Render unto Cleek that which rocks!

1. Robyn Hitchcock - City Of Women
2. Cat Power - Shaking Paper
3. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
4. Spoon - The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
5. Spoon - The Guest List / The Execution
6. Andrew Bird - Nuthindaun Waltz
7. Son Volt - Picking Up The Signal
8. Primus - Jerry Was a Racecar Driver
9. Pixes - I Bleed
10. Bill Frisell - Misterioso

Close enough.

Welcome to a brand new President's Day holiday edition of Start Your iPods!

This time out, we're using the full iTunes library, so expect some surprises!

1. Battles - Leyendecker
2. Beck - Go It Alone
3. Blind Boy Fuller - Big Leg Woman
4. King Crimson - Starless
5. Miles Davis - All Of You
6. Hector - Last Night
7. Seaweed - Foggy Eyes
8. Da Vinci's Notebook - Call Me
9. The Marshall Tucker Band - I Should Have Never Started Lovin' You
10. Gin Blossoms - Mrs. Rita

Yes indeed! The least-favored have a strong morning! The Marshall Tucker Band? I didn't know they were even in iTunes! Suhprize!

Monday always comes too soon.

1. Wilco - Impossible Germany
2. Juice Fucking Newton - Angel Of The Fucking Morning. ??? I have no idea where that came from.
3. Fiona Apple - Love Ridden
4. Robyn Hitchcock - Birds In Perspex
5. Nick Drake - Harvest Breed
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Brenda's Iron Sledge
7. Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle (skip!)
8. Pinback - Bouquet
9. Miles Davis - Bye Bye Blackbird
10. Hinkley - Hanging Tree

Again with the Robyn... sigh.

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled...

1. The Rapture - Open Up Your Heart
2. The Sea And Cake - Sending
3. Radiohead - Blow Out
4. Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation
5. Robyn Hitchcock - The Yip! Song
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Mr. Deadly
7. Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift
8. John Pizzarelli - Lullaby
9. Robyn Hitchcock - Antwoman
10. Pinback - Torch

Well... Robyn sure had a good showing. Might be time to readjust his contribution to the iPod.

From the full library, iTunes renders unto Caesar:

1. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - Wishing For Contentment
2. Big Black - Things To Do Today
3. Sea And Cake - The Biz
4. Pretenders - I Go To Sleep
5. REM - Radio Free Europe
6. Nine Inch Nails - Suck (live)
7. Soundtrack Of Our Lives - In Someone Else's Mind
8. Shins - Sleeping Lessons
9. Cat Power - Salty Dog
10. Portishead - Mourning Air

iPod, iPod, on the desk
Pick ten songs you like the best:

1. The Furtureheads - Danger of the Water
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
3. Pavement - Spit On A Stranger
4. Rogue Wave - Manna (demo)
5. The Beatles - Birthday
6. Elmore James - She's Got To Go
7. Hinkley - Ballerina
8. Bowie - Suffragette City
9. Tugboat Annie - Circus
10. Sea And Cake - The World Is Against Me

Delicious choices.

and what does your iPod say, today?

Ho, ho, ho. Merry New Year's Eve!

1. Iron And Wine & Calexico - 16, Maybe Less
2. Adrian Belew - Elephants
3. The New Pornographers - Broken Breads
4. Andrew Bird - Simple X
5. John Pizzarelli - I'll Never Be The Same
6. Sebadoh - It's So Hard To Fall In Love
7. Grateful Dead - Ripple
8. Oxford Collapse - Proofreading
9. Buena Vista Social Club - Candela
10. Grateful Dead - Truckin

Bye bye, 2007.

On this, the first official day of vacation, iTunes leaves in my manger:

1. Pixies - Dancing The Manta Ray
2. Adrian Belew - Matchless Man
3. Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By
4. Interpol - Evil
5. Radiohead - The Tourist
6. Cowboy Junkies - Black-Eyed Man
7. The Shins - Girl Inform Me
8. Big Black - Ready Men
9. The Breeders - When I Was a Painter
10. Neil Young - Piece of Crap

Myrrh!

And the winning numbers for this week's Random Ten are:

1. Primus - American Life
2. U2 - Exit
3. Radiohead - Airbag
4. Yo La Tengo - Decora
5. John Coltrane - Locomotion
6. The Cure - The Final Sound
7. Swirlies - Didn't Understand
8. Talking Heads - I'm Not In Love
9. Eric Clapton - Eric After Hours Blues
10. The Jesus Lizard - South Mouth

Congratulations to all you lucky winners!

Kicking off December...

1. Junior Brown - Doin What Comes Easy To A Fool
2. The Feelies - The High Road
3. The New Pornographers - The Spirit Of Giving
4. Eels - Beautiful Freak
5. Miles Davis - On Green Dolphin Street
6. Cowboy Junkies -If You Gotta Go, Go Now
7. XTC - Senses Working Overtime
8. Cassandra Wilson - Go To Mexico
9. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
10. White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is

... with a bunch of new faces.