Start Your iPods

The iPod starts the work week with:

1. Spoon - Lines In The Suit. One of my favorite Spoon songs:
   
   The human resource clerk
   Has two cigarettes then back to work
   She eats right but hurts
   And she says it could've been good by now
   It could have been more than a wage, yeah
   How come she feels so washed up
   At such a tender age
   
   
2. John Mayall - Lonely Years
   
3. The Cure - The Dream
   
4. Shellac - My Black Ass. Everything Albini does is pure rage. There's no posturing or self-aggrandizing you get in other genres that like to come across as angry (metal, rap, etc). This stuff is just pure white hot rage.
   
5. Thelonius Monk & Sonny Rollins - I Want to be Happy. Ah ironic juxtaposition.
   
6. fieldfresh - pissin. One of my college bands...
   
   I like pissin
   I like kissin
   If I can't be kissin
   I wanna be pissin
   On the girl that won't kiss me
   Such brilliance.
   
7. The Replacements - Gary's Got a Boner. What an excellent pairing.
   
8. King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
   
9. Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out. One of the few I like from their last record.
   
10. Cat Power - Foot. Good one...
    
11. Special bonus: Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (XO). My favorite Elliot Smith song, and somewhere in the top 10 of my all time favorites.