May 12th, 2012 at 12:03PM

Music diary: Friday

Spent most of the day on the road or in wedding dress stores reading Murakami’s 1Q84.

(Key: S = Spotify, Y = YouTube)

Christgau’s Odds and Ends 010 (S)
Whitesnake: “Still of the Night”, “Here I Go Again” (Y)
A friend Facebooked the former, and you can’t listen to Whitesnake without playing the latter.
Tracey Thorn: Love and Its Opposite (2010, S, 1st play)
It shouldn’t have taken a Christgau one-liner to finally get me to listen to this, but now that it has, I’ll play it again soon.
At Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant: Some presumably Ethiopian drone, soon switched off, leaving the next table’s Vivaldi baby monitor as our soundtrack.
Car/in-store radio rankings (probably inconsistent with earlier rankings):
  1. Sinead O’Connor: “Nothing Compares 2U”
  2. Daft Punk: “One More Time”
  3. Blondie: “Heart of Glass”
  4. Justin Bieber: “Boyfriend”
  5. Gotye/Kimbra: “Somebody That I Used to Know” (three times)
  6. Natasha Bedingfield: “Unwritten”
  7. Flo Rida/Etta James: “Good Feeling”
  8. Seal: “Kiss from a Rose”
  9. Ciara: “Goodies”
  10. Madonna: “Don’t Tell Me”
  11. Nicki Minaj: “Starships”
  12. Taylor Swift: “Mine”
  13. Etta James without Flo Rida: Some mix of “Good Feeling”
  14. Maroon 5: “This Love”
  15. Ace of Base: “The Sign”
  16. B.o.B./Hayley Williams: “Airplanes”
  17. Flo Rida/Sia: “Wild Ones”
  18. Ellie Goulding: “Lights”
  19. The Killers:” Somebody Told Me”
  20. Peter Frampton: “Baby I Love Your Way”
  21. Mariah Carey: “Always Be My Baby”
  22. Shania Twain: “You’re Still the One”
  23. One Dimension: “Apologize”
  24. U2: “With or Without You”
  25. Katy Perry: “Last Friday Night”
  26. Taio Cruz: “Dynamite”
  27. Fun: “We Are Young” (twice)
  28. KT Tunstall: “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree”
  29. Adele: “Rumour Has It”
  30. Wiz Khalifa: “Work Hard Play Hard”
  31. Sugarland: “Run”
  32. Coldplay: “Paradise”
  33. Selena Gomez: “Love You Like a Love Song”
  34. Katy Perry: “I Kissed a Girl”
  35. Maroon 5: “Payphone” (twice)
  36. Guetta/Nicki: “Turn Me On”
  37. David Cook: “The Time of Our Life”
  38. Calvin Harris: “Feel So Good”
  39. The Script: “Nothing”
  40. John Mayer: “Shadow Days”
  41. Usher: “Scream”
  42. Christina Perri: “Jar of Hearts”
  43. J. Lo/Pitbull: “Dance Again”
  44. Adam Lambert: “Never Close Our Eyes”
  45. Mike Posner: “Cooler Than Me”
  46. That “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” song that isn’t the Frankie Valli one
  47. Calvin Harris/Ne-Yo: “Let’s Go”
  48. A Muzak version of “Somethin’ Stupid”
  49. Birdy: “Skinny Love”
Accompanying the staff performance at Texas Roadhouse: Rednex: “Cotton Eye Joe”: Because nothing says Texas more than Scandanavian techno pop.
Department of somebody is watching PBS as I walk past: The Who! Tom Jones?
Netflixed Iron Man 2: RIP DJ AM.
Lee Ranaldo: Between the Time and Tides (2012, S, 2nd play)
LEE RANALDO PLEASE BREAK UP

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