Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Moon Sammy - Soul Coughing
2. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Jason Mraz
3. I Want to Be Ready - Ben Harper
4. Vengababes from Outer Space - Vengaboys
5. Those Sweet Words - Norah Jones
6. It's a War in There - Dar Williams
7. It Must Be Love - Madness
8. Johannesburg - The Housemartins
9. Genius - Kings of Leon
10. The Garden of Zephirus - Dead Can Dance

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Indian War Whoop - John Hartford
2. Young Pilgrims - The Shins
3. U Got the Look - Prince
4. Femme Fatale - R.E.M.
5. Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
6. Everyday Sunshine - Fishbone
7. Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
8. Time After Time - Chet Baker
9. Kinder Words - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
10. Angels Heap - The Finn Brothers

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Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says the "surge" in U.S. troops has achieved success, particularly against Al-Qaida-in-Iraq insurgents in Anbar province west of Baghdad.

Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Legal Matter - Richard Thompson
2. Come Back to Camden - Morrissey
3. Tiny Tears - Tindersticks
4. The Captain - Kasey Chambers
5. Isn't It a Pity - Dead or Alive
6. Backwards Guitar - Catherine Wheel
7. Green Sheik of Araby - Greens Keepers
8. In the Morning - Norah Jones
9. One Love/People Get Ready - Bob Marley & the Wailers
10. I Will Dare - The Replacements

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Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Just a Cool Cat, et al., here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Lullaby/Weren't We Wild - The Judybats
2. Paradise (Wherever You Are) - The Finn Brothers
3. Young Americans - David Bowie
4. Black Shuck - The Darkness
5. Madness - Madness
6. Bosnia - The Cranberries
7. Miss Williams' Guitar - The Jayhawks
8. Gordon's Gardenparty - The Cardigans
9. Freeway - Gerry Mulligan Quartet
10. Cantara - Dead Can Dance

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Have a happy 4th of July!

John Doe and His Rockin' Band - "Fourth of July"
Dante's, Portland, OR - June 15, 2007