Songs on my iPod

Okay, generally I despise anything that seems like chainmail- that's the disclaimer, but I got it from Ginger Wildheart and Steve Conte, which is, you know, pretty cool.

Anything that allows me to trot out my music stuff, well, I'm a sucker for that. 

The game was supposed to be to list the first fifteen songs that come up when playing your (my) iPod, and then to send it to twenty-five friends- to 'tag' them. To be fair, I guess I only half read it, so thought it was twenty-five songs, and I'm more comfortable coloring outside the lines anyway, and I'm not about to tag anyone.

During our travels today, Donna wrote down the first twenty-five songs that came up, which follow. Oh, and for backstory, earlier this year (and last) I spent about nine months putting together what then was my "best" iPod mix on our 160G Classic, with just under thirty-five thousand songs. I try to envision the greatest college radio station ever, playing all genres with hits from all ages. Also, it's nearly physically painful not to "cheat," including bands that are favorites, but hey, if they made the initial mix, they're all favorites, in one way or another. Some bands I nearly cheered for when they came on, because I'm that kind of freak.

1. Johnny Paycheck "A-11" (but this shouldn't count as it's the first song every time the iPod gets plugged in), so...

1a. The Rolling Stones "Hold Back" from Dirty Work. Charlie Watts is one of the greatest drummers of all-time. All-time.

2. Echo & The Bunnymen "Lips Like Sugar"

3. Michael Jackson "Billie Jean" (on there before he died, thank you, and deserved to be)

4. Gene Vincent "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" I think this was unreleased except for the awesome Bear Family boxset. Maybe the only recording of a guy singing this, that I know of anyway.

5. Blue Rodeo "Don't Get Angry" Canada didn't make the cut until the fifth (sixth) song!

6. The Who "Substitute"

7. The Quireboys "Take No Revenge" Ginger didn't make the list proper, but he was in the Quireboys for a bit. I'm sure there was lots of drinking and fighting

8. Todd Snider "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" Live bootleg version, from Sacramento, I think

9. Jack Frost "Providence" Steve Kilbey of The Church and Grant McLennnan of The Go-Betweens, from the bootleg "Twin Genius Acoustic"

10. Ricky Nelson "It's Late (Stereo Mix)" from the Bear Family box "American Dream" (again, just a guess, as Donna didn't write down everything. Shabby.

11. Diana Ross "Reach Out And Touch Somebody"

12. The Go-Go's "Vacation"

13. Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner "Just Someone I Used To Know"

14. Romantica "On My Mind" Cheered for these guys!

15. The Cynics "Business As Usual" Garage Rock so good it'll make your teeth bleed

16. Bob Dylan "Simple Twist Of Fate" from one of my top five albums of all-time, Blood On The Tracks

17. Richmond Fontaine "Contrails" They're like Tom Waits doing Americana. 

18. Peter Wolf "If You Wanna Be With Somebody"

19. Palace Music "Come In"

20. Neil Young "Cinnamon Girl" from Live Rust

21. Durutti Column "Danny"

22. The Junk Monkeys "And It Caved In" Another great Replacements-esque band out of Detroit

23. Love & Rockets "Sweet Lover Hangover"

24. The Rave-Ups "Smile" Our friend Jimmer is a great songwriter- cheered for this coming on

25. The Hombres "Let It All Hang Out" Garage Rock Hall Of Fame

26. Lemmy, Slim Jim, & Danny B.'s very weird cover of "Learning The Game" Jesse Malin just introduced us to Slim Jim after his show the other night!

and finally, but had to be mentioned

27. DGeneration "1981" from the great No Lunch

There were other great things that followed, but I've sort of followed the rules to this point, so need to let it go. It sure would've been great if 63 Monroe or Lords Of The New Church or Hank III had come on, but, I suppose there are always other days. It's a little schizophrenic, but it's always fun.