Oh, that’s important – the version in The Freewheeling Bob Dylan is the best one, IMO. Nothing else (or any other musician’s cover of the song) will do.
- Belanova - One, Two, Three, GO!
- Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down
- Ram Jam - Black Betty
- Peggy Lee - Fever
- Squeeze - Cool for Cats
- Mates of State - Jellyman Kelly
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Midnight Man
- INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
- Muse - Time Is Running Out
- The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
- “Judas Cradle” - Sugar
- “Give Me a Beat” - Girl Talk
- “Man or Animal” - Audioslave
- “Sweet Serene” - Bob Mould
- “The Man Who Sold the World” - David Bowie
- “Again and Again” - Bob Mould
- “Which MC Was That?” - MC Frontalot
- “Aenema” - Tool
- “MM17” - Bob Mould
- “Probably Not My Type” - Augean Stables
So, yeah, I’m sensing a pattern there… I’ve got over a thousand songs loaded but my Bob Mould fandom (also in Sugar) shines through even on a random assortment.
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen – The Noel Coward Album
- Mulata – The Best of Inti-Illimani
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1: Lento – Liszt
- Crew Cut – Glenn Miller Band
- As Torrents in Summer – Edward Elgar
- Zombie Jamborie – Kingston Trio
- Idumea, from Melodious Accord – Alice Parker/Master Chorale of Washington
- Hello, Goodbye – The Beatles
- Soundtrack from the movie Casablanca
- Stabat Mater: Sancta Mater – Poulenc
Viola (Armin Van Buuren Remix) - Moogwai
Air - MIDIval Punditz
The Strings That Bind Us (Intro Mix) - Arnej
Lost Message - Air
15 - Rilo Kiley
Arezou - Niyaz
Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid) - Banco de Gaia
Trara - Entheogenic
Highway of Endless Dreams - M83
But Not For Me - John Coltrane
Most of my rock isn’t on my iPhone (which I use as my iPod), as I tend to use Pandora for popular music, so I’ve got my 24 mix CDs (which I’m very particular about not reusing songs and having variety…that’s where most of the popular music is), a few classic albums and a ton of classical and musicals, plus kids music for my daughter when we’re in the car. All told, I have about 1600 songs on my iPhone.
Here are my 10.
Lord of the Rings Symphony No. 1 - Movement II - Lothlorien, Comp. Johan de Meij, Performed by US Air Force Band
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime Original Broadway Cast
Know Your Enemy - American Idiot Broadway Cast
Once Upon a Dream - Jekyll and Hyde Original Cast
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
We Didn’t Go to Harvard - Cayuga’s Waiters (love that this happened to be picked here)
Deutschland - Die Prinzen
Dog Eats Dog - Les Miserables Original Broadway Cast
Symphony No. 4 - Movement III Comp. Beethoven, Performed by New York Philharmonic
And I agree…it knows I’m posting this. Couldn’t have spiked some Soundgarden?
Whatever Gets You Through The Night – John Lennon
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Get Up To Get Down – Brass Construction
Somebody To Love – Queen
Hippy Hippy Shake – Georgia Satellites
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy – Wax
Stranger – The Presidents of the United States of America
I’m The Only Gay Eskimo – Bowser and Blue
Beautiful World – Rage Against The Machine
I’ll Take You There – Staple Sisters
I do have stuff from the last 10 years. Really.
Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
25 to Life - Eminem
The World is Not Enough - Garbage
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
Re-arranged - Limp Bizkit
Blue Veins - The Raconteurs
All Dolled Up in Straps - The National
Same Song and Dance - Eminem
Digital Man - Rush
Really not much of a cross sample of the 8000+ songs I have in iTunes.
That should be The Staple Singers.
OK, here we go. I will comment on the fly…
(it would be real cool if I pull a Mean Mr. Mustard outta my sleeve :D)
John Mellencamp - I Need a Lover…An OK tune but a pedestrian beginning to the list
Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights…Pass the white bread
Lou Reed - Think It Over…Yeah, Lou, now we’re talking!
Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down…Elvis turning up was inevitable, good, angry song dissing Margaret Thatcher
John Mayer Trio - Daughters…Really like this song/CD
Neil Young - Powderfinger…One of my favorite Neilsongs
**Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman…Mercy!
Paul Simon - Bernadette…From the under-appreciated Capeman CD
Billy Joel - Piano Man…Blah
**Queen **- Another One Bites the Dust…Makes me think of the Detroit Lions
All in all, a generally uninspired list. I’ll give it another go tomorrow.
Franklin’s Tower - Gallant, Joe & Illuminati Project
Marrakesh Night Market - McKennitt, Loreena
For A Rocker - Browne, Jackson
Gaol Troimh Aimsirean - Capercaillie
Running Up That Hill - Bush, Kate
I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore - The Rascals
Fire - Brown, Arthur
Did Ye Get Healed? - Morrison, Van
To Find A Friend - Petty, Tom
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature - The Guess Who
For all of the Springsteen, Young and Buffett I have, you’d think some would eventually show up on a random draw.
Dead Kennedys - Take This Job and Shove it
Tristeza - Are We People
Stream of Passion - Open Your Eyes
Motorhead - Iron Fist
Ben Folds - Fired
Nick Cave - And No More Shall We Part
Within Temptation - The Cross
Symphony X - Smoke and Mirrors
Blind Guardian - Blood Tears
Lana Lane - I’ll Be Seeing You
Howlin’ Wolf - Built For Comfort
The Verve Pipe - Barely (If At All)
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
**Neil Young **- Tired Eyes
The Doors - Light My Fire
**Chris Isaak **- Shadows in a Mirror
**Joni Mitchell **- Nothing Can Be Done
The Who - Amazing Journey
The Beatles - Yes It Is
Violent Femmes - Black Girls
mmm
- John Mellencamp - I Need a Lover
- Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day
- Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)
- Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie
- Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
- Garth Brooks - Unanswered Prayers
- Allman Brothers - Jessica
- Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly
- Jethro Tull - Mother Goose
- Robert Earl Keen, Jr - The Front Porch Song
Your Love – Graham Central Station
Never Can Say Goodbye – Jackson 5
Lump – The Presidents of the United States of America
Taking It To The Streets – Doobie Brothers
Amish Paradise – Weird Al
Gimme That – Chris Brown
Superbowl Shuffle – Don’t judge me!
Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dog
Simply Because – Rooney
Sing A Song – Earth, Wind and Fire
There. It only took two tries to get stuff released in this millennium.
Wickhead “Scarfice”
Ladytron “I’m Not Scared”
Looking for Heather “Night Song”
Her Space Holiday “A Match Made in Texas”
Manbreak “Ready or Not”
The Grass Roots “Let’s Live For Today”
Julianna Hatfield Three “Spin The Bottle”
Modest Mouse “The World at Large”
The Wallflowers “Sleepwalker”
Toad The Wet Sprocket “Little Budda”
that’s pretty eclectic, even for me.
Hayley Westenra - Pokarekare Ana
311- Down
Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven
Cowboy Mouth - Out of My Way Back to You
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Loudon Wainwright III - Primrose Hill
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Cowboy Mouth - How Do You Tell Someone
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
U2 - Helter Skelter
I thought I had more varied taste, I guess I’m not as elitist as I thought 
- Right to be Wrong - Joss Stone
- Strictly for my N.I.G.G.A.Z. - 2Pac
- Breaking up Somebody’s Home - Ann Peebles
- I Wish He Didn’t Trust me so Much - Bobby Womack
- Trapped in the Drive-Thru - Weird Al Yankovic
- Yesterday - Marvin Gaye
- The Cupid Shuffle - Cupid
- Never Change Lovers in the Middle of the Night - Millie Jackson
- Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals
- Let Her Cry - Hootie & The Blowfish
I’ll go again.
- Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You A Picture?
- Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind
- The Feelies - Away
- XTC - Generals and Majors
- The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
- John Lennon - Cold Turkey
- Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
- Pale Saints - Sight of You
- Belle & Sebastian - I Could Be Dreaming
- His Name Is Alive - Baby You Feel Me Up
Had a great shuffle moment this afternoon: Liz Phair to k.d. lang to Billie Holiday.