Bye Bye Blackbird – Miles Davis
Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) – David Crosby
Victim of Love – Elton John
Certain People I Know – Morrissey
Village Ghetto Land – Stevie Wonder
Angels and Devils – Love and Rockets
TV In My Eye – Los Microwaves
Rasta Dub – Horace Andy
Tanzt Keiner Boogie – Silly
Synthetic Neutron – Sauver Mallia

Trip to Your Mind – Hudson People
The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago (Live) – Johnny Cash

Side 1

1. Transit Lounge / Crowded House
2. Saved By Zero / The Fixx
3. No One Knows My Name / Gillian Welch
4. Raga Nat Bhariav / Harry Manx
5. Give It Up Or Turnit Loose / James Brown

Side 4 (old dudes know how this works)

6. Dress Blues / Jason Isbel
7. Morning Morgantown / Joni Mitchell
8. The Fight Song / Marilyn Manson
9. Level / Raconteurs,The
10. Tennessee Waltz / Radiators

Bonus 45:

Side A: Longing / Ry Cooder VM Bhatt
Side B:. Johnsburg, Illinois / Tom Waits

1. “Joan of Arc” – Leonard Cohen (live)
2. “Rock’n’Roll Lifestyle” – Cake
3. “Song For The Dumped (Japanese)” – Ben Folds Five
4. “Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain” – Ween
5. “Walkin’” – Miles Davis (live, 1963)
6. “Rewind” – Big Audio Dynamite
7. “Hate” – Cat Power
8. “Sing Sing Sing” – Benny Goodman: 1938 Carnegie Hall
9. “M-O-N-E-Y” – Lyle Lovett (live)
10. “Rhapsody in Blue” – Czech State Radio Symphony Orchestra

and the salt around rim:

11. “Soul Dressing” – Roy Buchanan (live)

1) “Killing in the Name Of” – Rage Against the Machine
2) “Principles of Lust” – Enigma
3) “Spirits in the Material World” – The Police
4) “Katy Too” – Johnny Cash
5) “Candy Everybody Wants” – 9,999 Maniacs
6) “There You Go” – Johnny Cash
7) “In the Valley” – Midnight Oil
8: “The Song That Goes Like This” – Spamalot: Cast Recording
9) “Johnny Jump Up” – The Brobdingnagian Bards
10) “Secret Life” – The Corrs

On to the X+es

X+1) “March For Me Die For Me” – Cyclone Temple
X+2) “Lily the Pink” – The Irish Rovers

1. John Cale: Fadeaway Tomorrow
2. Johnny Cash: You Are My Sunshine
3. Heavy Trash: Pure Gold
4. The Kinks: Strangers
5. Roy Loney and the Young Fresh Fellows: I Couldn’t Spell !!*@!
6. Santana: Open Inventation
7. Hansson & Karlsson: Pick-up
8. Galt MacDermot: Bedroom
9. The Son of P.M.: James Bond Theme
10. John Lennon & Yoko Ono: I’m Losing You

“Head All Fire” – Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
“Personal” – The Ballet
“Ask Me a Question” – Minipop
“Ruby Tuesday” – The Rolling Stones
“Somewhere Like Me (Feelin’ Blue)” – The Walking Dead
“Leilani” – Hoodoo Gurus
“Are You Passionate?” – Groovie Ghoulies
“Give Back the Key To My Heart” – Doug Sahm
“Mill Working Man” – Poppin’ Mommas
“Clear Off” – The Fall

Bonus tracks:
“Love Split With Blood” – 8 Eyed Spy
“Fine Young Cannibals” – Wolf Parade

OK, two weeks ago someone (jokingly?) suggested picking random tunes out of our vinyl collection. Since I suspect the true goal of this exercise is embarassment, this would give likes of Paul Vance a fighting chance of peeking out. I stuck with my 7″ collection & did a random walk among them by flipping a coin 9 times per selection. Note that this only chooses a slab of vinyl, not a track, so I then had to flip for the track, giving a one-song promo an unfortunate advantage over anything on, say, RRR-100, a collection of 100 locked grooves. The results surpassed my expectations & I especially liked the last pairing:

Small Electric Piece – Bruce Gilbert
The Plumber’s Song – The Optomists
Marcelle Vahine – The Kingston Trio
OFFENBACH: Barcarolle – The American Radio Warblers (a knock-off of Hartz Mountain’s Master Radio Canaries)
Papa’s Got the Wagon – Gloria Walker
ARBAN: The Carnival Of Venice – Cities Services Band Of America/Paul Lavalle
KING: Kentucky Sunrise/Prince Of Decorah Galop – Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Band
Shining Star – Earth, Wind & Fire
Holy War People – Early Morning Telescope (1987)
The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion) – Gordon Sinclair

The latter link will lead you to a ZIP file of a spoken-word compilation that also includes Father Guido Sarducci’s hilarious answer-record, “A European (Speaks Up for the US)”. Some of the other tracks look tempting, too. Go. You’ll thank yourself.

BONUS – Beta Band – It’s Over