Friday Random 10: The new horizons edition

You know the drill - turn it on & randomize:

1. "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding (Very Best of)
2. "Light as the Breeze" Billy Joel (Tower of Song)
3. "Go Amanda" Steve Earle (Jerusalem)
4. "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing" The Magnetic Fields (69 Love Songs)
5. "Evenflow" Pearl Jam (Alameida's Random Mix*)
6. "I Was a Playboy" Joe Henry (Trampoline)
7. "Vigilante Man" Bruce Springsteen (Folkways: A Vision Shared)
8. "The L&N Don't Run Here Anymore" June Carter Cash (Press On)
9. "Sing Me Back Home" The Flying Burrito Brothers (Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels)
10. "The Miller and the Lass" Eliza Carthy (Red/Rice disc 2)

*"Alameida's Random Mix" is a disc I got from the mysterious Alameida of Unfogged who sent it out as a kind of pledge premium for Gary Farber's recent fund drive (over at Amygdala). The CD has an amazingly diverse mixture of stuff on it -- mostly stuff I've never even heard, such as that Pearl Jam song that popped up, and also some of what I guess they call hip-hop or rap that I really kind of like. And some kind of hilariously groovy power pop by a band called Free Design. And the White Stripes doing a fair amount of justice to Bob Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee." The only three songs on the whole mix that I'd ever even heard were "Carmelita" by Warren Zevon and "Suitcase" by Badfinger and Bob Marley's "High Tide & Low Tide."

It's mind-expanding, getting a mix CD like that from someone I don't even know. I fancy myself pretty well-informed and eclectic, musically, but there are whole genres about which I know nothing at all (like hip-hop or whatever it is). Sorta makes me feel like that old June Carter (or Minnie Pearl?) joke: "I like both kinds of music -- country and western!" It's always good to make room for something new on the iPod, even if I have to take something else off.

So feel free to leave your random list (or some mind-expanding recommendations) in the comments or on your own blog.