Random 10 for October 28, 2008

1. New Young Pony Club, “Ice Cream.” Once you get over the initial embarrassment, New Young Pony Club plays like the happy counter-argument to Ladytron.

2. Bauhaus, “Endless Summer of the Damned.”

3. The Shaky Hands, “Why and How Come?”

4. Lindsey Buckingham, “Love Runs Deeper.” 

5. Kings of Leon, “Sex On Fire.” Our semi-Oklahomans seem to have found the perfect middle ground between their raw, Strokes-at-Muscle-Shoals sound and the expansive arena bluster of their last disc. Bravo, then.

6. Brazilian Girls, “Never Met a German.”

7. Ween, “Mister Won’t You Please Help My Pony?”

8. Supergrass, “Whisky and Green Tea.”

9. Electric Six, “Gay Bar.”

10. Boomtown Rats, “Mary of the 4th Form.” To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “So you want to be my messianic world hunger eradicator…”