Random 5

I currently have 14005 songs in my itunes folder. I randomly update my ipod every few days....the last 5 songs I've listened to while playing on random:

5. TV on the Radio...Province: This one starts off with some quiet guitar work and the drums out front. Weird vocals come on in..two singers? Pretty weird stuff...I wasn't a big fan of these guys when I bought the cd last summer. I saw the video for "Wolf Like Me" one morning before work. Catchy song. Bought the cd a few months later. Didn't like it. It grows on me more and more everytime I hear a track off of it. I like the sparse instrumentation on this one. Great arrangement. 7/10.

4. A Perfect Circle...Magdalena. The title of this one has me thinking of the old tanned lady with the saggy knockers in There's Something About Mary. Was that the character's name? Anyway. With Maynard singing, this one sounds like a Tool outtake. Tool's a force to be reckoned with. These guys are second rate. Not a bad song but it's a modern rock cliche. 5/10

3. Jimi Hendrix Experience...House Burning Down. Love the guitar solo to open this one up. Most solos come later in the song. Jimi gets right to the heart of things from the get go here. This song is about racial tension in the South. Great drumming by Mitch Mitchell as always. Interesting instrumentation on this one...the song's got several complex sections. A lot of changes all tied together by a repeating motif. 8/10

2. All Fall Down...Wonder. Great band out of Albany NY. Saw these guys a few times back in the day. Good energy live. You get a sense of it on this disc, but the low budget production doesn't quite bring it all the way home. These guys fall somewhere in the realm of melodic hardcore and pop punk. Whiny vocals, distorted guitars, simple drum patterns, and decent songwriting. This is not one of the best tracks off of this disc but typical of their overall sound. Nice guitar solo in this one and nice thrasing drum beat towards the end of the song. I remember seeing these guys once in Hudson, NY around Christmastime in the early 90's and one of their singers/guitarists, Keith, was rolling around on stage on a broken glass ornament on the stage saying, "We're punk rock now." It was pretty funny. 6/10

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers...Love Trilogy. A little reggae beat and riff to start off. The pace picks up slowly as the song progresses and Flea slaps the fuck out of his bass once this fucker picks up. It keeps getting faster and faster...got that Doors' Roadhouse Blues thing going on. Faster...faster....faster...Keidis's vocals are much more tolerable here as he's more punk and shouting and yelling than trying to sing when he can't sing a fucking note (ie...the last 2 or 3 albums). Best line of the song..."My love is my dick in my hand." 8/10