This week, the iPod starts me off with:

1. Soft Boys - Mr. Kennedy . No matter who else he's playing with, Robyn Hitchcock dominates the sound.
2. Slint - Nosferatu Man. I guess just to spite me for listing this album as one I MUST hear from start to finish.
3. Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies. It wouldn't be a list without YLT.
4. Polvo - Bend or Break.
5. Muleskinner - Whitehouse Blues. Just put this one on there Friday. It's strange that a band shows up so quickly after being introduced to the iPod.
6. Pretenders - Talk Of The Town. The first two Pretenders records are one and a half of the best records ever.
7. Grandaddy - E. Knievel Interlude. The iPod has always avoided playing Grandaddy songs. This 2 minute intrumental will probably be the last one I hear for a month.
8. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket.
9. Rolling Stones - Sweet Black Angle.
10. Doc Watson - Crawdad Hole.

1. Death Cab For Cutie - Lightness. A nice slow song to start off my crappy hazy Monday AM.
2. Wilco - Radio Cure. "Cheer up. Honey, I hope you can. There is ... something ... wrong with me." A melancholy little tune.
3. Gillian Welch - One Monkey. I think this is the only Gillian song I don't like. But, the mood is right.
4. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Lady Waters & The Hooded One.
5. Swirlies - Cousteau. Sounds like it was recorded on a 4-track in someone's living room - probably was. I really liked this no-fi happy-accident aesthetic 10 years ago, when I was doing similar things. I'm not really excited by bands who try to do it these days, though.
6. The White Stripes - Little Bird. It's loud and sludgy!
7. Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen). Karen Carpenter dies, talks to Janice and Elvis, starts a band in Heaven. Mmm k.
8. Pixies - The Navajo Know. Meh.
9. Robert Johnson - Malted Milk. "malted milk, malted milk / keep rushing to my head / and I have a funny funny feeling / and I'm talking all out my head." I'm guessing "malted milk" meant something different in the 1930's.
10. Yo La Tengo - Flying Lesson. Of course YLT shows up...

This week, the iPod starts me out with:

1. Spoon - 30 Gallon Tank. Not their best song.
2. PJ Harvey - Man-Size. A bit abrasive for 9am Monday.
3. John Pizzarelli - Kisses In The Rain. Ah.. soothing.
4. Radiohead - Optimistic. I wish...
5. Replacements - I Don't Know. One of my least-favorite Replacements songs.
6. Dinosaur Jr. - No Bones. Some nice kick-the-amp sounds near the end.
7. Makers of Smooth Music - Little Rug Bug. Someone wrote a silly little song about their baby.
8. Blonde Redhead - Swing Pool.
9. Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year. Is this used in a commercial yet? Sounds like it should be.
10. Jimi Hendrix - Red House. "I know her sister will."
11. Sonic Youth - Against Fascism. "It's the song I hate."

So. This morning, the iPod rubs me the wrong way with a fistful of abrasive songs.

This week, the iPod starts me off with:

1. Waltz #1 - Elliot Smith
2. Happy The Man - The Cure
3. Rap Promoter - A Tribe Called Quest
4. It Ain't Easy - David Bowie
5. I Looked At You - The Doors
6. Lately - British Sea Power
7. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) - Yo La Tengo
8. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day - Robert Johnson
9. Stockholm Syndrome - Yo La Tengo
10. Major Leagues - Pavement

Once again, Yo La Tengo moons the gods of probablility. There are 7 YLT albums on the iPod, estimate 100 songs. There are 4,300 songs on the iPod. The odds of having YLT show up twice are pretty slim. Having them show up three times, even, um, slimmer. Whatever

First songs of the week, presented without comment:

1. In The Kingdom #19, Sonic Youth
2. Strange - REM
3. Blinded - fieldfresh
4. Young Neil - Blonde Redhead
5. Tom Courtenay - Yo La Tengo
6. I'm Set Free - Yo La Tengo
7. Tell Her Tonight - Franz Ferdinand
8. Fashion - David Bowie
9. Mistakes & Regrets - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
10. 86-Second Blowout - Yo La Tengo

OK, one comment: 3 YLT songs in the first 10 seems like an abuse of probability.