This work week, the iPods starts with:

1. Robyn Hitchcock - Flesh Cartoons
2. Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing (Pt 2)
3. Pavement - Forklift
4. Belly - Untogether
5. Gillian Welch - I Made A Lover's Prayer (four days till MerleFest 06!)
6. Pavement - Pueblo
7. Big Star - Mod Lang
8. Cassandra Wilson - Easy Rider
9. Rogue Wave - Every Moment
10. Rogue Wave - "Man - Revolutionary!"

Very nice for a Monday morning (except maybe that first Pavement song - that's a silly little bit of noisy nonsense).

...and if this post ever shows up, it means Blogger is working again.

This work week we start with an uninspiring sampling of 3rd-tier songs:

1. The Minus 5 - Out There On The Maroon
2. The Police - Contact
3. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead... - Days Of Being Wild
4. Califone - Apple
5. REM - Sitting Still
6. John Coltrane - Ogunde (live). *skip* I don't need no screeching free jazz at 9:00am on a Monday
7. Robyn Hitchcock - We're Gonna Live In The Trees
8. Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind
9. Moby Grape - Omaha
10. Mudhoney - Need

... except that REM song - love that one.

The iPod starts the work week with:

1. Wilhelm Kempff - Kalviersonate #23 op 57 no 2. A little of the old Ludwig Von to start the week. Ahh.
2. Stephen Malkmus - Ramp of Death. "Ramp" is one of my favorite words.
3. Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards The Sky
4. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead... - How Near, How Far
5. The Minus 5 - Original Luke
6. Codeine - New Year's
7. REM - Moral Kiosk
8. Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot
9. Elliot Smith - Pictures of Me
10. David Bowie - Fashion. Oooh bop.
11. Bonus : Wilhelm Kempff - Kalviersonate #14 op 27 no 2. a.k.a. the "Moonlight" sonata. While these Beethoven sonatas (and more) have been on the iPod for a year, today is the first day any has appeared on my Monday list. And to get two of them! Ah yummy.

And off we go...

This first-monday-back-in-the-US starts with:

1. Sonic Youth - White Cross
2. Replacements - Hanging Downtown. Back when they sounded like an authentic punk band.
3. Nirvana - Plateau
4. R.E.M. - Crazy. From my favorite REM album.
5. Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
6. Elliot Smith - Good To Go
7. John Lennon - God
8. Unrest - Imperial (live)
9. Beat Happening - Other Side
10. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club. From the album "Buena Vista Social Club"

If it wasn't for those meddling Arctic Monkeys, I couldda had a Solid Gold Oldies 10 ! (everything else is at least ten years old)

This week, we begin with:

1. Radiohead - Planet Telex
2. Replacements - Unsatisfied
3. Lilys - Generator
4. Replacements - Raised In The City
5. Dave Holland Quintet - Shifting Sands
6. Throwing Muses - Portia
7. David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
8. Rolling Stones - The Spider And The Fly
9. Coctails - It's All Right
10. Horse Flies - Link Of Chain

No Robyn Hitchcock, Yo La Tengo or Cure! Something big is must be about to happen...

Starting this work week, with my new Shure E2c's:

1. Spoon - I Summon You
2. Beck - Side of the Road
3. Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
4. Cowboy Junkies - Someone Out There
5. The Cure - A Thousand Hours
6. Sonic Youth - I Love Her All The Time
7. The Cure - The Hanging Garden
8. Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
9. Apollo Sunshine - A Finger Pointing At The Moon
10. Iron And Wine - Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
11. (bonus - since that Apollo Sunshine song was only 30 seconds long) : Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf mix)

The "sound-isolating" aspect of these earphones works really well. The standard iPod earphones let a lot of sound through. But with these, I can't hear a damned thing besides the music (which really does sound excellent) and my own breathing. It's a bit like being underwater. Since I can't even hear typing, I'm making more typos. This will take some getting used to.

This work week we start with:

1. Nirvana - Drain You
2. The Cure - Caterpillar
3. The Doors - Money (live)
4. Radiohead - Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
5. Blonde Redhead - Mama Cita
6. David Bowie - Tears
7. Van Halen - I'm The One
8. Marshall Tucker Band - A New Life
9. Lilys - Coby
10. The Sea And Cake - For Minor Sky
11. Neutral Milk Hotel - Where You'll Find Me Now

Hmmm... fair to middling.

This wonderful work-free Monday starts with:

1. Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (live)
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
3. Robbie Fulks - You Break It You Pay
4. Stereolab - Nomus Et Phusis
5. Spoon - Advance Cassette
6. Figure Eight - Multiplication Rock
7. The Vaselines - Dying For It
8. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Temptation
9. Wilco - Blank
10. Rolling Stones - What a Shame
    

Guess this means I hope I'll like my new job!

This wonderful work week starts with:

1. Van Halen - Push Come To Shove
2. Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster
3. Belly - Untitled and Unsung
4. Beastie Boys (with Q-Tip) - Get It Together
5. Television - Guiding Light
6. Kinks - Johnny Thunder
7. Rolling Stones - Casino Boogie
8. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
9. Yo La Tengo - Fog Over Frisco
10. Radiohead - 2+2=5

Woo hoo!

... and this week we start with...

1. Interpol - Leif Erikson
2. Cowboy Junkies - Floorboard Blues
3. Cowboy Junkies - First Recollection
4. Polvo - Well Is Deep
5. Pavement - Billie
6. Cowboy Junkies - To Lay Me Down
7. Beck - Sing It Again
8. Big Star - Thank you Friends
9. Buena Vista Social Club - Murmullo
10. John Lennon - Beautiful Boy

Three Cowboy Junkies' songs in my random ten? Hmm...

Mysterious sudden meeting with my manager announced... wonder what that means?

... heh. it means we've been bought. Current word is they're keeping all products and employees... but you know how that stuff goes.