Thursday Random Eight (07/22/2009)

I know, it's not Thursday...

The Replacements - I.O.U.: The opening track from Pleased to Meet Me, probably the song that will have me playing Replacements music all day after the random eight concludes.

Robyn Hitchcock - Queen Elvis: A bit of an iconic song from Hitchcock, probably the first one that would come to mind if somebody asked me to name a Hitchcock tune.

Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-Moi D'amour: One of a couple Victrola-era remasters on the iPod.

Stereolab - Baby Lulu: An odd little track from Stereolab, starting off slow, getting loungy, then weird, then loungy again, all in a matter of about 5 minutes.

The Books - Vogt Dig for Kloppervok: Weird, another repeat from a prior week. I think Lost and Safe is starting to grow on me more than it has in past hearings.

Rachmaninov - Prelude in B flat major Op 23 no 2: Sometimes I just want to hear a good piano.

Einsturzende Neubauten - Beauty: Quiet, spoken word interlude from the creepy band.

Tom Waits - Heigh Ho: To paraphrase, this is a song about the Seven Dwarfs, but instead of singing a happy "heigh-ho" song that the tale would lead us to believe, they are grumbling after working all day and singing "heigh-ho" as if it were a curse on their long march home. It first appeared on a release by Disney called Stay Awake - Various Intrepretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films which, to bring closure to the Random Eight, also has a fun Replacements version of Cruella De Vil.