This head-coldy Monday AM starts with a sniffle and...

1. Beastie Boys - 5 Piece Chicken Dinner. Not really a song.
2. Miles Davis - The Theme (take 2). Only a part of a song.
3. Howlin Wolf - Red Rooster (false start). The first few bars of a song, then Clapton argues with Howlin Wolf.
4. Idyll Swords - Morning in miniature. A short instrumental.
5. John Pizzarelli - Lullaby.
6. Unrest - Isabel. (f.f.r.r. version)
7. Big Star - Holocaust. "You're a wasted face / You're a sad-eyed lie / You're a holocaust". Yay.
8. The Beatles - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby. Finally something to brighten the mood.
9. Belly - Stay
10. Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto

Odd mix, as usual.

1. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
2. Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
3. Smaller Animals - Upside Down
4. The Pixes - Caribou
5. The Wreckers - Lay Me Down
6. The Decembrists - The Soldiering Life
7. Radiohead - Street Spirit
8. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Blue Trail Of Sorrow
9. The White Stripes - You're Pretty Good Looking
10. Califone - Lion & Bee

oh, i dunno... meh.

What will the iPod start with, this Monday morning ?

1. Flaming Lips - Michael, Time to Get Up. a 30-second guitar freak out
2. Bob Dylan - Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance. from back when Bob was a folky.
3. Buena Vista Social Club - Orgullecida. Si!
4. Joel Paskett - Unconditional Love
5. Hilkka - "."
6. Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine. L.Z. phones it in.
7. Come - Car. I. Don't. Have. The. Patience. For. This. Shit.
8. Calexico - Nom De Plume. A song in French from a band that usallly splits its time between English and Spanish.
9. King Crimson - Matte Kudasai (alternate version). Differences seem to be only in Belew's guitar noodlings.
10. Arctic Monkeys - Mardi Bum

A diverse mix.

What delights does this Monday morning bring ?

1. Spoon - Talk A Walk
2. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Bright Sunny South
3. Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins - Friday The 13th
4. Cat Power - Speak To Me
5. The Cure - 17 Seconds
6. Yes - And You And I
7. The Futureheads - Meantime
8. Son Volt - Creosote
9. A Tribe Called Quest - The Business
10. The Anomoanon - Asleep Many Years In The Wood

A pungent mix...

iTunes speaks:

1. Calexico - Smash
2. Sonic Youth - Beauty Lies In The Eye
3. U2 - Like a Song
4. The Kinks - Did You See His Name?
5. Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble
6. Smaller Animals - Ditty
7. Moby Grape - Omaha
8. Pavement - No Life Singed Her
9. The Cure - World In My Eyes
10. The Sea And Cake - The Transaction

Whatever. I'm not wokring today.

This stupid Monday starts with:

1. Liz Phair - Only Son. 3 stars
2. Alison Krauss - Crazy Faith. 3
3. Talking Heads - New Feelings (live). 3
4. Talking Heads - Houses In Motion (live). 4
5. Portastatic - polaroid. 3
6. Flaming Lips - Spiderbite Song. 3
7. Interpol - Roland. 3
8. Hilkka - Oh Shit. 3
9. Robyn Hitchcock - De Chirico Street. 4
10. Tricky - Bad Things. 2

Not bad. Not bad at all.

What the fuck do we start off with this week?

1. Modest Mouse - Alone Down There. 2
2. Jimi Hendrix - Wait Until Tomorrow. 3
3. Flaming Lips - Death Valley 69. 2
4. Stereolab - Ping Pong. 4
5. Califone - Lion And Bee. 3
6. Unrest - When It All Comes Down. 3
7. Cream - SWLABR. 4
8. Robyn Hitchcock - Sweet Ghost Of Light. 4
9. Robyn Hitchcock - Birds In Perspex. 3
10. The Decembrists - Shanty For The Arethusa. 4.
11. Bonus: Robyn Hitchcock - Adoration Of The City.

That's a fine mix.

I'd be interested in the calculating the odds of three Hitchcock songs showing up in a list of 11 (out of 6000 songs, roughly 300 of which are RH). But I have no idea how to calculate that... I don't remember enough probability to know how to do it without having to work with numbers like 6000 factorial ... (6000 * 5999 * 5998 * 5997 ... * 1 = 2.689 * 10²⁰⁰⁶⁵)

This non-top-100 week starts off with:

1. 3Ds - Beautiful Things. 3 stars
2. Talking Heads - I Zimbra (live). 3 stars
3. Robyn Hitchcock - 1974 (live). 4 stars
4. The Helio Sequence - Blood Bleeds. 2
5. Yo La Tengo - Don't Say a Word. 3
6. Van Halen - Outta Love Again. 3
7. Tanya Donnely - Darkside. 3
8. The Futureheads - Meantime. 3
9. Sonic Youth - Beauty Lies In The Eye. 2
10. Jimi Hendrix - Up From The Skies. 3

Most tasty.

This week we start with:

1. Liz Phair - Shatter. 4 stars
2. Beck - Farewell Ride. 3 stars
3. Talking Heads - Animals (live). 2
4. Moby Grape - Omaha. 3
5. Spoon - vittorio e.. 3
6. Billy Holiday - God Bless The Child. 2
7. Thelonius Monk - Let's Cool One. 2
8. Pink Floyd - Sheep. 4
9. Belly - Feed The Tree. 4
10. Big Star - Feel. 4

That's better.

Time to start the work week...

1. Liz Phair - Girls Girls Girls. 3 stars
2. Yo La Tengo - Upside Down (live). 1 star (the default for live stuff. the studio version gets 4 stars)
3. Replacements - Alex Chilton. 3.
4. Dino Jr. - Pond Song. 3
5. Mission of Burma - This is Not a Photograph. 2. OK, iPod, got anything from the 21st century ?
6. Bauhaus - Double Dare. 3. Hmm...
7. Hector - South. 2. (my band in '93) I think the iPod is openly mocking me, now.
8. Big Star - Down The Street. 3. a.k.a. the theme to That 70's Show.
9. REM - We Walk. 2.
10. The Breeders - Glorious. 2

Well, that was truly odd. I purged a ton of the older stuff from my iPod over the weekend and replaced it with newer stuff and stuff that I haven't heard in a long time. Not one of those new songs came up. In fact, except for that Big Star song, the iPod stuck to a very narrow time span. And, including that Big Star song, it stuck to a very specific genre (ie. early 90's college rock). This would make a good "College Rock Radio From 1993" CD.

Sometimes, I doubt that Shuffle is actually random.