I'm on a borrowed laptop and have only put a small amount of music on it:

LSD-March - "The Lamp/Tomorrow's Godard"

One of those excellent Japanese psych groups that is pretty much just pandering to Rallizes fans but that's a more than good thing so whatever. This is the first song from their 2002 album and it's pretty chill.

The Byrds - "Draft Morning"

This song is seriously the shit. Just listen to it. "Eight Miles High," yeah, yeah... this is the "psychedelic" Byrds at their most masterful. Dig that rush of noise at about 1:40 or so, ow!!!

Monoshock - "Chicken Lover"

These dudes tear it up. A little too much, actually. This is some awfully chaotic stuff. You can see why Comets On Fire get compared to these dudes for that reason.

Chrome - "Kinky Lover"

I like Chrome but kind of get sick of people and bands thinking that knowing who they are is some signifier of coolness. I really can't figure out why I feel this way so don't ask me to elaborate further. Maybe it's just my relationship to "post-punk" era stuff in general. "TV As Eyes" might be the ultimate rock 'n roll song but eh. The Visitation is their first album and it's just Damon Edge and some dudes trying to do be all freaky and '60s-like in the year 1976 and I heard that it sounded like Santana so I checked it out and it's the shit. This song is a slow burner w/ a nasty groove.

Les Rallizes Dénudés - "Flames of Ice"

The other night I listened to bootlegs of this band for about ten hours straight. You haven't lived until you've done the same. This particular track is 13 minutes of transcendent brutality. Fuck you.

Les Rallizes Dénudés - "Fantastique"

Played at 1:12 AM, eh? About an hour and a half into the four disc Double Heads boot. I was drifting in and out of sleep at this point and still hadn't started my paper. That would happen, I don't know, 3-4 hours from then? I'm an idiot.

Harmonia - "Gollum"

This is some hot shit.

Kiss - "Come On and Love Me"

Studio version. My friend Tony doesn't like them when they're not live but I disagree. The songs hold up whether or not they're made to sound like a screaming racket. I thought the songs from Dressed To Kill brought down Alive! for the most part but this one is great and the live "She" has that awesome extended bit and obviously the big obvious hit is the tits and the second half of "Rock Bottom" that doesn't sound like it copped its evil acoustic guitar picking atmosphere from Alice Cooper's "Desperado" doesn't quite measure up to their very best stuff so I guess that theory doesn't quite hold. The rest is fun but not as enjoyable as the as/more fun Love Gun and obviously not anywhere near the first two LPs, IMHO. "Come On and Love Me" is good/dark enough to be on Hotter Than Hell, however.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Pride of Man"

Real talk, this band fucking kills it.

UFO - "Star Storm"

Hell fucking yeah. The early shit. The space rock shit. Dryly produced power trio with a rhythm section hammering home the rock grooves while some guy solos his dick into oblivion on top of it. Brilliant. Earthless would take this blueprint and use it to map out their insanely heavy jams years later but this is the version of that sound that isn't quite as much of a cosmic brick to the face. Still occasionally makes you drop everything and go, "DANG, THIS HERE IS SOME ROCK," though.

You are so right ... It has always been one of my favorite Byrds tracks, from the moment I first heard it. I can't believe it's not better known.

Fuck it...

The Smiths - Aask: Don't rate this as much as some, but it's still one of their more vibrant, happier tracks, mostly thanks to Marr's jangly guitars.

The Killers - When You Were Young: I never really got into this band, even though I thought they were a good singles band. This is one of their better singles, I suppose, don't often have the urge to listen to it. You can pretty much encapsulate the sound of the band in a song like this.

Girl Unit - Wut: Absolute dubstep banger, imagine it sounds incredible in a club but I haven't heard anyone play it. Requested it the other week with no look.

Orbital - Nothing Left II: Deep, deep house, just as I like it. From The Middle Of Nowhere, released in 1999 and isn't really remembered by many, despite being probably their best album. Gues it got lost in the glut of dance music that was coming out around that time.

The Libertines - Horrorshow: This band defined my life for a few months back in 2003/2004...they don't hold up as much now. Can't argue with this track however, a chaotic punk riot, I always thought they were at their best doing rowdy shit like this.

Niels Van Gogh - Pulverturm: Dutch trance song from 1999...really fucking great, the hook will get stuck in your head, and it fits nicely into any set you can think of, even a funky house DJ could spin this and keep the crowd. Mark of a good dancefloor song.

Wu-Tang Clan - Carefull (Click, Click): Typical Wu-Tang at their best, dark beat with some dark lyrics and nice flow. Nothing out of this world or anything, you know what you're getting.

Sally Shapiro - Looking at the Stars: Her second album wasn't nearly as good as her first, but this was one of the highlights, probably because it aped the sound of what had come before. She doesn't sound as vulnerable or cute at this point, unfortunately.

The Roots - You Got Me: Roots and Erykah Badu isn't my first idea of a collaboration yet it works fucking beautiful. Gorgeous hook with some hot lyrics about distrust and suspicious relationships. One of the best things either of them have ever done.

John Martyn - Go Down Easy: Sensual track from Martyn, whose voice is one of the best ever. The whole Solid Air album is sensational, this might be the highlight despite everyone citing May You Never as the best track.

you sure showed that ipod who's boss.

It's has been a long time... since a live shuffle... here goes... they make blogs and Twitter and Pinterst for this this stuff now but I'm out of touch.

1. Custard "Wahooti Fandango" The Quarantine Soundtrack
I found this game soundtrack CD recently, in what might be thousands of CDs under my antiquated and dilapidated CD storage. Quarantine was a game that I played in my youth on the old Apple II, I think. R.I.P. Stevey Jobs, you son a bastard. I found this disc searching for my Greg Graffin solo album American Lesion that I bought at Moondog Music in Dubuque in 1999 because I saw that it was selling for $50 used on eBay when I looked up Bad Religion and thought I might make a half a hundo on it. Oh man, The Quarantine Soundtrack. I've searched for "Dance With Me" when the internet got hot straight out of college when Geocities was all the craze but never found it on the file shares. Holy Hell, this CD was great and the game was bananas ahead of it's gime, but when I tried to play it in my computer it wouldn't convert it to MP3 or whatever because the CD was so old that the iTunes technology wouldn't put it in my playlist. But it worked in Vinyl/CD player from Kmart just fine. I finally found a YouTube RIP of it after page 2 searches on Google of "Dance With Me Quarantine CD." Who knew the song name was "Wahooti Fandango" and the band was from fuckin' Australia and that the band was named Custard of all terrible names that you could name a band. Not me, no way, never would have guessed it for years. Anyway I put it on my playlist and danced to it with my future wife when she came home from work. We danced around my small condo and she smiled confusedly and said "What is this?" and I told her you're living my high school dream right now to dance with me to this song.

2. Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band & Clarence Clemons. – “Quarter To Three”
R. I.P. Clarence Clemons. For some reason I really got focused on Clarence Clemons when he passed away. My older brother was a huge Bruce fan growing up and I looked him up on All Music Guide and was amazed by how many side projects he was in. Superstars like Jackson Brown, Gary U.S. Bonds, Ringo Starr, Twisted Sister, Pez Band, The Boss, Cocker, Zucharro, Aretha, Little Steven, Nils, Hawkes, others. I almost even started off my engagement mix with Love Station by Intergalactic Touring Band but found it was too 80’s dated and decided against it. Great awesome song though if you were into Pac Man once.

3. The Ettes. “No Home”. Danger Is EP

4. J. Dilla. “One Eleven”. Donuts
R.I.P. J.D.

5. Redwalls. “I Just Want To Be The One.” Universal Blues.
6. Of Montreal “Cato As Pun”
7. Blackalious “Powers”
8. Connie Smith “Cincinnati, Ohio”
9. Gogel Bordello – “Immigraniandia”
10. Sun Kil Moon “Heron Blue”

1. Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign
2. Burial - You Hurt Me
3. Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man
4. Len - Steal My Sunshine
5. Danny Byrd - Tonight
6. Chimpo - Bucktooth
7. Synkro - Angels
8. Traffic - Paper Sun
9. James Taylor - Shower The People
10. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart

Hmm interesting. Pretty much dubstep and rock music from 1965-1975, except for the Len song which is the anomaly in there. Pretty much sums up what I've been spinning lately. Getting very into the California Laurel Canyon scene from the early 70s, so much awesome stuff, Judee Sill, Gram Parsons, CSNY, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt etc. And checking out a lot of the dubstep stuff from 06-08, kind of the peak of wobble when it could still be deep and interesting.