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First it was Roxanne’s, and then when she gave it up, it was Lauren’s, and it only seems right that there should be one up here. So:

1) Offspring: Pretty Fly
2) Pink Floyd: When You’re In
3) Wicked Tinkers: Gaelic Aire
4) Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
5) Spinners: Rubberband Man
6) Commitments: Mustang Sally
7) Enter The Haggis: Twirling Towards Freedom
8) Southern Culture On The Skids: Sweet Spot
9) Green Day: When I Come Around
10) Slayer: Aggressive Perfector

1. Rufus Wainwright - The Consort
2. Art Blakely, Cannonball Adderley, Hank Jones, Miles Davis & Sam Jones - Love for Sale
3. Tom Waits - The Earth Died Screaming
4. Miles Davis - Somethin’ Else
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow
6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Crepuscule With Nellie
7. Ryan Adams - Avalanche
8. Cat Power - You May Know Him
9. The Avett Brothers - Hard Worker
9. Girl Talk - Give and Go
10. Bound Stems - Excellent News, Colonel

Friday video: Some Britpop is always good for a sunny Friday.

1. Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves
2. Rufus Wainwright - Evil Angel
3. Cat Power - Living Proof
4. Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
5. Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine
6. Tom Waits - Gospel Train / Orchestra
7. Les Savy Fav - Hello Halo, Goodbye Glands
8. Amr Diab - We Hikaytek Aih
9. Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
10. Death Cab for Cutie - The Employment Pages

Friday video: A song I’ve had stuck in my head for two weeks straight:

And the lovely lady who sings that song gets a mention in Amanda’s fantastic book, which I finished this week and will review soon.
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1. A.C. Newman - On the Table
2. Interpol - C’mere
3. Silver Jews - Time Will Break the World
4. Darren Hanlon - Ends of the City
5. The Shins - Gone for Good
6. Minmae - Cold Steel Minders
7. Death Cab for Cutie - Someday You Will Be Loved
8. Mellowmen - Sunshine Shell
9. Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash
10. A-Sides - Through the Ocean

Only one video this week since I’m running out the door to Boston, but it was filmed in Seattle and I like that:

See some of you at WAM!

I’m heading off to Puerto Rico on Monday, then heading to Ann Arbor after that (apparently weather extremes are in the cards for the next week and a half). Anyone have any PR advice? I’ll be staying near San Juan, not at any of the big resorts. I’d love to hear any suggestions.

Now, the FRT:

1. Beck - Hollow Log
2. Common - Come Close to Me
3. Radiohead - Sail to the Moon
4. Capstan Shafts - Elected Head of Her Anarchist Group
5. Guided by Voices - Twilight Campfighter
6. The Clash - Janie Jones
7. The Notwist - Off the Rails
8. Timbaland and Magoo - Up Jumps Da Boogie
9. The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
10. Neko Case - At Last

And Friday videos - one of my favorite love songs ever (aww):

And my favorite I-hate-love song (I like Elvis’s solo version better, but I do have a secret thing for Fiona — and she’s so good at being pissed — so this works too):
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This basically been my life lately.

1. Radiohead - All I Need
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - One Good Son
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue
4. Les Savy Fav - Fading Vibes
5. Yo La Tengo - Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo
6. Tom Waits - Ruby’s Arms [live]
7. Guided by Voices - Motor Away
8. MC Solaar - Solaar Pleure
9. The Pogues - The Sunny Side of the Street
10. Miles Davis - So What

Today I’m on a crazy apartment-cleaning and errand-running spree, and I’m listening to Girl Talk while I do it:

I am still working off my post-Valentine’s Day hangover — that’s what happens when you spend V-day with a friend, TeleMundo (it’s the only channel that was working on my TV last night) and two bottles of red wine. But I am not so out of it that I would forget the FRT (as I apparently did last week). Enjoy:

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Good Good Day
2. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
3. Hi-Tek Feat. Big D and Piakhan - No One Knows Her Name
4. CCS - Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
5. Bright Eyes - When the President Talks to God
6. Kaki King - Can the Gwot Save Us?
7. Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks
8. The Mountain Goats - Jenny
9. Tom Waits - Falling Down
10. Guided by Voices - A Salty Salute

Friday video, stolen from Ann:

Also, Rufus:

OMG TOO CUTE!!!!:

Thanks to Sam for the video.

1. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God’s Hotel
3. Tom Waits - Big Black Mariah
4. Les Savy Fav - Blackouts on Thursday
5. Spoon - I Could Be Underground
6. The Shins - Weird Divide
7. Mogawi - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
8. Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love
9. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love?
10. Portishead - It Could Be Sweet

Friday Videos:
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1. Maxwell - For Lovers Only
2. Jill Scott - Sweet Justice
3. Ray Charles - Night Time (is the right time)
4. John Coltrane - My Little Brown Book
5. The Notwist - This Room
6. Yo La Tengo - Tiny Birds
7. Spoon - Believing is Art
8. Bob Dylan - Temporary Like Achilles
9. Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
10. Tom Waits - Tango Till They’re Sore

And this week, at the request of someone who has possibly the worst taste in music ever, I give you the videos for pop songs that I secretly love but that will make our fearless leader shake her head in disgust.

First, the best of Ms. Mariah:

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Sorry posting has been slow on my end. I got back to New York two days ago, and between seeing temporarily-returned far-flung friends, setting up my new apartment(!), running a million errands, doing my real job and preparing for school on Monday, the blog has taken a back seat.

But I have a ton of great stuff in my email box, including a very important call to action on behalf of Jamie Leigh Jones (the woman raped by KBR employees in Iraq) which will be posted very very soon. Things will pick up over the next few days. If you’re looking for some good reading and you somehow haven’t come across this post by Brownfemipower, you should really head over there. It’s also on my list of “things to link and respond to,” but I’m really sucking at the whole blogging thing right now and it’s so good I don’t want to hold onto it any longer. So go read.

Now, the FRT:

1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - That’s What Jazz Is To Me
2. Ray Lamontagne - Hannah
3. Mogwai - Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
4. The Pogues - The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
5. The Capstan Shafts - The Flowering Universe Confounds
6. Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly
7. Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
8. Guided by Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife
9. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Jelly, Jelly
10. Tom Waits - Gospel Train

Friday videos:

There’s a version that I like better than this one, but I couldn’t find it on Youtube. It’s slower and acoustic, if anyone knows what I’m talking about.

Jenny Lewis, whose hairstylist I bow down to:

and Mark Lanegan: