Side A
Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone?
Kinks - Lazy Old Sun
Robyn Hitchcock - We’re Gonna Live In The Trees
3D’s - Ice
Steely Dan - Pearl Of The Quarter

Side B
Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday
The Shins - Red Rabbit
Twin A - Miracle
The Cure - Scared As You
Fiery Furnaces - Spaniolated

ouch. that suuuuuuccccckkkked.

The river is waiting
I’m ready
To slip from this island
I’m ready
Gonna leave all my sorrow
Behind me
Lift my face to the new day
That’s rising

“Nobody Told Me” – Big And Rich
“What Child Is This?” – Vince Guaraldi
“The Eleven” – Phil And Friends (Nokia Theater Times Square 11/3/2007)
“Hwiangaerdd Mair” – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
“River is Waiting” – John Fogarty
“Me & Mr. Jones” – Amy Winehouse (Everytime I see or hear Dear Leader I think “What kind of fuckery IS this?”)
“Santa Baby” – Eartha Kitt
“John Henry” – Bruce Springsteen
“Greensleeves” – Vanessa Carlton

VERY SPECIAL GUEST TRACK!!!: “Hang Myself From The Tree” – The Vandals

Four freakin’ Christmas songs. C’MON!

Let’s see what the muses have in store for tonight.

1. “Le Sacre Du Printemps, Part 2” – Igor Stravinsky
2. “One” – Metallica
3. “Messiah: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” – G. F. Handel
4. “For Your Love” – The Yardbirds
5. “Communiones – Gustate et Videte” – Nova Schola Gregoriana
6. “Tiento VIII” - Antonio de Cabezón
7. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” – Guns n’ Roses
8. “Symphony #1: 2. Andante Sostenuto” – Johannes Brahms
9. “The One Thing” – INXS
10. “Moonlight Becomes You” – Bing Crosby

Bonus:
11. “Quant Voi La Fleur” – Anonynymous 4
12. “That Old Feeling” – Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra (groan)

Astounding randomness.

Think Twice (Featuring Roy Hargrove) - Erykah Badu
Body Heat - Quincy Jones
Clash - Logic System
I Betray My Friends - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Give Your Body Up To The Music - Billy Nichols
AIEAOA - Yamasuki
Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man) - Love and Rockets
Thoughts of Mary Jane - Nick Drake
Finale - Baby Mammoth
Love Injection - Trussel

Batacumbele - Deadline Vs Batacumbele
No Love Version - King Tubby

1- King of Pain - The Police
2- Alison - Elvis Costello
3- Mexican Wine - Fountains of Wayne
4- Goodbye Girl - Hootie and the Blowfish
5- Gulf Coast Highway - Nanci Griffith
6- Black - Pearl Jam
7- Summer Breeze - Seals and Crofts
8- El Paso - The Old 97s
9- Volcano - Jimmy Buffett
10- Freedom Hangs Like Heaven - Iron and Wine

Bonus- The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

Wow, worst random ever, but almost saved by Johnny Fucking Horton to make it most random.

1. Dogsong 2 / The Be Good Tanyas
2. B-Boy Bouillabaisse / Beastie Boys
3. My First Lover / Gillian Welch
4. Dear Someone / Gillian Welch
5. The Magician / Jason Isbel
6. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree / KT Tunstall
7. Red Staggerwing / Mark Knopfler And Emmylou Harris
8. Hazey Jane II / Nick Drake
9. River Man / Nick Drake
10. Pump It Up / Radiators

Glad to see my dearly beloved Radiators (from N’Awlins, now living in Austin; thanks Dubya) make an appearance.

Ultra special Crazed Poetry bonus track:

11. What’s He Building In There? / Tom Waits

Johnny Strikes Up the Band - Warren Zevon
Burning Inside - Ministry
Kumbayah - Guadalcanal Diary
River to River - Richard Barone
King For a Day (Versailles Mix ) - XTC
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Fainting in Coils - Bruford
Bag Lady - Todd Rundgren
Fall On Me - REM
Dying - XTC

bonus:
Memories Can’t Wait - Talking Heads
Made of Stone - The Stone Roses
Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses

1. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb- Spoon
2. Joy To The World- Three Dog Night
3. Caravan Girl- Goldfrapp
4. Let’s Stick Together- KT Tunstall
5. Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee- Stockard Channing
6. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away- The Subways
7. You Know I’m No Good- Arctic Monkeys
8. Anyone Who Had A Heart- Shelby Lynne
9. Come On Come On- Jet
10. Soul Man- Sam & Dave

Bonus-
11. Can’t Get Out Of Bed- Charlatans
12. Heart Of Glass- Blondie

1. I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono - Dar Williams - Out There Live
2. Phases of the Moon, Pt. 4: Love - Micheal Whalen - Nightscenes: Music for the Evening (remastered)
3. Pick A Bale O’ Cotton - Johnny Cash - The Legend [Disc 3]
4. Dialogues des Carmélites, opera, FP 159 - Poulenc, Francois - Dialogues des Carmélites (2 of 2)
5. Send In The Clowns - Judy Collins - Judith
6. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
7. Penderecki-Agnes Dei - Antoni Wit -
8. The Second Time Around - Bobby Whitlock - Rock Your Sox Off
9. I Ain’t Mad At Cha (Edit) - Tupac Shakur feat. Danny Boy - title
10. Proof - Paul Simon - Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park, August 15, 1991 (1 of 2)
Bonus: J.P.P. McStep B. Blues - Jefferson Airplane - 2400 Fulton Street [Disc 1]

Ooh, ooh. I get to play for once:

Bizarre Love Triangle-New Order
Han Solo and the Princess-Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack
Real Man-Todd Rundgren
Planet of New Orleans-Dire Straits
Breakdown-Alan Parsons Project
This Old House-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Spirit of ‘76-Alarm
A Song For Europe-Roxy Music
There’s A Light That Never Goes Out-The Smiths
Kiss From A Rose-Seal

Bonus (Of A Sort):
Fracture-King Crimson
Baltar’s Dream-Battlestar Galactica Season Two Soundtrack

Wire - Practice Makes Perfect
Sly & the Stone Family - If You Want Me to Stay
Shadows - Mustang
Modern Lovers - I’m Straight
Shriekback - This Big Hush
Combustible Edison - Solid State
Buena Vista Social Club - El Carretero
Mekons - Prince of Darkness
Love Ampersand Rockets - Kundalini Express
Los Nazz - Open My Eyes

A whole different list at my blog tomorrow…

In solidarity, I have erased my iTunes as well. Actually, okay, I did it because it was all a ghastly mess and I needed to start over in a vaguely organized fashion. Also, I have all my frickin’ hard drives backed up so if this turns out to be a just terrible idea I can just restore it and move on with my disorganized life.

Hey, if you gotta start from scratch, Bob Mould’s Workbook is a great place to start. It’s also a great place to finish. On my last day as a retail assistant manager for a music/video chain that no longer exists, I cranked that CD as loud as I could while I got the store ready to open. By the time Whichever Way the Wind Blows wound down, I was howling along with Bob. Good times…

Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
Rio De Tenampa - Los Lobos
Catfish Blues - Jimi Hendrix
Your Lady - John Coltrane
Who Killed Davey Moore? - Bob Dylan
Everyone’s Gone To The Movies - Steely Dan
The Dark Keys - Branford Marsalis Trio
Cupcake - Nellie McKay
Gonna Find My Baby - Sonny Boy Williamson
I Want You - Bob Dylan

Tom Petty - “Love Is A Long Road”
Davie Allan & The Arrows - “Action On The Street”
Bob Dylan - “Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues”
The First Edition - “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”
Teisco Del Rey - “The Madison Time”
R.E.M. - “Crush With Eyeliner”
The Beach Boys - “I’m Waiting For The Day”
Bill Haley & The Comets - “Two Hound Dogs”
The Mel-Tones - “Mission To Mazatlan”
Johnny Rivers - “Secret Agent Man”

Bonus #11
The Guess Who - “Hand Me Down World”

The Temptations - Just My Imagination
Lee Oskar - Whatta Day
Cleo Laine - Sophisticated Lady
Beatles - Honey Don’t
Miles Davis - Walkin’
Tony Bennett - Lost In The Stars
Janis Ian - At Seventeen
James Taylor - Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
Jim Croce - Roller Derby Queen
Mozart - Allegro from “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”

Bonus: Joan Baez - Time Rag

Here’s mine. (By the way, reverentandfree, good job on the Robert Johnson.)

1) It was supposed to be so easy - The Streets
2) How to be Dead - Snow Patrol
3) I just don’t know what to do with myself - The White Stripes
4) The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave
5) One Love/People Get Ready - Bob Marley and the Wailers
6) Blurry - Puddle of Mudd
7) The National Anthem - Radiohead
The Way you Move - Outkast ft. Sleepy Brown
9) United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch
10) Walk This Way - Run DMC w/ Aerosmith

and one more for the weekend:
11) The ONly One I know - Charlatans UK

Not sure how Puddle of Mudd got in there, but other than that, not too bad. (National Anthem used to open my radio show in Suriname.)

1. Calm Before the Storm - Eliza Gilkyson
2. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (live) - Simon & Garfunkel
3. Stop Breaking Down - Rolling Stones
4. The Wind That Shakes the Barley/The Reel With The Beryle - The Chieftains
5. Living With War - Neil Young
6. Don’t Ya Tell Henry - Bob Dylan & the Band
7. Tell It To Me - Tom Waits
8. Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
9. Santa Fe - Bob Dylan
10.California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco

That’s it.

Hockeysuit!

1) Beauty Lies in the Eye - Sonic Youth
2) World Love - Magnetic Fields
3) Lean On Me - Beth Orton
4) Money (That’s What I Want) - Beatles
5) Uncle Alvarez - Liz Phair
6) Guns of Brixton - The Clash
7) Any Love - Massive Attack
Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
9) Into the Groove(Y) - Sonic Youth
10) Tame - Pixies

It’s A Mistake–Colin Hay
White Girl–X (John Doe played this last week)
Two Of Us–Aimee Mann
In The City–The Jam
Fatally Beautiful–T Bone Burnett
Another Round–Foo Fighters
Stop Your Sobbing–The Pretenders*
We Love–Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
How She Lied By Living–The Posies
Got Ma Nuts From A Hippie–The Fratellis

Bonus Track:

Jericho Road–Steve Earle

Wow. Great first stoned concert. Mine was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody tour.

“The Sun Has Risen Twice Today” - Cue
“Plateau Ramble” - The Acorn
“My Dreamgirl Don’t Exist” - Neutral Milk Hotel
“Bad Brain” - Ramones
“Jaisalmer” - Sir Richard Bishop
“Popgun” - Mary Monday
“You Got Your Seatbelt and Cars Are So Safe” - Salty Pirates
“Around My Smile” - Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
“Poisoned Arrows” - Meat Puppets
“ATS” - OOIOO

Bonus #11: “In My Head” - The Ballet

wilderness - joy division
natural’s not in it - gang of four
the mess we’re in - pj harvey
i’m gonna crawl - led zeppelin
you - bad religion
pibroch14 - richard thompson
letter - hoover
you fell down - the evens
good morning, captain - slint
march of the coupon saints - future of the left

Rockpile - Teacher Teacher
The La’s - There She Goes
The Psychedelic Furs - Badman
Neil Finn - Anytime
Simon and Garfunkel - America
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Kate Rusby - Annan Waters
Lush - 500 (Shake Baby Shake)
Kate Rusby - Jolly Ploughboys
The Tories - This is Life?

Bonus:
Lowen and Navarro - What I Make Myself Believe

I’m good with most of that. What’s with all the Rundgren this week and me not getting the memo? Pretty sure Bag Lady was on my list last week.

Whichever Way the Wind Blows is the perfect end to that album. It’s clever on many levels given the departure from all that comes before (including the opening instrumental, Sunspots.)

“Vodka martini for the lady and I’ll have a bourbon” random ten:

1. “Don’t Forget to Mess Around” - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
2. “Remember” - Betty Carter
3. “From This Moment On” - Mabel Mercer
4. “The Eternal Triangle” - Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt
5. “All Through the Night” - Bill Charlap
6. “Hotter Than That” - Louis Armstrong
7. J.S. Bach, Cello Suite #2 in D Minor, Prelude - Yo-Yo Ma
8. “Warm Valley” - Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
9. “Into the Mystic” - Van Morrison
10. “Pent-Up House” - Sonny Rollins

And a change of pace bonus track:

11. “Divide & Conquer” - Husker Du

Bullet in the Head — Rage Against the Machine
Blues This Morning — Indigenous
Snake Charmer — Rage Against the Machine
Close to Me — The Cure
Well You Needn’t — Miles Davis
Night Life in Twin Peaks — Angelo Badalamenti
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow — Frank Zappa
One of These Days — Pink Floyd
Imagine — John Lennon
Positively Fourth Street — Bob Dylan

And the “Sympathetic to Tbogg’s Loss-of-Music Situation Because I’ve Been There”* bonus tracks:

The Vowel Family — They Might Be Giants**
Cowboys from Hell — Pantera

*If Mr. Tbogg is interested, I have 13 DVDs of MP3s. There songs are all …. um … totally legally purchased and I’d let you … uhhh … just listen to them. Because, you know, copying music is wrong. Or so I hear. Anyway, not sure if it’d be up your alley (nothing on ‘em that’s been released in the past four years) and there’s a lot of just basic rock, jazz and classical, but send me an email if you’re interested.

**If anyone have kids, I highly recommend “Here Come the ABCs” from TMBG. It’s our three-year-old’s favorite and he just goes around belting out tunes from it all the time. What makes it great, though, is that it is incredibly enjoyable to listen to for us adults as well.

19th Nervous Breakdown - Tuxedomoon
Oop Shoop - Big John & the Buzzards
Being Scrubbed - Girls On Top
Cold city - Spizz Oil
Gratuitous Sax - Sparks
Living - Alice Cooper
Your Imagination - Anne Wallace
GROFÉ/GLASSER: Approaching Mars - Soundtrack, 1950
I Found a Reason [demo] - The Velvet Underground
New way - The Wall

1. Close To You (Carpenters cover) - Barenaked Ladies
2. The National Anthem - Radiohead (proudly following in the footsteps of cactusjackwallace)
3. Main Offender - The Hives
4. Almost Ready - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Cataracts - Andrew Bird
6. Wake Up Alone - Amy Winehouse
7. Feel Your Love Tonight - Van Halen
8. Days Of Wine And Booze - The Minus 5
9. Wild Horse (Rolling Stones cover) - Iron And Wine/Calexico
10. Crucified - Sevendust

Bonii:

11. Grace - Jeff Buckley
12. Trash - New York Dolls

Me likey.

Also, love all the Bob Mould/Husker Du love here. Saw the Huskers (the Du?) in Cleveland (Lakewood) on the Warehouse tour, met Bob afterward, had my car towed, got bailed up by a punker dude in exchange for promising to buy a cassette of his band (wow, was it bad). Good times, good times.

oops, bailed “out” (bailed up sounds a bit kinky).

The “No longer Pre-Friday and I’m still $*%^&ing sick” Random Tennish

1) “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” - Pure Football Anthems
2) “What’s Left of the Flag (Live in LA)” - Flogging Molly
3) “Party for your Right to Fight” - Public Enemy
4) “The Voice of Enigma” - Enigma
5) “Chemical Youth” - Queensryche
6) “The Right Profile” - The Clash
7) “Off My Line” - Spin Doctors
8: “I Believe In You” - Neil Young
9) “So far Away” - Social Distortion
10) “Sultry Sirens of Sin” - PA Renn Faire

Bonus Tracks

X+1) “Toss the Feathers” - The Corrs
X+2) “Johnny Quest/Stop That Pigeon” - Reverend Horton Heat

not too bad on the cringe-o’meter
1. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More - The Allman Brothers Band
2. Half a World Away - R.E.M.
3. Sometimes - Widespread Panic
4. 17 - Cross Canadian Ragweed
5. Someday - Steve Earle
6. Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line - The Highwaymen
7. On Top - The Killers
8. Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
9. Seed of Wonder - Jesca Hoop
10. Whistled a Slow Waltz - The Silos
bonus 11 … more Allman’s — ah, the teen years:
11. Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band

Whata buncha hippies…

First rock concert I went to was the Stones and Stevie Wonder. Good (although vague) memories.

Bob Mould and Golden Palominos?!!?? I’m having flashbacks.

Nice try, but disorganized people do not back up their hard drives. In fact, they don’t know that they have hard drives.