To be honest, this is all a ploy to get people to watch the seriously cool animated video for the first song on my spin. This is from my computer's hard drive, so it's mostly fresh stuff or things I like to keep handy.

1. Siriusmo - Idiologie
2. Thomas East - Funky Music
3. Scientist - 2012 Dub
4. Bob Wills - Corrine, Corrina
5. Maurizio Pollini, p. - Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E flat major, op.73 "Emperor" mvt.4 (Allegro)
6. Tropics - Give It Up
7. Fleet Foxes - The Plains/Bitter Dancer
8. Jatoma - Wood Face
9. Donor - Rhetoric
10. Flying Lotus - Pickled

Shame on me for not examining that Beethoven more closely, the link goes to the third movement. And of course the 20 minute final movement that I listed isn't on YouTube. Oh well. Enjoy.

Idiologie was pretty cool. I love that sort of stuff!

My own offerings...

1) Look to you Orb for Warning - Monster Magnet
2) Waiting For The End - Linkin Park
3) Hazel Eyes - The Darkness
4) No Aphrodisiac (Like Loneliness) - The Whitlams
5) And We Danced - The Hooters
6) It Had To Be You - Harry Connick Jr
7) Think - Aretha Franklin
8) Alkohol - Eisbrecher
9) Sgt. Major - Jet
10) Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine

Last time I did this, my iPod became obsessed with ABBA and I was too embarrassed to post.

That Siriusmo/Idiologie video was very cool, thanks for putting that on my screen. It reminded me of Cyriak, Larry Carlson, Terry Gilliam, etc. Wheeee!

Popa Chubby - NYC 1977 Til...
Robbie Robertson - Fallen Angel
Beneath The Sky - The Opening
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Shondels - Don't Put Me Down
Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra - Get on the Moth
Gustaf Hildebrand - Worlds Of A Distant Sun
Nick Cave - Papa Won't Leave You Henry
MFSB - Family Affair
War - Spill The Wine

It's interesting how random songs can sometimes make such a perfect mix and at other times like this it's shit.

Alejandro Escovedo - Nuns Song
Big Audio Dynamite - V. Thirteen
Grateful Dead - I Know You Rider
Buffalo Springfield - Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It?
Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Maker
She and Him - Lingering Still
Radio Head - Lotus Flower
Arcade Fire - Wake Up

I kind of like that as a set.

I have not downloaded or ripped any music to my computer for quite some time, so there will be nothing novel here. And I skipped over the episodes of Dragnet and One Man's Family, as I didn't think they counted. (Really, iTunes needs to learn what's music and what ain't.)

1. The Ames Brothers -- Sentimental Me
2. Depeche Mode -- Somebody (oh, so sad!)
3. The Four Aces -- Three Coins in the Fountain
4. Doris Day -- Everybody Loves a Lover
5. Tears for Fears -- The Hurting
6. The Nylons -- Up the Ladder to the Roof
7. ABBA -- Dancing Queen
8. Neil Young -- Out of Control
9. Vladimir Ashkenazy -- Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor
10 Meredith Brooks -- What Would Happen

1. Crooked Fingers -- Your Apocalypse
2. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Stood on Gold
3. Schooner -- Who Let the Cat Out
4. All Girl Summer Fun Band -- Looking into it
5. Essex Green -- Carballo
6. Mirah and Ginger Takahashi -- Oh! September
7. Winterbrief -- Scratch the Itch
8. Fruit Bats -- Magic Hour
9. Belle and Sebastian -- The Chalet Lines
10. Smashing Pumpkins -- Rhinoceros

That was a really weird assortment.

I can never pass up on a shuffle - the perfect way to wake me from my MeCha hibernation.

1. TSOL - Code Blue (Dance With Me 1981) Nothing starts out a Saturday morning than a punk rock necrophelia anthem.

2. the WOLFGANG PRESS - Going South (Funky Little Demons 1994)

3. NANCY SINATRA - Hello LA, Bye Bye Birmingham (Country, My Way 1967)

4. LONGPLAYER - Wild Wild Woman (Longplayer 2011) If you're looking for an album that sounds EXACTLY like late 70's ELO, this is the album for you.

5. the MOONS - Let It Go (Life on Earth 2010) One of my top 10 albums from last year. The band is fronted by Paul Weller's former keyboardist Andy Crofts and Chris Ketley from the Rakes and play a summery fun pop combo of Merseybeat and Mod.

6. JOHN WESLEY HARDING - Headful of Something/the Devil in Me (It Happened One Night 1988)

7. ESQUERITA - Get Back Baby (Capitol Collectors Series) Little Richard is often accused of ripping off Esquerita's style, but I think they both formed independently of each other. As much as I like Esquerita, he's missing that something special that Little Richard specializes in.

8. DEVO - Girl U Want (Freedom of Choice 1980)

9. the STILLS-YOUNG BAND - Fountainbleau (Long May You Run 1976)

10. ELVIS COSTELLO - Senior Service (Armed Forces 1979)

These shuffle threads are so great, I always wind up with a bunch more music to go check out or revisit. Thanks!

1. Brenda Ray - Sweet Sweet Wine
2. African Music Machine - Black Water Gold
3. Modo Trio with Jamie Saft - You Are Being Probed
4. Arp - Grapefruit
5. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Cast Your Fate To The Wind
6. Zola Jesus - Manifest Destiny
7. Solomon Ilori - Yaba E (Farewell)
8. Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions
9. Jaki Byard - Parisian Thoroughfare
10. Shorty Long - Your Love is Amazing

Pheugoo - Return Of The Krav
Eleni Mandell - Easy On Your Way Out
Feist - Honey Honey
Bon Iver - Lump Sum
Billy Fury - The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going To Hell
Cat Power - You May Know Him
Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love
James Brown - Stoned To Da Bone
Built to Spill - By The Way

The Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo - Oh wow there some BAD teenage memories related to this song. Lots of big emotions. I still think it would make trailer music for a gay Fatal Attraction or something

Garbage - Cherry Lips - Oh wow this song sucks. I tend to like the calculated slick pop middle road of Garbage but this is just...waaay too 90s. It sounds like an episode of the X-files.

Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World - For the End Of The World Party, pleasant sad 50s pop for your ironic montage purposes!

Christie's Tune (Devil In Disguise) - The Flying Burrito Brothers - Oh HI MOM'S MUSIC. I'm going to sit here and enjoy this unironically.

Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - John Cale - I have literally no idea how or why I have this, but I like it. Throw it on your hero's inspiration montage in his dirty flat.

Fight Club Main Theme - Nine Inch Nails - Man it is motherfarking 90s day today. Also for the end of the world party. This was the song the Whore Of Babylon came on stage too.

Alphaville - Forever Young - For the Vampire party. It's not so bad it's good, its just bad.

Gene Pitney - A Town Without Pity - overblown tragic teenage angst from the 50s.

Original Broadway Cast - By The Sea - I can sing all of this with my eyes closed. (By the sea mister todd thats the live I can live...)

The Velvet Underground - Take A Walk On The Wild Side - Can you say anything bad about this? No. You cannot.

It sounds like an episode of the X-files.

You're amazing, that's perfect.

Number two.

1. Grand Hallway - In a Cave
2. Kangding Ray - Fall
3. Hayes Carll - Grand Parade
4. Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes
5. Bon Iver - Lisbon, OH
6. Joyride - Baby Soldier
7. Brave Irene - Longest Day
8. Maps and Diagrams - The Machine That Changed the World
9. Major Lazer & La Roux - Can't Stop Now (Armor Love remix)
10. Mother Mother - Ghosting

Okay, here's another one:

1. Kalani Bright -- My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
2. The Brothers Four -- Greenfields
3. Michael Jackson -- Remember the Time
4. Tony Bennett -- Chicago (That Toddling Town)
5. Edison Lighthouse -- Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
6. Arlo Guthrie -- Now and Then
7. Barry Manilow -- Even Now
8. Bryan Ferry -- Where or When
9. Andy Williams -- Can't Get Used to Losing You
10. Sweet -- Ballroom Blitz

Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes
Gomez - How We Operate
Eels - Fresh Feeling
Mark Knopfler - Junkie Doll
Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk
THE Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
R.E.M. - Lotus
Diana Krall - 's Wonderful
Krista Macall (sp?) - In These Shoes?
The Who - Imminence Front

Why not do another one? WHY NOT.

The Windmills Of Your Mind - Kiki And Herb - Oh god, I love Kiki and Herb on so many varied and wonderful levels. It just eviscerates camp and leaves it bleeding. " I think I'll play myself" indeed. (plus they turn No Children into a duet, which is perfect)

White Light White Heat - David Bowie - is it wrong that my favorite Bowie album is Bowie At The Beeb? It seems wrong somehow.

A Complete History Of The Soviet Union- Pig With The Face Of A Boy- I got this from Metafilter actually, it is maddeningly catchy. I'm going to be humming " I am the man who arranges the blocks..." all day now.

To Die A Virgin - Divine Comedy- okay this is just gold standard Brit chamber pop here, but it's also the first time I ever directed anything, bunch of scribes and suitors march on stage during the opening of the song until the phrase " ..die a virgin" and they all go lock still as Gal Friday in full Elizabethian Court Dress marches out.

Tell him - Hello- Everyone dance! Daaaaaaance!

Purple Haze - Krnous Quartet - this is actually really uncomfortabe to listen to but I like
it. It goes into this Bernard Hermann place.

Bob Willis - You Beautiful Doll- I, what! Why? I don't even.

Oooh! Love these. Love Love Love. I was on a big Skeeter Davis kick this summer, so it's nice to see her gracing an earlier list.

and it's Kirsty MacColl, chewatadistance. Love her.

1. Leonard Cohen, First We Take Manhattan.
2. Maura O'Connell, Ae Fond Kiss
3. Nina Simone, Don't Smoke in Bed
4. Bering Strait, I Could Be Persuaded
5. Bing Crosby, Both Sides Now
    That's right. Bing. Both Sides Now. It is ... somehow not right.
6. Adele, Cold Shoulder
7. Etta Baker, One Dime Blues
8. Etta James, Money (That's All I Want)
    I love this whole live album (Etta James Rocks the House).
9. Alred Reed, The Wreck of the Virginian
    This is off a fabulous box set called People Take Warning! dedicated to
    songs about natural disasters, accidents, murder, etc.
10. UB40, Red Red Wine

Sunday afternoon harvesting herbs music.

Amy Winehouse - (live - 03-08-07) Take the Box
Crystal Method - PMT - Gyromancer (Elite Force Remix)
Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
The Beatles - Maxwells Silver Hammer River Rhine Tapes
Caravan Palace - Ended With The Night
Gorillaz - Double Bass
She Wants Revenge - True Romance
Mom - Speed Of A Sunset
Gene Harris - Bird's Idea

01. Carpet Crawlers = Genesis
02. Come & Get It - Badfinger
03. Some Old Song and Dance - Aerosmith
04. Morning Bird - Sade
05. Blindeye - Hunters & Collectors
06. Controversy - Prince
07. Awkward Game - Gabriella Cilmi
08. Seven Seas of Rye - Queen
09. Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim
10. Hooked on a Feeling - BJ Thomas.