This week, the iPod starts with:

1. The Beatles - Michelle. 3 stars
2. The Pretenders - Kid. 3 stars
3. The Lilys - Who Is Moving. 3
4. White Stripes - Blue Orchid. 4
5. Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog. 4
6. Cowboy Junkies - I Saw Your Shoes. 3
7. DJ Krush - Inorganizm. 1
8. fieldfresh - Crocodile. 2
9. Minor Threat - Out of Step. 3
10. Joni Mitchell - Same Situation. 2

Minor Threat into Joni Mitchell. Yeah baby.

1. The Cure - Another Journey By Train.
2. The Shins - Mine's Not a High Horse.
3. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - Core And Rind.
4. David Bowie - Fame. So far, a great way to start the week... can the iPod keep it up?
5. Bauhaus - Departure
6. The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes (live)
7. Led Zeppelin - Bonzo's Montreaux. ... and with that, the streak of good songs ends. A fucking drum solo ? Ugh.
8. Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Out Of The Blue) (live). ... but this almost rescues the set.
9. Radiohead - Lucky. Still waiting to figure out what's so great about Radiohead...
10. REM - We Walk. Meh. Not my favorite REM song.

Oh well.

And so we start this work week with:

1. A Tribe Called Quest - Keep It Rollin'
2. Stereolab - Anonymous Collective
3. Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice (live)
4. Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo
5. The Faces - Ooh la La . From the wonderful Rushmore soundtrack.
6. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes (live)
7. Belly - Stay
8. Elliot Smith - Everything Means Nothing To Me
9. Nirvana - All Apologies (live)
10. Derek & The Dominos - Anyday

1. speedQueen - house. buss. sync.
2. Madeleine Peyroux - Back In Your Own Back Yard
3. Cassandra Wilson - I Can't Stand The Rain
4. Liz Phair - If I Ever Pay You Back
5. Gillian Welch - Annabelle
6. Hector - Don't Know. One of my old bands. In this one, I'm panned hard-right, Telecaster squawking away through that big Fender 4x10. Miss that amp.
7. My Bloody Valentine - Touched
8. The Futureheads - A to B
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Snail
10. Pavement - Recorder Grot

Bonus, because that Pavement thing was just a 20 second burst of noise:
11. Polvo - Shiska. That one was only 90 seconds.

Oh well. On with the week.

What will we start with this work week?

1. John Coltrane - Good Groove. From the "Last Giant" box set. The first jazz I ever bought.
2. No Knife - Permanent From Now On. Love the Polvo-esque guitar interplay.
3. The Police - No Time This Time. I wonder why Sting chose to sing through a flanger?
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Testify. Smokin.
5. My Morning Jacket - Z. Somehow, they found an even bigger cave to record in, for this record.
6. Fiona Apple - Across The Universe. Great cover.
7. Hilkka - Eatme.cok .
8. Horseflies - Jenny On The Railroad. Happy little psychedelic bluegrass song about a smack addict.
9. Death Cab For Cutie - Lightness. A little wisp of a song.
10. Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices. Twitchy and pointy and prickly and snarly.

Starting this short work week with...

1. Polvo - When Will You Die The Last Time In My Dreams
2. Son Volt - Endless War
3. Dondante - My Morning Jacket
4. Jim Croce - Operator
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Crush
6. Scud Mountain Boys - Grudge **** (fantastic song. outstanding album)
7. Blonde Redhead - Speed x Distance = Time (I bet they failed physics)
8. Hilkka - Last April
9. Beastie Boys - Sabrosa
10. Bauhaus - God In An Alcove

This week, we start with:

1. Chris Bell - You and Your Sister
2. Neil Young - Comes A Time (live)
3. The Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
4. King Crimson - Industry
5. Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To ?
6. REM - Hyena
7. Cowboy Junkies - The Last Spike
8. Pavement - Fight This Generation
9. Unrest - Loyola
10. John Pizzarelli - Sometimes I'm Happy

I tried to guess the names, but was doing so terribly that I abandoned the effort.

Gonna try something different today. It'll still be a random 10, but this time, I won't look at the iPod to verify artist or song title before I type it in; I'll have to get that from my own memory. We'll see how much I know about what's on my iPod. After I've made my guess, I'll verify and put the actual info in square brackets [like this] if I get it wrong. So, here we go...

1. The Cars - Touch and Go
2. Tricky - ? [Lyrics of Fury]
3. Son Volt - Smoking Gun (?) [Outdone]
4. Nick Drake - Poor Boy
5. Spoon - 10:20am
6. DJ Krush - ? (Anticipation)
7. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
8. The Cure - ? [Out Of Mind]
9. Madeleine Peyroux - ? [Flambee Montalbanese]
10. Cassandra Wilson - Is This Love ? [What Is It?]

Ouch, 4/10. Not a bad 10, though.

This week, the iPod starts off with:

1. The Sea And Cake - I Will Hold The Teabag
2. The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter
3. Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
4. Madeleine Peyroux - Don't Cry Baby
5. Cowboy Junkies - Winter's Song
6. The Kinks - Mindless Child of Motherhood (live)
7. Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say
8. The White Stripes - I'm Bound To Pack It Up
9. Gene Ammons - Let It Be You
10. Blonde Redhead - Astro Boy

Started out stronger than it finished, but still pretty good overall.

This work week starts with:

1. Cassandra Wilson - Lost
2. Buddy & Julie Miller - Rock Salt and Nails
3. The New Pornographers - Centre For Holy Wars
4. Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins - Friday The 13th
5. Cream - Deserted Cities of the Heart
6. The Replacements - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
7. The Sea And Cake - Shoulder Length
8. Superchunk - Creek
9. Bob Dylan - From a Buick 6
10. The Replacements - Taking a Ride

Good enough.