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Great meeting you last night!
My random shuffle is dedicated our veterans of past, present, essential and needless wars. It could be viewed as a fictitious opera of the current quagmire.
1. Fading Footsteps - Solomon Burke
2. Bees - Laura Cantrell
3. Paper Tiger - Spoon
4. Take Me To Your Leader - King Geedorah
5. You Gotta Feel It - Spoon
6. Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me - Juice Newton
7. Cold Day In The Sun - Foo Fighters
8. Silent Life - Fruit Bats
9. America
10. Next Exit - Interpol

Like you, I consider pop music my crack cocaine. I start my day with an alarm clock that plays "Earn Enough For Us" (XTC), and keep refilling my cup the rest of the day.

Alas, my poor ass can't afford an Ipod. Currently though, thru the magic of my CD burner, I can't go more than a few hours without:
1.Mass Destruction--Faithless
2.Pretty Good Looking For a Girl--White Stripes
3.Fit But You Know It--The Streets
4.Scar--Missy Higgins
5.Love it When You Call Me Names--Joan Armatrading
6.Can't Get It Out Of My Head (Live)--Fountains of Wayne
7.Precious--Depeche Mode (They're finally back!!)
8.Welcome to Jamrock--Damian Marley
9.Coma Girl--Joe Strummer & the Mescalinos
10.Say What You Want--Nelly Furtado

I'm mainlinin' them, I'm freebasin' them--I'm...I'm...(bursts into K's Choice chestnut)
I'm not an addict it's true,
I feel alive,
if you don't have it you're on the other side, I'm not an addict,
maybe
that's
a
liiiiiiiiieee...

i'm telling you, the shuffle knows things. :)

Damn! What a couple of fine mixes!

Tom, #6 instantly flung me back to my childhood. Wow. I'd totally forgotten that song. And now I think I need to drag out some Spoon to get me through the rest of my afternoon. Love that Interpol track, too.

Robert, I actually haven't given in to the ipod urge, either. Financially, it hasn't been feasable, but also because damn near everyone I know with an ipod has had to send it back to Apple at least once. I shuffle from ye olde hard drive with the help of itunes.

#2 was the song that started my love affair with Jack White. Love #5, too. I don't think I mentioned this in my Vegas posts, but Damien Marley opened for U2 last weekend. He was impressive. His backup singers/dancers? Incredible. I loved those girls. Track #9? How I love track #9. That song got me through some pretty vicious post-partum depression days.

It's a crisis.

It had to happen eventually.

I'm just not cool enough for a Poppy shuffle - I do not recognise a single song on it.

It may be because I am now 34 (thrity fricken four) and am just not with the kids anymore.

Today I have mostly been listening to "In these shoes" by Kirsty McColl, which is my theme tune...

My wife and I have an iPod that we share custody of (every other day), and we have had zero problems with it (knock on wood). Nothing but pure joy.

Zoe-One of the damnable things about my CD burner (I have an actual stereo deck, not a computer burner) is that, for some reason it won't read a handful of discs, and one of them is my Kirsty McColl's Greatest Hits Disc. Therefore, no "They Don't Know About Us," no "New England," no "Miss Otis Regrets." This drives me crazy, especially when the song I record in its place comes on and I ALWAYS think "Damn, 'Just Haven't Earned It Yet' would've sounded so fucking good there..."

I also have this amazing Elvis Costello tribute CD, with Chet Baker doing "Almost Blue" and Christy Moore doing "The Deportee's Club" and alas, it doesn't read either.

Poppy--I was beginning to think "Coma Girl" was my own private track--no one I know has ever heard it unless I play it for them.

RE: Juice Newton, it takes me back to a county fair, circa senior year of high school. She sang "Break it to me gently" and I wanted to marry her. My wife (though not at the time) was there also, I remember bumping into her. I found a JN GHits CD at a yard sale about two months ago (50 cents!). My wife, who is not as sentimental about these things as me, said "Jeez, what a rip-off..."