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10-Track Mind: Nifty 50.
Every week, we have a staffer, freelancer or friend/enemy/frienemy of The Clog put their iTunes or iPod on shuffle and tell us about the first 10 songs that come up. The only rules: No skipping, no cheating and you don’t need to be all music critic-y about it. (If you’d like to submit a 10-Track Mind of your own, contact Drew Lazor at drew.lazor[at]citypaper[dot]net.) This week, Clog editor Drew Lazor I will be handling the milestone 50th edition of 10-Track Mind. Here's to 50 more.
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1. Mike Doughty – "Nectarine (Part One)" (Golden Delicious)
The dude from Soul Coughing. This particular track is really catchy and a little bluesy but features a little too much twee onomatopoeia for my tastes. One time Mike Doughty made out with a female friend of mine, if I remember correctly. Or was it Evan Dando? Wait, that was me in a dream I had. I've always liked Doughty's voice. For some reason, the first thing I think of when hearing it is the bizarre Soul Coughing song "The Bug," which appeared on the Batman and Robin soundtrack.
2. Saves the Day – "Sell My Old Clothes, I'm Off to Heaven" (Another Year on the Streets)
This is bringing back terrifying memories. Junior and senior year of high school (and partially into my freshman year of college), I fancied myself kinda emo and tried to look the part — the glasses, the corny studded belt, the skinnyskinny jeans, being an insufferable bitch, etc. It took me awhile to realize that I was too fat to pull off the look successfully. It took me even longer to realize that most of the bands I listened to sucked/sounded the same. I still dig STD a bit, though. I remember a few friends of mine and I took to singing Chris Conley's noxiously self-absorbed lyrics with Fs in front of all the words based on the part of this song where he goes "... if we only FFFFFLet it!" So it would be like "Maybe just a minute" = "Flayflee flust a flinuteeeeee." I'm really, really digging myself a hole here.
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3. Taj Mahal – "Popular" (Welcome to the City of Realadelphia)
Look everyone, rap! I'm cool again! This off a dope Philly mixtape cohosted by Benja Styles and DJ Drama aka Barack O'Drama. Taj is a local MC with a cocky, grinning flow. I honestly haven't heard too much of him beyond this track, which samples the song "Popular" from the original Broadway cast recording of Wicked. Ballsy or ill-advised? Your call. Best rhyme: "I'm your top friend/ like MySpace/ MySpace got your girl at my place." E-game, motherfuckers. Appropriately enough, I found this awesome picture of Taj on his MySpace.