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Start Your iPods

This one is: all songs on the iPod, sorted by Plays, top 10. Since I always listen on Shuffle, this is the ranking of the iPod's favorites...?

AFAIK, you can only do this sort on iTunes when looking at the iPod's playlist. Can't do it on the iPod itself (at least not my iPod).

But, come up with your own awesome sorting method, if you can't do that one!

  1. Anita O'Day - Love Me Or Leave Me (25)
  2. Q-Tip - Won't Trade (25)
  3. Wye Oak - Take It In (25)
  4. Black Sabbath - The Wizard (24)
  5. Erykah Badu - Out My Mind, Just In Time (24)
  6. Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes (23)
  7. Blonde Redhead - Bean (23)
  8. Boubacar Traore - Kavana (23)
  9. The Breeders - Glorious (23)
  10. The Harbours Band - Koma Mosi (23)

Sordid!

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Random ten.

I hate the universe so much right now, I'm not even going to link them.

  1. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
  2. Anita O'Day - Them There Eyes
  3. Devendra Banhart - Won't You Come Over
  4. Tortoise - On Noble
  5. Steve Miller Band - Dance, Dance, Dance
  6. Paul Simon - Run That Body Down
  7. Uncle Tupelo - Still Be Around
  8. Tame Impala - Runaway Houses City Clouds
  9. Nod - Good Night Sleep
  10. Dino Jr - Kracked

You?

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Five, shuffled, lightly battered, flash fried and described.

  1. St Vincent - Save Me. One of my favorite St Vincent songs. It's got enough quirk to be interesting, but not so much that it destroys the hook.
  2. Smaller Animals - The Robin. One of my favorite of my own songs. Well, not really. But it's OK.
  3. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap. On of my favorite B&S songs.
  4. Lightnin Hopkins - Walk A Long Time. Mostly instrumental. Kind of a simple 12-bar jam. Not my favorite Lightnin Hopkins song.
  5. Harlem - Sugar Foot. A gritty bit of lo-fi garage-rock revival. Fun. The band's name makes it impossible to find them on YouTube because all I get are "Harlem shake" videos.

Yum!

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Shuffle em up!
Five, describe!

  1. The Postal Service - Brand New Colony. The songs from this record have really grown on me over the years. I never feel that I need to listen to the record, but when I hear a song in a shuffle like this, or in the background of a TV show, or on radio, I'm like "Hey, that album is better than I thought when I first got it!"
  2. Modern Lovers - Girlfriend. By coincidence, I've been keeping a mental list of songs that spell out their title in the chorus (Bay City Rollers "Saturday Night", The Cure "Fire In Cairo", etc.). And here's another one. My lucky day.
  3. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman (live). This is the acoustic version from the 'Bootleg Series'. Back when he could, and wanted to, sing. Very nice.
  4. The Harbours Band - Koma Mosi. It's from the excellent Nigerian 'Highlife' collection. But, instead of the hard, rocking, funky groove that most of the songs on that collection have, this one has a laid-back vibe, sounds almost Caribbean.
  5. Mos Def - Rock And Roll. The iPod only wants to play the first 15 seconds of this. So... I'll just assume the other 5:00 are super awesome and that you're a sap for not buying the album immediately.

Dig it, daddy-o?

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Random five, described.

  1. Sublime - Santeria. A jaunty, feel-good, perfect summer song about gunning down your ex's new beau. And that guy was a great singer - well maybe not technically, but the delivery, the swagger. He made it sound like so much fun.
  2. Sigur Rós - Ný Batterí. I like this one. Sounds like a drunken funeral dirge. I'll just assume the words fit the impression.
  3. Alison Krauss & Union Station - It Won't Work This Time. Alison isn't singing this one (though she's a-fiddlin), but I bet it would sound fine if she did. The banjo rules this one.
  4. Tortoise - A Survey. A three (?) bass meditation. Menacing.
  5. Van Halen - Dance The Night Away. Awwww. Such a cute little song.

What say you all?

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There are few songs that can't be made hilarious by changing the lyrics so that all occurrences of the noun "love" become the word "lunch".

Zep: Whole Lotta Lunch (way down inside / i'm gonna give you my lunch)
Bad Co: Ready For Lunch (ooh baby, i'm ready for lunch)
Johnny Lee : Lookin For Lunch (in all the wrong places)
Eagles : Best Of My Lunch (oh, sweet darling, you get the best of my lunch)
Groovy Kind Of Lunch. etc..