The Day, Buddy Holly
7. Surrender, Cheap Trick
8-10 have been omitted in light of the length of last week's list.
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress
Please excuse any typographical errors. My girlfriend is visiting this weekend, and her head is on my lap. For obvious reasons, I am easily distract... Where was I?
1. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
2. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham
3. Georgia, Carolyn Dawn Johnson
4. Accidentally in Love, Counting Crows
5. Breathe, Faith Hill
6. Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
7. Hooked on a Feeling, BJ Thomas
8. Alone, Heart
9. Kiss Me, Sixpence None the Richer
10. White Wedding, Billy Idol
11. That's What Love Can Do, Boy Krazy
12. Somewhere Out There, Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
13. Hallelujah, Rufus Wainright
14. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
15. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
16. Stacy's Mom, Fountains of Wayne
17. Falling for the First Time, Barenaked Ladies
18. Breathless, The Corrs
And now, AMOV presents the Random Ten FAQ (Check out the [read more] for the answers)
Q. Hey, that's eighteen. That's not ten! What gives?
Q. Hey, isn't it traditional to do a Random Ten on Fridays, not Sundays?
Q. Hey! These aren't random at all! You're supposed to put the first ten songs produced by shuffle on your iPod. If you're not cool enough to have an iPod, you're not allowed to play!
Q. Hey, you keep listing the same songs. How lame is that?
A. It's my damned blog and I'll do as I damned well please.
Till next time...
Okay, so the rotation at karaoke was long this week, and I only got to sing a very few songs, and they've all appeared on this list too many times recently. So instead of the usual ten, I'm going to depart from the normal format and present you with ten links to the Random Tens of other people of whose taste in music I approve. It's a Random Ten by Ten.
1. Slacktivist. Brothers In Arms is probably my favorite song these days.
2. snooble dot com. Sunday Bloody Sunday is a song of which I approve with great vigour.
3. Thistles For Breakfast. Okay. Bob's Random Ten this week turned up both Fall Down, which is one of my Karaoke songs, and The Theme From Knight Rider, thus qualifying his list as excellent.
4. Rox Populi. Brian Wilson is an old favorite of mine, but what puts this one on my list is Bathwater, which is my sister's favorite song to sing at Karaoke.
5. Blatherskite , mostly for Don't Fear The Reaper, but Bush as Dictator is funny enough to merit a mention.
6. Super! Geek's 27 because In The Car has been stuck in my head for days. Also, any song about Metroid is okay in my book.
7. Stitching For Sanity for That's Just What You Are, which I would totally sing at karaoke if I were a chyk and they had it (And based on what happened last week, that first one is not really a dealbreaker). The inclusion of Jeremy causes this one to make the list instead of the most recent edition.
8. Randon Ravings For including U2's cover of All Along The Watchtower which is my non-current favorite song. The U2 cover is probably my third favorite version at the moment (my favorite is sure to appear in a regular ten in the future).
9. A Likely Story! Back in may, randomly produced not only American Idiot, The Middle and Brian Wilson, but also my favorite Karaoke Host's regular song, Wherever You Will Go, not to mention a song by Toad The Wet Sprocket.
10. B12 Partners Solipsism They got I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), they got What I like about you, they got I got you (I feel good), but most of all, they've got Ice Cream. And I've got my ten.
See you next week.
Maybe some of my visitors from one of the Baltimore-area aggregators (see badges) can fill me in on what's up in the city this week. Karaoke attendence was much lighter than usual. Where was everyone?
Since it was such a slow night, two nights in a row, I got a little reckless and sang some songs totally inappropriate for my person. I also sang some songs that weren't but that's neither here nor there. Here's the list...
1. Alone, Heart
2. Tonight and the Rest of my Life, Nina Gordon
3. There She Goes, Sixpence None the Richer (Which is originally a male vocal, but that wasn't available)
4. Smooth, Santana featuring Rob Thomas
5. Another Night, Real McCoy
6. You Belong to Me, The Duprees
7. My Best Friend's Girl, The Cars
8. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
9. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day
10. Reason to Believe, Rod Stewart
Incidentally, I have decided that the original version of "There She Goes" is the optimal Meet Cute song.
Lying here in the darkness, you hear the sirens wail: sombeody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail.
Well, severe back pain prevented me from attending Karaoke Friday, but I managed to get out tonight, and here's what I sang:
1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
2. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
3. Power of Love, Huey Lewis and the News
4. If I had $1,000,000, Barenaked Ladies
5. Turn the Page, Metallica
Now, next week's list will probably be conspicuous in its absence, since I will be forsaking Karaoke in favor of going to visit the woman who sets my life to music. So, rather than stiffing you guys for two out of three weeks, I'm going to super-size this week's list with the contents of the CD I am mixing right now for a couple of friends, on the occasion of my having remembered that they asked me if I could provide them with a copy of a particular song a few weeks ago. (For [4 points], guess which one it was. The rest are just there because I hate to not fill a disc to something near capacity). So...
6.. The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes, Elvis Costello
7. Tonight and the Rest of my Life, Nina Gordon
8. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
9. New York Minute, The Eagles
10. Behind Blue Eyes, Limp Bizkit
11. Somebody Told Me, The Killers
12. Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
13. Feed The Tree, Belly
14. Maria, Blondie
15. Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin
16. Only In My Dreams, Debbie Gibson
17. Save Tonight, Eagle Eye Cherry
18. Take Me Home Tonight, Eddie Money
19. Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
20. Live Anyway, Quiddity
I like big spiders and I cannot lie. [3 points]
And in case you didn't get the joke in the title:
Partial Karaoke Lineup (omitting some recent duplicates):
01. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers
02. She's Like the Wind, Patrick Swayze
03. I don't want to be, Gavin Degraw
04. Nowhere Man, The Beatles
05. It Had To Be You, Harry Connick jr.
06. Paycheck Woman, Cletus T. Judd
In lieu of repeating the same entries I've been making for the past several weeks, this week's list will be padded with "Songs no one knows the proper name of". (Random schmandom)
07. The Bad Touch, Bloodhound Gang
010. Bring Me To Life, Evanescence
011. Indian Reservation, Paul Revere and the Raiders
012. The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin [and 4 points]
Random X will be on vacation next week (or, perhaps, truly random for once), since Karaoke is on vacation. I will instead be taking my sweetheart to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Mmm.... turkey legs...
And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star.
So, Karaoke, as it turns out, is way less fun when your girlfriend isn't there. But she knows I miss her, and now the rest of you do too.
1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
2. Superman, Five for Fighting
3. Hot in the City, Billy Idol
4. Somebody Told Me, The Killers
5. Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House
6. Accidentally In Love, Counting Crows
7. The Boys of Summer, The Ataris
Plus three songs I have to learn:
8. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
9. I Don't Want To Be, Gavin Degraw
10. Wake Me Up When September Ends, Greenday
Spent an amazing, wonderful weekend with my beloved. As a result, this week's posts are going to be late, since I am several kinds of tired and sore and happy. Sadly, she had a cold, and therefore wasn't able to sing so much as she'd like, but she did manage to get a couple in. Also, this week's list guest stars my sister, who accompanied us to karaoke Saturday night. I'm not going to tell you who sang what, because I'm a bit of a rogue like that.
1. Hooked on a Feeling, BJ Thomas
2. You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
3. Steal My Sunshine, LEN
4. Accidentally In Love, Counting Crows
5. Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin
6. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
7. American Idiot, Greenday
8. One, U2
9. Bathwater, No Doubt
10. White Bird, It's a Beautiful Day
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Me:
1. Falling for the first time, Barenaked Ladies
2. Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright
3. Bed of Roses, Bon Jovi
4. One Headlight, The Wallflowers
5. Friday I'm in love, The Cure
My Girlfriend (Man, do I love saying that)
1. No Mistakes, Patty Smyth
2. Borderline, Madonna
3. The Warrior, Scandal
4. The Shoop Shoop Song, Cher
Us:
1. I'd do anything for love (But I won't do that), Meatloaf
The first song we ever danced to was What a Wonderful World. Wish I had a better song for that memory, but today I can really get behind the sentiment of it.
You're an angel in a see-through dress.
From Tonight's Karaoke Lineup:
1. If I had $1,000,000, Barenaked Ladies
2. Dancing With Myself, Billy Idol
3. Peacekeeper, Fleetwood Mac
4. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
5. Touch of Gray, Greatful Dead
To make the list come out to ten:
6. Second Best, Barenaked Ladies
7. Heart of Gold, Neil Young
8. More Than This, 10,000 Maniacs
9. Kiss Me, Sixpence None the Richer
10. There She Goes, The Las
Went to a Labor Day Party today at the home of some Friends From Karaoke. A wonderful time was had by all. Good food, public nudity (Don't get all excited. I'm the youngest of my karaoke friends by about a decade), free booze, and Karaoke. So, as part of my "start blogging more often" kick, I've decided to start relating what songs I sang each time I go karaoking expect these lists to be short, dull, redundant, and redundant. All the same, here you go...
With one exception, none of these songs were chosen by myself: I gave the list of songs I know to the masters of ceremonies, and they chose what I'd sing next.
1. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), Johnny Reznik
2. Alcohol, Barenaked Ladies
3. 867-5309/Jenny, Tommy Tutone
4. Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Judy Garland
5. Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright
(Lest anyone think I don't know this, (a) The Jeff Buckley cover of Hallelujah is way better, but it's not available for karaoke, and (b) Rufus is covering a Leonard Cohen song)
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
