Friday Random Ten: Big Thaw Edition

1. Whip-Smart--Liz Phair, Whip-Smart. Catchy but overlong.
2. Every Word Except Goodbye--Peter Mulvey, The Trouble with Poets.
3. Holiday Schottisch--Will Barrow, Beautiful Dreamer : The Songs Of Stephen Foster. This track is cheery enough to melt ice.
4. Nebraska--Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Live 1975-1985. OK, that's a significant change in tone. Thanks for ruining my day, iTunes.
5. I'm an Old Cowhand--Sonny Rollins, Way Out West. Back on the upbeat side.
6. Dirty Old Town--The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash. This is not one of Shane's more memorable efforts, IMHO.
7. Come on Up to the House--Tom Waits, Mule Variations.
8. Who Am I--Les Misearables, Original Broadway Cast.
9. You Get What You Deserve--Big Star, Radio City.
10. Menina Moca--Stan Getz, Bossa Nova. Ending the day on a note that blends the upbeat and the soft-spoken.

Bonus # 11:

Holland, 1945--Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. A famous blogger recently referred to this as the cheeriest song ever sung about the Holocaust. I'm not sure if that's right, but it's certainly plausible.

And, for a holocaust of a more personal sort, also in a strangely upbeat key--bonus # 12--

Lion's Teeth--The Mountain Goats, The Sunset Tree.