Friday Random Ten: avoiding quiz-writing edition

Lots of goodness here on a day when I’m too busy to post anything else. I think I’ve had all these artists appear before, except for the Meat Purveyors (whom I discovered in the last few weeks) and Al Stewart, whose classic is one of those songs that can take me back to junior high in a heartbeat.

1. “When You Were Mine”, Prince
2. “Tangled Up in Blue”, Bob Dylan
3. “Up Against the Wall”, Be Good Tanyas
4. “Last Waltz”, Meat Purveyors
5. “Bad” (live version), U2
6. “The Battle”, Caitlin Cary and Ryan Adams
7. “Year of the Cat”, Al Stewart
8. “Brothers in Arms”, Dire Straits
9. “Going Through the Motions”, Aimee Mann
10. “Plainest Thing”, Tift Merritt

Bonus Track One: “Dead Flowers”, Rolling Stones
Bonus Track Two: “Londinium”, Catatonia