1. Police - King Of Pain
2. Belle & Sebastian - The Model
3. System 7 - Y2K (Beatnik Mix)
4. DuOud - Zanzibar
5. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - The Wreck Of The Arthur Lee

1. To Ramona – Bob Dylan
2. Walkabout – Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Question - The Moody Blues
4. Joy Ride - Ray Charles
5. Confirmation - Charlie Parker

Johnny Cash - meet me in heaven
Joseph Arthur - good life
Prince - Kiss
Bruce Springsteen - Worlds apart
Dr.John - Black gold

Ice Man - Big Joe Turner
You Can't Catch Me - George Thorogood and The Destroyers
Don't Like To Travel - Byther Smith
Natural Disaster - Loudon Wainwright III
Dolphins - Billy Bragg

Games Again - Peter Broderick
More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Watch Me Fall - Uncle Tupelo
The Hangman - The Redwalls (from one of the recent Now Hear This! CDs)

So far, so Word, but:

The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand was actually no 1 and the above were 2-5. I think my randomizer my well be the only one with a Babs ballad on it.

Willie Nelson - Heartaches by the Number
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Morrissey - Now My Heart is Full
New Order - Everything's Gone Green

1. Charlie & His Orchestra - Bye Bye Blackbird
2. Freddie North - She's All I Got
3. Radio Jingle: You Are Listening to Radio Myanmar
4. Melanin9 - Illusions (feat. Masikah)
5. Nick Lowe - When I Write The Book

Afro Blue - McCoy Tyner
Satisfaction - Cat Power
Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
Jam Blues - Charlie Parker
A Heavy Dude - Curtis Mayfield

Wu-Tang Clan "For Heaven's Sake"
Badly Drawn Boy "Body Rap"
The Flaming Lips "Waitin' For A Superman"
The Mountain Goats "Seed Song"
Ffa Coffi Pawb "Mynd I Lawr"

Now and Then - Billy Corgan (call me mad, but that solo album is very underrated)
Ding Dong - Nellie McKay
Turning Blue - Michael Messer
Don't Try to Explain - Keb' Mo'
This Land is Your Land - The Waterboys

Pete Townshend:Misunderstood
Madonna:Justify My Love
Orson:Look Around
The Lovin' Spoonful:Do You Believe In Magic?
I Ran (So Far Away):A Flock Of Seagulls

1. Barbara Morgenstern - Dr. Mr.

2. Department S - Is Vic There?

3. Rachel’s - Esperanza

4. Clearlake - Don't Let The Cold In

5. Prince - Mr Goodnight

Still in love with you (Live) - Thin Lizzy
Julia - The Beatles
Rock and Roll Records - JJ Cale
Believe - The Chemical Brothers
Trampled Underfoot - Led Zepplin

1.Papa Levi - Back to Basics

2.Happy Mondays - Country Song

3.Motorhead - Ace of Spades

4.The Specials - Stupid Marriage

5.The Clash - White Riot

Lost In France/Bonnie Tyler
Stairway Of Love/Michael Holliday
Susie Darlin'/Tommy Roe
The King & Queen Of England/Sandy Denny with Trevor Lucas
Try A Little Kindness/Glen Campbell

1. "Neon Heart" - The Boomtown Rats

2. "Silhouettes" - The Sensations

3. "Love The One You're With" - The Isley Brothers

4. "Hard As A Rock" - AC/DC (Nice!)

5. "New Routine" - Fountains Of Wayne

nice work pod.

Honey Hush – Elvis Costello
They Don’t Know – Kirsty MacColl
Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich
A Place To Hide Away – Robert Forster
You Might Think – The Cars

Yours is no disgrace - Yes (oops)

Western Wind - Fairport Convention

Yesterday When I Was Young - Dusty Springfield

Soul for Hire - Elvis Costello

Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne

*Although I do quite like the first one.

1. The Bathers: Girl From the Polders
2. Cream: Tales of Brave Ulysses
3. Scott Walker: Two Weeks Since You've Gone
4. Scott Walker: Rosemary
5. Bob Brady and the Con Chords: Everybody's Going to the Love-in

Bonnie and Clyde - Serge Gainsbourg
Light Flight - Pentangle
Soul Of A Man - Beck
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
If That's The Way You Feel - The Nazz

He'd Send in the Army - Gang of Four
Beaumont's Lament - Dialogue from the Jackie Brown soundtrack
The Ghost Has No Name - Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
Glory Box - Portishead (Live Roseland Version)
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine

Dreams By The Sea - John Martyn (I'll admit this was a recent purchase)

One In Ten - UB40

Sour Times - Portishead

Let's Get Married - The Proclaimers

With or Without You - U2

Thunder - Prodigy
Viva Las Vegas - Bruce Springsteen
The Scientist - Coldplay
Katie's Been Gone - The Band
Grey Cell Green - Ned's Atomic Dustbin

nb - Truth moment - I skipped "Supper's Ready" as I didn't have 20 minutes of my life to give away this morning....am I cast asunder?

A recent joiner of the ranks, with an iPhone. Here's what it gave me this afternoon:

Heavenly Day - Patti Griffin (why have I only just discovered her?)
The Self Doubt - Tamara Williamson (obligatory obscure female singer/songwriter)
Aerial - Kate Bush
Speakin' Out - Marc Seales (no idea where this came from)
More Than Everything - Brent Cash

1. Madness - Shadow of Fear
2. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - Hit the Highway
3. Chris Bathgate - Serpentine *
4. Bob Frank & John Murray - Boss Weatherford, 1933 **
5. Tunng (Imagined Village) - Death and the Maiden Retold

* off the Word cd. Don't think I'd listened to it until now. Mmm, nice.
** also off a Word cd. Not so keen on this one.

Long Long Long - Beatles
Parallel Live - Roisin Murphy
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles
I Might Be Wrong - Radiohead
Black Bat - Lee 'Scratch' Perry

1. Galvanize - Chemical Brothers
2. Life Looks Better [Looking At It Through You] - Hobotalk
3. Dark Eyes - Attic Lights
4. Dusty In Here - The Go-Betweens
5. Nuages - David Sylvian & Ruichi Sakamoto

From 26,716 tracks.

Best one yet.

The Thanks I Get For Loving You - Candi Staton
My Mistakes Were Made For You - Last Shadow Puppets
Long Gone - Super Furry Animals
No Dope - The Whispertown 2000
In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra

Lord Rockingham's X1 - Hoots Mon' (how that for starters !)
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
Slade - Radio Wall of Sound
The Members - Sound of the Suburbs
Loudon Wainwright - I'd rather be lonely

1. Part of Carmina Burana
2. Aimee Leonard-Streams that Glide
3. Nina Simone-Love me or leave me
4. Neil Young-Cortez the Killer (Live rust version)
5. S&G-Homeward Bound

Sgt Pepper's LHCB Reprise - Os Beatles
At The Chime Of A City Clock - Nick Drake
Here Comes The Sun - Fabs
Little Child - Four Boys Who Shook The World
Eight Days A Week - J, P, G, & R

Can't decide whether to be proud or embarrassed

Man in the Moon - Grinderman
Love Will Tear us Apart - Joy Division
The Singer - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Roses - The Magnetic Fields
I Had a Talk with My Woman (live) - Tim Buckley
(Don't think I've ever listened to the last track before)

The Temptation of Adam- Josh Ritter
Blackhole-Beck
Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits
Mojo Mama - Don Varner
Lisa´s Birthday - The Drive -by Truckers

Afraid To Get Close - Iggy Pop (from the vastly underated Avenue B album)
Before They Make Me Run - The Rolling Stones (Some Girls)
Yes It Is - The Beatles (Anthology 2)
Interlude - Morrissey & Siouxsie (single - bloody brilliant, why wasn't it a massive hit?)
Let It Rock - Chuck Berry (Poet of Rock n Roll box set)

Well that was pretty good, wasn't it?

That's What Daddy Wants-Wayne Hancock
Guns of Brooklyn-Santogold vs Diplo
The Train is Coming-Ken Boothe
Leave My Kitten Alone-Little Willie John
C'mon and Swim-Bobby Freeman

1. Razor Blade Alley - Madness
2. Tolerance - The Blue Aeroplanes
3. Shaking Skin House - Andy Partridge
4. There Goes The Sun - The Pernice Brothers
5. Sunken Treasure - Wilco

Happy with those five :)

Just Want To See - Cowboy Junkies (Lay It Down)
God's Cop - Happy Mondays (Pills Thrills N Bellyaches)
Peace / A Beginning - King Crimson (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Waitin Round To Die - Townes Van Zandt (Word July 06 - crawler)
Imitation Of Life - REM (Reveal - how did a song so good appear on a record so bad?)

Could have been so much worse.

1. Twenty yards behind - Wilko Johnson Band
2. Prelude no. 14 in F sharp minor, from JS Bach "The well-tempered clavier", Angela Hewitt
3. Golden slumbers - Beatles
4. Radio Free Europe - REM
5. What kind of girl do you think we are? - Mothers

1. Disease Of Conceit/Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
2. Voices/Ryan Adams, 29
3. Darkness On the Edge Of Town/Bruce Springsteen, Prodigal Son At Winterland
4. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You/Bob Dylan, The Complete Unplugged
5. So Long/Charlie Rich, The Complete Smash Sessions

Theme To St Trinian's by Girls Aloud
Angel Of Harlem by U2
Ara Batur by Sigur Ros
In The Days Before Rock 'n 'Roll by Van Morrison
Twenty Years by Placebo

Madness - Tears You Can't Hide
Dean Martin - Nobody's Baby Again
A-ha - Between Your Mama and Yourself
Matisyahu - Late Night in Zion
Paul Anka - Everybody Hurts

(P.S. only part of the available choice, as I have had, documented elsewhere, IT challenges this week)
Black i-pod 80GB
1. Lunatic and Fire/Julian Cope/World Shut Your Mouth: lovely pastoral hymn, especially welcome in a week of numerous mentions, voice and behaviour, in other strands.
2.Workin' Mans Blues/Merle Haggard/Strange Currencies: nice bit o'Merle.
3. Jammin'/Bob Marley & the Wailers/One Love - the Very Best of: One of my least favourite Marley songs actually.
4. I'm Yours if You Want Me/Chris Thile/How to Grow a Woman From the Ground: the ex Nickel Creek mandolin wiz
5.Who put the Bom in Bom Bom Diddleye Bom/Bentley Rhythm Ace/B.R.A: aaargh, I thought I'd deleted that and every other track, apart from the wonderful exception, "Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out" which I'm strangely fond of.

Can I do the white ipod 20GB next week?

Pavlov's Bell - Aimee Mann
Fit to Serve - A.J.Croce
Pale Blue Eyes - Marisa Monte
Musical Interval - Scott Matthews
Animal Lover - Suede

Morning Song - Zero 7
Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Dancing Queen - Abba
What's the Frequency, Kenneth - REM
Happiness - Goldfrapp

it's so mainstream it's practically a Jeremy Vine playlist, but there you go.

'Calling Rastafari' - Culture
'Nobody' - Johnny Cash
'Electrolite' - R.E.M.
'Hug My Soul' - Saint Etienne
'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

Can we have Sarah Cracknell on the cover one day?

Sea Of Sound - Pale Saints
Medley - Todd Rundgren
Cosmic Dancer - T.Rex
Andy Warhol - David Bowie
Moon River - Morrissey

All and all a very handsome selection, indeed, eh?

Under a wing - Scenic
Highways and cigarettes - Son Volt
Roscoe - Midlake
Trigger - Calexico
Don't stop - Fleetwood Mac

Moving On - Mercury Rev
Walk Where He Walked - Golden Smog
She's A Superstar - Buddy Guy
Ventilator Blues - Rolling Stones
Here In The Real World - Alan Jackson

My iPod? You mean that thing I used to use all the time that looked like a Texas Instruments calculator designed by Philippe Stark?

Yes, that's how Spotificated I've become. Sigh.

Needle and the damage done - Neil young
Saturday Night Earth Wind and Fire
Ode To Billie Joe - clarence White
Wait Til Your Boat Goes Down - XTC
When My Baby's Beside Me - Big Star

So Nice So Smart - Kimya Dawson
Pump It - Black Eyed Peas (for the odd occasion that I feel like dancing around like a hip-hopper)
Rise - The Frames
Little Drop of Poison - Tom Waits
The Flower and the Young Man - The Strawbs

I give it a spin and...

1) Guns n' Roses - Nightrain
2) The Magnetic Fields - I Was Born
3) Richard Swift - Artist & Repertoire
4) The La's - Knock Me Down
5) Easyworld - Saddest Song

A bit dull, that. Also, all male and white. It doesn't make me look a particularly well-rounded individual :-(

I think I'll leave the office now and go listen to this in the sunshine...

1. Bruce Springsteen - Badlands (Live At The Roxy 1978 bootleg)
2. The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
3. Nick Drake - Cello Song
4. Sam Cooke - Laughin' and Clownin'
5. Ghostface Killah - Iron Maiden

Moving Home is Never Easy-The Drift Collective
Dont Call Me Nigger Whitey-Slt Stone
Black Uncle Remus-Loudon Wainwright
I'm Looking For A Miracle-Jesse Winchester
We Fall In Love Sometimes-Ian Shaw

1. Ride a White Horse - Goldfrapp
2. Dounia - Rokia Traore
3. I'm Not - Panda Bear
4. Carolina Drama - The Raconteurs
5. Old Friend - Loudon Wainwright III

Mines gone all 'clubby' on me for this random 5:

Little Boots - Stick on Repeat
Hallelujah (Club Mix) - Happy Mondays
Seven Nation Army (Adam Freeland Remix) - White Stripes
Human (Ferry Corsten Remix) - The Killers

... and then just for the end-of-night club comedown:

Little Fluffy Clouds (Dance Mix) - The Orb

Blimey, no need to listen to listen to Pete Tong tonight!!

..that's how much I think your Dad's old output is worth, Dhani.

Beatles - Julia
Marc Carroll - No Time At All
Flaming Lips - Buggin
Spiritualised - The Straight and The Narrow
Stephen Stills - It Doesn't Matter

Cars - Gary Numan
The Walk - The Cure
Get Clean - Nitzer Ebb
So Lonely - The Police
Little Tears Of Love - Toyah

Nocturn - Kate Bush
For Milton Mapes - Broken Family Band (word cd)
This Lie - Esther Balint
The Grim Trucker - Ron Sexsmith
A James Varda song, don't know the title (iTunes didn't recognise it)

Not a bad lot

I am the Resurrection- Stone Roses
My Love Life- Morrissey
All the Lazy Dykes-Morrissey
Shakermaker-Oasis
The Second Great Depression -Manic Street Preachers

O Mary Don't You Weep - Springsteen, Seeger Sessions
Clairaudients (Kill or be killed) - Bright Eyes, Cassadaga
Intro - De La Soul, Three Feet High and Rising
Funk Factory - The Definitive Wilson Pickett
When I'm Sixty Four - Beatles, Sgt Pepper

Gratified to hear the kids singing along to the last, intrigued to note I have no recollection of acquiring the first two

but here we go:

1] GENE Sick, Sober And Sorry
2] ISAAC HAYES Let's Stay Together
3] THE CERAMIC HOBS Maladjusted (from the "Mad Pride" CD)
4] BLUES PALMER Misery Parts 1 and 2
5] THE POLICE Next To You

Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva
I Feel Cream - Peaches
Sisters Of Mercy - Leonard Cohen
Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey

Ask Me Now - Thelonius Monk
Country Son (alternate take) - Miles Davis
I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson
Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Tyrone Davis
Teasin' You - Willie Tee

This is from within iTunes itself - from a playlist containing all bar audiobooks and Classical.

EVIL - Interpol
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD - The Pretenders
INVITING BOTH SISTERS OUT TO DINNER - Delicatessen
BULLETS FLY - My Life Story
EARTH TRIBE - Trans-Global Underground

Bright Side Of The Road - Van Morrison
Boogie Chillun - Him again with Linda Gail Lewis
Dweller On The Threshold - It's a hat trick - of sorts!
The Hangman - The Redwalls
Copenhagen - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra

Memo to self: Get a grip and sort this stuff out!

Simone - The Stone Roses
Rhineland (Heartland) - Beirut
Diversion - Mark Ronson
Sine - Kode9 & the Spaceape
No Better Place - Fountains of Wayne

Party Time - Rhythm King
Turntable Mix (Freestyle Mix) - Grandmaster Flash
Good Company - Queen
Only Ones Who Know - Arctic Monkeys
Traffic Jam - Teenage Fanclub

A pleasant 180-degree turn from hip-hop into uke-glam from the Pod there...

1. Piano Sonata #6 in A, Op. 82 - 3. Tempo di valzer lentissimo - Prokofiev

2. Aluminium Park - My Morning Jacket

3. The Caterpillar - The Cure

4. If She Knew What She Wants - The Bangles

5. Angel - Aretha Franklin

1. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles
2. Turn Your Radio On - Grandpa Jones
3. Dangerman Theme - Bob Leaper Ochestra
4. The Box - Orbital
5. Absolute Ego Dance - Yellow Magic Orchestra

The Day I Die - Diana Jones A fantastic album.(There was only one of her songs on Spotify as of yesterday - wake up!)
Black Barbie - Little Jackie
Never Any Good (Live) - Martin Simpson
St Patrick's Day - John Mayer
Losing You - Kelly Willis
Good tracks from albums I really like, though John Meyer's album is a bit so-so. Still, four out of five ain't bad, as Mr Loaf may have said.

1. The Fall - Guest Informant
2. The Durutti Column - Experiment In Fifth
3. Elbow - Weather To Fly
4. Buzzcocks - Late For The Train
5. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no.2 in D major

I know how the Elbow and Buzzcocks tracks go. The others, depressingly - haven't got a clue.

...but with a bit of fish on a Friday

The Hotel Majestic - Fountains of Wayne
Los - The Czars
Start me up - Rolling Stones
Tasty Fish - The Other Two
Refuge of the Roads - Joni Mitchell

1. Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
2. Neko Case - Lord Don't Move The Mountain
3. Roy Hill - More
4. Seth Lakeman - Fight For Favour
5. Wire - Fragile

1. Half Hearted Get (Is Second Best), The Beautiful South
2. £25, The Saw Doctors
3. How Low, José Gonzalez
4. Agave, Daniel Lanois
5. If You Know Time, Robyn Hitchcock (with Gillian Welch)

The iPod must be on "flattery mode": the latter three of these come from Word cover CDs.

Joss Stone- All the King's Horses
Marian Call- I'm yours
Cirque du Soleil- Alegria
Gorillaz= Demon Days
Morcheeba- Lighten Up

1. Takin' The Midnight Train - Tony Joe White

2. You Get What You Deserve - Big Star

3. Mi Ma Kpe Dji - Picoby Band D'Abomey

4. The Girls And The Dogs - Scott Walker

5. Trippin' On Your Love - The Staple Singers

1. Crack Hitler - Faith No More
2. I'm So In Love With You - Techniques
3. Cobrastyle - Robyn
4. This Gift - Sons and Daughters
5. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' - Journey

Good stuff.

1.Richard Thompson - Turning of the Tide
2.Jaymay - You Are The One I Love
3.Nanci Griffith - Outbound Plane
4.The Proclaimers - Your Childhood
5.Dolly Collins and Shirley - Oxford Girl

Band Song Album

The Strawbs Part of the Union Halcyon Days ( Disc 2 )
Anti Atlas Anti Atlas Now Hear This Word 5
Oryx Oryx The coming of the Oryx
Billy Bragg She smiled sweetly Uncut March 2002
Las Chincas Batukeros De La Calle Mariatchi Boogie

1. Animal Show Drinking - Cotton Mather
2. The Rack (Reprise) - The Last
3. Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille
4. Sleeping With Your Devil-Mask - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
5. No Questions Asked - The Flesh Eaters

Happy to see Mr Hitchcock making an appearance. Can never get enough of old Hitch. Ah, The Flesh Eaters, now there was a band.

Lordy... an odd selection

1) Opening movement Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Conducted by Karl Bohm, Wiener Philharmoniker
(first time a classical tune has randomized!)
2) I Likes To Do It - Peoples Choice (as sampled by De La Soul in Treadwater from 3 Feet High And Rising)
3) Absolutely Sweet Marie - Bob Dylan
4) Lost Someone - James Brown
5) Leaving Town - Dawn Of The Replicants (brilliant tune, please look it up everyone, it's a real unknown gem)

That's the oddest selection I've had yet. One would think I was trying to be cool here...

Neptune - Ian Brown
W.C.S (First Draft)- dEUS
Leaving today - The Coral
Luno - bloc Party
redondo beach - Morrissey

I can feel a bad lot coming on.

Let's see.

1. When You Got A Good Friend - Eric Clapton
2. Any Time At All - The Beatles
3. Funky Drummer Parts 1 & 2 - James Brown
4. Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits
5. 21 Years - Robert Plant

All those huge names. So much for Cutting-Edge Barrons

Eric Clapton/John Mayall - All Your Love
Poney Express - Le Bruit de Dehors
The Notting Hillbillies - Railboard Worksong
Pete Rock/CL Smith - Lots of Lovin'
Kevin Johansen - No Voy A Ser Yo

1. Tom Waits - Black Rider
2. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
3. Stephen Colbert - I Am America - chapter 8
4. Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
5. Edwin Starr - War (acapella)

Could have been far worse...the next track was a mash-up - Yes vs Sir Mix-a-lot - Owner Of A Lonely Butt

1. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
2. Barbara Lewis - Baby I'm Yours
3. Magnetic Fields - You're My Only Home
4. Ella Fitzgerald - I Am In Love
5. The National - Ada

LCD Soundsystem - Hippie Priest Burn Out
The Beatles - For No One
Love - Softly to Me
Pavement - Silence Kit
Nick Cave - Today's Lesson

The Greatest Sum - The Avett Brothers
That Ain't Right - Heavy Trash
Lookin' Out My Back Door - CCR
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
This Hustling World - Ghedu Blay Ambolley

Here are my five:

2nd Thought - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Organisation)
Waking the Witch - Kate Bush (The Hounds of Love)
Ironstone Izadora - Puressence (Planet Helpless)
The Birdman of EC1 - St Etienne (Tales From Turnpike House)
Sometimes I Feel So Lonely - Primal Scream (Riot City Blues)

Mmmm. Not sure what to make of that lot!

1. I've Been Losing You - a-ha
2. Bird Gerhl - Anthony and The Johnsons
3. Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance - Prince
4. We Let The Stars Go - Prefab Sprout
5. I Don't Believe In You - Talk Talk

Hmm, mixed, not all favourites necessarily, I love 1 and 5 though...

Electric Six - Improper Dancing
The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk To Dream
Kings Of Convenience - The Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Instrumental Remix)
Anders Ilar - Path To The Sky
Tindersticks - No Man In The World

1 (your) safe in your sleep (from this girl) my bloody valentine
2 going home tomorrow tony christie
3 dishes pulp
4 faster(us mix) manic street preachers
5 punka kenickie

one from a word cd as well woo hoo

1. Save Us - Feeder
2. Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
3. Tell Me Ten Words - Idlewild
4. Where Is Our Love Going? - Ash
5. Big Cheese - NIRVANA

I'm gonna be honest I only really like Big Cheese & Love Tender. I have a lot of crap on my iPod, which I never listen to. This is a good exercise.

1.Running back - Thin Lizzy
2.ELT - Wilco
3.Ghost band - Green on Red
4.I'm beginning to see the light - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
5.Love - The Twilight Singers

Belong - REM
Stop Breaking Down Blues - Robert Johnson
Cellular Fusion - High School Musical
M.O.R. - Tim Ten Yen
Landlord - The Police

1. That's The Way Love Is - Marvin Gaye [The Very Best of Marvin Gaye]

2. Love Rescue Me - U2 [Rattle and Hum]

3. What's It Gonna Be - Neil Diamond [12 Songs]

4. Farewell - Kate Rusby [Awkward Annie]

5. Take A Whiff On Me - Woody Guthrie [The Very Best of Woody Guthrie]

He's the Keeper - Paul Weller
Hymn 2 - Craig Armstrong
Spagna Contrapunto - Madrid Atrium Musicae
The Word - Prince
Virtual World - The Verve

The pop singer's fear of the pollen count - The Divine Comedy
Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry baby cry (Transition)- The Beatles ( from the "Love" album)
Under Pressure - David Bowie/Queen
Delia's gone - Johnny Cash
When the night comes - The Boomtown Rats

1)Reynardine-- Fairport Convention
2)It's A Sin-- PSB
3)Satellite Of Love--Lou Reed
4)Loose Lips-- Kimya Dawson (Juno Soundtrack)
5)Golden Skans--Klaxons (From Live Lounge Album)

Well that could have been worse.

Elvis Costello - So Like Candy
The Rolling Stones - Mixed Emotions
The Stone Roses - Tell Me
Duran Duran - New Religion
Ride - Unfamiliar

Never mind..

Feeling Good - Nina Simone
Go Away - Röyksopp
Tom Tiddler's Ground - Roy Harper
Imidiwaren - Tinariwen
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Nisse Hellberg - Syna Dom I Sömmen
The Rutles - Let´s Be Natural
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
Wilmer X - Dämma Upp Alla Floder
Brian Wilson - Meant For You

Beatles - Here there and everywhere
Divine Comedy- Note to Self
Roxy Music- Do The Strand
Ben Folds Five- Alice Childress
Foo Fighters - Still

Quite pleased with that.

Korn - Blind
Reverend and the Makers - Open Your Window
Cream - Doing That Scrapyard Thing
Elastica - 2:1
Hassan Abou Saud - Nova

Young Knives - Half Timer
Wah! Heat - 7 Minutes to Midnight
Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About
Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In)
Pete Yorn - Committed

London Girl - The Pogues
A Clean Pair Of Eyes - David Gray
Blow Up A Go Go - James Clarke
Don't Give Hate A Chance - Jamiroquai
Old Friends - Everything But The Girl

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Something's Wrong
Amon Torbin - Bitter & Twisted
Patti Smith - Birdland
Eminem - Mockingbird
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho / Golden Gate Quartet
Big Shoe / Bill Frissell (off "The Willies", his sort of country jazz album which I love very much. Recorded in 2002 but nicely old-fashioned)
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) / King Curtis Plays The Great Memphis Hits
Bohemian Like You / Dandy Warhols (something genuinely 21st century! well, 2004)
Big Rock Candy Mountain / O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack

Yes, I'm a bit of a musical Luddite. Though I do have a soft spot for Elbow, courtesy The Word's well-intentioned harping. You also turned me on, belatedly, to the wonders of The Office (USA). Start with series 2 as series 1 is just a re-hash of the UK original. Dwight in the USA version (Gareth as was) is a terrifying comic creation.

The Jayhawks - Bottomless cup
Lucinda Williams - Bus to Baton Rouge
Patty Griffin - Stolen car
Gretchen Peters - Border Town
Buddy & Julie Miller - Forever has come to an end

A New England (12" version) - Kirsty MacColl
Just A Little Bit - Tiny Topsy (from the Kent compilation King New Breed Rhythm & Blues, which is well worth listening to)
Andy's Chest - Lou Reed
Good Day Sunshine - The Hey Jude Hitmakers
Tony Owens - I Don't Want Nobody But My Baby (from the Kent compilation Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Volume 2)

Yes, I am probably am keeping Kent Records in business

Alihan Samedov - Sen Gelmez Oldun (Buddha Bar V compilation)
The Ready Men - Pipeline
Tunng - Surprise Me 44
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Wowie Zowie
Sam & Dave - Soul Man

Crazy Googenheimer Blues The Saints
Bad Missionaries G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S
Some Candy Talking The Jesus and Mary Chain
Batteries Not Included Sparks
Fighting in the Dancehall Goldblade

My Roots - Burning Spear
My Blood - Neville Brothers
The Boom Boom Bap - Scritti Politti
Karmacoma - Massive Attack
Chicago - CSNY

one of those was thanks to a givaway CD from a music mag, the rest are my own work. Why oh why do I have to keep EVERYTHING??

Theme From Shaft - Isacc Hayes
Death To The Indie Disco - Blah Blah Blah
Intergalatic - The Beastie Boys
Incredible - EMF
F# - Chris TT

Acid Bird - Robyn Hitchcock
The More I See - Fun Boy Three
Sixty Minutes of Your Love - Homer Banks
So Fine - Telepathe
Sehnsucht - Einstuerzende Neubauten

Yes, Northern Soul and Neubauten (yawn)- what a combo. How horribly avant I am.

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum
Deborah - Dave Edmunds
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - David Shire (Oh no! It's off the Mojo cd The Score!)
Flashing Lights - Kanye West
Island of Sirens - The Simpsons (Carl, Lenny, Homer)

Frozen Faces - Propaganda
Chocolate - Snow Patrol
Me and the Major - Belle and Sebastian
Wheelbarrow Walk - Michael Nyman
Broken Household Appliance National Forest - Grandaddy

That's pretty representative really.

Baton Rouge- Guy Clark
Sure Hope You Mean It - Raphael Saadiq
Life On Your Own - Human League
Stuck Inside of Memphis - Bob Dylan
The Natives Are Restless Tonight - Horace Silver

San Diego Serenade - Nanci Griffith
There Is No Greater Love - Aretha Franklin
Vapor - Ben Weaver
Lady Day and John Coltrane - Gil Scott-Heron
Goodbye California - Jolie Holland

I like that lot.

I bought my new iPod three weeks ago and I have only loaded a small amount of my music to date. I now wish I had arranged my CDs on the shelf in order of credibility rather than by genre! Never mind, here goes.

For No One - The Beatles (from Revolver)
White As Snow - U2 (from New Line on The Horizon)
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles (from Revolver)
The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver - Elbow (from The Seldom Seen Kid)
Bleeker Street - Simon and Garfunkel (from Old Friends)

Reel Around the Fountain - The Smiths
Your Protector - Fleet Foxes
Time Alone Will Tell - Obi
Since I Met You - Shack
Brain of J - Pearl Jam

I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
The Merchant of Venice (Act 5 Scene 1) - William Shakespeare
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ('Love' version) - The Beatles
Same As It Ever Was - Talking Heads
Life Line - Harry Nilsson

1) David Byrne – Broken Things (Look into the Eyeball)
2) Yukihiro Takahashi - The Trouble With Shohei (Poisson D’Avril)
3) Human League – The Path of Least Resistance (Reproduction)
4) Lou Reed – Dime Store Mystery (New York)
5) New Order – In A Lonely Place (Substance)

I'm rather proud of that. Didn't cheat, honest guv!

Smoke Detector- Rilo Kiley
Enjoy the Silence- Depeche Mode
Portions for Foxes- Rilo Kiley (!!!)
Wouldn't Mama be Proud- Elliot Smith
Fantino- Sebastien Tellier

1. Cream: Doing That Scrapyard Thing
2. Manic Street Preachers: Found That Soul
3. Cat Power: The Moon
4. Lykke Li: This Trumpet In My Head
5. Diana Ross & The Supremes: Reflections.

The Cardigans - After All

Merle Haggrd - Every Fool Has A Rainbow

Michelle Shocked - Sleep Keeps Me Awake

Roxy Music - Do The Strand

Mark Lanegan - Man In A Long Black Coat.

1. Rubylove, Cat Stevens
2. So what, Miles Davies
3. Knocking On Heaven’s Door, Jon Bon Jovi
4. Sunday, Timo Räisänen
5. I’d Have You Anytime, George Harrison

Tread Water- De La Soul
Own Up Time- The Small Faces
Baggy Trousers- Madness
Devil Tricks for a Bitch- Lightspeed Champion
Star Sign- Teenage Fanclub

...which makes the first song strangely apt

Introduction - James Tatum Trio Plus
Hello It's Me - The Nazz
Tight Fit - New Young Pony Club
National Express - The Divine Comedy
Pinball Number Count - The Pointer Sisters

Stereo MC's - Pressure
Wilco - Hate It Here
The National - Apartment Story
Badly Drawn Boy - The Blossoms
The Delgados - Come Undone

1. First We Take Manhattan, Leonard Cohen

2. The Fall of the World's Own Optimist, Aimee Mann

3. Hymns to the Silence, Van Morrison

4. Ma-Me-O-Beach, Joan Armatrading

5. You Make Me Feel so Free, Van Morrison

Here is today's randomness:

1. These Burgers - The Moldy Peaches (lovely and weird start).
2. 4Sex Message 1 - Aiden John Moffat (very short sweary rant).
3. 1972 - Josh Rouse (perfect Sunday groove).
4. Next To You - Bebel Gilberto (even iPods can tell it's Sunday)
5. Lose It - Supergrass (haven't heard this for 10 years. Great).

Golden Age - TV On The Radio
Baby Don't You Go - The Miracles
Drowning - The Beat
Everybody Pays as They Go - Jacob Dylan
Don't Do Me No Favours - James Hunter

1) I Sleep Alone (live)-Rihard Hawley
2)Daydream-Gunter Kallman Chorus
3)Don't Stop-Fleetwood Mac
4) Satellite Radio-Steve Earl
5)Night That Minnie Timperley Died-Pulp

1. What is This Thing Called Love - Bill Evans Trio
2. The Light At the End of the Tunnel - Richard Hawley
3. In the Flowers - Animal Collective
4. Ain't No Soul - Bonnie Milsap
5. Smithers Jones - The Jam

1. CSNY - Woodstock
2. Delakota - On The Trail
3. Morrissey - Certain People I Know
4. Belle & Sebastian - Fox In The Snow
5. Laura Veirs - Snow Camping (live acoustic)

1. Winter People - Carolanne Pegg
2. Rhymes of Goodbye - Scott Walker
3. Island of Plenty - The Cake
4. Take Me With You - Mark Eric
5. Drawing Lessons - Tin Hat

1. Orion - Rodrigo y Gabriela
2. People - Jimmy Cliff feat. Sting
3. My Weakness - Moby
4. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash
5. At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M.

1. Little Town Flirt - Del Shannon
2. Intro - Deep Purple
3. Tutti Frutti - Elvis Presley
4. Night Starvation - Slade
5. Girls In Black - Airbourne

Just to see my Holly home - Bonnie Prince Billy
House of Cards - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Your protector - Fleet Foxes
Imaginary Man - Ray Dvies
Beaux Dimanches - Amadou and Mariam

Little Baby Nothing - Manic Street Preachers
I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Say Man - Bo Diddley
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
Bra - Cymande

1) Pendulum - Midnight Runner
2) Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
3) James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
4) Morcheeba - The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre
5) LCD Soundsystem - Give It Up

1. Stay - Tricky
2. El Bebe Masoquista - Fatboy Slim
3. Fountain - PJ Harvey
4. Monkey Travels - Damon Albarn et al
5. Galvanise - Chemical Brothers

The first three are all off albums I have barely ever listened to!

Nineteen (extended version) - Phil Lynott: From a best of and obscure bits compilation
Nobody loves you - The Storys: Some great West-Coast harmony from the Swansea-based country rockers
The sun will always rise - Heather Nova: From her Redbird album.
Heaven Must of Sent You - The Elgins: I'd completely forgotten this track and can barely recognise it - from a Motown 70s compilation
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel: From "So" - still an album I enjoy listening to even 20 years on (yikes!!)

Dinah Washington & Brooke Benton - A Rockin' Good Way

Talking Heads - Swamp

Coldplay - Moses

Muse - Man of Mystery

Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

The Kiss - Judee Sill
I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional - American Football
What Are They Doing In Heaven Today - Washington Philips
Sunnydayafter - Disinterested
Reitschule - Do Make Say Think

Soulwax - Proverbial Pants
Half Man Half Biscuit - Moody Chops
Underworld - King Of Snake
The Delgados - Now And Forever
Jars Of Clay - Sad Clown

The Decemberists - Annan Water [The Hazards Of Love]
Melissa Etheridge - 2001 [Never Enough]
Roger Waters - Welcome to the Machine [In The Flesh Live]
Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home [Miles From Our Home]
Bob Dylan - To Be Alone With You [Nashville Skyline]

100% Genuine. Very pleased at The Decemberists cropping up as No. 1! I bought the album the same day I heard a track from it on this month's Word CD. (And agree that it is wonderful.)

Weird that my posting may be straight after one by "nick". We're not related, although my written signature has always been lowercase.

1. Leatherface - Dreaming
2. The Housemartins - Caravan of Love
3. Crowded House - Distant Sun
4. Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (live Ya-Ya's version)
5. The Band - Chest Fever

1) Alfie - Check the Weight
2) Super Furry Animals - Do Or Die
3) The Magnetic Fields - Queen of the Savages
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
5) Half Man Half Biscuit - Asparagus Next Left

1) Warren Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me
2) Fiery Furnaces - Automatic Husband
3) Danileson Familie - Let Us A.B.C.
4) Fiona Apple - Get Gone
5) She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today

I was hoping for an earth-shattering insight but all I got was...

1. Thirteen - Wilco
2. The Ugly Underneath - Andy Partridge
3. George Davis Is Innocent - Sham 69
4. Little Bitty Pretty One - Clyde McPhatter
5. Daddy Buy Me A Girl - Golden Earring

None of which I have listened to since loading them on to the iPod!

1) Tindersticks - (Tonight) Are You Trying To Fal In Love Again
2) Finley Quaye - Even After All
3) Dwight Yoakam - If There Was A Way
4) Emmylou Harris - Beneath Still Waters
5) Eleven - Hidden

1. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking

2. Gilberto Gil - Procissão

3. Stevie Wonder - Too High

4. Radiohead - Treefingers

5. Bob Dylan - Wedding Song

Paul McCartney - Bluebird
The Beatles - Back In The USSR
Timbuktu - Dom Hinner Aldrig Ikapp
The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Jenny Wilson - Pass Me The Salt

The shuffle option may be tired and uninspired in general today.

Garnett Mimms - Tell Me Baby
Super Furries - Cloudberries
George Formby - Riding In The TT Races
Mr Scruff - Shelf Wobbler
Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - Up In Indiana

Curiously enough, it's the Formby that has given (and still gives) the greatest pleasure of those five. By far.

carl perkins cadillac -drive by truckers
kiri kiri mabina - docteur nico
black heroes tete mbambisa
lush life - joe henderson
belle belle - poly rythmo de cotonou

yes I've got a lot of african stuff

Pencil Skirt - Pulp
Talisman - Air
Think Again - Billy Bragg
Night Train - James Brown
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

Tool – 10,000 days
Brand X – April
Bill Hicks – Step On The Gas (L.A. Riots)
Robin Trower – About To Begin
John Martyn – Head And Heart.

Play it again...

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Doves - Sea Song
King Tubby and The Aggrovators - A Crabit Version
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

1. shivaree - i close my eyes (from word free cd)....6/10
2. stevie wonder - uptight.......9/10
3. david sylvian - silver moon....7/10. what a lovely song. when are we going to re-evaluate sylvian/japan. some wonderful songs.
4. scissor sisters - the other side 9/10 a fantastic SS song. Very popular in my house. and actually sounds quite Japan-like.
5. guy clark - good to love you lady.......3/10. i just cantget on with guy clark. memo to self: take this off the mp3 player.

Eat - Fatman: Marvelous 80s indie
Darling Buds - Burst: average 80s indie
Mulatu Astatqe - Netsanet. Wonderful
Richard Hawley - Just Like the Rain. Pleasant
Arnold - Fishsounds. One of the great unsung bands.

Unique - Eskobar (not starred, so I obvioulsy don't rate it very much)
Bonafied Lovin' - Chromeo (4 stars)
Dead Things - Emiliana Torrini (4 stars)
Meadowlands - Fleet Foxes (5 stars)
Come On, Come Out - A Fine Frenzy (4 Stars)

Take me Home, Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - One from the Heart OST
Star Witness - Neko Case, a Word CD - never before played.
Streets of your town, the Go-betweens, 16 lovers lane
Cane, Gil Scott-Heron - Secrets
A Bad Debt follows you - The Go-betweens, Spring Hill Fair Demos.
I have rather a lot of Go-betweens so the doubling up is not too unexpected.

Seed - Sublime
No Sympathy - Super Furry Animals
Another Day - Real People
Superwoman - Alicia Keys
Me & Bobby Mcgee - Janis Joplin

Tom Waits - Starving in the Belly of a Whale
Iron & Wine - Teeth in The Grass
The Sea & Cake - The Transaction
Neil Young - No Wonder
Lambchop - The Theme from the Neil Miller Show

Considering I do no edit tracks off my iPod I'm quite pleased with this.

here we go...
1) drowning in my own tears-ray charles
2) drinking song-various artis, no your guess is as good as mine.
3)The river [live]-bruce springsteen
4)Sleeptime time-cream
5)saticky fingers-the fat cats

i'll live with that!

...that's a long 5 tracks...

Les Paul & Mary Ford - Caravan
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Suzanne Vega - 99.9f Degrees
Jeff Buckley - Mojo pin (Live)
Super Furry Animals - Mountain People

Cursed Sleep - Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy (off Wai Notes)
Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash (off Story of the Clash)
Hope then Strife - The Go-Betweens (off Tallulah)
La Baymesa - Buena Vista Social Club
Get a Room - Jim O'Rourke (off Insignificance)

which is quite cool really...

... and I am a bit bored I offer another randomized selection...

1) Smokes Quantity - Boards Of Canada (I am quite geeky about this band and recommend them to all...)
2) Suicide Is Painless - Jamie Mandel (Cool! The original theme from MASH)
3) White Christmas - Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters (from a CD called The Roots Of Elvis, mostly songs made famous by him. Very good by the way...)
4) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams (No need for comment here)
5) Always On My Mind - Elvis (ditto)

I am not Richard Hawley in real life...

Little Red Rooster - Howlin Wolf
Lovers Of Today - The Only Ones
I'm Standing - Rufus Lumley
Atmospheres - Wimple Winch
Long Division - Death Cab For Cutie

Lost Weekend - Lloyd Cole
Walls Come Tumbling Down - Paul Weller
Underdog (Save Me) - Turin Brakes
River Man - Nick Drake
Steppin Out - Joan Armatrading

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg "Manon"
Brian Eno "Taking Tiger Mountain"
Samamidon "Saro"
Guided By Voices "The Worryin' Song"
The Czars "Zippermouth"

1. Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues (live)
2. Steely Dan – Babylon Sisters
3. Dr Feelgood – Roxette (Old Grey Whistle Test version)
4. Elastic – Car Song
5. Joni Mitchell - Carey

so…
1. Shout - Donna Lewis (one of the best pop singles of 2008)
2. Rock & Roll Part 2 - Fun Is Dun (my brother in law's school punk band circa 1979!)
3. Far Out - The Hip Sound (thanks to Office Naps for this one)
4. Life's Parade - Jan & Lorraine (slightly cringey acid-folk)
5. I Am Not Surprised - The Organ (great lost band of recent years)

Pena/Saban Bajramovic (from Beginners Guide to World Music): Hmm, curiously ummemorable....
Why Can't We live Together?/Sade: Well, I like it!
Deep in it/St Germain: Acid jazzy-nice.
Isn't it Good tonight/Shea Seger:Unlike much of the CD it's from
Direchos de el Corazon/Tish Hinojosa: Wonderful
This pod contains currently only S-Z!

. . be gentle
1 Stormy Monday Blues - Bobby Blue Bland
2 Bus Driver - Muddy Waters
3 Mama Don't Allow [No Twistin']
4 Ain't Nothin' You Can Do - Van Morrison
5 People got a lot of Nerve - Cat Power

In the End - Green Day
Full Forever -The Goo Goo Dolls
Seven Seas of Rhye - Queen
Crossroads - Tracey Chapman
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes

She She Little Sheila - Gene Vincent
Complicated - Avril Lavigne! I'm so proud!
September Gurls - Big Star
Highway 29 - Bruce Springsteen
Carrier - Brian Eno/David Byrne

On The Town Square by Robert Wyatt
Yes I Do by Chicks on Speed
Ed's Babe by the Fall
Blackout (Stage version) by David Bowie
Amad alternate take by Duke Ellington

All good and the sun's trying to shine again today.

Perhaps my best attempt at this yet (i.e. no random bootlegged live tracks or remixes)

1 Queen Jane Approximately (Bob Dylan)
2 Try Not To Breathe (REM)
3 Murray Ostril:"They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach" (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
4 True Faith (New Order)
5 Have You Passed Through This Night? (Explosions In The Sky)

It managed to dig out stuff I'd rarely acknowlege owning, let alone listen to

Van Morrison - Spirit
Bad Company - Ready for Love
Tony Bennett - I gotta right to sing
Thunder - All I ever wanted
Oxygene part 2 - Jean Michel Jarre

Well, I'm having one.

1) Tindersticks - Travelling Light
2) The Black Keys - Midnight in her Eyes
3) Architcture in Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me
4) Martha Wainwright - Ball and Chain
5) Nic Armstrong - Broken Mouth Blues

A fairly unremarkable selection I'm afraid.

1) BOZ SCAGGS - Lido Shuffle
2) VAN MORRISON - Coney Island
3) WRECKLESS ERIC - Whole Wide World
4) TRASHMEN - Surfin' Bird
5) REDBONE - Come And Get Your Love

Zeesh - not a bad selection per se, but only Van the Man (1989) was made after 1977, I promise I'm not as retro as this makes me seem...

(Don't Go Back To) Rockville/REM
Bodhisattva/Steely Dan
Morning After Midnight/Adam Green (from a Word CD)
Operator/Grateful Dead
The End Of Another Perfect Day/Kirst MacColl

Nevertheless...

1.F*ck What You Heard - TC feat Scratch Perverts
2.Dreamy Days - Roots Manuva
3.Shrimp - Mr. Scruff
4.3rd Degreee Gurns - Friction
5.Speed King - Deep Purple

Hmmmm. 2 from the same Drum and bass compilation, plus two Ninja Tune ones, and Deep Purple. Not really a broad representative, but i'll bet no one else in the massive has "3rd Degree Gurns". Unless its a Richard Thompson cover...

1 Christmas song - Felice Bros
2 Leif Erikson - Interpol
3 Tremelo Song - Charlatans
4 Holly Home - Bonnie Prince Billy
5 Slender - Tompaulin

Qualified - Dr John
Redhead Girl - Air
Flute Concerto No 1 - Mozart
90-Mile Water Wall - The National
Rosberg Suaimhneas Intinne - Flook

'The Worst Joke Ever' - R.E.M.
'The Logical Song' - Supertramp
'Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey' - Paul & Linda McCartney
'I Wish' - Stevie Wonder
'On The Other Side - Vetiver

Winter - Tori Amos
Really - Nellie McKay
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bessie Smith
Birthday - The Accidental
Bocuma - Boards of Canada

That was unexpectedly brief. The next few tracks were:
"The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees the Red Cross" by Mike Oldfield (from The Killing Fields OST) and Gloria from a Van Morrison best of.

New York Rock and Soul Revue - Pretzel Logic
Supertramp - You Started Laughing
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny
Wang Chung - Wait
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

Surprisingly a great sampling of my tastes!

Bewildered - Cranes
Cello song - Nick Drake
One day goodbye will be farewell - Morrissey
You never wash up after yourself - Radiohead
The Ride - Joan as Policewoman

I Feel Fine - The Beatles
Robot - The Futureheads
Dreams - The Kinks
Mr Grieves - Pixies
Miniature Sun - Andy Partridge (Fuzzy Warbles)

Phew, what a relief. I thought I was going to look like an idiot. Rest of Word readership: 'What an idiot!'

Let's do another:

Don't Tell Me - The View (Hats Off To The Buskers)
Sea Spray - Paul Weller (22 Dreams)
There Is A Kingdom - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (The Boatman's Call)
Spiral Staircase - Kings of Leon (Youth & Young Manhood)
Across The Universe - David Bowie (Young Americans)

Excellent recovery from a poor start there...

After All- David Bowie
Thus Said The Lord Of Hosts, Handels Messiah-London Philharmonic Orchestra
Protex Blue-The Clash
Binary Love-The Rakes
Atmosphere-Joy Divison

Glad David Bowie appeared!

Moment of Surrender - U2 ( From No Line on the Horizon)
An Audience with the Pope - Elbow
Felicidade - The Ramsey Lewis Trio
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol ( What!, I like it,Don´t look at me like that )
Vois Sur Ton Chemin - Bruno Coulais from Les Choristes

Out for a run last night. ipod on. and this ....no wonder it took me longer than usual.

Cat Power - New York
Gomez - Get Miles
The Earlies - One Of Us Is Dead
Moby - Porcelain
Emmylou Harris - Strong Hand(Just One Miracle)

Still had some mileage left.

It's Only Natural - Crowded House
The Same Old Song - A Camp
Go Faster - Black Crowes
The Late Greats - Wilco
Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds

A good soundtrack to strolling down the South Bank.

Altered Images, 'Happy Birthday'
Simian Mobile Disco, 'I Got This Down'
The Raconteurs, 'Steady As She Goes'
10cc, 'People In Love'
Prefab Sprout, 'Swans'

It's a healthy mix.

Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
Joan Armatrading: Turn Out The Light
Scott Bakula: Pig Island
Mitch Benn: Crap Shag
Doug Anthony Allstars: I Want To Spill The Blood Of A Hippy

Letter from Belgium - the Mountain Goats
Does he love you? - Rilo Kiley
Friend, you've got to - Husker Du
Carrying Cathy - ben Folds
Heard them stirring - Fleet foxes

The Fool on the Hill - The Beatles
How to be Invisible - Kate Bush
Hard White Wall - Joan as Police Woman
Civil War - Blake Babies
The Moon is Number 18 - Silver Jews

...a lot of Gin Blossoms on my iPod.

You Belong To Me – Steve Earle

Atwa – System of a Down

About Insomnia – Martha and The Muffins

Fool For The Taking – Gin Blossoms

Not Only Numb – Gin Blossoms

Curious Thing – Gin Blossoms

For an All North American front five.

...I'm having yet another go.

1) Ryan Adams - Afraid not Scared
2) Nada Surf - Fruit Fly
3) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
4) The Little Ones - Waltz
5) Loney, Dear - I Will Call You Lover Again

Miles - Miles Davis
The Other Side of Summer - Elvis Costello
There for Her - Lloyd Cole
Dream A Little Dream - Louis Armstrong
Words - The Monkees

1. The Refo:mation - She Comes In Singing (The Refo:mation are basically The Church without Marty Willson-Piper, but you knew that)
2. Mostly Autumn - ...Just Moving On
3. Pink Floyd - Embryo (from BBC John Peel Sessions)
4. Red House Painters - Long Distance Runaround (yes, that one)
5. 21st Century Schizoid Band - The Court Of The Crimson King

Zip gun boogie- Lionrock
It's a motherfucker- Eels
Come home- James
Seven seas- Echo and the Bunnymen
Hey you- Pink Floyd

Wichita Skyline - Shawn Colvin
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny
Cathodes - Max Richter
Sparrow - Simon & Garfunkel
I Can't Stop Now - The Humblebums

Dancing with the Moonlit Knight - Genesis
Wondering - Van der Graaf Generator
Everyone Deserves Music - Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Moment - John Martyn
Sweetest Child - Maria McKee

Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Staralfur - Sigur Ros
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
My Favourite Mistake - Sheryl Crow
Heavens Door - Kelli Ali

Curtis Mayfield - Back to the world
Graham Parker and the Figgs - Hotel chambermaid
The Jayhawks - Big star
Billy Bragg - I don't need this pressure Ron
Santana - La fuente del Ritmo

The ladder - Alejandro Escovedo
No other love - Chuck Prophet
A smile that explodes - Joseph Arthur
Ring of fire - Grace Jones
Your belly in my arms - The Felice Brothers

Must Be Dreaming - Frou Frou
Because They're Young- Duane Eddy
Holy Incense(Tibet Version)- Sa Dingding
Allah Ya Moulena- Amina
Willie And The Hand Jive- Johnny Otis

here goes:

I'll be yours - Placebo
Farmer John - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Last Believer, Drop Dead - The Secret Machines
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin (ooh baaybe!)
Psycho Sam - Jeff Beck

It could have been a lot worse, my daughter's soundtrack to Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr is on there somewhere.

Life without you - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sink My Boats - Ian Dury
The Butcher Boy - Lambchop
There's Always Someone Cooler Than You - Ben Folds
I Feel Alright - Screamin Jay Hawkins

Could have been a lot worse I doo actuaully have a Guns & Roses track somewhere on iTunes

I Want You - Bob Dylan
Matthew and Son - Cat Stevens
Marrow - Ani Difranco
Best of You - The Foo Fighters
Oh Well, Okay - Elliott Smith

Rocky Raccoon, The Beatles
Kare Kare, Crowded House
Hang Fire, Rolling Stones
Janine, David Bowie
Get 'Em Out By Friday, Genesis.....abort, abort......!!

1. LCD Sound System - Us V Them
2. Jonny Greenwood - Open Sapces (There Will Be Blood Soundtrack)
3. Ryan Adams - Tina Toldeo's Street Walkin Blues
4. Belle & Sebastian - Expectations
5. Sigur Ros - Salka

Darren Haymen - Margate (Yes, that one Chas & Dave fans!)
Denim - I saw the Glitter on Your Face
New Pornographers - Challengers
Interpol - Leif Erikson
Felt - All the People I Like are Those That are Dead

Three Johns - Sun of Mud
Elbow - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
Eels - Souljacker Part I
10,000 Maniacs - Scorpio Rising
Keren Ann - Spanish Song Bird

...to make me more selective about what I put on it

Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra
Dancing Choose - TV On The Radio
The Biz Vs. The Nuge - Beastie Boys
Eye Know - De La Soul
The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Bowie - Fall Dog Bombs the Moon
Elvis Costello - Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs are Taking Over)
Roxy - Do the Strand
Wire - Let's Panic Later
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be Nice

Love on the Rocks Neil Diamond
Rock & Roll Pussy Todd Rundgren
Blazing Apostles BeBop Deluxe
Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley
Ponyboy Bruce Springsteen

Whatever happened to Bill Nelson? I think we should be told - underrated genuis.

Lately - Massive Attack
Trani - Kings of Leon
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Porcelain - Moby
Got One Life - The Qemists

3x5 - John Mayer
Walking After You - Foo Fighters
Scarecrow - Eddi Reader
On An Island [Live] - David Gilmour
Vital Signs - Rush

1 The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto
2 Rip Off (work in progress) - T.Rex
3 Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield
4 Love's Gone Bad - Chris Clark
5 Wet Tip Hen Ax - Aphex Twin