Category Archives: Start Your iPods

Start Your iPods

Mine by the right of the white election!
Mine by the royal seal!
Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot conceal!

Mine, here in vision and in veto!
Mine, by the grave’s repeal
Titled, confirmed,—delirious charter!
iPod, ten songs reveal!

  1. Blind Blake - Diddie Wah Diddie
  2. Marah - My Heart Is The Bums On The Street
  3. Doc Watson - Sittin Here Pickin The Blues
  4. No Knife - Academy Flight Song
  5. Matt Pond PA - Brooklyn Stars
  6. Fleetwood Mac - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
  7. Can - Animal Waves
  8. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing. (IMO, the best recording of an electric guitar ever made.)
  9. The Walkmen - If Only It Were True
  10. Television - Venus

Right!

Start Your iPods

December? Already?

  1. Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
  2. Bill Evans - Who Can I Turn To?
  3. Beastie Boys - What Comes Around
  4. Hinkley - Estate Sale
  5. Rogue Wave - Falcon Settles Me
  6. Norman Blake - Macon Rag
  7. Pretenders - Lovers Of Today
  8. Cowboy Junkies - Walking After Midnight
  9. CSN - Wooden Ships
  10. Beck - Readymade

Remember when a year took, like, forever ?

Start Your iPods

My earbuds are alive with the sound of music...

  1. Wilco - My Darling
  2. Michelle Shocked - My Little Sister
  3. Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
  4. U2 - MLK
  5. Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six - There, There, There
  6. Lilys - Generator
  7. Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
  8. Pavement - No Life Signed her
  9. Madeleine Peyroux - The Summer Wind
  10. John Pizzarelli - Don't Be That Way

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo!

Start Your iPods

Citizens of the world, Rock!

  1. Bill Evans - When I Fall In Love
  2. Lilys - Cambridge California
  3. The Byrds - The Bells Of Rhymney
  4. Sea And Cake - Interiors (Broadcast Remix)
  5. AC/DC - Problem Child
  6. The Breeders - Glorious
  7. Cat Stevens - The Wind
  8. Sea And Cake - Earth Star
  9. Cassandra Wilson - Black Crow
  10. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night

Do it!

Start Your iPods

iPod, rock!

  1. The Soft Boys - I Love Lucy
  2. Spoon - Chips And Dip
  3. Led Zeppelin - Candy Store Rock
  4. Bob Dylan - Meet Me In The Morning
  5. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
  6. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (skip!)
  7. Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way
  8. The Flaming Lips - When You're Twenty-Two
  9. The Cure - Grinding Halt
  10. A Tribe Called Quest - The Business

Was there rocking? Yeah, maybe a little.

Start Your iPods

Daylight Savings Time is absurd.

  1. Bears - Never Have To Guess
  2. Boris - I Just Abandoned My-Self
  3. Beck - Lazy Flies
  4. John Prine - Quiet Man
  5. Blind Blake - Sweet Jivin Mama
  6. The Byrds - It Won't Be Long
  7. Tift Merritt - Neighborhood
  8. Elliott Smith - Whatever (folk song in C)
  9. Elliott Smith - Color Bars
  10. Yo La Tengo - Some Kinda Fatigue

Start Your iPods

Now's the time. The time is now. Shuffle!

  1. Elmore James -Talk To Me Baby
  2. Bob Mould - It's Too Late
  3. Gene Ammons - Exactly Like You
  4. Pretenders - Lovers Of Today
  5. Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon
  6. Andrew Bird - Don't Be Scared
  7. U2 - New Year's Day (live)
  8. The Sadies - Why Be So Curious (Part 3)
  9. NOD - Kings Of Lattice
  10. The Replacements - Unsatisfied

NOD remains the strangest band I've ever heard - like a cross between the Velvet Underground and Daniel Johnston.

Start Your iPods

Back on the chain gang...

  1. Beck - Lord Only Knows
  2. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
  3. Nick Drake - Time Of No Reply
  4. Pretenders - Lovers Of Today
  5. Ralph Stanley - O Death
  6. Colorblind James Experience - Call Me Sometime
  7. Tortoise - Glass Museum
  8. Viva Voce - Best Thing Ever (Maybe Not)
  9. Blonde Redhead - Jewel
  10. Rolling Stones - Lady Jane

Glorious.

You?