Random 10 returns with...not really a vengance...maybe a small axe to grind

Just because yesterday was long...today's isn's so much so...

• "Tears of Rage" by The Band - Oustanding, organ-driven track from The Band.  Love Rick Danko's odd, warbling voice through the tune.
• "Tu mira" by Lole Y Manuel - From the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack.  An odd tune, entirely in Spanish. Starts off with a very off-key acapella intro then some strong Spanish guitar.  Meh...probably gonna give it one star and delete it.
• "Seven Curses" by Bob Dylan - Best song of the random ten this week.  Simple, guitar folk from early Dylan.  Haunting tale of a condemned man begging his daughter not to give in to the judge's lecherous offer to pardon her father.  Wonderfully simple tune with beautiful guitar work.
• "Whip-Smart" by Liz Phair - Up beat, school appropriate Liz Phair (the latter is far rarer than the former in her early career).  One of my favorite songs from her.
• "Bustin' Surfboards" by The Tornados -  A bunch of the music on my iTunes is there because I grabbed a genre and filled it in for playing at school  This one's one of those.  Surf from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.  Not something I listen to often, but a nice surf instrumental from one of the best soundtracks.
• "War Hent Kerrigourarch" by Jamie McMeneny's Komog - I've pretty much no clue what language this is in.  Sounds thickly accented English at times, Gaelic at others.  Beautiful tune.  Part of a compilation of my favorite Celtic tunes that I put together a while back.
• "I Fall Down" by U2 - Great, early, live U2 from when the lads were probably twenty and just fresh off the boat to America.  Part of a collection of very complete tracks of U2 that I got from a torrent a while back.
• "Not Alone Anymore" by the Traveling Wilburys - Solid, sing-song Wilbury tune.  Love that first Wilbur album that this was found on.  Really nice to hear the rest of the band deferring to Roy Orbison on this one and Jeff Lynne providing harmony vocals behind the beautiful, high warble.  Nice little love song with a great string progressions at the end of the chorus.
• "Generals & Majors" by XTC - I dig the XTC from this era.  This one's not the best of the lot, but it's still pretty good.  No clue what they're really talking about, but the feeling of the music is a nice, neo-art-pop British thing.
• "History Repeating" by Propellerheads - This one feels like somebody else did the song - or maybe it's been covered a bunch or sampled or something.  No clue who the Propellerheads are or why their full album got into the iTunes, but it's not bad.  Neat, deep, growling lead vocal.

Take a listen...