I've had a bit of a Peter Gabriel resurgence myself, lately, Slack.

Mine:

1. Duran Duran "New Moon On Monday" Ok that's kind of embarrassing. But I can't help it, I still like 'em.

2. Kate Bush "Night Scented Stock" This is a spooky little vocal interlude from the Never For Ever album. Kinda cool to have it pop up between songs on shuffle play.

3. Marilyn Manson "Cryptorchid" A deep cut from Antichrist Superstar. Surprisingly moody for MM.

4. Mogwai "Rage- Man" A great song from the EP+2 EP, which is probably my favorite Mogwai album, oddly enough. My favorite track from it is "Burn Girl Prom Queen," but literally every song on it is excellent.

5. Calexico "Falling From Sleeves" An instrumental from their most recent album, which I really haven't paid enough attention to. This works really well after Mogwai.

6. Kirsty MacColl "Camel Crossing" MacColl is one of my pop music heroes. This song, though, is from her brief synthesizer-heavy period, which wasn't some of her best music.

7. Butthole Surfers "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" This song is so ridiculous and awesome. Also, a real workout to play in Guitar Hero. I'm pretty sure this was a collaboration between them and Ministry.

8. Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 3" This is the one right toward the end of the first disc. The Wall came out when I was in high school, so yeah, I listened to it a LOT.

9. Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus" More 80s love.

10. The Orb "Molten Love" This is one of the Orb's many tracks that works bet when heard as part of the whole album. It's all so seamless that way, you don't know where one song stops and another begins. Spacey and dreamy.

BoPo - I also listened to the Wall a LOT in High School. And in the past few months I've been listening to quite a bit of Kirsty MacColl.

Real Quick

1. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Dan Hicks
2. Psycho - Elvis Costello
3. Shrine - The Dreambuilders
4. Came So For for Beauty - Leonard Cohen
5. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
6. Older Guys - Flying Burrito Bros
7. Hey Ho - Tracy Grammer
8. Flower Lady - Phil Ochs
9. Candyman - Grateful Dead
10. The Stranger Song - Leonard Cohen

1. AC/DC - What do you do for money honey
2. Elvis Presley (Paul Oakenfold mix) - Rubberneckin'
3. Paul Oakenfold - Faster Kill Pussy Cat
4. Journey - Any Way You Want It
5. Missy Elliott - Back In The Day
6. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Pump It Up
7. The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
8. The Airborne Toxic Event - Missy
9. New Order - Perfect Kiss
10. The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker

No comment. It is shuffle.

I was complaining to Our Mutual Friend recently that, since they've blocked Facebook at work, I really really miss Friday Shuffle a-go-go.

Collide - The Lunatics have Taken Over the Asylum (Vortex): I cheated and chose to start with this.
Modern Jazz Quartet - ROckin and Rhythm (MJQ40): Yup, still haven't pulled the jazz out of the pop/rock/alt/nonjazz rotation. golly, I love MJQ. It's like being 6 years old, and having popovers, and sugar-milk-coffee on the brown rya rug, while Dad smokes a pipe.
Jesus and Mary Chain - Dream Lover (Munki): which is nothing like Sunday mornings when I was six.
Front Line Assembly - Digital Tension Dementia (Black Box IV); The best thing about an office with a door is the ability to play industrial a bit too loud when you're in a crap mood
Povi - First Day of Spring (Life in Volcanoes): One of those bands I have solely because of internet band clearinghouse sites. Liked the sample tunes, bought the disk, enjoy it when it comes up. This is just an interstitial.
Experimental Aircraft - With a Gun (Third Transmission): I'd like to hear them live
Supreme Beings of Leisure - Naughty Boy (Supreme Beings of Leisure): Songs like this are why I keep a stereo at home, so I can dance around in my undies and socks in the springtime.
The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Kiss Me Cubed): Instead of being fraught with a sense of knowing just how tormented I really am by life, college-ish-era Cure is now fraught with the memory of being so adolescent and tormented by life.
Elysian Fields - Shooting Stars (Dreams that Breathe Your Name): I talked to her once after a show; she was gorgeous; I was totally tongue-tied.
Cranes - Tomorrow's Tears (Wings of Joy): Guy sends the singer emails all the time. She answers him. It makes me giddy for convoluted personal reasons. They were awful--dead god awful--the first time I saw them live (jet lag, sound issues, poor choice of venue, inexperience? I don't know. I've never seen them perform again). So I rushed right out and bought this CD which was really good, but my roommates at the time despised.

Oscar Peterson - Just a Sittin' and Rockin' (from The Song Is You compilation)

Muzsikas ex Sebesyen - Ej Csillag, csillag: this is great folk music from Eastern Europe with Marta Sebestyen singing.

Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness
from Transatlanticism

Tommy Roe- Jam Up Jelly Tight:
Bubblegum goodness courtesy of Beeps..

The Lefevres - The Old Gospel Ship
this is from an excellent compilation of Southern Gospel music entitled Close Harmony

Greg Hooven - Darling Corey
a track from Classic Old-Time Fiddle compilation courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways

Two Gallants - The Deader: great SF-based two-piece band with serious alt-country psychedelic leanings.

Midlake - Head Home: from the Trials of Van Occupanther, a great gem of moody folk-pop.

Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond:
this one hit huge back like ten years ago or more, pure retro Jpop bliss

McCoy Tyner - Blues on the Corner:
more great jazz that has nested itself on my 'Pod that I have yet to listen to...(sigh)

oooh kay, I'm just gonna flick through the shuffle and not actually listen to 'em.

1. GARBAGE - My Lover's Box
Meh.

2. THE RACONTEURS - Level
mr. gaspode really likes this album. For me, I like this song a lot.

3. DIMMER - Lucky One
Shayne Carter (of Straitjacket Fits)'s solo project. The most produced music a NZ musician has *ever* put out, I would wager.

4. TV ON THE RADIO - Tonight
I love most of what these guys do

5. NIRVANA - Turnaround
incesticide. I like this album the best, I think.

6. THE DECEMBERISTS - The Crane Wife 1 & 2
*shrug* a lot of people don't seem to like this album? I like it.

7. VAN MORRISON - Dweller on the Threshold
Hopefully my only embarrassing entry. yeah.

8. MINK - Now I Remember Why I Hate You
Dunedin (my hometown) band. Kind of velvet underground-esque

9. NIRVANA - On a Plain
OK. I'm not *such* a nirvana fan, but whatevs.

10. PAUL SIMON - Further to Fly
certainly wouldn't be at the top of my Paul Simon list

@LT: Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond

OMG, WANT!

All shuffle, no listening (unless it's an awesome track):

1. "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" - Chris Isaak (Eyes Wide Shut OST)
2. "You Don't Know Me" - Diane Schurr & B.B. King
3. "Two Hearts" - Chris Isaak
4. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" - Prince
5. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby Ferrin
6. "Gambler's Prayer" (Demo) - Jonathan Coulton
7. "The Lady is a Tramp" - Frank Sinatra
8. "He Mele No Lilo" - Liko & Stitch OST
9. "If Venice is Sinking" - Spirit of the West (gonna come back and listen to this one)
10. "Live Panel at Keikon 2009" - a Loading Ready Run podcast... how did that get in there?

Cooooool I Love These.............


Joan As Policewoman - Holiday
Brooke Benton & Dinah Washington - Baby You've Got What It Takes
Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch Record
Elvis Costello - Bedlam
Beck - Nicotine & Gravy
Dave Alvin - Rockin' Lafeyette
Blue Number Nine - Dont't Let Them
Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side
Fela Kuti - Sense Wiseness
Coco Montoya - Monkey Business
The Black Ghosts - Its Your Touch
Julie London - Blues In The Night
Run DMC - Walk This Way

That Was 13 . OK, So I Cant Count :p

Now I Can Start Looking For All The Cool Stuff From This List That I Dont Already Have !

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Supper Trooper: I'm not going to apologize for this one. Max Raabe takes pop tunes and turns them into old music hall numbers. He's immensely popular in Germany.

Tom Waits - Tango Til They're Sore - At any given moment there is probably an hour of Tom Waits within my grasp

The 5.6.7.8s - The Barracuda - SO FUCKING HAPPY THIS SONG IS.

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain - I am large. I contain multitudes.

Eco & The Bunnymen - The Cutter - I am large. I contain multitudes.

White Stripes - The Denial Twist - God I love that guitar sound.

The Clash - Guns Of Brixton - I was 12 and angry once too. Song holds up surprisingly well.

Thomas Dolby - The Key To her Ferrari - I heard this in the lobby of the Standard Hotel in Hollywood and then bought the DJ a drink because I love this song so much.

Little Shop Of horrors - The Meek Shall Inherit - The meek are gonna get what's coming to them! Bum ba dum ba dum!

The Pippettes - I love You - Have I mentioned how much I love the Pippettes? Well, I do. A lot.

1. Cake - She'll Come Back to Me
2. Neil Young - Why Do I Keep Fucking Up?
3. The Band - Lonesome Suzie
4. Grateful Dead - You're Not Woman Enough To Take My Man
5. The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
6. The White Stripes - My Doorbell
7. Whiskeytown- Reasons To Lie
9. Otis Reading - Cigarettes and Coffee
10. Muddy Waters - Standing Round Crying

1. The Von Ehrics - East Nashville Softshoe (Dallas cowpunk band)
2. Superchunk - Press
3. Old 97s - King of All The World
4. Holy Fuck - Frenchy's
5. Cannibal Ox - Battle for Asgard
6. Tom Waits - Never Let Go
7. Bad Religion - How Much is Enough?
8. William Elliott Whitmore - Lord Only Knows
9. Youth Brigade - All Style, No Substance
10. Aesop Rock - The Harbor is Yours

1) Pere Ubu - My Dark Ages I didn't know I had this. I am cooler than I suspected.
2) The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama I like many of the songs on this album. This is not one of them.
3) John Coltrane - Ascent DAMN but I'm cool.
4) Dale Watson - If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might As Well Go to the Bottom) I might be cool, but Dale Watson could kick my ass.
5) The Replacements - Bent Out of Shape "It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Roadie Sings" is a great name for a live record.
6) Television - Prove It Yeah, I'm pretty fuckin' cool.
7) Rachmaninoff - Velichit Dusha Moya Gospoda And cultured, too! BoPo sent me this. Lovely choral music.
8) Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach OK, "cool" is starting to morph into "pretentious douchebag". But I LOVE this record. Also, have I heard this song in a MasterCard ad or something?
9) Hanson Brothers - Lovesick Canuck punk courtesy of elizard.
9.5) Giant Sand - Swerving This one doesn't count. That song's only 30 seconds long.
10) Green on Red - Easy Way Out Back before there was a genre called "alt-country", there was Green on Red.

1. Jefferson Airplane - Long John Silver
2. Hunters and Collectors - Everything's on Fire
3. Rod Stewart - You Belong to Me
4. Pink Floyd - Corporal Clegg
5. Jimi Hendrix - Soul Food
6. Skyhooks - Why Don't You all Get Fucked?
7. Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
8. Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)
9. Pat Benatar - Please Come Home for Christmas
10. Violent Femmes - Please Do Not Go (Demo)

A little more eclectic than my usual mix, because I took it from my home desktop, which contains all my music instead of just the stuff I listen to regularly.

Cilvaringz - Fight For Your Life
Mongo Santamaria - Happy Now
Biddu - Qurbani Bonus Beats
Jerry Granelli and Jeff Reilly - Movement 7
Mingus Big Band - Self-Portrait in 3 Colors
Thelonious Monk - Crepuscule With Nellie
Cassandra Wilson - What Is It
Bud Powell - Reets and I
Last Exit - Big Boss Man
Betty Davis - Anti-Love Song

Lots of jazz, some breaks, some percussion, some cover songs, some random rap--seems about right.

1 MODEST MOUSE - Third Planet: I don't know if I've heard this song more than once, which makes me really cool and really uncool at the same time. I don't much like the arrangement or the vocal treatments. For a song that depends entirely on arrangement and vocal treatments, that's a deal-breaker. Maybe the lyrics are good, but I can't be bothered, it's too talky.

2 GRADY MARTIN - When My Dream Boat Comes Home: Nonpareil roughneck swing; while it isn't the most original music ever, it's damn virtuosic, I tell you what!

3 JACKIE MOORE - Precious Precious: Sweet midtempo Atlantic soul, "you take the good with the bad and the bittersweet;" truer words were ne'er spoke. Just listen to that ride cymbal slide along.

4 WILLIE NELSON - Denver: My mom went to high school in Denver. Short song, nothing more to say!

5 INTERPOL - Obstacle 1: No wonder I never listen to this. It sounds like a good band, slumming. If you're gonna write a two chord song, choose better chords. The (excellent) rhythm section is really carrying this band. The guitarist is neither inventive nor particularly skilled. Once again, modern vocal treatments attempt to make up for blah singing. The guitar/bass figure they introduce for the last sixteen or so measures is pretty nice, though.

6 JUNIOR DAN - Red, Gold, and Green Rainbow: If you really dig roots reggae, you either already know this song or you should go find a copy. Sure, it's derivative, but so's most reggae. The thing about this song that sets it apart from the rest? I couldn't tell you, but it really breathes. Chuck!

7 EDDIE MONEY - Trinidad: Before the cheese sets in, that first guitar figure, that's pure juju! Aside from the awful production and Eddie's boring voice, this is a pretty good song. Basically, everything the clean guitar plays (I think it's a Tele through a Twin) is perfect. The syrupy backing vocals expend all the goodwill the great organ playing engenders. But that juju is worth it.

8 LUPE FIASCO - The Instrumental (f. Jonah Matranga): Okay, first of all, I gotta confess, I think titling a song with lyrics "The Instrumental" is just so awesome. This is a great few-year old rap number with a sinuous beat and an MC who really knows what he's doing. Never Lie!

9 Magma - Ürgon Gorgon (Bobino 1981): Okay, my predilection for interstellar French prog is well-documented. These guys are the best. Live super funky instrumental space jam. At six minutes, this track is a lucky shuffle. Sometimes one of their 30-minute live jams floats into the mix; that would be a little tough for this exercise to handle. Zeuhl!

10 Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave is Kept Clean: I couldn't agree more. I'm gonna repeat this song before going on to the bonus track. This is as good as it gets. They sure don't make 'em like they used to.

Bonus track M.O.P. - Ante Up remix (Album Version): Muthafuckah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Oh shit, M.O.P., muthafuckah! Yeah! Uh, uh, Yeah! All y'all muthafuckas, yeah! Bitch, run that! Yeah, Uh! Muthafuckah! Ante up! Young buck got struck with a gun butt! Yeah! Uh! Cap that fool! Kidnap that fool! Ante Up!

I wanna keep going, can you believe, Matthew Sweet is next with "Until You Break;" I could write a paragraph about how this beautiful song's most beautiful turn is a total ripoff of Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town," but I don't want to test your patience, dear reader.