What's On Your iPod?

[Jim Boylston]

Okay, jook afficionados:
What are the first 15 songs that come up when your iPod is on shuffle?
Here's my list today:

Doctor My Eyes: Jackson Browne
Whole Lotta Love: Led Zeppelin
Little Bluebird: Little Milton
Why Don't We Do It In the Road: Beatles
Tangled Up in Blue: Bob Dylan
Holes To Heaven: Jack Johnson
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag: James Brown
In the Wee Small Hours: Junior Wells
Clubland: Elvis Costello
On My Way: Mavis Staples
All Wrong: Morphine
Bubblehouse: Medeski, Martin and Wood
Back in the USSR: Beatles
Red Door: Joe Pass
Giant: The Bad Plus

Just over 3400 songs and I get 2 Beatle songs on the first 15.
I've made a few themed playlists, but most of the time I keep my iPod in shuffle mode. I like the random selection. This morning I got a Thelonius Monk cut followed by Johnny Cash. You gotta love it.
Jim

[TRK]

I love "Clubland" and "Tangled Up In Blue"!

I keep my Ipod loaded with new songs on my band's set list and misc. favorites at the top of the queue, so the top 15 at present are:

Let it Rock: Rolling Stones
Got Love if You Want It: The Blasters (live)
One Way Out: Allman Brothers
Tumbling Dice: Rolling Stones
Call Me The Breeze: JJ Cale
The House is a Rockin': Stevie Ray Vaughan
Mess of Blues: Delbert McClinton
Stormy Monday: Bobby Bland
Snake Lake Blues: Derek and the Dominos
Who Do You Love: Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
La Grange: ZZ Top
Blues Before Sunrise: Elmore James
Snakes Everywhere: Little Feat
Big Mouth Blues: Gram Parsons
When I'm Gone: Joe Hill Lewis

[Jim Boylston]

Which version of "Let it Rock"? There was a cool version on a Stones bootleg back in the day. Dave Edmunds has a version that ain't too shabby either.
Love "Big Mouth Blues" too!
Jim

[TRK]

It's the live version (I think from '70 or '71) on the "Rarities" album (a real misnomer; not many real rarities on that cd.) Bobby Keyes and Jim Price are on horns.

Dave Edmunds is something else! I was fortunate to see him with the late, lamented Rockpile in 1980. I'll have to dig into the vault and see if I have his version of Let it Rock.

[marklemon]

"iPod?" I'm still listening to CD's !!!

[Jim Boylston]

Dave Edmunds is something else! I was fortunate to see him with the late, lamented Rockpile in 1980. I'll have to dig into the vault and see if I have his version of Let it Rock.

I think it was on an album called "Subtle As A Flying Mallet", mid-70's, pre-Rockpile.
I've seen Edmunds a number of times, with Rockpile and in Ringo's band.
Rockpile was one of the great bands. I did a session in Nashville with Billy Bremner years ago. What a thrill!
Jim

[TRK]

Billy Bremner still has a thriving career going on, in Scandinavia, last I heard. He cut a really fine single around the time Rockpile broke up, titled "Shatterproof." Elvis Costello later covered it.

Better get yourself an Ipod, Mark; it's amazing the quality of sound you get out of one of those little things through good earphones. (Can't say I care much, though, for Ipod-based home stereos; they're sure killing off the component stereo.)

[Jim Boylston]

Most of the music I buy is on CD, which I rip to my hard drive and dump on the iPod. A strictly electronic format doesn't do it for me. I like to look at liner notes, etc. Heck, I still miss LPs. I don't think CDs ever captured the same aesthetic as the 12 inch album package.
I got an 80 gig iPod Classic for Christmas this year, which I love. It's great to be able to carry a ton of music with me as much as I travel. The new iPods show video as well, so I can dump a couple of movies on the device and I'm all set for a cross country flight.
I'm working in Hong Kong in July, which I hear is an 18 hour flight...I'm loading a lot of music for that one!
Jim

[Paul Sylvain]

iPod? Don't have me one of them ... but in my car stereo I have:
1. BADLANDS -- Marty Stuart
2. REAR VIEW MIRROR -- Pearl Jam
3. three self-burned CDs with a collection of songs by Billy Ray Cyrus
5. MUSTANG DRIVING MAMA -- Paul Sylvain & the Rockin' Road Dogs (okay, that's me and my band)