1. Elvis Costello - Church Underground
2. Grateful Dead - Mexicali Blues
3. Whiskeytown - Not Home Anymore
4. Billie Holiday - Easy Living
5. The Who - Dr. Jimmy
6. The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
7. The Sadies - Whispering Circles
8. The Flaming Lips - Ice Drummer
9. Arcade Fire - Modern Man
10. Wilco - Radio Cure

1. Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (Live at Folsom Prison)
2. Descendents - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
3. Phil Ochs - Days of Decision
4. Lizzie Huffman - Heavy Hearts
5. Rob Coe - All This and More (Dead Boys cover)
6. Blue Scholars - The Inkwell
7. Tim Barry - C.R.F. (Retired)
8. Big Boys - Brickwall
9. The Budos Band - Origin of Man
10. Nick Curran and the Lowlifes - Baby You Crazy

1. Motherfucker=Redeemer (Part One) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor Heh, you can tell I'm shuffling the whole collection and not just songs on my phone. This is an okay song on one of their lesser albums- not bad, but far from their best. Also, I'm not waiting 22 minutes for this whole song to play. *skip*

2. The Same Deep Water As You - The Cure And now one from an album with no bad songs. Fascination Street remains one of my favorite overall albums ever, and unlike some of the The Cure's music, it's very much timeless to me.

3. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - X More good music from my college years.

4. Do You Want To Break Up? - Eurythmics A silly song from a pretty decent album.

5. No Future - Aikawa Nanase Japanese teenage pop from, uh, around 2000 I think. Don't judge.

6. Electric Cafe - Kraftwerk My least favorite Kraftwerk album, but they are still one of my most "formative" bands.

7. Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones In keeping with the strong 80s vibe of most of my shuffles. Heh.

8. Little Stars - The Jesus & Mary Chain From an EP they did in the 90s. Not as good as the classics, but better than most of their 1990s output.

9. Gone Forever - Ulrich Schnauss I'm pretty sure I got this from someone here. I know nada about it except that it's cool and very mellow, spacey, electronic music.

10. Sleepwalker - The Kinks From a 1977 bootleg that I KNOW I got from someone here. There just are no bad Kinks songs. Love them so much.

Well, that was a very random random sampling.

1. Miss Platnum - She Moved In
2. Guided By Voices - Liar's Tale
3. Styles P - Switch My Style
4. Bob & Fred - I'll Be On My Way
5. James Chance - Contort Yourself
6. Big Pun - Twinz (Deep Cover 98)
7. The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams - How Do I Tell Him
8. Washboard Sam - Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut
9. Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers - Onwunwa
10. Don Carlo Gesualdo (perf. Concerto Italiano, dir. Rinaldo Alessandrini)- Mercè Grido Piangendo

!. Sleepy Sun--Duet with the Northern Sky--wow, I have no idea who this band is or why I have their cd, but I am not into this song at all.

2. Cocorosie--Milk--30 seconds of squalling. Clearly I need to cull itunes.

3. Thurston Moore--Staring Statues--ah, the 90s.

4. Death from above 1979--Black History Month--some remix from the DJ Kicks Annie cd

5. The Dragons--Amplified Emotion--the Dragons are this awesome and crazy 60s band whose album was like lost to the sands of time, or never released, and then it was a few years ago and college radio discovered it. I think they went on to back up the Beach Boys on some of their albums but this album is pretty great.

6. Fruit Bats--Filthy Water--I love the Fruit Bats and have a huge crush on the main singer guy.

7. Nick Heyward--Kite--this is from a mix my friend Kate T made me. It's a great mix and this song is catchy.

8. Paris Combo--Baron de Chaise--I love this song.

9. Radar Bros.--We Got the Beat--Yes, a cover of the classic 80s pop song, from one of the Merge 20th anniversary releases. I put this on one of my mixes that summer b/c it kicked such ass.

10. Contortions--Contort Yourself--I actually like the later James Chance version of this better.

Hey, what a coincidence!

I feel like you always have Hoodoo Gurus on your shuffles, Slack-a-gogo. That makes me happy.

Mine is quite eclectic tonight.

1. Miss Frenchie - Fuck 'Em Boyo
2. The Decemberists - Rise to Me
3. Keren Ann - Au Coin du Monde
4. New Order - Every Little Counts
5. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
6. Lyle Lovett - White Freight Liners Blues
7. Boris - Pink
8. High Dependency Unit - Giant Overpasses
9. Half Japanese - Daytona Beach
10. Mission of Burma - The Enthusiast

I just read the James Chance interview in Totally Wired a few nights ago which reminded how long it's been since I've listened to James Chance or the Contortions and was planning to rip it to the MP3 player soon. Now with two "Contort Yourself" shuffles I think it's the No Wave gods telling me to get to it right now!

1. Noisettes: "Never Fall in Love Again" (What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?) -- I got this album because of the awesome "Scratch Your Name, but haven't really gotten into the rest.

2. Saint-Saens: "Tortoises" (Carnival of the Animals) -- oh, do I adore the whole Carnival of the Animals. Very easy to listen to the whole thing all the way through. Listen to the awesome Finale to hear the tidbits of the other movements.

3. Deborah Voigt: "Dich, teure Halle" (Wagner's Tannhauser) -- love Deborah Voigt, skinny or fat.

4. Antony and the Johnsons feat. Rufus Wainwright: "What Can I Do" -- I love Rufus and I love the Antony stuff with Hercules & Love Affair.

5. Eric Whitacre: "Water Night" (performed by my choir, the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble) -- this is probably one of the most popular contemporary choral pieces of the past decade. Whitacre is pretty cool; he's the one who did the choir put together through YouTube.

6. Chicago Voice Exchange: "Love The One You're With" (Inner Child Proof) -- I can't remember how I got this album. I think they sang at some high school choir concert or something.

7. Arcade Fire: "This Must Be the Place" (Live at TT the Bears, Cambridge) -- nothing much about this one in particular, except that I got all the Arcade Fire I could find.

8. Goldfrapp: "Ooh La La" (Supernature) -- Ooh la la, indeed.

9. Soul Coughing: "Super Bon Bon" (Irreistable Bliss) -- this is one of those albums/songs that my brother picked up when he was living at home after high school and buying every cd that Spence at Strictly Discs told him to get. And I am happy he did so :)

10. Brahms: "6. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt" (Ein Deutsches Requiem) -- maybe the most underappreciated movement. This is one of the best best best pieces. I've only sung the third movement.

Hugh, awesome. High five.

The Feelies - The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Joan As Police Woman - The Ride
The Mohawks - The Champ
The Dan Cray Trio- Goodbye
Allen Toussaint - Fingers & Toes
Joanna Newsom - Easy
Anoushka Shankar - Breathing Under Water
Stompin' Tom Connors - The Coal Boat Song
Quantic -The Sound Of Everything ft Alice Russell
Sean Lennon - Breeze

if it wasn't for shuffle mode, never in a million years would I play Anoushka Shankar & Stompin Tom back to back lol

Bonus #11

Jon Cleary - Got To Be More Careful

ufez: Nick Curran and the Lowlifes
Whooh whooh!

BoringPostcards: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - X More good music from my college years.
That is one of my all time favortie albums. I listened to the first two X album just a few hours ago.

BoringPostcards: No Future - Aikawa Nanase Japanese teenage pop from, uh, around 2000 I think. Don't judge.
There is so much bad J-pop out there, but I know there's also some really good stuff. I just don't know how to sift through everything to find the good stuff. I'm always looking for a good recommendation, preferably from someone like you with many of the same musical reference points.

gaspode: I feel like you always have Hoodoo Gurus on your shuffles, Slack-a-gogo. That makes me happy.
I zero out my MP3 player every few months an rebuild the library from scratch to mix it up, but I seem to always end up putting at least two or three Gurus albums on every time. I think I have five at the moment.

Madamina: Arcade Fire: "This Must Be the Place"
I was on the fence on Arcade Fire until I heard them nail this (my favorite Talking Heads song). They won me over and I ended up liking everything they've done.

Hey Slack-a-gogo, this is a bit dated but it's still among my J-pop favorites, dunno if it's for everybody's tastes. It reminds me of this (which I also really like), but maybe that's a production thing.

Trickleydidlier - Chet Baker
Radio Radio - Elvis Costello
The Air is on Fire: I (Station) - David Lynch & Dean Hurley
Europe Endless - Kraftwerk
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
Runaway - Ladytron
Loves Got a Hold On Me - Mink DeVille
Sugar Sugar - The Archies
La vie est un serpent au coeur froid - Niagara

Bad is Bad - Huey Lewis & The News
Run to Me - Bee Gees
End it on This - No Doubt
American Woman - The Guess Who
It's Only Natural - Crowded House
Breaking the Girl - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix
Let Down - Radiohead
The Back Room - Van Morrision
Sheep - Pink Floyd
Hill of the Skull - Joe Satriani
Jealous Guy - John Lennon

Yeah, I know, that's 12 - I was trying to redeem myself after the Radiohead track, but it just seems to get worse ...

Haven't done one of these in a while...

1 / ERIK SATIE / Adieu
2 / THE CONET PROJECT / 167
3 / THE SOFT BOYS / Zip Zip (Live)
4 / JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
5 / S. HAZARASINGH / Badan Pe Sitare
6 / PERE UBU / Winter in the Firelands
7 / WOOLFY / Oh Missy (In Flagranti Xenon Mix)
8 / THE RESIDENTS / Floyd
9 / ANTHOLOGIE DE LA MUSIQUE BULGARE VOL 4 / Eski (Men's Dance) - Pirin - Kavrakirovo
10 / JOHN COLTRANE / After the Crescent

I got to dig out some KLF.

The first three tracks of Chill Out made it onto my MeFi Swap CD this quarter.

Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain
Pink Floyd - Stay
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Glimpse at the Good Life
Pretenders - Forever Young
Grateful Dead - Passenger
Van Morrison - Beside You
Aretha Franklin - Say a Little Prayer
The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo
Rammstein - Tier
Juno Reactor - Hotaka

I'm a little late, but man, some cool stuff up there! Here's mine, as always, with Christmas music cropped out.

The Fresh & Onlys - Peacock and Wing (loving these guys lately. San Fran garage-y, Beach Boys-y, great)
Cat Power - Werewolf
the Who - Batman (blech...never did learn to enjoy this one, even when The Jam did it too!)
The Tallest man On Earth - Over the Hills
Green on Red - Easy Way Out
The Jam - Boy About Town
Os Mutantes - Banho de Lua (saw these guys open for Ariel Pink this last fall...wow)
Outkast - Spread
The Poets - That's the Way It's Got to Be (this is pretty much the only one I don't know...it's from a Rhino comp)
Big Star - Til the end of the day (love me some Big Star! I really never travel too far without a little...)

This morning, the spinner was like a good cup of coffee. A couple of these are flac or m4a files so the embedded player won't work, you might need to download the file and play it on your favorite media player, if you want to listen.

1. Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
2. Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Lonely Bell
3. Matthew Sweet - Where You Get Love
4. Romanowski - Romjack Steady
5. Puccini, from Manon Lescaut - Donna Non Vidi Mai
6. Talib Kweli - Some Kind of Wonderful
7. Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan
8. Eula Cooper - That's How Much I Love You
9. Willie Green ft. Billy Woods of Super Chron Flight Brothers - Family Ties
10. A. A. Bondy - Of The Sea
*. The Supremes - Baby Love

Pretty funny to look at the mp3 player and see the track number is 24,817.

Lights - Lions! (I have no idea who/what this is, or why I have it.)
Nirvana - All Apologies
Heather Nova - Widescreen
Iced Earth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Aqueduct - Zero the Controls
The Smithereens - Now and Then
Bono (solo) - Tomorrow
The Sisters of Mercy - Red Skies Disappear
Michiru Oshima, Moscow International Symphony Orchestra - Stranger from Another World~The Young Alchemist (from the soundtrack of Fullmetal Alchemist - The Conqueror of Shambala)
Belly - Sad Dress

This is actually pretty fun, see what the hell comes up next. Oh wow. hahahahahaha. I should do this more often just to find things I really need to delete.

I'm afraid there's a good amount of cruft and age on my music collection these days...

That Certain Female - Charlie Feathers
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Sci-Fi Wasabi - Cibo Matto
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Natty Dread - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Age of Lonliness (Clubby Edit) - Enigma
Forever More - Moloko
Revolution - Beatles
One O'Clock Jump - Duke Ellington (Private Collection Vol2. Dance Concerts California 1958)

La Fee Clochette (lyrics) - Polo
Midnight Feast - Mr. Scruff
Chelsea Hotel No. 2 - Leonard Cohen
Cry a While - Bob Dylan
Get a Move On - Mr. Scruff
One of the cutest music videos ever. Featuring samples of Bird's Lament by Moondog
Crying in Your Face - Aphex Twin
Closing Time - Leonard Cohen
When You Wish Upon a Star - Glenn Miller
There are some pretty dashing photos in the slideshow...
Sete Palavras (lyrics) - Pedro Bento e Ze Da Estrada
Money Honey - Lady Gaga

Wow, this is all over the place. From sinners to saints and back, and I haven't listened to that Aphex Twin album (Chosen Lords) in forever. Yet the whole effect is pretty mellow. I'm saving this as a playlist! Thanks for the inspiration Slack-a-gogo!

These are my favorite threads. I check out a lot of interesting stuff from you guys. Late, but here are mine:

1. Jean Ritchie, "Lord Randall"
I went through a big Jean Ritchie period this fall, and I like this one more than a lot of her traditional songs - sometimes I think she sings the traditional ones too fast, but this is a lovely version of the song.

2. Allison Moorer, "Mockingbird"
It's been rainy and grey and slow today here, and for some reason, this song cuts right through it for me, and it makes no sense, I know.

3. Meryn Cadell, "The Spelling Bee"
Well, hello, College. I haven't heard this in years, and enh.

4. Lena Horne, "From this Moment On"
Wow, this album was a mistake. Not because of Lena, but the tracks are all muddy and seem like they're slightly rushed. I bet she sings the heck out of this on another better produced album. At least I got this one through a grandfathered emusic account, so I didn't pay too too much.

5. Janis Joplin, "Cry Baby"
I went to a hippy-ish alternative high school, where the music in the rooms (because it was in an old house, there weren't really halls) was usually from the 1960s and 70s (in all its various incarnations) and everyone conformed to their non-conformity. Amyway, I can remember this playing vividly for about a month straight down in the art rooms in the basement while someone got over her heartbreak by making and destroying a series of awkward bowls and vases.

6. Pete Seeger, "Shenandoah,"
Seriously: I have purchased music made in the last decade. And not of the rootsy folk variety, to boot.

7. Susan McKeown, Oro Mhile Gra.
I really love this whole album. I pretty much played it nonstop during a recent trip south, and so it invokes a certain type of southern back road that is endemic throughout Virginia and North Carolina - shady gravel roads under a canopy of spreading trees, creeks and tiny mountains snaking alongside...

8. Etta James, Money (That's What I Want).
I just flat out love her. This is nowhere near my favorite of her songs, but it gets me moving right along with it and I am totally on her side.

9. Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues.
See aforementioned Jean Ritchie period.

10. Rosemary Clooney, I'm Confessin' That I Love You.
This is off one of her last albums. Her voice is in pretty good shape considering everything she went through, and I love the way she sings the song. I actually prefer the later Rosie to the early Rosie. Not only can she avoid the novelty songs, but she brings her life experience to the interpretation. Less perfect voice, more Interesting vocals.

Julen, your description of #5 has made my day.

Very late to this party. . are their any passed-out people I can make out with?

1. The Byrds - One Hundred Years from Now
2. Beulah - Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore
3. Barenaked Ladies - The Sound of Your Voice
4. Beth Orton - Love Like Laughter
5. Kate Bush - Cloudbursting
6. Gram Parsons - She
7. The Doors - Love Her Madly
8. The Decemberists - Shankhill Butchers
9. Amy Rigby - Dancing with Joey Ramone
10.Todd Snider - Alright Guy

I'm having trouble focusing on work this morning and hoping that a little Shuffle-a-gogo will clear my head:

1. QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE - Monsters in the Parasol (R 2000)
2. MOODS FOR MODERNS - Lust For Luster (Loud & Clear 2001)
3. BANARAMA - No Feelings (Deep Sea Skiving 1983) A Sex Pistols cover done in a Bananarama's feel-good pop style.
4. PRINCE - Dirty Mind (Dirty Mind 1980)
5. PUGWASH - It's Nice to Be Nice (Giddy 2009)
6. NEKO CASE - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2006)
7. the EQUALS - Look What You've Don To My Daughter (Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys anthology)
8. BLACK UHURU - Youth of Eglington (Reggae Greats comp)
9. PERSIAN RUGS - Mass Manners (Turkish Delight 2003) Side project of 3/4 of the Hoodoo Gurus - basically the Gurus with Farfissa keyboards.
10. TUFF DARTS -My Guitar Lies Bleeding in my Arms (Tuff Darts (1978)

OK, that felt better.