Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: 3/8/13

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I did a full iPod purge last night. Cleaned it full off and started a new list from scratch of what I wanted. Although much of that was good stuff, I needed some different good stuff, y'know? I'd guess that the iPod has 90% new content (vs yesterday).

Watch as my random ten looks the same as any other week. Then share yours.

146 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: 3/8/13”

  1. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
    Uncle Tupelo - Wipe The Clock
    Leo Kottke - Itchy
    The Carter Family - Keep On The Sunny Side
    Sublime - Let's Go Get Stoned

    Terry Allen - Highplains Jamboree
    Okkervil River - You Can't Hold THe Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
    Elliott Smith - A Question Mark
    Violent Femmes - Black Girls
    Avail - South Bound 95

    1. SpookySampler day!!!

      I looked for High Plains Jamboree, but couldn't find it from the artist in question. I tracked down a version by Robert Earl Keen (is it the same song?)...fine enough country drinking song, I suppose. I don't really dabble much in the stuff.

      I did the Avail song, too, just to be sure I heard a song that was actually on the list. Well, that's a brutal little kick in the balls, particularly after High Plains Jamboree. I think my mood is somewhere in the middle right now...you're certainly messing with my equilibrium.

      2. I highly, highly recommend Lubbock on Everything by Mr. Allen.

        httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vEhJhZXfdg

        Oh, yeah that space between Avail and Terry Allen is where I live most days.

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    1. Interpol - "PDA" - Turn on the Bright Lights
    2. The Beatles - "You Never Give Me Your Money" - Abbey Road
    3. Tapes 'n Tapes - "Insister" - The Loon
    4. Johnny Cash - "We'll Meet Again" - American IV
    5. Death Cab for Cutie - "No Sunlight" - Narrow Stairs
    6. Robyn - "Indestructible (Acoustic Version)" - Body Talk, Vol. 2
    7. Bruce Springsteen - "Open All Night" - Nebraska
    8. Ryan Adams - "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" - Heartbreaker
    9. The Replacements - "We're Comin' Out" - Let It Be
    T. The Bad Plus - "Flim" - These Are the Vistas
    B. Nick Cave - "There is a Light" - Batman Forever Soundtrack

    2. Tapes 'n Tapes. I've probably read their name a few hundred times and never knew what they sounded like. Sounds like it belongs on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. I'm into it.

  3. 1. The Hold Steady - Both Crosses
    2. Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
    3. Japandroids - Fire's Highway
    4. Radiohead - The Tourist
    5. Django Django - Life's a Beach
    6. Modest Mouse - Novacain Stain
    7. Coldplay - Don't Panic
    8. Regina Spektor - All the Rowboats
    9. Aerosmith - Amazing
    10. Elle King - No One Can Save You

  4. 1. King And Caroline - Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
    2. Lonely Financial Zone - Jonathan Richman - The Best of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
    3. Melted Pat - Guided By Voices - Live At The Wheelchair Races
    4. Going Underground - The Jam - Going Underground
    5. My Father's House - Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    6. Block Rockin Beats - The Chemical Brothers - The Chemical Brothers
    7. Dunce Codex - Robert Pollard - Lord of the Birdcage
    8. Welcome - The Who - Tommy
    9. My Kind Of Soldier - Guided By Voices - Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
    10. London - The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
    B1. Land Of Danger - Guided By Voices - Forever Since Breakfast
    B2. Michelle - The Beatles - Rubber Soul

    Holy cow my list went full metal GBV today. Also here is a very funny Portlandia skit about preschool and music:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItXUqk_eIE8

    1. "Lonely Financial Zone." Wow, a very minimalist sampler day around here. I'm in this mood now. I could see listening to him all day, too.

  5. In my first 10, I've got 5 tracks that were on my iPod yesterday. I'm disappointed.

    1. Emot “Lifting Off” Trees & Claws*
    2. Steve Reich (composer); Kronos Quartet (performer) “Triple Quarter - Third Movement” Triple Quartet
    3. Eric Copeland “Bowlin”* Limbo (Remix)
    4. This Immortal Coil* “Ostia” The Dark Age of Love
    5. The Cinematic Orchestra “Theme De Yoyo”* Man With a Movie Camera

    6. Andy Stott “Hertzog” Merciless
    7. Tricky “Suffocated Love (Live on "Later")” Tricky Kid CDS1
    8. Bobby Bare Jr. “Visit Me in Music City” From the End of Your Leash
    9. Chatham Rise* “Air” Chatham Rise EP
    T. Everything But the Girl “Temperamental” Temperamental

    B. Current 93 “The God of Sleep Has Made His House” Sleep Has His House

    *Notes:
    1. Recommended listen. I'm pleased that just yesterday the lead singer responded to my request for a lyric sheet for their most recent album. It's kindof sprawling stuff and I stop paying attention after a bit.
    3. A promo track that I think I found at Pitchfork which is, I believe, the mini-album Limbo remixed into a single 3-minute track.
    4. A Coil tribute project. This track has Will Oldham on vocals.
    5. Lester Bowie/Art Ensemble of Chicago cover, which is cool because they actually recorded this cover for this project (a soundtrack to a classic silent movie) before they recorded the album released prior to it, in which they were able to record with Fontella Bass, Bowie's widow, and the original vocalist.
    9. My brother-in-law-to-be's band. You can hear their shoegaze-psych music here.

            1. Gotcha. Time for a new song next week.
              A ten-minute noise piece built on a sample of Homer Simpson saying "Mmm... Beer" but you can barely hear it.

    2. Huh...not finding that Emot song. So I listened to a random one of theirs - "Where Did it Go?"

      Digging it. I kind of got lost in them and started listening to more - it's an easy, lucid listen.

  6. Enya – “Orinoco Flow” – Watermark
    Indigo Girls - “Prince of Darkness” – Indigo Girls
    Alabama Shakes – “I Found You” – Itunes Session
    Tech N9ne – “Happy Ending” – Killer
    The Roots – “What You Want” – Home Grown! The Beginners Guide to The Roots
    Lost Boyz – “Renee” – Legal Drug Money
    MC Hammer – “U Can’t Touch This” – M.C. Hammer’s Greatest Hits
    Soul Position – “Hand Me Downs” – Things Go Better with RJ & Al
    Run DMC – “It’s Tricky” – Live at Montreux 2001
    Soulcrate Music – “Sleep Awake” – Heartland Panic

    1. Soulcrate Music is the only artist I don't recognize here. Loving it. I've been feeling hip-hop a lot lately, even in comparison to the rest of my life. Not sure why it's taking a greater hold of me at age 35 than it ever has.

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    1. Save It for Later - English Beat - Special Beat Service
    2. Love Walked In - Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Songbook
    3. Hershey Bar - Stan Getz - Stan Getz at Storyville
    4. Rudie Can't Fail - Clash - London Calling
    5. To Ba Nwa I Re - Ebenezer Obey - Out of Africa
    6. I Need You - Beatles - Help!
    7. Laugh Kills Lonesome - Michael Nesmith - Tropical Campfires
    8. Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) - John Prine - Bruised Orange
    9. I Will Always - Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
    10.Tutti Frutti - Elvis Presley

    B. Speak of the Devil - Chris Isaak - Speak of the Devil

    1. "Save it for Later." Oh, wait, I know this song. I can't decide if I'm surprised that it's a Pitchfork 500 song. In any case, I like it just fine.

  8. .

    01. Behemoth - "Kriegsphilosophie", The Apostasy
    02. Iron Maiden - "22 Acacia Avenue", The Number of the Beast
    03. Kamelot - "Soul Society", The Black Halo
    04. King Diamond - "Give Me Your Soul", Give Me Your Soul... Please
    05. King Diamond - "Blue Eyes", The Puppet Master
    06. Grave Digger - "Ruler Mr. H", The Reaper
    07. The Crown - "The Speed of Darkness", Crowned in Terror
    08. Arch Enemy - "Enemy Within", Wages of Sin
    09. Black Label Society - "Life Birth Blood Doom", 1919 Eternal
    10. Dark Tranquillity - "My Faeryland Forgotten", Skydancer

    1. "Ruler Mr. H." Huh, that was a rather long intro for a short song. Is it the album's first track? It feels likely.

      It's no Skyclad, but what is?

      1. Its actually the last song on the album. Its kind of an odd song, to be sure.

        Also, yes, very little is as great as Skyclad.

  9. .

    * Ice Covers the North - West 4th Music Collective - Cellophilia (B. Campbell)
    * I'm Mad - The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
    * Dancers to a Discordant System - Meshuggah - ObZen
    * You - R.E.M. - Monster
    * Mile Marker 68 - Husky Burnette - Facedown in the Dirt
    * Concrete Walls - Fever Ray - (self-titled) **
    * Nobody's Real - Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
    * Of the Room - Dredg - El Cielo
    * The Wondering Soul - Viva Voce - The Future Will Destroy You
    * Kommunion - Demdike Stare - Elemental

    ** One month until the new Knife album.

    I've kind of given up on Trent Reznor's latest project, How to Destroy Angels, I've listened to both EPs and their new album, and it's not holding my interest at all.

    Speaking of Reznor, here's something that it hilariously awful (or awfully hilarious?) - "Call Me a Hole" the mashup of NIN - Head Like a Hole and Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe.

    2. All this talk about Viva Voce got to me.

      It's pretty funny to head in that direction after the speed metal of Grave Digger. This, too, is excellent. This might be my favorite SpookySampler day ever. No pressure, final six!1!!1!1!

    3. ** Second video is something I can embed at a somewhat family site.
      httpv://youtu.be/W10F0ezCTIQ
      I like hearing Olof's distinctive arpeggios behind Karin's voice again but both this song and the one from the other video sound so hookless. One thing I really like from Silent Shout and the good songs from the other albums is combining her odd voice and his hard techno to make pop music.

      Cripes, I'm preparing for the Knife's version of the last two Bonnie "Prince" Billy albums.

    4. As for How to Destroy Angels, I can't imagine any outfit with that name not letting me down, given its origin, "Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy". But the band with that name has a married-husband-and-wife-couple in it, and that's just wrong.

      But yeah, I listened to that first EP several times and nothing really impressed me at all.

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    1. “rock high” – by divine right – all hail discordia
    2. “blues for new orleans” – duke ellington – new orleans suite
    3. “new york city cops” – the strokes – is this it
    4. “thirsty” – the national – sad songs for dirty lovers
    5. “the beautiful ones” – prince & the revolution – purple rain
    6. “sounds of science” – beastie boys – paul’s boutique
    7. “hector” – cold specks – i predict a graceful explosion
    8. “salt sack” – ramona falls – intuit
    9. “jump monk” – charles mingus – thirteen pictures
    10. “you are song” – angel olsen – half way home

  11. 1. "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
    2. "Girl On The Billboard" - Dave Dudley - Girl On The Billboard
    3. "Polka Your Eyes Out" - Weird Al - Off The Deep End
    4. "Wrecking Ball" - Viva Voce - Lovers, Lead The Way!
    5. "Sequestered In Memphis" - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
    6. "Mack The Knife" - Bobby Darin - That's All
    7. "Bowie" - Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords
    8. "She Has A Girlfriend Now" - Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off
    9. "Sultans Of Swing" - Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
    10. "Shark In The Water" - V.V. Brown - Traveling Like The Light
    B: "Spotlight" - Leagues - You Belong Here

    2. Now this is a classic.
    3. *cough*
    6. Probably my favorite song.
    8. I got marginally into the late '90's ska revival (meaning I liked the best song or two by the bands playing that music, but not much else). I still enjoy this one.
    9. Probably in my top 5 favorite songs.
    B: New song. Can get it for free on their site if you're willing to give out an e-mail address. Well worth it. I've been in on this one all week. Absolutely go check it out.

        1. ok, so what's with the Dire Straits dissing? Can we not agree that Mark Knopfler is a pretty damn good guitarist, and that he wrote some catchy, interesting pop tunes?

          2. Didn't mean it as a diss. I did say that song was one of my top 5 favorites. Just seems like there are plenty of other albums I'd put above that.

          4. My pointing it out wasn't meant as a dis at all, I was just super surprised it had 30 million sold and in the top 20 or so all time.

            1. I wonder how much an album sales get boosted when a transfer in format happens. Say you bought the record as a vinyl, then cassette became a huge thing so you had to buy that, then the tape wore out but you have a cd player now so you just buy the cd. thats 3 purchases by one person.

      3. They came for the Money for Nothing, they stayed for the Why Worry and Brothers in Arms. If it had one thing going for it, it came out around the time CDs were introduced, and it has wonderful production (one of the first to go to digital recording)

      4. 'Money For Nothing' (#1 for 3 weeks in 1985) and 'Walk of Life' (got pretty big in 1986) were pretty huge hits, an 'So Far Away' did ok and MTV played the video for MFN years after release

      5. Our household has copies of three of the albums with 40M or more sales. (At least one on vinyl, at least one on CD.)
        Bonus randomness will be awarded to anyone who guesses correctly.

        1. My dad has the Iron Butterfly LP on the 30M list. I think that should count as a 12" single.

          1. I'm not sure Beau will be fighting in favor of Up! He can correct me if I'm wrong, but she doesn't strike me as a favorite of his.

            1. okay, bait taken.

              Up! is an awful, awful album. Come On Over is decent, but certainly didn't deserve...10 or 11 singles? The Woman in Me is decent as well, and it actually sounds like country unlike her other stuff.

              I'll be doing a top albums countdown over at my site soon, and I'm pretty sure none of her albums are making it. Though I do own two of hers, so I guess I'm guilty of pushing up her sales numbers.

              2. I found the song "Forever and For Always" off Up! to be my favorite thing I've ever heard from her.
                I think it helps if one imagines that it's a reggae ballad. Because it is.

        5. Since no one's tried for the rights for a second bonus ten, here's what we've got.

          EAR has a copy of Come On Over, and I have Rumours and Dark Side of the Moon, both on vinyl, and purchased at the same church rummage sale for either $0.50 total or each. Same place I bought my cassette copy of Purple Rain. I listened to Purple Rain more that afternoon than I did both those LPs since.

    2. Viva Voce!

      ...I have no idea how I missed that the first time. I was all set to comment on 'Rehab' for reasons I don't remember, too. Maybe that just short circuited everything else.

      I don't know that I'd put them in my top twenty favorite artists (probably close-ish), but for whatever reason, they are exactly the type of band I want to see get more popular.

    3. I'm a big lover of Darin's "Mack the Knife" too, pal. My friend Josh can bring the audience to its knees performing that song, as it happens. I can maybe make 'em kneel a bit, but damn, some days I'd like to be Josh.

      "The Girl on the Billboard." Why haven't I ever heard this? Very cool.

      1. That's the one you picked? Awesome. That was my response when I heard it the first time too.

        You should probably check out "Spotlight" by Leagues, but everyone should check out that song.

    4. Mack the Knife is in my Top 25

      Sultans of Swing would probably make my top 250. My favorite Dire Straits song.

      So yeah, validation.

  12. Oh, the strange whims of my little Shuffle.

    1. “Sprout and the Bean” Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
    2. “Ill with Want” The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
    3. “Piel Canela” Las Rubias del Norte Rumba Internationale
    4. “I Left a Trail of Tears” Ben Connelly Over You
    5. “Into the Spin” Dessa Badly Broken Code
    6. “Won’t Do Nothing Wrong Tonight” Ben Connelly Over You
    7. “Please Please Please” Shout Out Louds Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
    8. “I Was a Daughter” Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling
    9. “Even Dogs Dream” The Quavers Fell Asleep on a Train
    10. “There’s Nothing” Shout Out Louds Howl Howl Gaff Gaff

        1. To be fair, three of those albums are entirely due to hj's influence, so there's that.

          My Shuffle doesn't believe in telling me what I'm listening to (even though in theory it should), so putting my list together was like some kind of bizarre memory test.

    2. "Into the Spin." Uh-oh...I think I'm going to be stuck here for a while. Hot damn, both she and the beat are sublime. I'm about to get drunkenly maudlin about how awesome all of you are.

        1. I didn't know she was who she was. She isn't known out here by name, I don't think. I often forget how talented the Minneapolis music scene is.

              1. A friend and I are going to see her later this month. I've seen her at a couple of the Doomtree Blowouts, but this will be the first full-fledged Dessa show I've seen.

  13. I need to do an update of stuff on my iPhone but good god I hate dealing with iTunes.

    01. SpaceGhostPurrp - "Whotelatta Ice" from B.M.W. (Black Man's Wealth) EP
    02. Gucci Mane - "Gas and Mud" from Trap God
    03. Third Sight - "Beat Biter" from Standing With Dead Bodies in a B-Boy Stance
    04. New Kingdom - "Unicorns Were Horses" from Paradise Don't Come Cheap
    05. Lil Ugly Mane ft. Supa Sortahuman - "Radiation (Lung Pollution)" from Mista Thug Isolation
    06. Future - "I'm Trippin" from Pluto
    07. UGK - "Chrome Plated Woman" from Underground Kingz
    08. A$AP Rocky - "Jodye" from Long.Live.A$AP
    09. My Bloody Valentine - "She Found Now" from m b v
    10. Lil Ugly Mane - "Cup Fulla Beetlejuice" from Mista Thug Isolation

    BT1. Gucci Mane - "Bob Marley" from Trap God 2

    I included this because the first verse has been in my head since last night. The beginning of it is a pretty great example of how fun Gucci's wordplay can be: "They shot my homie for nuthin' / Killed my homie for nuthin' / I smoke blunts every day to wish it didn't happen / But I can't bring him back, 'cause I'm only a mortal / Some people think I'm a god / But to me I'm only normal." Gucci has been on a killer streak lately, and it should continue with Spring Breakers and yet another tape next month.

    BT2. Eighball & MJG - "Pimp in my Own Rhyme" from On Top of the World

    I posted this on the book of face last night. It's definitely one of the best rap songs of the '90s. It contains a lot of what I love about southern rap (oh my god that beat) and what I hate about southern rap (non-stop misogyny). Strong language, but it's worth listening to if you're okay with that.

    1. "Jodye." Alright...I'm typically scared off by multi-million-selling rappers, but I feel like I should at least know.

      He can spit, no doubt, but the content isn't grabbing me. And the guns cocking? Ugh, so desperate.

      Here's a question: why is there an A$ap Rocky when rap already had an Aesop Rock? Has that ever come up?

      1. This is pretty much a diss track aimed at SpaceGhostPurrp - so that is part of why it's so... corny? For lack of a better word? Probably not a great example of what he does best, to be honest.

        1. Ah, that's a relief, although it's still funny to me that something called SpaceGhostPurrp would annoy someone so much that he merits a diss song.

  14. Last Sunday, Linds and I were on our way back home from Fargo, when we passed a pawn shop. Linds decided we should go in, and lo and behold, all of their CDs were a dollar (50 cents if you bought ten). We ended up buying thirty CDs between the two of us. Both of us mostly stuck to nostalgic stuff that we would've never bought for more than a dollar or two (mine skewed turn of the century indie and mid-90's CCM, hers skewed decidedly "boy band"). On the way back, she said "That was fun. I've never bought a used CD before."

    This blew my mind. I think I probably have around 200 used CDs. There are lots and lots of initials that aren't mine tattooed to the discs in my collection.

    On with the randomocity.

    1. CHVRCHES - Recover - Recover*
    2. Feist - 1234 - The Reminder
    3. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    4. Sky Ferreira - Red Lips - GHost EP*
    5. Dinosaur Jr. - Pieces - Farm
    6. Parallax Software - Level 2 - Descent Soundtrack
    7. Wayne Watson - Home Free - Home Free
    8. Sum 41 - No Reason - Chuck
    9. Roy Brown - Butcher Pete, Part One - Fallout 3 Soundtrack*
    T. ...Trail of Dead - Ode to Isis - Century of Self

    1. CHVRCHES scratches the same sort of itch that Purity Ring did last year. I'm very excited to hear whatever they come out with.

    4. I like Sky, but that is one schizo EP. In the span of five songs, she goes from light guitar-led balladry to dance-pop to sounding like Garbage (the band, it helps that Shirley Manson co-wrote the song in question), to a sort of 90's pop song (which is the one that everyone's latched onto). I'd be curious to see which style she sticks with on a full length.

    9. Fun, disturbing song no matter what you take the lyrics as.

    1. "Swimming Pools (Drank)." I have the same trepidation I had with Zack's track.

      And, again, I'm feeling the talent (even more so than with Rocky) but not the content. Purple Drank is such a hilarious thing to rap about.

      1. Which is funny, because the song is as fiercely anti-alcohol as any song in rap history.

        Also, I was more than a little worried you'd pick Wayne Watson.

          1. You're right, though. Purple Drank is a hilarious thing to rap about.

            Besides, the actual content of this particular song didn't strike me until about the third listen.

        1. That part makes a lot more sense in context with the rest of the album, though they do get old after you've heard them the first time, regardless of context.

              1. "Love it when they're actually a part of the songs, rather than individual tracks," he says as he glares at Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers.

                    2. I've said it before guys, get a copy of the nine-track edited version. All killer, no filler, and tons of extra swordplay.

      3. The first time I ever got a prescription for promethyzine & codeine cough syrup after listening to a crapload of southern rap, I was pretty amused. I briefly considered pouring up a duece, but it tastes terrible, and I don't think any amount of Sprite and/or Jolly Ranchers could make up for that. Nor do I think any high from it would be worth it.

  15. So, I finally downloaded iTunes 11 and I hate it for so many reasons. Why did they have to go and eff up such a good thing? Seriously, Apple, you really screwed up.

              1. It was called DJ on 10, but it was the same function as Party Shuffle. It showed up on the left hand column and with a single click it sent my 14,000+ tunes into a random shuffle. I could see what played and what was upcoming. Easy to print out the list as well for these type of exercises. Now, four clicks (with drop down menus) later I can sort of recreate it with Up Next, though I can't print out the list. Guess a screen shot will have to do.

                Yay! for additional steps!

                1. "Boss on the Boat." Yeeaaaahhh. This is the stuff.

                  Why not another? "Scenes from Bensonhurst." This is a lovely four and a half minutes that I'd listen to for another twenty without feeling it was overlong.

          2. Man, that's a great link. I've been trying to convince myself that the new layout would become intuitive eventually and now I don't have to try anymore.

          3. Thanks for that. Linds still uses iTunes, and she will appreciate the switch back. She's been complaining about the new interface for a couple weeks now.

        1. I sold out, but I swear it was only because someone promised to pay me for something I've happily done for years for free. Does that make it better???

      1. I had a Walkman prior to the iPod. What a crazy, novel idea that was to be able to simply drag and drop mp3 files directly onto the thing as if it were a memory stick! But, I got an iPod at no cost to me, so that's why I'm where I am today with music players.

          1. I like my 5th Generation iPod. It plays music and has a decent battery life (plus, every time the battery inevitably and permanently dies, I can replace it without much fuss), so I don't think I'd take a Zune over it.

            Droid over Apple? Any day. Every day. The Galaxy S3 is a beautiful thing.

            1. Yeah, I like the iPod for the most part. (although the home button works like ass for some reason.) I just despise, and have always despised, having to use iTunes to put music on the thing. I loved the Walkman, but it was a music player only without all the flashy extras of an iPod.

              1. My iPod was before the Touch (it's a iPod Video), so it has precisely zero flashy extras (and I never use the video functionality).

                I use MediaMonkey as my main music player, so an iPod's no problem. I don't even have iTunes on my home computer.

                1. I hate iTunes enough that I am still using Winamp on my laptop. Perhaps I'll give MediaMonkey a go.

              2. I've only recently been using iTunes, and I was totally surprised at how un-intuitive it is. Usually I can pick up on new computer stuff easily, but every time I want to do something on iTunes it seems to take 2-3 tries before I get it right.

            2. I had a Zune 8 until a sticky-fingered custodian stole it from my desk at work. The Zune software was a massive turd, but the actual interface and sound quality on the Zune was by far the best of any of the digital music players I've ever used (iPod Classic, iPod Touch/iPhone, Creative Zen Vision, various Android music players, and a Sansa Zip Clip, fwiw). It was sleek, classy, and super easy to use. It's unfortunate the proprietary software was tied to the hardware, so you couldn't sideload through Mediamonkey or something (like you could with older iPods), because the actual player was amazing, and I'd probably buy a Zune 32 for workouts if I could find one cheap.

  16. 'Here Comes the Sun' - The Beatles Abbey Road
    'Night Life' - The Little Willies The Little Willies
    'Watching the Detectives' - Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
    'Volunteers' - Jefferson Airplane Volunteers
    'Sweet Black Angel' - The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.

    'Shakin All Over' - The Who Live at Leeds
    'Rock the Casbah' - The Clash The Singles
    'Mysterious Ways' - U2 Acthung Baby
    'Cocaine' - Eric Clapton Slowhand
    'You'll Accomp'ny Me' - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Against the Wind

    pretty heavy on the 'classic rock' artist today.

    1. And we finish off with an excellent little groove ("Night Life"). Good job, everyone! In a way, you're all winners. In another, more accurate way, Sheenie is the winner.

      Of course, E-6 didn't drop a list, so it's kind of like winning a golf tournament that Tiger Woods skips.

  18. Okay, I'll put up one.

    Three Dog Night: Joy to the World
    Stevie Ray Vaughn: The Sky Is Crying
    Rilo Kiley: Spectacular Views
    Regina Spektor: On The Radio
    Clint Black: Nobody's Home
    Billy Joel: The Longest Time
    Ben Folds: Fred Jones, Part 2
    Andy Partridge: I Wonder Why the Wonderfalls (full-length theme song to Wonderfalls)
    Dave Matthews Band: Warehouse
    Ringo Starr: You're Sixteen

  19. Hey Buffalo, have you seen this promo for Eleanor's new record?
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSPA0vLyi_8
    She's a funny gal.

  20. So tomorrow I'm going to a 50th birthday party for one of my best friends. I decided to get him a CD from each of the decades he's been alive. Of course I wanted to get him something I don't think he has plus would enjoy. (For example I'm not going to get him an ABBA album just to be all ironic and all). I have a good sense of what he has but it's not like I rifled through his music selection lately. Anyway this is what I picked up at the Electric Fetus:

    60s: Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
    70s: Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
    80s: Dance Craze! The Best of British Ska (soundtrack)
    90s: Guided By Voices -- Bee Thousand (natch)
    00s: Built to Spill -- Live
    10s: Redd Kross - Researching the Blues

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