What’s on the iPod at the moment
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 30, 2008 
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If I’m working on a story for the next day’s paper, I can’t listen to music. But if I’m working on something for down the road, I almost always have the iPod on. Anyway, here are the last 10 songs that popped up on shuffle:
Just Can’t Wait (J. Geils Band)
Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles)
Old Man (Neil Young)
I Shall Be Free (Bob Dylan)
Just My Imagination (The Temptations)
Why Do I Keep Counting (The Killers)
Next To You (The Police)
Nine Bullets (Drive-By Truckers)
Sketchy Metal (The Hold Steady)
Bring Da Ruckus (Wu-Tang Clan)
I have roughly one trillion Springsteen songs on my iPod. Going 10 in a row without Bruce popping up is unusual. … Drive-By Truckers are my new favorite band. … J. Geils vastly, vastly underrated. I’d throw some Wu-Tang lyrics up but I’d be fired in 10 minutes.
Heh, I NEED music to work.
TV, no, I won’t get anything done, but I need music and it’s gotta be fair loud, too.
Ah, young one. J. Geils isn’t underrated, just from another, better time.
Hey Pete, Phil just put about the same blog entry, about music!
and que the haters telling you what to write on your blog pete
Rawr, I don’t want to read about music on a baseball blog. Grrr, everyone should only write what I want to read.
You are to Springstein as Peter King is to Brett Favre. Take that as you will.
It’s Springsteen. And feel free to compare me to Peter King any time.
That is quite the eclectic array. Well done.
Welcome To The The Jungle (Guns and Roses)
Talk Dirty To Me (Poison)
Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran)
Bring the mother(expletive deleted) Ruckus!
Albums you should check out Pete.
Cat Power – Jukebox
Richard Hawley – Lady’s Bridge
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Fujiya & Myagi – Transparent Things
Beirut – Orkestra Gulag
Okervill River – The Stage Names
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Southern Rock Opera, by Drive-By Truckers rates highly in my book
The American Analog Set – Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home
Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Pink Floyd – Have a Cigar
Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You
Buddy Holly – Dearest
The Arcade Fire – The Well and the Lighthouse
The Books – Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again
Chopin – Nocturne in B Flat Minor, Pp. 9, No. 1
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away
The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
The RZA, the GZA…
TV on the Radio-Return to Cookie Mountain
The hold steady are awesome
Great Dylan song choice!
I’m all over Vampire Weekend. Pushed them on the blog a few months ago.They’re playing in NYC tonight.
Peter thansk for the grea tposts. I agree with you completely if Hank does not go crazy and gives cashman some more time they will be loaded for yrs. My fear is he will hold the sheffield type moves against cash even though they were not his moves…
after 2008 they shed a ton of payroll and old bad moves; giambi, pavano, moose, etc and then they will be back to the old Yanks of the early 90′s well rounded , athletic, and great pitching..
Hank please realize what Cash is doing, have some vision………
Because I listed a certain Patti Smith song with a potentially offensive title the other day, good ‘ol word press wouldn’t publish my comment. So, I won’t mention that song again (or Norman Mailer’s excellent essay of many years ago which contains the same reference). but I will say that Pete, your music choices are pretty cool, but also fairly conservative.
Try rockin’ out some time to “Circumstances” by Captain Beefheart or “Je Pense a Toi” by Amadou and Mariam or “Black Mariah” by John Hammond. And, what? No Lucinda Williams? No Ray Davies? No Muddy Waters? No Talking Heads?
Respect Jeter’s Gangster,
I love your blog!
Mickey: Those happened to be the first 10 songs that came up on shuffle tonight. I have a lot of Talking Heads, Kinks and some John Hammond.
One of my favorite lines of all time:
Psycho Killer, Quest que c’est
Gotta go with the Foo Fighters, Pete.
You wanna get amped, just throw the Foo Fighters up — awesome stuff.
They can’t fire me…(can they?)
I rip it hardcore, like *****-flick *******
I roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits
Check it, my method on the microphone’s bangin
Wu-Tang slang’ll leave your headpiece hangin
Bust this, I’m kickin like Segall, Out for Justice
The roughness, yes, the rudeness, ruckus
Redrum, I verbally assault with the tongue
Murder one, my style shocks ya knot like a stun-gun
I’m hectic, I wreck it with the quickness
Set it on the microphone, and competition get blown
By this nasty ass ****** with my *****, the RZA
Charged like a bull and got pull like a trigga
So bad, stabbin up the pad with the vocab, crab
I scream on ya a** like your dad, bring it on…
cleanest verse on the Wu Tang song.
I *****’d out the curses.
Bring Da Ruckus!
I had always sworn I’d keep up to date with music. Alas, first came love, then came marriage, then came the kids and a kind of self-imposed exile from all things not Raffi and Parachute Express and Sesame Street. So, I usually recognize only about 1/2 of your play lists, Pete – the half that was recorded pre- oh, 1989-ish.
(And you don’t seem to have any ‘NSync or Backstreet Boys, either — because when I re-joined the popular culture it was through my tween-age girls!)
Mel -
I have to agree: Psycho Killer, Quest que c’est, indeed!
it’s always on? Give the ears a rest every now and then. MP3 players cause premature hearing loss. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
Go Killers! From Hot Fuss…the 1st 3 songs and you cannot go wrong!
Drive-by Truckers are great – Southern Rock Opera is an epic album.
New DBTs is pretty sweet. Cooley rox!
Pete,
Nice to see the old-school Truckers song. Word is the new record is pretty good, but you can’t go wrong with just about any track from Decoration Day.
good musics in this thread…
music has started to become overwhelming for me between the new stuff and a ton of old stuff i really missed the boat on.
on the plus side, i know if i wanted to, i could pretty much find a new band or something i would fall in love with on any given day. the internet is a wonderful thing.
Pete, I rarely post here, but read all the time, sadly this is the first post in a long time I feel merited a post.
Drive-By Truckers are awesome, way to branch out! You need to see them live, amazing show.
Why is there no Pearl Jam on that list?
Bring on spring training!
nice work on the Truckers Peter. They are great
check out former Drive By Trucker Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit:
http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic
Also check out another Oregon favorite:
Jerry Joseph
http://www.myspace.com/jerryjosephsolo
lets go Hawks !
go hawks
damn commercials