Thursday Random Eight (9/25/2008)

The first eight songs of the morning after setting the iPod to shuffle play.

Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom: Fitting as I have been on a Skinny Puppy kick lately. Too Dark Park preceded Last Rights and The Process which were the two darkest industrial sounding releases which is probably my favorite sound from the band, with TDP teetering on the edge of that diversion.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah: Hey, the first repeated song on the Random Thursday.

Mogwai - Punk Rock / Puff Daddy / Antichrist: The mellow closing to my favorite Mogwai release.

Dalek - Vague Collection: With Dalek being an apparent favorite on the random playlist, this track is an ambient-turn-noisy affair.

Deerhoof - Gore in Crown: Fewer fans exist of the early Deerhoof which was mostly noisy and disjointed. Bad might be a better term to use, but I tend to like noisy and disjointed, so I'm not complaining. This is a poor live recording off The Man, The King, The Girl which does make one wonder what they were thinking at the time, but it was a precursor to better days.

Meshuggah - Disenchantment: That wakes me up. Good ol' loud drums, mean guitar, and screaming like a bear music.

Stewart Copeland - Coco: From The Rhythmatist, influenced from African music, instruments, and rhythms, this is the album Paul Simon's Graceland could have been if Graceland wasn't poppy and awful. This is a hard to find disc (or probably easy download, I suspect), but is well worth the effort to find.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs: The title track from the album that started my nearly two-decade old fascination of his music.