The iPod starts my work week with:

1. The Robyn Hitchcock - Maria Lyn
2. The Radiohead - You
3. The Pretenders - The Wait. i wasn't sure the verses in this song had actual words. But, a quick google shows me it does:
   (first verse)
   said the wait child magic child work it on out now work it
   the wait child pinball child pool hall child hurts
   the wait child pacing child forth back now hurts
   the wait child neon light late night lights hurt
4. The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want. I'll just skip this one.
5. The Iron and Wine - My Lady's House
6. The Big Star - You And Your Sister
7. The Stereolab - Peng! 33. One of their happy bouncy songs. This is the Stereolab I love.
8. The Cowboy Junkies - Thousand Year Prayer. From their live DVD/CD set, Open Road.
9. The Pixies - Brick Is Red.
10. The Iron and Wine - Sodom, South Georgia. Nice little song. Ah.

The iPod starts the week with:

1. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane. Not really random - I woke up this morning and, don't know why, needed to hear this song; so I made the iPod play it on my way to work.
2. The Throwing Muses - Pretty or Not
3. The Del McCoury - True Love Never Dies
4. The Superchunk - Train From Kansas City. Don't remember ever hearing the Shangi-La's original, but I'm sure it can't compete.
5. The Cars - Moving In Stereo. What a great song.
6. The Fiona Apple - Limp. "It won't be till you'll be lying limp in your own hand". zing!
7. The Pixies - Vamos. "Vamos a jugar por la playa"
8. The Kinks - Drivin'
9. The Makers of Smooth Music - Resurrection. The story of Jesus' resurrection half sung/half spoken over a sprawling free-form piano/drum jam. Gotta give those MSR guys credit - they tried.
10. The Beatles - Blackbird. Love the little bird chirping at the end.

This week, the iPod starts with:

1. Fiona Apple : Criminal
2. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Pain of a Troubled Mind
3. Junior Brown - Holding Pattern. A sprawling example of extended pun as country song lyric. Even by Jr's standards, this one is impressive.
4. Wilco - Radio Cure
5. Joni Mitchell - Paved Paradise
6. Spoon - Believing is Art. We nearly always listen to Spoon when we drive to the beach. We didn't, this weekend and the iPod is making up for it now - which just makes me want to drive back to the beach. Fuck mondays.
7. Death Cab For Cutie - Information Travels Faster
8. Tortoise - Magnet Pulls Through. Just love Tortoise's first album. Sure, it's prog-rock with a different name, but it's good prog-rock.
9. Big Star - You Get What You Deserve
10. Pavement - Home

I approve.

This week, the iPod starts out with:

1. Sonic Youth - She is Not Alone
2. Matt Suggs - Where's Your Patience, Dear?
3. The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
4. Buddy & Julie Miller - Holding Up The Sky
5. The Cure - A Reflection
6. Radiohead - Creep (acoustic)
7. DJ Krush - Final Home
8. Yo La Tengo - Orange Song
9. The Rosebuds - What Can I Do?
10. DJ Krush - No More

6200 songs to choose from and it picks two from the same artist (#7,#10), and another two from the same CD (#2,#9). Sigh.

The scratched-up iPod starts my work week with:

1. Gillian Welch - One Monkey. The iPod loves this one. I don't.
2. Big Star - Feel. One of my top 5 Big Star songs.
3. Grandaddy - So You'll Aim Towards The Sky
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Yo La Tengo - Somebody's Baby. This is a cover of the Jackson Browne song. YLT turns it into a credible rocker.
6. Horace Silver - Song For My Father. Steely Dan obviously re-used the piano part from this on Rikki Don't Lose That Number.
7. Stereolab - Wow And Flutter. I like this one, but since I can never remember any Stereolab song titles, I can never tell anyone unless the song is on. Not that anyone cares either way...
8. David Bowie - Soul Love
9. Sonic Youth - Kissability. A great one from their greatest album.
10. Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down. That voodoo must be hard to catch, cause it takes them fourteen minutes to get through this.

This week's first ten...

1. Slint - Nosferatu Man. Hmmm. That guitar sound is a bit too much like an alarm clock, for me to have in my earphones at 9AM on a Monday.
2. Pavement - Fight This Generation. I always thought this was two songs: the first I like to call "Sweet Yeardly", which is a kinder gentler song than the one that follows.
3. The Postal Service - Nothing Better. Bleepity bleep bloop.
4. Idyll Swords - Bani Park. For whatever reason, the iPod doesn't play a lot of these guys (and this song is only 67 seconds long).
5. The Cure - High. An upbeat goofy little song that I don't hate - unlike its album-mates "Friday, I'm In Love" and "Doing The Unstuck". It didn't get the saturation airplay that those other two did.
6. John Coltrane - Good Groove. From the first jazz record I ever bought - Rhino's The Last Giant Coltrane box set. This is an old live recording from when Coltrane was playing with the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet.
7. Cowboy Junkies - Working On A Building. From the fantastic Trinity Session.
8. The Breeders - Mad Lucas. Kim Deal singing through heavy tremolo. Ahh.
9. Sonic Youth - Justice Is Might. This is SY at the pinnacle of their noise phase - 1:30 feedback intro. A bit much so early in the AM.
10. Cowboy Junkies - Towne's Blues. Much nicer.

The iPod starts the week with:

1. Doc Watson - Country Blues
2. Scud Mountain Boys - A Ride
3. Yo La Tengo - A Shy Dog
4. Spoon - Change My Life
5. The Sea And Cake - The Fawn
6. Kings of Convenience - Know Now
7. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
8. Listening to the Higsons - Robyn Hitchcock
9. Cowboy Junkies - Seven Years
10. The Kinks - Lazy Old Sun

A good mix for a Monday, AM, IMO.

As tradition demands: it's the Monday Morning iPod Random Ten:

1. Replacements - Seen Your Video
2. Miles Davis - Bluing
3. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
4. Mad Scene - Spilled Oranges
5. Pavement - Drunks With Guns
6. Squarepusher - I Wish I Could Talk
7. Radiohead - High and Dry
8. Modest Mouse - Blame It On The Tetons
9. White Stripes - Little People
10. David Bowie - Lady Stardust

Let the week begin!

This week's Monday morning music mix, in order:

1. Modest Mouse - Untitled
2. Uncle Tupleo - Gun
3. Thelonious Monk - Functional
4. The Kinks - Big Sky
5. Led Zeppelin - Black Mountain Side
6. Portishead - Undenied
7. The Sea And Cake - The Colony Room
8. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
9. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
10. Jimi Hendrix - Room Full Of Mirrors

A big day for the 60's. (The Kinks snag #11, too)

Monday morning means making my the list of the first 10 from the iPod...

1. Death Cab For Cutie - I Was a Kaleidescope. Me likee Death Cab.
2. Robyn Hitchcock - Glass Hotel. This one is probably my all-time favorite R.H. song, from my all-time favorite R.H. album, Eye. Can it get any better ?
3. Van Morrison - Come Running. On the cover of Moondance, Van looks just like my uncle Billy.
4. Radiohead - Filter Happier.
5. 3Ds - Man On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. This band does a nice simulation of mid-80's noise-pop. Reminds me of the Swilrlies or any number of Sub Pop bands.
6. Cream - Sunshine of Your Love. I can't hear this song without thinking of the sheet music - so many hours spent trying to learn it.
7. Cassandra Wilson / Jacky Terrasson - If Ever I Would Leave You. Very nice. Ahh...
8. Smaller Animals - Eastwood. I listen to myself.
9. British Sea Power - Carrion. Meh.
10. Flaming Lips - Approaching Pavnois Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia). Nice little instrumental. Could be the closing theme to a utopian sci-fi movie.

But, there was no Yo La Tengo. WTF ?