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!!!

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?

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.

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'?

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.

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.

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.

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!