“Black Night” – Buddy Guy
“Right Here Right Now” – Fatboy Slim
“What Good Am I?” – Bob Dylan
“I Remember” –Chapter Eight
“Ding Dong! Merrily On High” – Charlotte Church
“See The Sun” – Dido
“Big D’s PlaygroundTransition Man” – Everything
“Trails & Tribulations” – Cracker
“Stripped Intro” – Christina Aguilera
“The Dark Of The Matinée” – Franz Ferdinand

Plus Special Guest Track: “Rhapsody In Blue” – George Gershwin

Maybe that was pretty good, except for the Aguilera. And the Chapter Eight. And the Christmas song. Who am I kidding? It sucked.

REM was fun on the Colbert Report last night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Stipe look so happy. Unfortunately, during the performance, the drummer kept reminding me of Stumpy Pepys, so I was waiting for him to spontaneously combust.

Anyway, on to more serious matters:

Empty trucks once filled with coal,
Lined up like men on the dole.
Will they e’re be used again,
Or left for scrap just like the men?

There’ll always be a happy hour
For those with money, jobs and power.
They’ll never realise the hurt,
They do to men they treat like dirt. – Kay Sutcliffe

The Hobo Song – Old and In the Way*
The Music Goes Round and Round – Frank Froeba and His Swing Band
Cob-a-Coaling – Watersons
Monkey to Man – Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Hank Williams Jr.
Hells Bells – AC/DC
Cooksferry Queen – Richard Thompson (live)
Might as Well – The Persuasions
At the Zoo – Simon & Garfunkel
I’m So Tired – Beatles

Bonus #11, in solidarity with the workers of the world:

Coal Not Dole – The Oyster Band (Norma Waterson’s version brings tears to my eyes, but the iPod must be heeded.)

*Not me, no siree Bob.

I liked the drummer on Colbert. He seemed really into it and kind of spontaneous. They all did. It was fun.

Well, here goes another one.
1. She’s so high – Tal Bachman
2. Sailin’ on – Bad Brains
3. Paul Revere – Beastie Boys
4. Your Love Alone is not Enough – Manic Street Preachers with Nina Persson from the Cardigans
5. Hangin’ Around – Counting Crows
6. Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
7. Tarantula – Smashing Pumpkins
8. The Distance – Cake
9. Moving in Stereo – The Cars
10. One Headlight – Wallflowers

and because this is one of the most random ones I’ve ever had:
11. So Whatcha Sayin’ – EPMD

Wow, DC Hardcore, Dylan’s son, Tal Bachman, a Welsh band and the song from the best scene in Fast times and Ridgemont High. Gonna be a good day!

All Arctic Monkeys, all the time. I’m surprised it’s not getting old.

Is it almost Friday again? Woo hoo! And now…..

1. “Sunset Road”- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
2. “So Com Voce”- Thievery Corporation- The Mirror Conspiracy
3. “Ramble On Rose”- Grateful Dead- The Closing of Winterland
4. “Pre-Nup”- Outkast- Stankonia
5. “Rasta Man Chant”- The Wailers- Burnin’
6. “All Along the Watchtower”- DMB- Live Trax Vol. 5 {Rochester Hills, Mi. 8/23/95}
7. “B-Movie Box Car Blues”- The Blues Brothers- New Years Eve @ Winterland
8. “In 2 Deep”- Damien “Jr. Gong” Marley- Welcome to Jamrock
9. “Premier’s X-Ecution”- The X-Ecutioners- Built From Scratch
10. “Parachutes”- Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam

and one more (because I know some of you hate Dave playing “Watchtower”)-

11. “Ain’t No Fun (If The Homies Can’t Have None)”- Snoop Doggy Dog- Doggy Style

Lonnie Mack – “Memphis”
D.L. Menard – “The Back Door”
Neil Young – “Such A Woman”
Tom Petty – “The Apartment Song”
The Breeders – “Mad Lucas”
John Bayless – “With A Little Help From My Friends”
Jon & The Nightriders – “Moon Tide”
The Beatles – “I Saw Her Standing There”
Nik Kershaw – “Wouldn’t It Be Good”
Dick Dale – “The Pit”

Bonus #11
Junior Wells – “Snatch It Back And Hold It”

*Confession – I next tracked twice, both times when Mannheim Steamroller came up. So I am bad but not as bad as Doug Feith or John Yoo.

Caravan • The John Buzon Trio
The Lady Is a Tramp • Della Reese •
I Believe • Peter Searcy
The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead • XTC
Lilac Wine • Jeff Buckley
I’ll Be There • The Jackson 5
Questions at the End of the Day • Joe, Marc’s Brother
Give It Away • Cheap Trick
* • Starch Martins
Imperfection • Stone Deep
Fever • Peggy Lee
Love Songs • Fleming & John

Man, I was such a geek that I traced “Do Ya” back to it origins and found The Move and Roy Wood, and I got that “Brontausaurus” reference in Cheap Trick’s cover of “California Man,” …

…and I’m never going to get laid again, am I?

The iPod’s still in a partial state of reload.

Tiny Days, Scruffy the Cat.
Yolanda Hayes, Fountains of Wayne
Sooner or Later, World Party
Momma Killed Hate, Scruffy the Cat
Mine’s Not a High Horse, Shins
Chasing a Black Hat, Thom Beckman
Keith’s Lament, Scruffy the Cat
Obligatory Scott McCaughey: Power Mowers Theme, Young Fresh Fellows
Frozen Puck to the Head, Arrogant Worms
Which Side Are You On, Woody Guthrie

Bonus non-random off latest CD bought: Lovecraft in Brooklyn, The Mountain Goats, from Heretic Pride, which you should own because I said so.

Side A
The Police ~ Secret Journey
Van Halen ~ The Dream Is Over
Cassandra Wilson ~ I Can’t Stand The Rain
REM ~ Untitled
Modest Mouse ~ Blame It On The Tetons

Side B
Steve Miller – Mercury Blues
Polvo – Time Isn’t On My Side
Robyn Hitchcock – City Of Women
Bettie Serveert – Storm
Mike Stern – Lose The Suit

And, one for the ladies:
White Rabbits – Take a Walk Around The Table

2,100 songs and I get a contiguous double Nirvana. Go figure.

1. Tears Dry On Their Own / Amy Winehouse
2. Big Man / Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
3. The Sounds Of Science / Beastie Boys
4. Holy Moses / Follow For Now
5. I May Not Be Your Kind / Garland Jeffreys
6. My Morphine / Gillian Welch
7. Come As You Are / Nirvana
8. Pennyroyal Tea / Nirvana
9. Higher Ground / Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Hot Fun In The Summertime / Sly And The Family Stone

For the encore:
11. Five Percent for Nothing / Yes

No traces are present of my recent affinity for Death Row Records (Snoop, The Chronic), which has caused my family to question the sanity of this 54 year old white dood.

1. Coda - Jai Uttal And The Pagan Love Orchestra - Beggars And Saints
2. Flash - Harry James - I’ve Heard That Song Before: The Hits of Harry James (2 of 2)
3. Just My Imagination - Temptations, The -
4. Ronds de St. Vincent - Kornog - Ar Seizh Avel (On Seven Winds)
5. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
6. I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
7. I Ain’t Mad At Cha (Edit) - Tupac Shakur feat. Danny Boy - title
8. Something To Believe In - Clannad - Sirius
9. San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Take Me Back to Tulsa Disc 2 (Cherokee Maiden)
10. Dialogues des Carmélites, opera, FP 159 - Poulenc, Francois - Dialogues des Carmélites (2 of 2)
Bonus: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

1. “In the Sun” – Blondie
2. “Fun” – Sly & The Family Stone
3. “Honeysuckle Rose” – Coleman Hawkins
4. “Mexican Cousin” – Phish
5. “The Fisherman” – Leo Kottke
6. “Confessin’” – Charlie Cristian
7. “Doo Wop (That Thing)” – Lauryn Hill
8. “Dallas Blues” – Louis Armstrong
9. Debussy, Preludes, Book 2 – Feux d’artifices – Philippe Entremont
10. “Dead Flowers” – Rolling Stones

Bonus: “Ibi Won Ri O” – King Sunny Ade & His African Beats

Yes, I know, Phish. But what about the Leo Kottke? What a surprise and pleasure that it turned up.

“Masterplan (live)” – The Plasmatics – Metal Priestess
“Gun In Hand” – The Hourly Radio – Gun In Hand
“Lady Liberty” – Okkervil River – Don’t Fall In Love With Everyone You See
“Melodies & Desires” – Lykke Li – Youth Novels
“The Calexico Audition and Failing It” – Giant Sand – Official Bootleg Series Volume 5: Too Many Spare Parts In the Yard Close At Hand
“The Living End” – The Jesus and Mary Chain – Vienna 10/4/1987
“Angelus Novus” – Sort Sol – Everything That Rises Must Converge
“Mr. November” – The National – Alligator
“Rudra’s Feast” – Sir Richard Bishop – Improvika
“Hallucinations” – The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust

Bonus #11:
“The Carny” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Your Funeral…My Trial

the boxer – simon and garfunkle
civil war correspondent – john parish and pj harvey
i am trying to break your heart – wilco
take a walk – urge overkill
carry you down – son volt
bang bang – nancy sinatra
sophie – the wave pictures
everything goes to hell – tom waits
let it be – the beatles
debaser – the pixies

Afro – Erykah Badu
To Turn You On – Roxy Music
If It Crumbles – The Connells
Parthenon Drive – Echo and the Bunnymen
Missing (Todd Terry Remix) – Everything But the Girl (Compare and Contrast “I miss you/like the deserts miss the rain” to “And I’m going to miss you like a child misses its blanket”)
I Don’t Want to Lose You – The Smithereens
Listen to the Radio – Sloan
The Dead Heart – Midnight Oil
One step from heaven – The Adventures
Of These, Hope (Reprise) – Peter Gabriel

Bonus
Johnny – October Project

At some point I’m just going to have to accept that my iPod is mostly filled with music from the 80s and that this IS an accurate random sample.

1. Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – “Key To The Highway” – The Great Bluesmen
2. Langhorne Slim – “By The Time The Sun’s Gone Down” – When The Sun’s Gone Down
3. Guster – “Rainy Day” – Lost And Gone Forever
4. Tom Waits – “Bonus” – Real Gone
5. Bob Dylan – “I Threw It All Away” – Nashville Skyline
6. Perez Prado & His Orchestra – “Pianolo” – ¡Mondo Mambo! The Best Of Perez Prado & His Orchestra
7. Pixies – “Velouria” – Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of Pixies
8. Electric Light Orchestra– “Illusions In G Major” – Eldorado
9. The Cure – “Doing The Unstuck” – Wish
10. Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music – “Dance Away” – Street Life – Greatest Hits

**Bonus** Blind Lemon Jefferson – “Match Box Blues” – Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues

tbogg’s commenters: best musical taste on the internets!

Allow me to lower the bar:

1. De/Vision: “Blue Moon” (Unversed In Love)
2. New Order: “Avalanche” (Republic)
3. Skinny Puppy: “Mirror Saw” (Last Rites)
4. Virginia Astley: “A Long Time Ago” (”Temder” 12″ single)
5. Coil: “The Snow” (Love’s Secret Domain)
6. B-Movie: “Just an Echo” (The Platinum Collection)
7. Skinny Puppy: “magnifishit” (Mythmaker)
8. SSQ: “Big Electronic Beat” (Playback)
9. Planet Patrol: “Play At Your Own Risk” (Street Jams: Electric Funk, pt. 1)
10. The Cruxshadows: “Brithday (Through the Looking Glass club mix)” (”Birthday” CDS)

and the nail in the coffin:

10 1/2: Cabaret Voltaire, “James Brown” (Micro-Phonies)

Thank you for the opportunity to both procrastinate and quasi-publicly flaunt my outdated hipster musical preferences.

Well, no Neil Young this week.

10. “Got to Get Better in a Little While” Derek and the Dominoes
9. “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car” Iron and Wine
8. “Close to the Edge” Yes
7. “Do for the Others” Stephen Stills
6. “Music is Love” David Crosby
5. “Mercury” Kathleen Edwards
4. “Accordingly” Chris Whitley
3. “I Need a Miracle” Grateful Dead
2. “Mississippi” Bob Dylan
1. “Money Changes Everything” The Brains

This is a keeper! Strange though…

I Can Hear Music – The Mark Wirtz Orchestra & Chorus
Booji Boy’s Funeral – Devo
Thinkin’ Bout You Baby – Carol Knudson
Earwigs to Eternity – Alice Cooper
Monochrome Days – Thomas Leer & Robert Rental
Oh How To Do Now – He Said 27#11
Beri Beri – Kleenex [Liliput]
Someone Walked Over My Grave – Criswell
If You Are But A Dream – Barbara Cartland
River Deep, Mountain High – Ike & Tina Turner

Shriekback – Sway
Link Wray – Apache
3 Mustaphas 3 – Yogurt Koydum Dolaba/Televizyon
Vibrants – Stomp Crazy
Wall of Voodoo – The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly/Hang ‘em High
Joy Division – Isolation
Latin Playboys – If
Single Bullet Theory – Angels Over Tehran
Wire – Lowdown
Agent Orange – Misirlou

Pretty solid list, if I do say so myself.

The “Post-pre-Friday, post-kidney stone, pre-Ren Faire” Random Tennish

1) “I’m Not Down” – The Clash
2) “My Drag” – Squirrel Nut Zippers
3) “Shadows On Your Side” – Duran²
4) “Long May You Run” – Neil Young
5) “Every Breath You Take” – The Police
6) “Tolerance” – 9,999 Maniacs
7) “I Am the Law” – Anthrax
8: “Hard Times” – The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (highly recommended)
9) “Hateful Hate” – 9,999 Maniacs
10) “Erin Shore” – The Corrs

And a couple more for the road…

X+1) “Caught in a Mosh” – Anthrax
X+2) “Sally Brown” – Teddy Thompson

A sea shanty to wrap is somehow appropriate before heading to Faire!

Village Ghetto Land – Stevie Wonder
Tenderness (Original CHIC Mix) – Diana Ross
Jam On Revenge (The Wikki Wikki Song) – Newcleus
Spanish Grease – Willie Bobo
Go Exciting – Quando Quango
Slap Slap Lickedy Lap – Instant Funk
Blue Of Your Backdrop – Honk
When My Baby Left Me – Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
I Get Wild/Wild Gravity – Talking Heads
Two of Us – The Beatles

Theme For Kakutougi – Ryuichi Sakamoto
London – David Axelrod

Better late than never

1. Rock H-Bomb Rock – H-Bomb Ferguson
2. The Swell Season – Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
3. London Calling – The Clash
4. The Kilfenora Set – The Chieftains
5. Is That Love – Squeeze
6. Industrial Disease – Dire Straits
7. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
8. I Left My Heart In San Francisco – Tony Bennett
9. Echoes On “A” Street – Dropkick Murphys
10. Love Hurts – Gram Parsons (w/ Emmylou Harris)

Bonus:
11. Sunken Treasure – Wilco

oh, what the fuck, i’ll play. random 10 or 11 from the nano (the big one lives at home or in the car):

the big sky–kate bush, hounds of love
born in the u.s.a.–broooce, the essential
rainbow river–vashti bunyan, just another diamond day
hell is chrome–wilco, kicking television
right off–miles davis, agharta (this is a hand-corrected title; on CDDB it’s wrongly id’ed as “untitled”)
she’s a woman (and now he is a man)–husker du, warehouse: songs and stories
refuge of the road–joni mitchell, hejira
the well and the lighthouse–arcade fire, neon bible
impossible germany–wilco, sky blue sky
i am trying to break your heart–wilco, kicking television

bonus (and it better not be a wilco song): my sweet annette–drive-by truckers, decoration day

I Surrender, Dear – Django Reinhardt
Lucinda – Tom Waits
The Part You Throw Away – Tom Waits
Stash – Phish
Eddie You Should Know Better – Curtis Mayfield
I Can’t Explain – The Who
My Generation – The Who
Ripple – Grateful Dead
Beanbag Chair – Yo La Tengo
Over Big Top – John Scofield

Bonus: Tea Leaf Prophecy – Herbie Hancock w/Joni Mitchell

TomHilton, Link, Wall of Voodoo, and Agent Orange! Damn that’s nice!