Thursday Random Eight (10/09/2008)

The first eight songs of the day after setting the iPod to shuffle play:

Pit Er Pat - Scared Sorry: A drum, bass, and synth exercise in catchy songwriting with a consistent minor key undertone.

Junkie XL - No Remorse: A bouncy release from the early Saturday Teenage Kick, slightly repetitive as it clears the 6:30 mark, but fun nonetheless.

Faust & Dalek - Hungry for Now: Very noisy trip-hop with driving drums and bass lines. Can't go wrong with this track if you are into chaos.

Chainsaw Kittens - Lazy Little Dove: A fairly hard rocking track from the mini-album Angel on the Range, this is Tyson Meade at his noisy best (with a great eerie ending).

Enduser - My Shit Eats Tapes: Somewhere between dub, techno, and rap, this is yet another chaotic offering from the iPod (I guess it is in a mood today).

Terre Thaemlitz - Face: Not one of the more inspired dancish-electro songs, this hums along for about 5 minutes, bringing calm to what has so far been a very hectic random eight.

Twink - Ten Thousand Words in a Cardboard Box: I think all the other songs are going to gang up and beat up this rusty psyche/prog track. Funny how this reminds me of the eventual sound of the Butthole Surfers.

The Boomtown Rats - Joey's on the Street Again: This was one of my favorite bands in high school, and when all the CDs were reissued a few years ago, I was quick to snap up the few that never existed in digital back then. This song, which actually appeared on a few releases, seems to be one of the more well known from the Rats and captures a lot of their different sounds all in one 5 minute umbrella. I'm glad I haven't lost my interest in the Geldof-led troupe over the years.