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.

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.

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!

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.