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Start Your iPods

Given the option of playing anything, the iPod starts the week with:

  1. Talking Heads - Warning Sign (live)
  2. Battles - Bad Trails
  3. Jimi Hendrix - I Don't Live Today
  4. Dinosaur Jr. - Puke & Cry
  5. The Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone. Van Halen's version kills this.
  6. Tortoise - Night Air
  7. The Cure - Fascination Street
  8. Belly - Stay
  9. Robyn Hitchcock - Butterfly
  10. Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes a Blonde. Love this one.

Fair to middling.

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Off we go...

  1. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
  2. Neil Young - Tell Me Why
  3. Fleetwood Mac - I Know I'm Not Wrong
  4. Steve Miller Band - You Send Me
  5. The Anomoanon - Asleep Many Years In The Wood
  6. The Beatles - Helter Skelter
  7. Fleetwood Mac - Watch Out. From when they were an electric blues band.
  8. Flaming Lips - Kim's Watermelon Gun. Maybe my favorite F'Lips song.
  9. Portastatic - Creeping Around
  10. Fugazi - Burning

Classic Rock day on the iPod, I guess.

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Hooray. Hooray. The middle of May. My iPod's Shuffle gives us today:

  1. Miles Davis - All Blues.
  2. The Cure - Another Journey By Train
  3. Spoon - Something to Look Forward To
  4. REM - Fall On Me
  5. Bob Marley - Jamming
  6. Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon
  7. Earlimart - First Instant Last Report
  8. Robyn Hitchcock - Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door
  9. Pavement - Fame Throwa (live)
  10. Colorblind James Experience - I Could Be Your Guide

Acceptable!

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Shuffle gives me:

  1. Elliot Smith - Independence Day
  2. Grateful Dead - Big Boss Man
  3. Bloc Party - Price of Gasoline
  4. Radiohead - There There
  5. Buddy & Julie Miller - You Make My Heart Beat Fast
  6. Calexico - Not Even Stevie Nicks...
  7. Son Volt - Carry You Down
  8. Big Star - Daisy Glaze
  9. Death Cab For Cutie - 405
  10. Flaming Lips - Guy Who Got A Headache and Accidentally Saves The World

Very nice, except that Dead song. I don't like that song.

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  1. Iron And Wine - Free Until They Cut Me Down
  2. Postal Service - Such Great Heights
  3. The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection
  4. The Strokes - Is This It
  5. Wilco - We're Just Friends
  6. Rogue Wave - Salesman At The Day Of The Parade
  7. Miles Davis - It's Only A Paper Moon
  8. The Libertines - Boys In The Band
  9. Yo La Tengo - What Comes Next
  10. Unrest - Bonus Track (the first few bars of Styx's Come Sail Away)

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Oh my aching soul, what will the iPod inflict upon you today?

  1. Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All
  2. Van Halen - You Really Got Me
  3. Blonde Redhead - Astro Boy
  4. Hinkley - Casino. Great song.
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel - Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone
  6. The Doors - The Crystal Ship
  7. Superchunk - 30 Xtra
  8. Sonic Youth - The Empty Page
  9. Dino Jr. - I Live For That Look
  10. Crawlspace - Leavin' Home

Too energetic for a Monday AM. This would be better on a Friday afternoon.

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This week's Ordered List of random iPod selections is...

  1. Beastie Boys - B-Boys Making With The Freak Freak. Mmmm. Mashed potatoes!
  2. Libertines - Time for Heroes
  3. White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
  4. Elmore James - Talk To Me Baby
  5. Flaming Lips - Waitin' For A Superman
  6. Adrian Belew - Three Of a Perfect Pair (live, acoustic)
  7. Spoon - The Guest List/The Execution
  8. Pavement - Soul Food
  9. Tanya Donnely - Outside
  10. Scud Mountain Boys - Grudge ****

...better than average.

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Monday already?

  1. Modest Mouse - So Much Beauty It Can Make You Cry
  2. Apples In Stereo - Pre-Crimson
  3. Iron And Wine - Sunset Soon Forgotten
  4. Stereolab - Double Rocker
  5. Interpol - Obstacle 1
  6. Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez
  7. Beck - Cellphone's Dead
  8. Smaller Animals - Blondes
  9. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night (live)
  10. Apollo Sunshine - God

70% from this decade. Unusual.

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And this week...

  1. Buddy Guy - I Smell A Rat
  2. Chris Bell - Though I Know She Lies
  3. The Kinks - It's Too Late
  4. Doc Watson - I'm a Stranger Here (2 week till Merlefest!)
  5. Son Volt - Driving The View
  6. Van Halen - Eruption. (faster, Eddie! faster!)
  7. Fiona Apple - Oh Sailor
  8. Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues
  9. White Stripes - Death Letter
  10. The Cure - In Between Days

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What embarassments await, this week ?

  1. The Beatles - Run For Your Life
  2. Pinback - Scent
  3. Rolling Stones - Turd On The Run
  4. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me (live). Heh. Wow.
  5. Robyn Hitchcock - Demons & Fiends
  6. Doc Watson - My Rough And Rowdy Ways
  7. Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Till Dawn
  8. The Pretenders - Kid
  9. Pavement - We Dance
  10. DJ Krush - Final Home

Meh.