Weekend Random Ten

You know the rules. Grab your IPod or Zen (poor you) or Zune (if you swing that way) and set it to shuffle. Pick the first 10 music tracks that show, and post them if you've got them.

And no skipping over shitty cover versions of the Smiths, or that ill considered Pat Boone sings metal album purchase. Keep it real.

Al Stewart-Carol
The Romantics-Shake A Tail Feather
The Police-O My God (Live)
Kate Bush-Sunset
The Moody Blues-Question
New Order-Working Overtime
The Yardbirds-I Ain't Got You
Blind Faith-Sleeping in the Ground
Vanessa Carlton-A Thousand Miles
The Police-Next to You (Live)

And finally, one more because all in all this isn't a bad one...

New Order-Regret

Bonus Music Video:
Devo-Freedom of Choice

Lux Interior, 1946-2009

As somebody who came of age in the late 1970's and early 1980's, I am still hugely fond of the music that came out of the era. No, not the atrocity that was disco, or the boring, overproduced shit that was arena rock. I'm talking Rockabilly. Punk. New Wave. New Romantic.

So it was a shock to read that Lux Interior, frontman of the rockabilly/garage punk legends, The Cramps, died after a long bout with heart problems.

Kim Morgan sums it up best in article for the Huffington Post:

3. The Cramps blasted rockabilly out of the tired retro affectations of the perfectly coiffed, Eisenhower youth, rock-and-roll-at-the-hop-hop-hop-hop tedium. They knew Link Wray was a bad-ass. They worshipped crazy man Hasil Adkins. They dug the Sonics, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Ventures and they brought bump and grind to Jimmie Rogers. Fuck Fonzie. Long live Lux.

I couldn't have said any of it better. Forget the heavily overrated Stray Cats. The Cramps made Rockabilly cool again.

FYI. None of these are certain to be safe for work.

The Cramps-Tear It Up (from the movie Urgh! A Music War):


The Cramps-Bikini Girls with Maching Guns:


The Cramps-Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon: