19 posts tagged “shuffle”

Jen dropped Zulu off at the vet this morning (poor kitty had to have 6 teeth pulled), then I took advantage of the day off and recent snow, and headed up to Keystone. Everything was going pretty smoothly, then, before the Winter Park exit, a sign says "Tunnel: 1 Hour." This makes no sense, since it should be 30 minutes. Then, suddenly, it's stop and go.  At this exact moment, I realize that I've left my wallet at home, and I've only got a 1/4 tank of gas! So, I figure I have to turn around and go home. After exiting, I remember my stash of dollar coins for parking. But, I'm heading the wrong way on a frontage road, and, for some reason, I'm not smart enough to realize I can just turn around, and get back on the interstate where I exited. So I backtracked a few miles, but decided to push on through. I already had one day this year when I drove up and didn't ski, so I wanted to make sure I at least got a few turns in.

It was a wise choice. Though it took me nearly 2 1/2 hours to get to Keystone (usually 1:15-1:30), it was a beautiful, sunny day, there weren't many people on the slopes, and I found plenty of powder stashes in the trees:

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When I returned to Denver from San Francisco, I took the RTD SkyRide bus to the Market Street Station ($9, instead of a $50 cab ride), and walked the 2 miles home. I had the iPod on shuffle, and then continued it on my bike ride to work this morning. (50 degrees at 9 AM- yippee!) This shuffle was quite good- as I've stated many times before, my iPod does not do a completely random shuffle, even though I supposedly have it set that way- it definitely focuses on bands I listen to a lot.

The Replacements - "Seen Your Video" (Let it Be)

Cake - "Strangers in the Night" (Pressure Chief Bonus Disc)

The Beach Boys - "You Still Believe in Me" (Pet Sounds)

Beck - "Movie Theme" (The Information)

Michael Jackson - "I Can't Help It" (Off the Wall)

Simon & Garfunkel - "Homeward Bounds" (Greatest Hits)

Bob Dylan - "Paths of Victory" (Bootleg Series, vol 1)

Keller Williams - "Kidney in a Cooler" (Laugh)

The Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations" (Boys and Girls In America)

Garcia/Grisman/Rice - "Guitar Space/Summertime" (The Pizza Tapes)

Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun" (Violent Femmes)

Todd Snider - "Stoney" (Peace Love and Anarchy)

Sleater-Kinney - "Off With Your Head" (Future Soundtrack for America)

Elliott Smith - "No Name #3" (Roman Candle)

Josh Ritter - "You Don't Make it Easy Babe" (Hello Starling)

They Might Be Giants - "I Should Be Allowed to Think" (John Henry)

The Boss - "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" - (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.)

Grateful Dead - "Morning Dew" (Europe '72)

Fleetwood Mac - "Songbird" (Rumours)

Spoon - "Black Like Me" (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)

Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic" (Hello Nasty)

Rush - "Red Sector A" (Chronicles)

Weezer - "No One Else" (Weezer - aka the blue album)

New Pornographers - "Unguided" (Challengers)

Stevie Wonder - "I'm Wondering" (At the Close of a Century)

Josh Ritter - "Naked As a Window" (The Historial Conquests of Josh Ritter Bonus Disc)

Guns N' Roses - "Anything Goes" (Appetite for Destruction)

I think I can probably take Off the Wall off my iPod. Keep a few songs from Thriller, and some Jackson 5, but axe that one. Although I was a pretty big Rush fan at one point, I never really dug anything after 1981's Permanent Waves. The synthesizer-heavy stuff never did it for me- they were a

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) 

I periodically do iPod "shuffle" posts, which is a fun way to write about stuff in my music collection. I don't really understand calling it a "musical horoscope," but here ya go:

Blackalicious - "Chemical Calisthenics" (Blazing Arrow)
I got to see the Gift of Gab do this live at the Sasquatch Festival. Very cool. He's got the flow, ya know?

The Replacements - "I Won't" (Don't Tell a Soul)
Not my favorite 'Mats song, but...

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan - "Mountain Dew" (The Dylan/Cash Sessions)
This is from a CD of Dylan and Cash jamming together- "Girl From the North Country" ended up on The Nashville Sessions. Although Dylan and Cash singing together sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard (I think Bob is intentionally failing to hold a tune), this song is pretty fun. Heck, the whole album is fun.

The Jayhawks - "All the Right Reasons" (Rainy Day Music)
I've brought this up before, but the d-bags at minneapolis f*cking rocks compiled a list of the 50 best songs to come out of Minnesota, and didn't include a single Jayhawks song. Oh, but they did include four songs from Tapes n' Tapes' The Loon. Idiots...

Johnny Cash - "Four Strong Winds" (American V: A Hundred Highways)
I really haven't listened to this album a whole lot- I think Johnny was sick when it was being recorded. Did he die before it came out? In any case, it's the voice of a wise, old, tired man. Interesting contrast from the duet w/Dylan.

Mason Jennings - "Dewey Dell" (Century Spring)
I'm a big Mason Jennings fan, but I don't know this album very well. I had a CD that was labeled "Century Spring," but it was actually a second copy of his self-titled album. Apparently there's an As I Lay Dying reference here- Dewey Dell is a character in that fun, fluffy, beach read of a novel. I think I made it through 15 pages before I gave up.

The Jackson 5 - "Who's Lovin' You" (The Best of the Jackson 5)
Wow, little Michael had an incredible voice.

Prince - "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" (The Hits/The B-Sides)
As I say quite often, I have a lot of respect for Prince Rogers Nelson, but most of his music just doesn't do it for me. There's some line where music crosses over into "pop" territory, and fails to get my ass shaking.

Robert Pollard - "Kick Me and Cancel" (From a Compound Eye)
I thought this was a Guided By Voices song, since I just loaded 2 GBV albums onto my iPod. Solo Bob Pollard is pretty much the same thing as GBV. That man is a hell of a songwriter. When he leaves this planet, he's going to leave behind thousands and thousands of songs, most of them good.

Belles of Skin City - "Robots Are People Too" (You Do the Company Proud)
Wow- shades of Primus! I had absolutely no idea who this was- I've listened to the album once or twice. They're a Minneapolis band that I never got a chance to see. This song isn't bad. Would actually make a decent running song.

Wilco - "Via Chicago" (Summerteeth)
Man- Jeff Tweedy might be the best songwriter of his generation. I was so blown away by Being There, but then wasn't super impressed with Summerteeth initially, and never gave it much of a shot. I really don't recognize this song, but it's quite good. Looking at the album, I know the first 6 songs, and that's it. Time to do some serious listening to Summerteeth! (I think one of the things that turned me off was the album's title. What's that all about?)

I know I was supposed to stop at 10, but we'll go to lucky #13.

M. Ward - "It Won't Happen Twice" (Duet for Guitars #2)
That's the third band I've had in common with Joy! (And I know she'd approve of the Prince tune.) M. Ward is one of the coolest cats around. Period.

Modest Mouse - "Spitting Venom" (We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
A lot of people probably view this album as a disappointment, since it comes on the heels of 2004's sublime Good News... Don't make the mistake of ignoring this album! It's definitely one of my favorite releases of ought seven.

I've had two fox sightings recently. Last weekend, I nearly hit two big ones that were crossing a road in Breckenridge. Last night, I was on a run, and encountered a young fox at Rocky Mountain Lake Park.He was having a lot of fun jumping and running around, but wouldn't let me too close to him. Anyone know anything about fox folklore? I also just saw an awesome concert at the Fox Theater...

I've usually been shuffling all my Guided By Voices songs for running music- it doesn't get much better than that. Last night I decided to switch it up, and just do a random shuffle on the iPod, and it worked out pretty damn well:

Gomez - Revolutionary Kind
moe. - Kids
Rush - Limelight
David bowie - Changes
Creedence Clearwater Revival - (Wish I Could) Hideaway
Voxtrot - Missing Pieces

On Wednesday's run, I heard 14 GBV songs in the same amount of time- gotta love the 1 minute songs!

I haven't done one of these for a while (May 16, to be exact). But this current shuffle I'm listening to is a particularly good one:

The Beach Boys - "You Still Believe in Me" (Pet Sounds)

What a beautiful album. Having grown up in the 80s, I'll never be able to fully appreciate the impact on pop music that this record's release had.

90.9 - iTrip Station

Ugh! Matt gave me his iTrip, which broadcasts whatever your iPod is playing onto an FM frequency. It worked pretty well on the way out to Colorado, except that I had to change the frequency every 30 minutes or so, to avoid awful-sounding interference. What's really annoying is that you have to load all the radio station frequencies as individual songs on your iPod, so they pop up when you've got it on shuffle. It just makes a quick "bleep-bleep" sound, so it's not that bad.

Johnny Cash & U2 - "The Wanderer" (The Essential Johnny Cash)

I've never heard this song before, and was a little confused by it- I don't hear Bono, or the Edge's guitar- is it really U2 backing The Man in Black? A quick visit to wikipeida made things more clear. This was the last track on U2's Zooropa, and they had Johnny handle the lead vocals, while the Edge just does some quite ooooohs in the bakground. Not a bad song, but not too exciting. I like the lyric "I went out walking with a bible and a gun"- wouldn't quite sound the same if Bono was singing it, huh?

Soul Coughing - "Moon Sammy" (Ruby Vroom)

What a great album. Maybe Soul Coughing will get back together someday- I like Doughty's solo stuff, but the jazzy drum beats and various samples/sound effects layered over the top make the music so much more fun.

The Jayhawks - "Martin's Song" (Hollywood Town Hall)

What was I saying about great albums? One of my favorites of all-time. Incredibly solid, from track 1 to 10. This is the final song on the album. The Olson/Louris harmonies still give me goosebumps. Somehow, the idiots over at Minneapolis F*cking Rocks! didn't include a single Jayhawks song in their list of the best 50 songs to come out of Minnesota. I've been meaning to do a whole post dedicated to how dumb that list was (4 songs off Tapes n Tapes' The Loon? 3 off the Hold Steady's Boys and Girls in America?), and offer up my list of 50, but I don't know if I'll ever have the energy to compile that sort of list. I know I would include The Jayhawks, Trip Shakespeare, and the Big Wu, though.

The Rolling Stones - "Far Away Eyes" (Some Girls)

I love their take on country- Beggar's Banquet and Let it Bleed are probably my two favorite Stones albums. But this song is just plain silly- Mick trying to sound like a Texan, and talking through the verses...

Todd Snider - "Alot More" (Songs for the Daily Planet)

I was really excited to see Todd Snider open for YMSB at Red Rocks last Sunday, but we didn't make it out of the Indian Peaks Wilderness until after 8 PM, meaning it was 10:30 by the time we got to Denver. That reminds me, I need to post about that trip. Matt wrote about it yesterday.

Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

I was planning on devoting an entire blog post to this album. How is that I had never heard of it until very recently? This stuff gets stuck in my head like crazy. More on this later...

Madonna - "Papa Don't Preach" (The Immaculate Collection)

I honestly have never listened to the lyrics to this song before. I'm not even really sure why I have Madonna on my iPod. One question: shouldn't the title be "Papa [comma] Don't Preach?" Otherwise, it sounds like she's just pointing out the fact that her dad doesn't preach.

Semisonic - "Follow" (All About Chemistry)

I was huge fan of Semisonic early on. I never heard this album until recently, and there's a reason why. Dan Wilson writes great pop melodies (see: the Dixie Chicks' grammy award), but sometimes they stray into seriously cheesy territory. Add a few more singers, and this could be a Backstreet Boys song!

The Samples - "Taking Us Home" (No Room)

Blast from the past! I wonder if they ever made up with their keyboard player (I think his name was Jeep), after he sold a bunch of their equipment to support his drug habit...

The Who - "Overture/It's a Boy" (Tommy)

I'm a purist when it comes to concept albums/rock operas. If I'm going to hear a song, I want to hear the whole album.

I haven't blogged much recently. It seems to come in spurts, and lately, I haven't really had any inspiration. Enter the trusty music shuffle. As I wrote earlier, my iPod was not being very friendly- it was freezing up after a few songs. Since it's a Windows formatted device, resetting the factory settings was not an option, since you need to do that on a Windows computer- we cleared off the iTunes software from Jen's laptop once we got the MacBook. My iPod was 99% full, so I tried deleting some songs, and it seemed to do the trick. Good timing, since I've started biking to work again, and it's a lot easier doing the 50-minute commute with music helping me out.

On the way to work, here's what I heard:

• Pixies - "Tame"
• The Jayhawks - "Martin's Song"
• Built To Spill - "Goin' Against Your Mind"
• Stevie Wonder - "I'm Wondering"
• Queens Of The Stone Age - "First It Giveth"
• John Prine - "Daddy's Little Pumpkin"
• Lagwagon - "Raise a Family"
• Ryan Adams - "Rescue Blues"
• Big Wu - "Recipes" Ugh- my least favorite Big Wu song.
• Big Wu - "Chateau in the Know" Double ugh- not as bad as the last one, but not a favorite.
• Ween- "Pretty Girl"
  
• Grandaddy - "Revolution"
• The Beatles - "Revolution 9"
  

Pretty good mix for a bike ride- some short songs, some longer ones, mellow tunes interspersed with thrashier stuff. When "Revolution" came on, I didn't recognize the version. It sounded like Pavement during the verses, and Flaming Lips during the chorus. Turns out it's from the "I Am Sam" soundtrack, which is a great album of Beatles covers. As the song ended, I thought the band was doing a spot-on interpretation of "Revolution 9" ("Number 9...Number 9...), complete with all the strange sound effects. Well, it turns out that my iPod was messing with me, by following up the cover song with a Beatles original. "Revolution 9" is a pretty crappy way to end the ride to work, especially since I have to climb some killer hills at the end of the commute.

On the way home, Mr. iPod presented this playlist:

• Modest Mouse - "Dance Hall"
• Tom Waits - "Way Down in the Hole"
• Mike Gordon - "Take Me Out"
  
• Ween - "How High Can You Fly"
  
• New Pornographers - "Stacked High"
  
• Radiohead - "Exit Music (For a Film)"
  
• Lagwagon - "No Conviction"
  
• Robert Pollard - "I'm a Strong Lion"
  
• Bob Marley - "No Woman, No Cry"
  
• Dead Famous People - "True Love Leaves No Traces"
• Bill Monroe - "Molly & Tenbrooks"
  
• Rolling Stones - "Sweet Virginia"
• They Might Be Giants - "Letterbox"
  
• Trip Shakespeare - "Will You Be Found?"
  

My iPod just turned one year old, and it's already having problems. The past 4 times I've used, it freezes up after two songs. Just completely locks up- I have to shut it down by holding the center and menu buttons for 3 or 4 seconds. Actually, the last time it happened, earlier today, I was on a bike ride, so I didn't shut it down immediately. So it stayed frozen for about 15 minutes, and then right as I was pulling up to the garage, it started up again. I haven't searched message boards for advice yet, but I hope it's not serious. I may have to reformat it, and transfer all my songs back onto it...

So this edition of the shuffle comes courtesy of my MacBook. I've got a lot of stuff loaded into iTunes that I haven't listened to a whole lot. So I thought it wold be interesting to see how long it took me to identify the song (or, at least, the artist).

R.E.M. - "I Am Superman" (Life's Rich Pageant) 1 second to identify
A great pop song. I've always been a big fan of Mike Mills. I'd like to hear the original sometime.

The Samples - "Stone Tears" (No Room) 44 seconds
I had absolutely no idea who this was until I heard Sean Kelly's voice. It's been a long time. I was really into the Samples for about 6 months. It sounds really dated to me now (not surprising, since this album came out 15 years ago! I feel old). I always preferred their live shows to their albums.

Los Lobos - "One Time One Night" (Wolf Tracks: The Best of Los Lobos) 1 minute
I've never spent much time listening to Los Lobos. Kiko is a great album, and i enjoy pretty much everything I've ever heard, but I usually forget about them for some reason. I recently got their greatest hits, and I'm going to make it a goal to listen to them more often.

Mano Chao - "La Despedida" (Clandestino) 10 seconds
I just got hold of this one- good stuff. I'm extremely excited to see him at Sasquatch.

Elliott Smith - "Ostriches & Chirping" (From a Basement On The Hill) ?
A 33-second "song" consisting of whisting, birds chirping, and other various sound effects. Sounds like a song Keith moon would write. It appears on an album that was released posthumously, and apparently there was a lot of production work done after he died that Smith might not have been happy about (think Let It Be).

The Police - "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da" (Zenyatta Mondatta) 1 second
I love the Police, but can't stand Sting solo. (Sorry, Joy!) I can't think of another person quite like this. Sure, McCartney's solo stuff isn't much to write home about, but Sting's solo stuff lacks 100% of the edge that the Police had. Copeland and Summers must have a lot to do with that.

Pearl Jam - "Nothing As It Seems" (Rearview Mirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003) 27 seconds
I honestly thought this was Pink Floyd for the first 15 seconds. McCready has a serious David Gilmour thing going on there (obviously intentional). When Eddie Vedder started singing, I knew it was Pearl Jam, but I don't think I've ever heard this song before (and I won't be seeking it out anytime soon).

Voxtrot - "Wrecking Force" (Raised By Wolves)
I was looking for songs to download on eMusic, and came across this band. We downloaded some songs, in honor of  Vox, our favorite blogging community. Good stuff. They're coming to the Triple Rock soon, so I'll definitely be there. In my Vox shirt, of course. And Vox shoes. Drinking Vox vodka. With my Vox amp. With a Vox magazine in my left hand, and a copy of Nicholson Baker's novel Vox in my right hand.

Recent adds:

My Morning Jacket - Z
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Umprey's McGee - Safety in Numbers
moe. - The Conch

On to today's shuffle! With delightful commentary!

Psychograss - "Forgiven/Stuart Symington's Summer Song" (Like Minds)
Jen and I saw Psychograss (Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Tony Trischka, David Grier, Todd Phillips) at the Rockygrass festival a few years back, and they're off the hook. They do Hendrix's "Third Stone From The Sun," and Trischka pulls out a bow to use on the banjo.

The Del McCoury Band - "Keep Her While She's There" (The Company We Keep)
Back-to-back bluegrass! (Although, Pyschograss isn't technically bluegrass.) Del's got such a great voice, and the band is top-notch. The best traditional bluegrass band on the planet, hands-down.

The Beatles - "The Word" (Rubber Soul)
I remember watching something where they made a big deal out of this song. Was it The Beatles Anthology? Something about how it was the first Beatles tune recorded that had a "message" behind it, maybe...

999 - "Homicide" (No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion)
This is an awesome 4-disc late 70s punk box set. A great overview of a fertile period in music history.

Jane's Addiction - "Rock & Roll" (Jane's Addiction [live])
This blows the Phish version of this Velvet Underground tune out of the water. Sorry, Page- but it's true!

The Hold Steady - "Same Kooks" (Boys and Girls in America)
I still prefer 2005's Separation Sunday (I'm a sucker for concept albums, especially ones that are about growing up Catholic in the Twin Cities), but Boys and Girls was one of my favorite albums last year. Craig Finn is starting to sing a bit more, rather than recite his lyrics like spoken-word poetry!

moe. - "Timmy Tucker" (Headseed)
Back before we were dating, I saw my future wife outside of a moe./Big Wu St Patty's Day concert. I licked the stamp on my hand, and pressed it into her hand, allowing her to get into a sold-out show. Am I smooth, or what?

P.J. Harvey - "Snake" (The Peel Sessions 1991-2004)
I have to plead ignorance here. I added this to the iPod recently, because I've heard good things about her. I hear some serious Patti Smith influence here...

Prince - "Diamonds and Pearls" (The Hits/The B-Sides)
Yawn...I have a lot of respect for Prince, but the ultra-poppy stuff just doesn't do it for me.

Béla Fleck - "System Seven" (Tales From the Acoustic Planet)
I don't know if we're going to be able to make it to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this year. Missing it 2 years in a row would be hard to take!

Paul Westerberg - "Nowhere Man" (I Am Sam)
This soundtrack is such a great album- a bunch of interesting Beatles covers. Westerberg slows it down, making it a little more folky, without the vocal harmonies. Kind of an understated, sad version. Quite a pleasure to listen to.

They Might Be Giants - "Why Must I Be Sad?" (John Henry)
Not my favorite TMBG album, but full of their typical catchy, quirky pop tunes.

The Beastie Boys - "Shadrach" (Paul's Boutique)
Definitely one of my desert island albums. A great, under-appreciated transition album. They were living in LA, had only matured a little bit since License To Ill, and the Dust Brothers worked in hundreds of awesome samples, right before a change in the law made it a lot harder to sample longer audio clips.

Haven't done one of these in '07 yet, and, as usual, it's a nice way to fill up a post when I'm feeling uninspired/too busy to blog.

Recent adds to the iPod:

Local Stuff
Ol' Yeller
White Light Riot
Mike Gunther and his Restless Souls
P.O.S.

The Shins
Todd Snider
TV on the Radio

I'm up to 6980 songs, and I'll be running out of space any day. Still not sure if I should upgrade to an 80 GB iPod at some point, or if I should go in and be more selective about what I keep/delete on the iPod.

• Simon & Garfunkel - "Kathy's Song" (Paul Simon 1964-1993)
• Elliott Smith - "Pictures of Me" (Either/Or)
• Bob Dylan - "The Man in Me" (New Morning)
• Leo Kottke - "Side One Suite..." (The Leo Kottke Anthology)
• Ambassadeurs du Motel - "Boloa Sanou" (Golden Afrique vol. 1)
• Nirvana - "Stay Away" (Nevermind)
• Medeski, Martin & Wood - "Henduck" (Shack Man)
• Frank Wakefield & the Good Old Boys - "On and On" (Frank Wakefield & the Good Old Boys)
• Willie Nelson - "I Couldn't Believe It Was True" (Red Headed Stranger)
• Lauryn Hill - "Tell Him" (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill) WTF? My wife has this CD. Did she add it to my iPod? Or did I do it, in an attempt to diversify my collection? I'm not a misogynist- I just rarely find myself listening to female vocalists. This song definitely does not do it for me.
• Old and in the Way - "Goin' to the Races" (Breakdown)
• Bob Dylan - "Ballad of a Thin Man" (Bootleg Series, vol 4- Live 1966 Royal Albert Hall)
• The Clash - "Hateful" (London Calling)
• Keller Williams - "Mental Instra" (Laugh)
• Warren Zevon - "Boom Boom Mancini" (Learning to Flinch)
• Cake - "Let Me Go" (Prolonging the Magic)

It's been over a month since I last did one of these. My iPod is now nearly full- 6739 songs, with only 3.5 GB of free space remaining. I'm obviously going to have to upgrade to an 80 GB model at some point, since there are a lot of CDs in my collection not on the iPod, including hundreds of live concert CDs (primarily Phish).

The band Midlake has been showing up on a lot of best-of-2006 lists. I had not heard of them until recently, but the song Roscoe gets better and better each time I listen to it. This track will definitely appear on the forthcoming end-of-year mix CD Jen and I are putting together. (If you ask nicely, I'll provide you with one of these beauties!)

Roscoe

Midlake

When I first started doing these shuffles (you can click on the "shuffle" tag on the left-hand side of my blog to see them all), I included the album that the song was from. Then I stopped doing that. The librarian in me regrets that, so I'm going to go back to the more-detailed version. Now that I've got over 6,000 songs on this s.o.b., this should be interesting!

• The Velvet Underground - "There She Goes Again" (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
• Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin III)
• Rush - "Closer to the Heart" (Chronicles)
• Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies)
• Johnny Cash - "One Piece at a Time" (The Essential Johnny Cash)
• moe. - "Again & Again" (Tin Cans and Car Tires)
• Elliot Smith - "Pretty (Ugly Before)" (From a Basement on a Hill)
• R.E.M. - "Ignoreland" (Automatic for the People)
• The Beatles - "Across the Universe" (Let it Be)
• Burning Spear - "Slavery Days" (Marcus Garvey)
• The Beatles - "Blue Jay Way" (Magical Mystery Tour)
• Del McCoury & Friends "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" (Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza)
• Elvis Costello - "Good Year for the Roses" (Best of...)
• The Sadists? - "Last of the Leather Age?" (Matt Votel Punk Mix) -not sure about the band or song name
• Radiohead - "Bones" (The Bends)
• Bob Dylan - "Sara" (Live 1975- The Rolling Thunder Revue)
• Royal Fingerbowl - "Ozana, TX" (Happy Birthday, Sabo!)
• Phish - "Scents and Subtle Sounds (Intro)" (Undermind)
• Emmylou Harris - "Two More Bottle of Wine" (Best of Emmylou Harris)
• The Who - "The Real Me" (Quadrophenia)

Still heavy on classic rock...