1. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - I Only Want to Be With You (At Her Very Best)

Word.

Can't do a shuffle right this moment, but I'll be back for sure.

I remember buying that 2 CD Dusty collection thinking that 2 discs might be a bit much since I already owned Memphis - but damn was I wrong. 2 discs isn't enough. That comp is loaded to the gills with great songs.

1. The Clean--Do your thing

2. Pat Benatar--Love is a Battlefield (I secretly love those 80s comps called things like "Awesome 80s" and "Rock Dreams" plus this song rocks.)

3. Mates of State--A control group

4. The Bicycles--Thanks for calling

5. Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair--Near to You (I love Teenage Fanclub so much, this reminds me to listen to their newest album like a thousand more times in a row)

6. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci--Let those blue skies (such a pretty song)

7. Palomar--Honestly

8. Tracy Thorn--Long White Dress

9. the Bird and the Bee--Private Eyes (from their album of Hall and Oates covers, which is just so fun)

10. Dean and Britta--Teenage Lightning and lonely highways (Sonic Boom remix)--from their new album, the Andy Warhol silent films soundtrack. The songs don't work as well without the video but this one is pretty good.)

1. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 say what you will, it's one of my summertime pop tops.
2. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations (live from Lollapalooza)
3. Guster - Satellite I think I have more than one copy of this on my ipod by mistake
4. Shriekback - Gunning for the Buddah - Big Night Music - This album holds up so well. Great great.
5. Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
6. Tom Waits - Jesus Gonna Be Here
7. The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage - courtesy of danf, thanks!
8. Keb' Mo' - I'm So Lonsome I Could Cry - Hank Williams Tribute Project of some kind - possibly yanked from metachat back in the day - Senyar? Thanks?
9. Ben Harper & The Relentless Seven - Shimmer And Shine - this is kinda new, right? I'm hip, right?
10. The Black Keys - I Got Mine - Attack & Release. That's newish too!

1. Heaven Sent - INXS OK, off to a good start
2. Saboteur Mix - by mefi's own tehloki, not sure he wants his real name here
3. Karma (Katsuma) - Takeo Izumi - Japanese shakuhachi
4. Society - Eddie Vedder - from the Into the Wild soundtrack
5. The Way (Svenson & Gielen Club Mix) - Divine Inspiration - because sometimes my home office turns into a gay bar
6. Family Affair - Mary J. Blige - well who doesn't like this one?
7. Have You Ever - The Offspring - yay college angst
8. Let's Trade Skins - Great Lake Swimmers - relaxing & mellow
9. Listen to your Heart (Furious F. EZ radio edit) - DHT featuring Edmee - see above about gay bar
10. I Am Part of a Large Family - Great Lake Swimmers - see #8

Arcade Fire - Deep Blue - Just got the new album, haven't really listened to it much yet.
Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies - Saw them play in the park last Sunday, great show.
The Black Keys - The Desperate Man - I'm pretty addicted to these guys.
Jay Farrar - Different Eyes
Neko Case - Don't Forget Me
She & Him - Don't Look Back - Thought that this was a vanity project at first but there's some great songs here
Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Drive-By Truckers - Drag the Lake Charlie - I love everything they do
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dragon Queen - Been into Karen O. since seeing the Where The Wild Things Are movie.
The National - England

I've been making an effort to update my music catalog and listen to more new stuff. Nothing there's really cutting edge but at least I'm not listening to so much old Dylan and Dead these days.

Subterranean Homesick Blues -Bob Dylan
Blue Eyes Cryin in The Rain- Willie Nelson
Defying Gravity - Glee Cast
Magpie to the Morning Neko Case
He's a Whore - Cheap Trick
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Don't Cry No Tears - Allison Moorer
Hideaway - The Weepies
Hello Seattle -Owl City

Well. This is an embarrassing game.

Big Boss Man - Grateful Dead
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Been to the Well Before - Holmes Bros.
My Eyes Get Misty - Girlyman
Friend is a Four Letter Word - Cake
Even the Losers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Store Room - Leonard Cohen (a "bonus track on the CD version of his first album)
Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams
Shorty Falls in Love - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Here I Am - Tegan and Sara

The Clash - One More Time
The Slackers - Leave Me
Guttermouth - The KKK Took My Baby Away (Live)
Elliott Smith - Everything Means Nothing To Me
Mary J Blige - Sweet Thing
Christina Agulera - Keeps Gettin' Better
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart - Muffin Man (Live)
Yo La Tengo - Rock & Roll Santa
Ronnie Earl - Through Floods And Storms
Morrissey - Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
Bettye Lavette - I still Want To Be Your Baby

Oh shnap, I've been rocking the 'shuf' lately too! It's only what I have on my laptop HD, not my whole collection:

1. C-Bo - Stackin' Gs chopped and screwed version from Hurricane Duck Bootleg mixtape by DJ Screw.

2. Flying Lotus - MmmmHmmm (feat. Thundercat) I just got this album and I'm not really feeling it. It's like it's too dense or something.

3. Waajeed - Tetris (instrumental) from Blu Jemz Presents: Beat Machine. This track reminds me of when I saw the anti-pop consortium live and how great they were, even though they didn't have a working mic.

4. OnDubGround - B & H from the Octopus 3 compilation from the Fresh Poulp netlabel. This isn't a particularly strong track - yes, I listen to generic indie dubstep

5. Machinae Supremacy - Little Green Men from the unbelievably awesome Jets 'n' Guns OST. Metal band meets chiptune band, they shoot down a huge armored fortress together.

6. Hellfish And Producer - A Journey Of Force (Bastard Mix) from Bastard Sonz Of Rave.

7. John Zorn - Beyond the Infinite from The Goddess (Music For The Ancient Of Days). I don't know about this album but this is a strong piece, only, no dynamics. Maybe that's what's been bugging me about Zorn's most recent stuff.

8. Dizzee Rascal - Wanna Be (Ft. Lily Allen) from Maths and English.

9. kontest - Under Pressure from somewhere on the internet. This is some random bedroom-producer jungle I got from a French mp3.com-type website. It is a mystery.

10. Matmos - Messages from the Unseen World from For Alan Turing EP. The universe is the interior of a light cone of creation.

1. Robyn Hitchcock "Trams of Old London" from my favorite Hitchcock album, I Often Dream of Trains

2. David Byrne & Brian Eno "Strange Overtones" I like this song a lot, but my partner is absolutely crazy about it.

3. Hidden Cameras, "Boys of Melody" The first song I ever heard from these guys, and I found it via MetaChat! Now I have just about all of their stuff.

4. Modest Mouse, "Fly Trapped In A Jar"

5. OK Go, "It's A Disaster"

6. Big Star, "She's a Mover"

7. Belle & Sebastian, "Act of the Apostle"

8. Magnetic Fields, "The Night You Can't Remember" One of their many gender-benders, where he sings in first-person about a female character.

9. Blue Oyster Cult, "Cagey Cretins" I always listen to a lot of BOC in the summertime.

10. Add N to (X), "Grey Body, Green Gun"

I'm stuck on Michael Franti & Spearhead, so I'm currently shuffling the All Rebel Rockers album. It is teh awesome.

youngergirl44, that was the only thing on my mandatory In-Laws Holiday gift list I didn't receive. I just know it is languishing in that house somewhere, and it makes me sad. It is quite awesome.

Tallest Man on Earth - Troubles Will Be Gone (he is my current total obsession, so it was nice that this came up.)

James McMurtry - You'd A Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die) Well, James, of course.

Nanci Griffith - Canadian Whiskey

Calexico - Bend To The Road

Apples in Stereo - Joanie Don't You Worry (my ipod uses this as a bridge song between genres, I swear.)

Refreshments - Down Together (my favorite love song ever)

The Kooks - See The World

XTC - Fly on the Wall

Harry Nilsson - Think About Your Troubles (this one never comes up on shuffle so I was thrilled to hear it.)

The Shins - Know Your Onion

OMG slack I cannot convey how delighted I am that you mentioned The White Animals.

THEY PLAYED MY HIGH SCHOOL DANCE!

They were among the very first bands I ever saw live!

Wow.

1. Rob Thomas - Someday - Cradlesong

2. Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat - Live in Texas

3. Grimace - A l'arme, a l'arme - Ars Magis (early music collection)

4. Patti Smith - Fireflies - Gone Again

5. Jonny Lang - Outro - Turn Around

6. Ella Fitzgerald - Goody Goody - Compact Jazz

7. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - Bad Romance

8. Herbie Hancock - Here Come de Honey Man - Gershwin's World

9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Allegro - Mozart String Quartets

10. Bonnie Raitt - I Feel the Same - Bonnie Raitt Collection

1. Momus - More Shopping

I kinda love this song. it sounds like a William Gibson novel "...Media language traffic jam"

2. Santogold - L.E.S Artists

Sometimes I like to be 18 you know?

3>Propellerheads - Spybreak

When did I buy this? I huh. Okay. Hm

4. Earthbound - Threed theme

this was the best SNES game ever and I will cut you if you say otherwise. Earthbound was like POETRY.

5.Oh What A Feeling

So I had a mix of cheesy "training montage" themes a while ago. This is from that.

6. PLacebo - 20th Century Boy

PLAIN TO SEE YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME I'M YOUR TOY 20TH CENTURY BOY

7.Dropkick Murphys - Fuck you I'm Drunk

FUCK YOU I'M DRUNK.

8.Neil Young - The Painter

I have this song and I have literally never listened to it. Huh.

9.Rufus Wainright - Hallelujah

Fucking Rufus fucker can somehow make me cry cause of his stupid fucking voice the fucking fucker.

10. The Cardigans - Iron Man

It's so soft and lounge-y! "Has....he ....loooost his miiiiiind."

Der pfauen schwantz - Paulus de Broda (perf. Piffaro)
Notorious Thugs - Notorious B.I.G ft. Bone Thugs N' Harmony
To Be With A Person That You Really Dig - Lone
Eight Miles High - The Byrds
Come To Me - Otis Redding
Taking My Business Elsewhere - Richard Thompson
Music for Prince Charles (English Orpheus, Vol 4) - Lupo Gibbons (perf. Parley of Instruments)
Charlotte - Nest
Don't Mess With Bill - The Marvelettes
Deep In Your Heart - Young Divines
We Can Live In The Forest - Ernest Gonzales

Drive - The Cars
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Marco Polo - Loreena McKennitt
Is She Weird - Pixies
Superbeast - Rob Zombie
The Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin
My Brother the Ape - They Might Be Giants
Shades of Grey - Billy Joel
The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown

lriG.rorriM, 70% of your list could have come from my own shuffle. Awesome.

And Hugh, yours always send me out searching.

Love these.

1. Maura O'Connell, Every River
2. June Carter Cash, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
3. Stan Freberg et al, Take an Indian to Lunch
4. Two Nice Girls, I Spent My Last $10 (on Birth Control and Beer)
5. The Rankins, Movin' On
6. Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop, Well Did You Evah!
7. Ella Fitzgerald, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
8. Deee-lite, Groove is in the Heart
9. The Beatles, Octopus' Garden
10. Allison Moorer, Set You Free

I can't stop at one.

You Hit The Spot - Graham Parker
Mixed Up Blues - Washboard Sam
Set You Free - The Black Keys
Try This At Home - Frank Turner
The Blessing - Gui Boratto
Dance Of The Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice - C.W. Gluck (perf. Slovak State Philharmonic)
You Tell Me - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Moodswing - Kromestar
Bulldoze Blues - Henry Thomas
Hold Yuh (Double Dubplate) ft. Gyptian - Major Lazer & La Roux
Funkbox Party - Masterdon Committee

U2 - I Threw a Brick Through a Window
The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
Martha Reeve & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free
Will Smith - Switch (WTF? Where did that come from?)
The Who - Long Live Rock
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
The Animals - Bury My Body
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon.

(WTF? Where did that come from?)

I love it when this happens. That's one of many cool things about the advent of MP3 players.

Tangerine Dream - Atlas Eyes
Lesley Gore - California Nights
Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
XTC - Generals & Majors
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues

David Bowie - The Dreamers
Benedictum - Heaven & Hell
Jackie Frisco - Sugar Baby (from The Girls Scene comp via Boring Postcards)
Rolling Stones - Congratulations
Ramones - I Want You Around

The Cure - Catch
New Order - Run 2
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Stetson Kennedy
U2 - A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe - Your Ghost
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Cake - Dime
Liz Phair - Love is Nothing
The Police - Synchronicity I
Beethoven - Piano Concerto #5 in E Flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor") 2nd movement

Room to Rock - Matthew Sweet
Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
Only in the Movies - David Mead
The Past and the Pending - The Shins
My Evil Twin - They Might Be Giants
Carousel - Iron and Wine
she knew what she was - land of zar
Doctor Robert - The Beatles
Serenade - Leona Naess
I Can See Clearly - Johnny Nash

Late, very late, but hey - it was sidebarred so I'm assuming people are interested. From my full collection, not the more curated iPod.

01. The Weepies: Old Coyote
02. Cat Stevens: Another Saturday Night
03. Kate Bush: All the Love
04. Indigo Girls: Strange Fire
05. Depeche Mode: Goodnight Lovers
06. Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Nomadic Recovery (All Around)
07. Counting Crows: A Long December
08. John Lennon: How Do You Sleep?
09. Lang Lang: Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor II: Larghetto
10. Tori Amos: Hey Jupiter (Dakota Version)

Wow. This list represents my actual *listening habits* in no way whatsoever.

1. Alan Watts - Philosophy in the Western World
2. Velvet Underground - New Age (Full Length Version)
3. Animal Collective - Peacebone
4. The Stooges - Cry For Me
5. The Beatles - Revolution 9
6. Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo
7. Velvet Underground - Oh Gin
8. Captain Beefheart - Flower Pot
9. Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
10. Bob Dylan - I Feel a Change Comin On

Alan Watts lectures can be fun when they come up in shuffle between rock songs, or calming when stuck in traffic. Makes you think of the bigger picture, yknow? Surprisingly I don't have that much Animal Collective or Velvet Underground on my iPod, compared to the other artists of whom I have many albums unrepresented here.