1. Androgyny--Garbage
2. Blues From a Gun--the Jesus & Mary Chain
3. White Rabbit--Collide
4. Deep Red Bells--Neko Case
5. Something Great--Dear Euphoria (sort of. LaLa thinks this album is some parental advisory hip hop thing when it's actually a Stockholm-based singer-songwriter named Elina Johansson, so although it popped up as Dear Euphoria, it wasn't, so I really skipped it.
6. Want More Need Less-Curve
7. A Forest--The Cure
8. Taxicab Messiah--Kidney Thieves
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart--Joy Division
10. Angel Bell--Cranes

1. "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Rufus Wainwright) -- God, I love this song. Rufus is just so lush in his harmonies, and it could be totally cheesetastic (it's from the Zoolander soundtrack, after all) but instead it's awesome.
2. "Salsation" (David Shire) -- Yes, I have the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on my work computer.
3. "Your Weather" (Dinosaur Jr.) -- my boyfriend is a Dinosaur Jr. freak, and I borrowed a bunch of his cds when I was bored and looking for something new. We saw them in October; great show I wasn't expecting to like so much.
4. "It's About Time" (The Lemonheads) -- same with the Lemonheads. Is this 1992? Where is my flannel?
5. "Agnus Dei" from Requiem (composer: Maurice Durufle) -- another choir did this work when I was in college, and it's just stunning. Durufle was a big organ guy. It's gorgeous.
6. "Danca 2" from Saudades do Brasil (composer: Darius Milhaud) -- I was a music history student in college. These pieces were on our listening cds one semester, and I remembered the name and got them again. I probably couldn't pick them out on the radio, though.
7. "Helpless" (Sugar) -- again with the boyfriend's cds. I do hope we can go see Bob Mould when he's next in the area.
8. "Satan's Bed" (Pearl Jam) -- huh, I guess I put "Vitalogy" on this computer.
9. "I Just Got Wise" (The Stanley Brothers) -- yet another of the boyfriend's cds, though I do like them and I do like bluegrass.
10. "All Through the Night" (Cyndi Lauper) -- this is a recording off of a radio show which shall not be named, but the boyfriend put it on a mix cd he made for me last year.

Geez, I guess I know who my supplier is these days.

1. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- Lucinda Williams
2. On the Day -- Jackson Browne
3. If It Be Your Will -- Leonard Cohen (I have three versions of this so no huge surprise)
4. Here I Am -- Emmylou Harris
5. Surfin' Bird -- The Trashmen
6. Days of Elaine -- The Decemberists
7. Slow Movin' -- Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
8. Peregrine -- Donovan
9. A Place Called Home -- PJ Harvey
10.All That Glitters -- Le Tigre

Blues From a Gun--the Jesus & Mary Chain

That's an often overlooked, under-rated JAMC song that I love, crush!

Mine (from my phone, which is about 20% of the collection, but is the stuff I'm most listening to right now):

1. Book of Love - "Lost Souls": an album track from an 80s Italian synth-pop band that I still love. (Their 2nd album had a cover of Tubular Bells" on it!)

2. Mercury Rev - "Spiders & Flies": I don't listen to Mercury Rev all THAT much, but every time they pop up I think I should listen to them more.

3. Prince - "I Would Die 4 U": one of my favorite Purple Rain tracks, esp. the way it slams right into "Baby I'm A Star."

4. Hidden Cameras - "Fee Fie": I'll always be grateful to whoever it was that posted "The Boys of Melody" here at MeCha many years ago and introduced me to this band.

5. Negativland - "Sycamore": sound collage thingy from their Escape From Noise album.

6. Wire - "Boiling Boy": not one of my favorites from them, but okay

7. Peter Gabriel - "Home Sweet Home": from his 2nd solo album, which I didn't used to care for all that much, but have just recently warmed up to.

8. The Velvet Underground - "Lisa Says" I really do listen to a lot of music made THIS century, too. Honestly.

9. XTC - "Ballet For A Rainy Day" Not gonna get any in this playlist, though, apparently.

10. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - "Don't Leave Me This Way": Oh wow, this is one of those songs I'll sometimes put on repeat and listen to ten or twenty times in a row. Everything about it is so gorgeous, and I sure do miss Teddy Pendergrass.

1- "Chains of Love" - The Dirtbombs
2- "Pump Up The Volume" - The Cool Kids
3- "Smithereens" - El-P
4- "Bubblz" - Anti-Pop Consortium
5- "Squeegee Man Shooting" - El-P (I always get repeat artists in these threads. At least it's a different album)
6- "Rock The Convoy" - Rob Sonic
7- "I'm Coming Over" - X
8- "This November" - Tim Barry
9- "All Hands Against His Own" - The Black Keys
10- "Forward To Death" - Dead Kennedys

Work iTunes.

1. Glory Box (OCCID Remix) -- Portishead
2. How Deep is Your Love -- Bee Gees
3. Cambridge 1969/2007 -- Yoko Ono
4. Never Get Old -- Sinéad O'Connor
5. Phantom Limb -- The Shins
6. Diablo Rojo -- Rodrigo y Gabriela
7. God is in the Roses -- Rosanne Cash
8. Never -- Heart
9. Until the End of the World -- U2
10. (eep!) Guilty -- Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb

1. The Sounds of Science - Beastie Boys
2. Wishin' and Hopin' - Dusty Springfield
3. Rattlesnakes Smell Like Split Cucumber - Califone (love love love this album)
4. Just Dance - Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis (yay Gaga!)
5. You Made It - DJ Shadow Featuring Chris Fames
6. I Don't Wanna Hear It - Minor Threat
7. The Only Moment We Were Alone - Explosions in the Sky
8. Another Breakfast With You - Ladytron
9. A Quarter's Worth - Boys Life
10. My Father's House - Bruce Springsteen

1. Flatness - Uncle Tupelo (It's rare that there's not something from some faction of the Farrar/Tweedy universe in a playlist of mine)
2. The Grateful Dead - Morning Dew (1977-05-08)
3. Jenny Lewis - Happy(Reprise)
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
5. Bob Dylan - Can't Wait
6. Dire Straits - Skateaway
7. Bruce Springsteen - Mrs. McGrath
8. Charlie Parker - My Old Flame
9. She and Him - In the Sun
10. The Saints - I'm Stranded

The Pixies -- Cactus
Mogwai -- Thank You Space Expert
The Kropotkins -- They Are There
Townes Van Zandt -- Talkin' Thunderbird Blues
The Clash -- Garageland
Mastodon -- Colony of Birdmen
Talking Heads -- Paper
Lucinda Williams -- Lake Charles
Eels -- Marie Floating Over The Backyard
King Khan & The Shrines -- (How Can I Keep You) Outta Harm's Way

1. 一大事!? from the Azumanga Daioh soundtrack
2. Tell Me What You See by The Beatles
3. Not Guilty by The Beatles
4. First movement from Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto, played by Emil Gilels
5. Fire and Rain by James Taylor
6. I'm Only Sleeping (by The Beatles), covered by Neal Casal
7. An interview track from The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
8. Providence by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
9. Every Day I Have the Blues by B.B. King
10. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles

Hmm. I have a lot of Beatles.

Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum
X - Painting The Town Blue
Van Morrison - I'm In Heaven When You Smile
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Dub is What We Need
The Cowboy Junkies - My Only Guarantee
The Kinks - Too Much Monkey Business
Everything But The Girl - Wrong (Todd Terry Remix)
Mousse T - I'm So Horny
Holly Golightly - My Love is
Thievery Corporation - Shaolin Satellite

Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Heart of Glass (12")- Blondie
Movie Loves A Screen - April Smith & The Great Picture Show
Waterloo - Abba
Telephone - Lady Gaga
Minority (live) - Green Day
Looking for Clues - Robert Palmer
Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
I Want You Back - Bananarama

Do we also do explanations? I like explanations. For vermisslitude I will listening to each song as long as it takes for write the explanation

and P.P.S, good music on the shuffles here.

Ahem

Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism

Oh HELLO THERE 19 Year Old John. Yah, things suck, right? God that apartment. You totally should do that art show where you dress up as Andy Warhol and set girls on fire. Go DO THAT. LET THIS SONG BE YOUR GASOLINE.

Big John Bates - Vampire Lezbos

Oh BJB. I'm friends of a friend of like half this band and they where all over when I was doing the show circuit. Ahh, sleazy memories.

Bernard Hermann - Twisted Nerve

So fun story, I used this with my BF and then he learned to do it with me so we could find each other in crowded places. When it popped up in Kill Bill we both where so shocked that we kinda missed the first fight. So it's a good tune.

Unknown Artist - Teen Artist

I have no idea what this is-uh some 50s rock number, TEEN STREET. I must have got this from a compilation. It's got a beat and you can dance do it, but it's very vanilla. White people rock.

Elvis Costello - Veronica

This was the first Elvis Costello I ever heard so it has a place in my heart. I still hum the bridge when I'm waiting for the bus.

Man Or AstroMan - Evil Plans Of The Planet Spectra

FUCK YES. This is teenage John in the good way. Rock it! duh duh dah duh dah duuuuuh dan dan duuuuuuuh. SPACE MUSIC.

Siouxsie Sue And The Banshees - Happy House

It's good writing music, and, well, it makes me think of Sandman #10 and all that. Back when being an adult could mean living in a house with a bunch of girls named Midnight.

George Michael - Faith

So you ever see The Rules Of Attraction? There's a scene where the two fuckup gay guys dance/drunk make-out on hotel bed to this song. I like that scene. Then there is Faye Dunaway.

MST3K - Tubular Boobular

"It's an aerological autoerotical tubular boobular joy!"

The Sundays - Wild Horses

Oh this comes up a lot in these things, okay I'll tell it again. So In HS, Buffy The Vampire Slayer came on right when I came home from school in a two hour block. I got hooked. Seriously hooked. like how only a teenager can. So I wanted to watch the show out of re-runs and started to catch up on the current season, so I stayed up to watch the Prom episode in an empty house cause my brother was off with his dad and my Mom was working late and staying at her beau's house after cause it was closer. So here I am, nervous overachiving terminally unromanced Whelk eating a grilled cheese sandwich when BUFFY TOTALLY GETS TO BE THE PROM HERO and then ANGEL SHOWS UP TO DANCE WITH HER AND CORDELIA DANCES WITH WES AND OMG WILLOW LOOKS SO CUTE IN HER DRESS AND THIS SONG IS PLAYING AND I FUCKING CRY. I CRY BIG TEARS and to this day, no piece of film, no matter how affecting, can turn me into a soppy bit of crying sob pants then that prom dance.

Judy Garland - Battle Hymn Of The Republic

So Judy really wanted to sing this for JFK on his birthday but got pressed out at the last minute for Marilyn Monroe and it's also Hunter S. Thompson's favorite song, which I feel is enough to wrench it away from the South and claim it as my own. It's a glorious song.

Candyman - Aqua

There was a point in my early teens when Aqua was my FAVORITE BAND EVER. Which make sense, they're like weapons-grade cheer. Happy in injectable form. It's like Abba, people near the Arctic circle need the strongest purest upbeat to keep on living.

Pre War YardSale - Would Ed Wood

Found it on WFMU for a Halloween mix. I love it, no else does. Would Ed Wood yah Ed would.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Black Crowes

For a mixtape. It's ....okay.

Rod Zombie - Haloween (She Get So Mean)
For the above mentioned hallowen mix. Rod Zombie being all white trashy yet kinda cute for the market. Adorable

Joe Walks Out - Sunset Blvd. Sdntrk

"The Finale" is the brilliant bit on his disc. This, not so much.

Mine looks like an old person's mp3 player:

Plastic Ono Band: Money (live)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Welfare Mothers (live)

Eddie and the Hot Rods: Teenage Depression

Roxy Music: Love is the Drug

Tom Petty: Here Comes My Girl (live)

The Temptations: Ain't Too Proud to Beg

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Blowing in the Wind (live)

The Beach Boys: Shut Down

Buddy Holly & the Crickets: Maybe Baby

Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps: Who Slapped John?

(I am an old person)

1. Hangin' on the Telephone - Blondie
2. Something's happening - Peter Frampton
3. Happy Jack - The Who
4. I Love You Porgy - Nina Simone
5. Oh My Love - John Lennon
6. Save the Robots - Institute
7. Let's Hear it for the Boys - Deniece Williams
8. Heart and Soul - Huey Lewis & the News
9. Eddie's Teddy - Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
10. Don't You (forget about me) - Simple Minds

Oh. My. God.

1. Kingsbury Manx- Indian Isle--absolutely gorgeous song from a local band. Like half my mix cds from the last 7 years have included a Kingsbury Manx song, and clearly this song needs to join the ranks.

2. Grand Funk Railroad- the Loco-motion--I don't even have anything to say about this.

3/ Ben Folds Five- Your Redneck Past--I was really into Ben Folds Five in college and got my dad into them too. This is a fun song, but not a classic or anything.

4. Audubon Park--Window Lifestyles--one of my favorite local bands, now kind of defunct since the lead singer moved to Virginia, which sucks b/c he was one of my favorite people to talk to about books and we're both bad correspondents. This isn't one of my favorite songs of theirs but it's listenable.

5. Blitzen Trapper--War on Machines--good head-boppin' stuff.

6. Oakley Hall--First Frost--really pretty alt-countryish stuff.

7. Liz Phair-Dance of the Seven Veils--another cd I haven't listened to since college.

8. Choir of Young Believers-Wintertime Love--kind of droney and depressing but picks up a little halfway through.

9. Stereo Total- Cannibale--hilarious Europop band. half their songs sound like novelty songs and I'm ok with that.

10. The Magnetic Fields--I'm sorry I love you. One time I sold a comic book to Claudia from this band.

Blues From a Gun--the Jesus & Mary Chain

That's an often overlooked, under-rated JAMC song that I love, crush!

So, BoPo, it's interesting to read that because I have absolutely no concept of anyone's impression of JMC except my very own. Seriously. I forget other people even know who this band is. One day in college, someone handed me Darklands and I played it until I was hearing it in my sleep and someone else said "Jesus, give it a break" and handed me Psychocandy figuring I'd hate it. Then I played Psychocandy until I was hearing it in my sleep. Then Automatic was released and at no point did I ever even hear another person's opinion of any of it! Music--it's so weird. Such an equalizer, some times, and at other times, not.

It's like they are my beloved personal private own very special band and I'm always surprised to be reminded that, no, they're just another band which some people like, and some don't and some know that one song by and some have never heard of. It just never would occur to me that some of their songs are under- or over- rated!

That's interesting, crush!

I have bands like that, too, that I like in isolation and feel like I'm the only person who knows about them. But the JAMC were pretty popular at my college (this was when Psychocandy was their only album) and ever since it seems they're a band that people within my orbit knew about.

thanks bunnies, I love shuffle threads *heart heart*

1. AC Slater - Calm Down (VA: Scion CD Sampler V. 25: Trouble & Bass)
-- dubstep, kinda boring
2. AC/DC - Rock N Roll Train [Disco Mix] (radio promo single)
-- yes, a dance remix of AC/DC (one of you aren't missing anything). And at this point, I realized I wasn't actually shuffling anything. Shuffle, take 2:
3. Fujiya & Miyagi - Cylinders (Transparent Things)
-- a quiet little track, I think the rest of their stuff is more lively, but it's been a while
4. The Slew - You Turn Me Cold (100%)
-- heavy funk turntablism - so very good
5. Depeche Mode - Miles Away / The Truth Is (Sounds of the Universe)
-- not the best of their new stuff, but not the worst
6. Mirah - Advisory Committee [Advised by Shok Mix] (Joyride: Remixes)
-- a sparse re-arrangement of Mirah, rather fitting Mirah's vocals
7. Square - Billie Jean feat. Michael Jackson (The Mike We Like Remixes)
-- downtempo re-working of this track, I dig it.
8. Pendulum - Aphid (Greatest Hits: bootleg compilation)
-- back when Pendulum weren't fsking rock stars, and just made good, techy drum'n'bass
9. Saru - Suck In Love [live] (promo CDr)
-- spacy version of a track from is debut album. I bought a bunch of his stuff, and chatted with him about his music, and he sent me some promos. He's a nice chap
10. Port O'Brien - In Vino Veritas (All We Could Do Was Sing)
-- semi-local folks who make some damn fine indie rock. This song is light on the rock. They do a damn fine cover of Ludacris (yes, Ludacris), though that video version isn't as rawkin as they can (and should) get on it.
11. This Mortal Coil - Loose Joints (Blood)
-- "illbient" is a fitting genre indeed. Apparently I don't know TMC as well as I thought
12. Nim & Maestroshao - Anticumbia (VA: ZZK Sound Vol. 1 - Cumbia Digital)
-- not the best track of the comp, so I'll now listen to the rest of them.