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The iPod starts the first full week of Shopping Month with...

  1. Battles - Leyendecker
  2. Neko Case - Lady Pilot
  3. Buddy & Julie Miller - That's Just How She Cries
  4. Andrew Bird - Minor Beatrice
  5. The Police - Deathwish
  6. The Wrens - The House That Guilt Built
  7. Pavement - Father To A Sister Of Thought
  8. Flaming Lips - Bag Full Of Thoughts
  9. Yo La Tengo - One PM Again
  10. Mudhoney - Need

I Survived Black Friday!!! The most important day of the year!!! Gimme a Prize!!!

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A one day work week? It hardly seems worth getting out of bed for...

  1. DJ Krush - Duality
  2. A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions
  3. Wilco - You Are My Face
  4. Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins - I Want To Be Happy
  5. Pavement - Heckler Spray
  6. XTC - Dear God
  7. Black Star - B Boys Will B Boys
  8. The Wrens - Boys, You Won't
  9. Thelonious Monk - Let's Cool One
  10. Billy Holiday - All Of Me

Off I go.

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  1. Pavement - Newark Wilder
  2. Lilys - Socs Hip
  3. Boris - Electric
  4. The Wrens - Boys, You Won't
  5. Adrian Belew - Never Enough
  6. Green Day - Emenius Sleepus
  7. The Futureheads - Robot
  8. The New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You
  9. Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down
  10. Neko Case - A Widow's Toast

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Is it really Monday already?

  1. Green Day - Welcome To Paradise
  2. White Stripes - Little Ghost
  3. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love [skip!]
  4. The Good, The Bad, The Queen - Nature Springs
  5. Polvo - D.D. (S.R.) [a.k.a. Downtown Dedication]
  6. Cowboy Junkies - Darkling Days
  7. Junior Brown - Broke Down South Of Dallas
  8. White Stripes - Instinct Blues
  9. King Crimson - Heartbeat
  10. Hilkka - Multi Meat Eater [what a great name!]

... is it Friday yet?

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Since my work week starts today, the list happens today. And the list is...

  1. Leon Redbone - Polly Wolly Doodle
  2. The Cure - Meat Hook
  3. Hector - Cop Or Junkie
  4. Michelle Shocked - My Little Sister
  5. Adrian Belew - Things You Hit With A Stick
  6. Ali Farka Toure - Dofana
  7. Van Halen - Somebody Get Me a Doctor. I'd settle for a good dentist - one of my teeth decided yesterday to become hyper-sensitive to cold.
  8. Adrian Belew - Asleep
  9. Pavement - In The Mouth A Desert (live)
  10. Mountains - Sewn Too

... off we go.

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Let's get this party starty:

  1. Radiohead - Ripcord
  2. Big Star - 13 (live)
  3. Robyn Hitchcock - I Something You (live)
  4. Beastie Boys - 3 Minute Rule
  5. Polvo - Action Vs. Vibe
  6. Stereolab - Olv 26
  7. Robyn Hitchcock - Demons & Fiends
  8. Smashing Pumpkins - La Dolly Vita
  9. Beatles - Birthday
  10. Alison Krauss - It Don't Matter Now

Can I get a 'hell yeah'?

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The iPod starts this, the week of my birth, thusly:

  1. Sea And Cake - Sending
  2. Velvet Underground - Waiting For My Man
  3. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Wham
  4. REM - We Walk
  5. Reverend Horton Heat - Bad Reputation
  6. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
  7. The Sword - Iron Swan
  8. Cassandra Wilson - I Want To Be Loved
  9. Eagles Of Death Metal - Shasta Beast
  10. No Knife - Minus One

A bunch of first-timers. That's a good sign.

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Come on aboard, I promise you it won't hurt the horse.

  1. REM - Bandwagon
  2. Chris Bell - Make A Scene
  3. The Doors - Soul Kitchen
  4. Pink Floyd - Pow R Toc H. I've recently become very fond of the Barrett-era Floyd.
  5. Rogue Wave - Every Moment. Yum.
  6. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds.
  7. Rolling Stones - Respectable
  8. Blonde Redhead - Speed X Distance = Time
  9. Brak - Brak On Coffee
  10. REM - Talk About The Passion

This is some parade, yessireeBob.

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Embarrass me, iPod!

  1. Elmore James - 12 Year Old Boy
  2. Belly - Dusted
  3. Iron & Wine - Free Until They Cut Me Down
  4. Minor Threat - Straight Edge
  5. Beatles - Glass Onion
  6. The Flaming Lips - On My Pregnant Head
  7. Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
  8. Radiohead - The National Anthem (live)
  9. Radiohead - Street Spirit
  10. Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians - Riboflavin-flavored, Non-carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood

Interesting set of song titles.

That last one is from a bunch of Halloween songs I downloaded from somewhere a couple of years ago, and listened to once. I've deleted them, more than once, but they keep coming back, like zombies.

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This week's Mega-Rock random party record is:

Side One:

  1. The Shins - Red Rabbits
  2. Buddy & Julie Miller - The River's Gonna Run
  3. Hilkka - Eatme .Koc
  4. Radiohead - Lucky
  5. Neil Young - Down By The River (live, Massey Hall)

Side Two:

  1. White Rabbits - Navy Wives
  2. The Smiths - Miserable Lie (Peel Sessions)
  3. Blues Breakers - It Ain't Right
  4. Smaller Animals - School
  5. Leon Redbone - Shine On Harvest Moon

Order your copy, now!