1. Notorious BIG – Juicy
2. Squarepusher – Fat Controller
3. Patty Griffin – Nobody’s Crying
4. Phish – Train Song (8.17.1996)
5. The Thorns – I Told You
6. Valery Gergiev – Lever du jour
7. David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things
8. Sublime – Caress Me Down
9. Mike Gordon – Exit Wound
10. White Stripes – Well It’s True We Love One Another

Favorite Song: Tie between Oh! You Pretty Things (just about my favorite Bowie song) and the all-time classic Juicy – “birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we’re thirsty…”

Least Favorite Song: Well It’s True We Love One Another. I don’t get it.

Need some amusement? Check out Cute Overload.

1. Res – How I Do
2. Curtis Mayfield – Mr. Welfare Man
3. Dr. Dre – The Car Bomb
4. Cat Stevens – Father and Son
5. Bjork – Desired Constellation
6. Dr. John – Loop Garoo
7. Polyphonic Spree – Section 11 (A Long Day Continues/We Sound Amazed)
8. Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades
9. Derek Trucks Band – Kam-Ma-Lay (feat. Ruben Blades)
10. The New Pornographers – Falling Through Your Clothes

Listen on Rhapsody – Rhapsody doesn’t have any Sufjan so I threw on the just released Guster song, “Manifest Destiny.” If you’re not a Rhapsody user you can also head over to their MySpace page to hear it. Bodes well for the new album if you ask me.

Favorite Song: Father And Son
Least Favorite Song: Desired Constellation (I appreciate this all-vocal Bjork album on an intellectual level but find it pretty difficult to enjoy aesthetically.)

As an aside, there’s been a lot of sports writing here recently so I thought I’d point you to a local sports blog I’ve really been enjoying, the aptly named Scrapple.

1. Phish – Jam 2 (from the 8.13.2004 Coventry FM soundcheck)
2. Phish – Undermind (yeah, there’s a lot of Phish on my ipod. 3000 tracks and you get 2 in a row.)
3. James Taylor – Lo and Behold
4. David Bowie – Andy Warhol
5. The Slip – Catacea
6. Ween – I Can’t Put My Finger On It
7. Yaya3 – Hometown
8. Joss Stone – Security
9. Tenacious D – Cock Pushups (not exactly a song, but who besides Phyllis Schlafly doesn’t love this track?)
10. The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Favorite Song: Andy Warhol. Personally I prefer Hunky Doy over Ziggy Stardust.

Least Favorite Song: Catacea. I dig this album but always skip this intro track.

Favorite Album on List: How could it NOT be Revolver? Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese gets an honorable mention.

1. Procul Harum – Simple Sister*
2. Joshua Redman – Molten Soul
3. Joe Henderson – Boto
4. Faust – Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
5. Joe Lovano Nonet – Tadd’s Delight
6. James Carter – Motown Mash
7. Camel – Skylines
8. McCoy Tyner – For Heaven’s Sake
9. Deltron 3030 – Virus
10. Blur – Crazy Beat

Click here to listen. (Thanks Amanda!)

I don’t actually know all these artists, but so far it’s been a good playlist.

*This is the second time I’ve written about this tune this week (are the Rhapsody people reading this?) and damn is it a good song.

• Total size of music files on my computer:
  On this computer? 50.8 GB. Figure another 15 GB on my other machines. Yeah, I’m a digital packrat. (Update: My iTunes library on my Powerbook is 2012 songs, 6:14:38:53, 10.45 GB)
• The last CD I bought was (when I’m not just streaming off of Rhapsody):
  remarkably, also Songs for Silverman by Ben Folds.
• Song playing right now in Rhapsody:
  Simple Sister by Procul Harum
• Five Songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me (really what I’ve been into lately):
  • Overkill by Colin Hay/Men At Work
  • Breakdown More by Eric Hutchinson
  • Come Downstairs and Say Hello by Guster
  • Jesusland by Ben Folds
  • Goodbye Head by Trey Anastasio.

I’m too lazy to build all those Amazon links right now. But check out AllMusic.com for the bible of pop music.