This week’s random ten grew to twice it’s normal size before I noticed, because it seems that the music (even the emo stuff) calms the savage baby…Catherine woke us up really early this morning with the screaming, but once I popped the music on and started typing out titles (one handed, because I was holding a baby in the other – hence the ee cummings-ish layout of the list), she calmed right down.

Seems she really likes radiohead. kid’s got interesting taste. Anyway, here’s our list:

1. “cold beer and remote control”- indigo girls
2. “american girl” – tom petty & the heartbreakers
3. “straw hat and dirty old hank (live)” – barenaked ladies
4. “like spinning plates” – radiohead
5. “layla (live)” – phish
6. “snowman (live)” -clarks
7. “outside the wall” – pink floyd
8. “mississippi (live)” – paula cole
9. “no brains” – sum41
10. “friend don’t let friends dial drunk” – plain white ts
11. “so. central rain (i’m sorry)” – rem
12. “flying high again” – ozzy osborne
13. “jet city woman” – queensryche
14. “amie” – pure prairie league
15. “blitzkrieg bop” – ramones
16. “mekong” – the refreshments
17. “like a chain” – joe charles
18. “screaming infidelities” – dashboard confessional
19. “i’m leaving now” – johnny cash
20. “wonka’s welcome song” – danny elfman

other music op/ed – I’ve once again been torturing myself by listening to the local ClearChannel top 40 station in the car this week (I know, this never ends well), and for the record, may I state unequivocally that Jon McLaughlin’s “Beautiful Disaster” is perhaps the the most awful, treacly piece of pop garbage I’ve heard in a long time? It’s just painful; written by committee to appeal to the soccer-mom crowd who feel that Train, Lifehouse, and Daughtry are just too edgy. It’s right up there with “Butterfly frakking Kisses”.

Now, I’ll admit I have some questionable tastes in music coughavrillavignecough, but at least that’s got some, I don’t know…energy and life amidst the vacuousness. The song in question? Nothing of the sort.

Do the people who buy records like that actually like music?