FRIDAY RANDOM TEN - 5769 CLOSEOUT EDITION

Not only is it Friday today, it’s the last Friday of the Jewish year 5769. This year, as the sun sets, the odometer clicks over to 5770... and we prepare to beseech the Big Guy to write us into the Book of Life so that we may be warm and vertical when it’s time to greet 5771.

But let’s put all them Weighty Philosophical Matters aside for now while we see what my Little White Choon-Box has spewed forth this week, the better to entertain us while we prepare for this evening’s feast.

What’s the playlist today? Checkum:

1. Nubian Sundance - Weather Report
   
   
2. Hilted - Max Tundra
   
   
3. J’ai Deux Amours - Madeleine Peyroux
   
   
4. Mr. Farmer - The Seeds
   
   
5. Big Eyed Beans from Venus - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
   
   Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.
   And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why...
   Big Eyed Beans from Venus!
   Oh my, oh my.
   
   Boys and girls,
   Earth people around the circle,
   Mixtures of man alive.
   Big Eyed Beans from Venus,
   Don’t let anything get in between us.
   
   Beam in on me baby,
   And we’ll beam together
   I know we always been together,
   But there’s more.
   
   Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note,
   And let it float.
   
   Men, let your wallets flop out,
   And women, open your purses,
   Cause a man or a woman without a Big Eyed Bean from Venus
   Is suffering with the worstest of curses
   Yeah, you’re suffering with the worstest of curses.
   
   Put ’em out in the sun, and when the night come
   You don’t have to go out and get ’em
   They’ll glow with you
   They’ll go with you
   They’ll show with you
   Ain’t no losers
   ’Cause they’re on the right track
   ’Cause they’re on the right track
   You can be on the right track, woman,
   Of course, of course
   
   Ain’t no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol
   
   Check these out, Big Eyed Beans from Venus
   Oh, let a few out, let ’em pass in between us
   
   Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.
   And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why...
   
   Don’t let anything get in between us!
   Big Eyed Beans from Venus
   Big Eyed Beans from Venus.
   
   
6. Baby Got Back - Richard Cheese
   
   
7. Poème Électronique - Edgard Varèse
   
   
8. Cabasa - Max Tundra
   
   
9. Got My Own Thing Now - Squirrel Nut Zippers
   
   
10. Baby You’re A Rich Man - The Beatles
    
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?