Thursday Random Eight (09/10/2009)

Replacements - Bastards of Young: One of the band's signature songs, and just another in a long line of great tracks from the best band ever.

Squarepusher - Gong Acid: An Eastern-sounding random drumming track by a generally experimental band.

Tom Waits - God's Away on Business: Great goofy track from the Blood Money release.

Stan Richardson - Sanya: Three Valleys: One of many 15+ minute collections of ambient recordings, packaged as meditation songs, good for slowing the pace of things a bit.

Thuja - Untitled Track 6: From The Deer Lay Down Their Bones, another ambient recording, but a little less on the slowing the pace of things and more on creating an eerie sound scape.

Electric Masada - Tekufah: With a mighty bang, the twenty-some minutes of ambient droning is replaced by nearly twenty minutes of random, crazy playing with manic drums, broad guitars, and that piercing thing trumpet players do when they think they are being arty.

Neil Young - Organ Solo: The Dead Man soundtrack makes another appearance.

Death Cab for Cutie - The Employment Pages: And we quietly end the random eight.