FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Welcome to the first 2008 installment of Blog d’Elisson’s Friday Random Ten, in which I post a list of ten songs spewed out randomly from the little white Choon Box d’Elisson.

I am enjoying the last Friday of vacation before I resume my quotidian labors in the caverns of the Great Corporate Salt Mine. Well, not enjoying, exactly...owing to a physical complaint that reared its ugly head yesterday morning. Look to the lyrics below for a clue!

Now, what’s on the box today? Let’s take a listen:

1. No Sleep Blues - The Incredible String Band
   
   Cracks rack the windows,
   Howls hold the floor;
   Rains rot the rafters,
   And do you just have to snore?
   It’s a most inclement climate,
   For the kidney of the stone,
   Is that mouse playing football, oh
   I thought they didn’t like the ’phone?
   
   CHORUS:
   And the dawn comes sneaking up
   When it thinks I’m not looking;
   I am starting to grieve, man,
   I used to know but now I believe, man.
   They tell me sleep is a gas,
   And if I want to lay down,
   But I’m sorry I woke you,
   I mean I’ve got the no sleep blues.
   
   There’s mayhem in this mansion,
   Since the cows were coming home,
   With delirium no sleepum,
   In a cloud of nylon foam.
   But release scours the outhouse,
   And a hard rain sears the sky,
   But if you let the pigs decide it,
   They will put you in the sty.
   
   CHORUS
   
   I think I’ll get a picture,
   And I think I’ll put it on a nail.
   I think I’ll get another one,
   And put it in a pail.
   But the pail got so rusty
   I called it red, red, red for fun,
   And I laughed like a leaver
   ’Til you ought to seen it run.
   
   CHORUS
   
   The size of the future declared itself no part,
   Aloof like a Sultan in the autumn of your heart,
   But the heart got so hearty,
   That it pulled for the shore,
   And the sailors fired a big salute,
   And it made my ears quite sore.
   
   CHORUS
   
   I mixed stones and water
   Just to see what it would do.
   And the water it got stoney,
   And the stones got watery too.
   So I mixed my feet with water
   Just to see what could be seen,
   And the water it got dirty,
   And the feet they got quite clean.
   
   CHORUS
   
   
2. Evenstar (featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian) - Howard Shore, The Two Towers
   
   
3. Get On Top - Red Hot Chili Peppers
   
   Get on Top
   Get on Top
   
   Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me
   
   Go-rilla cunt-illa
   Sammy D and Salmonella
   Come with me ’cause I’m an ass killer
   You’re ill but I'm iller
   
   I’ll malinger on your block and
   Give the finger to a cop and
   Pick a lock before I knock and
   Set you up to get on top
   
   CHORUS:
   Complications of a mastermind
   Last temptation of my kind
   Extra planetary sign
   When do we align
   All in time
   Right on
   
   Get up come sit up I light but she lit up
   
   Grass Hopper Show Stopper
   The life of a Wife Swapper
   Come with me ’cause I’m a big bopper
   
   You do but I wopper
   
   Exterminate my cause
   You want to draw some straws
   Be the one to see my flaws
   Make me bleed with painted claws
   
   CHORUS
   
   Get on Top
   Get on Top
   
   Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me
   
   Speed Baller Rhodes Scholar
   Kidney Stone And a Bottom Dollar
   Come with me ’cause I’m a Free Faller
   You hoot but I holler
   
   I’ll malinger on your block
   Give the finger to a cop and
   Pick a lock before I knock on
   Set you up to get on top
   
   Get on Top
   
   
4. A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
   
   
5. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number - Steely Dan
   
   We hear you’re leaving, that’s OK
   I thought our little wild time had just begun
   I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run
   But if you have a kidney stone
   
   CHORUS:
   Rikki don’t lose that number
   You don’t wanna call nobody else
   Send it off in a letter to yourself
   Rikki don’t lose that number
   It’s the only one you own
   You might use it if you feel better
   When you get home
   
   I have a friend in town, he’s heard your name
   We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row
   We could stay inside and play games, I don’t know
   And you could have a kidney stone
   
   CHORUS
   
   You tell yourself you’re not my kind
   But you don’t even know your mind
   And you could have a kidney stone
   
   CHORUS
   
   
6. Kids - Bill Hicks
   
   
7. Lakeus - Alamaailman Vasarat
   
   
8. Big Swifty - Frank Zappa
   
   
9. Club Limbo - Squirrel Nut Zippers
   
   
10. Sparkle - Phish
    
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?