This Monday, the iPod starts with...

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls. This one sounds a lot like a band from Buffalo from way back in the day, Tugboat Annie.
2. The Libertines - The Boy Looked At Johnny
3. Beastie Boys - Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun. There's no way to listen to this without thinking of SNL's "Lazy Sunday".
4. Portastatic - Silver Screw. This might as well be a Superchunk Song.
5. Colorblind James Experience - In These Days Ahead
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb. Hmm. That seems unnecessary.
7. Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom. I believe that's a fine idea.
8. John Coltrane - While My Lady Sleeps. While my lady sleeps, I play Supreme Commander.
9. Nirvana - Oh Me (live)
10. Colleen - Your Heart is So Loud. Could you turn it down a little?

And we're off...

Hey, who stole all my energy? I can barely get myself motivated enough to put on headphones. Let's see if I can manage to type in the names of the first 10 songs the iPod picks:

1. Helter Skelter - The Beatles
2. 8 Million Stories - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Joni Mitchell - All I Want
4. Polvo - The Curtain Remembers
5. Sonic Youth - Kim's Chords
6. Bob Dylan - Down The Highway
7. Pavement - Unfair (live)
8. Blonde Redhead - Suimasen
9. Tortoise - Tin Cans & Twine
10. Marah - THe Dishwasher's Dream

Success!

What aural horrors await us today...

1. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
2. Derek & The Dominos - Key To The Highway
3. Elliot Smith - Let's Get Lost
4. fiction - Sugar
5. David Bowie - Hang Onto Yourself
6. White Stripes - In The Cold Cold Night
7. The Futureheads - Carnival Kids
8. Pink Floyd - Lucy Leave
9. Elliot Smith - Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?
10. The Cure - Hey You!!

Mm k.

This week's Ordered List of randomly-chosen songs from the iPod is:

1. Cassandra Wilson - Until
2. Jurassic 5 - I Am Somebody
3. Television - Untitled (A Mi Amore)
4. Pink Floyd - Speak To Me / Breathe
5. White Stripes - My Doorbell
6. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
7. Cream - White Room
8. Franz Ferdinand - This Fire. Sickka this song.
9. Calexico - Nom De Plume
10. Hound Dog Taylor - Phillip's Theme

Well, it's a different mix. So that's good.

Après la purge, le iPod starts the week with...

1. Miles Davis - Diane. Yummy.
2. The Pixies - No.13 Baby. Yummy.
3. Sonic Youth - Blink. A Kim song...
4. Flaming Lips - Be My Head. From way back in the olden days, before they discovered shiny electronics.
5. Yo La Tengo - How To Make A Baby Elephant Float. Sadly, after the time when they discovered lounge music.
6. REM - Exhuming McCarthy. Never cared for this one.
7. Robyn Hitchcock - The Cheese Alarm (BBC). Never cared much for this one, either.
8. Leon Redbone - Shine On Harvest Moon
9. Son Volt - Windfall. Nice.
10. Superchunk - Cool. Like this one. "Sometimes I fear I neglect to think".

A pretty typical line-up, I guess.
Coincidentally, I've seen the bottom 8 bands live (though the F'lips, just barely): SY 3 times and Robyn H 4 times. And next month I get to see Robyn with Peter Buck from REM (he's part of Robyn's latest band).

Ho Ho Ho, what will the iPod choose this week?

1. Flaming Lips - One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning. Getting into their lo-fi Pink Floyd vibe.
2. Robyn Hitchcock - Certainly Clickot
3. Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a-Comin' (live). Wow.
4. Blonde Redhead - Kazuality. Ah.... I missed liking Blonde Redhead.
5. Van Halen - Loss Of Control. Eddie's just inhumanly fast all the way through this - even the rhythm parts are unbelievable. The song's not so hot, though.
6. Van Morrison - Glad Things
7. The Cure - Close To Me. The happiest song in the world.
8. Radiohead - The Tourist
9. Joni Mitchell - Just Like This Train. Too 70's.
10. The Beatles - Mr. Moonlight. Too 50's.

Good enough. Onward!
On second thought... I'm getting sick of seeing the same handful of bands every week on these Monday AM lists. Time to thin out some of the overrepresented bands.

Since I was out sick yesterday (and should be today!), the work week starts on Tuesday:

1. Steely Dan - My Old School
2. The Pernice Brothers - Sometimes I Remember. The Curiest guitar solo that Robert Smith never played
3. Cutouts - pink
4. The Cure - Untitled
5. Led Zeppelin - Sick Again
6. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Mary Had a Little Lamb. gack
7. Van Morrison - Come Running
8. Radiohead - Yes I Am
9. Alison Krauss - That Makes One of Us
10. Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

Well that sucked.

From the 6300+ songs it has to choose from, the iPod chooses to start the week with these:

1. Gillian Welch - I'm Not Afraid To Die
2. Doc & Merle Watson - Windy And Warm
3. Adrian Belew - The Rail Song
4. Miles Davis - So What
5. The Modern Jazz Quintet - Delaunay's Dilemma
6. Robyn Hitchcock - I Feel Beautiful
7. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (Unplugged)
8. The Pernice Brothers - Let That Show
9. Lilys - Will My Lord Be Gardening
10. Robert Johnson - When You Got A Good Friend

I am unable to draw any conclusions from that list.

Like, ya-know, welcome to Monday!

1. Lucinda Williams - Reason To Cry
2. Adrian Belew - Quicksand
3. Codeine - D
4. Dave Holland Quintet - Looking Up
5. The Decembrists - Yankee Bayonet
6. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf. How the hell did that get there?
7. Blonde Redhead - Bean. Possibly my favorite B.R. song.
8. Neil Young - When You Dance (live)
9. The Beatles - You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Cream - Badge

Hmm...

Death to Monday.

1. Fiona Apple - Red, Red, Red
2. Nirvana - Come As You Are (live). iPod has really taken a shine to Nirvana's Unplugged, lately.
3. Smaller Animals - Tube Bar.
4. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
5. The Sea and Cake - For Minor Sky
6. The Sea and Cake - Lamont's Lament. Two great S&C's in a row. The iPod's working hard to brighten my mood.
7. Led Zeppelin - Black Mountain Side
8. Unrest - Winona Ryder (XX version)
9. Cowboy Junkies - Good Friday
10. Sonic Youth - Intro (from Bad Moon Rising)

Only one song from this century. Hmm.