I don’t normally do this sort of thing, as it’s always struck me as too-easy blog fodder, but I have to admit that my iPod shuffle put together a particularly nice playlist at the gym this a.m.
1: “Rub ‘Til It Bleeds,” P.J. Harvey
2: “Colemanwonder: Race Face/Sortie/Sir Duke,” Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos
3: “Who’s Knocking On The Wall?,” They Might Be Giants
4: “If It Were Left Up To Me,” Sly & The Family Stone
5: “Hegemony,” Scritti Politti
6: “Christmas Wrapping,” The Waitresses
7: “Fairies Wear Boots,” Fuckin’ Sabbath
8: “Functionizin’,” Fats Waller
9: “If I Fell,” The Beatles
10: “Why Hide,” Swans
11: “The Arrest: Chippewa,” John Zorn
12: “Many RIvers To Cross,” Jimmy Cliff
13: “Couldn’t Believe Her,” Gene Clark
14: “Perdido,” Ella Fitzgerald
15: “Filles De Kilimanjaro,” Miles
16: “Take The Money And Run,” Steve Miller Band
TMBG must love that their one-off gag in an album released fifteen years before iPods were on the market is now more relevant than ever.