"Rearviewmirror" by Pearl Jam
“Take Me Home” by Phil Collins
Either “You Are What You Love” by Jenny Lewis or “O Valencia!” by The Decemberists.
“The Holly Mountain in the Counter-Clock World” by Acid Mothers Temple. It’s one track that lasts for over 70 minutes, and is great for late-night listening at low volumes.
Bone Bag by Blur.
Last week it was Light Years * by* Sloan**.
Mi Fido di Te by Jovanotti.
There’s something I like about the melody (it’s kind of a groove, I guess you call it) and I like listening to the the lyrics, which I more or less understand.
“Burn The Flame” by Wednesday 13. The lyrics are so bad they’re funny and I’m pretty sure that was the idea. The music sounds like Metal meets the Fifties and there’s a glorious evil laugh that goes off about four times. My friend Kat sent me the album (Fang and Bang) for my birthday.
Before that it was Alice Cooper doing an awesome version of “Hey Bulldog”, backed by Steve Vai on lead. They put it together for the “Butchering The Beatles” all star tribute album. It rocks WAY better than the original!
Children of the Ghetto, sung by the extraordinary Helen Rogers on the Jazzmasters V album.
Chiasm’s “Murder” and “A Girl Called Harmony” “Murder” is in startling contrast to her usual vocal stylings, as in “Isolated”. (Yep, “Isolated” is that song from VtM: Bloodlines The Asylum club.) Listen quickly, she changes her songs often, but keeps “Isolated” up.
“John Barleycorn Must Die” by Traffic. Of course I don’t trust them newfangled Ipods (even though I’m 31 
so I did it the old fashioned way–lifting the tone arm.
“Straight Lines” by silverchair and “Bones” by The Killers
The last song I listened to on repeat?
IIRC it was “Riot on Broad Street” by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I love that kind of irish jig style of music. It’s rollicking, and always makes me grin like a loon.
Before that it was “The Thing I Hate” by Stabbing Westward. One of my favourite game-theme-songs ever.
Willie Nelson singing Cindi Lauper’s Time After Time
“Oh Susanna” by James Taylor. A lovely piece, but much too short.
probably “Heart on my Sleeve” by Idina Menzel. I love that son… it’s slow, sort of sad, the sort of song where a lot of emotion comes through, very melodic… and long.
I was on my way home on the bus and in a pretty awful mood… tired and cold and hadn’t had a good day and i wasn’t in the mood for any of my music. Half of it I was sick of, a quarter or so was too perky/loud/grating, and another 1/8 or so, I only like sometimes anyway. The remaining songs were mostly scattered throughout… one song by one artist, another by another, not in a playlist together
So, being that I was really tired and sort of feeling sorry for myself and didn’t want to waste ipod battery by flipping between songs every time one ended, I just listedned to Heart on my Sleeve over and over and over again (and switched to Sarah McLachlan about 3/4 of the way home.)
Some favorites from Bob Mould lately - mostly “Needle Hits E” and “JC Auto” by Sugar, “Hormone Love” by Blowoff, Husker Du’s “Turn On the News,” and his solo songs “See A Little Light” and “Poison Years.”
That was/is one very fine rendition. The visuals help, too. I did the same thing at least twice.
Milenberg Joys by Gene’s Merrymakers, recorded 1932. I’m trying to learn the sax parts.
Part three (Blue Angel) of Marillion’s ‘Bitter Suite’. I love the main riff, I love the way the vocals come in and I love the way it all hangs together and the way the sound and rhythm of the lyrics pushes the song along. It just works.
Also ‘Tourniquet’, by Evanescence.
“Delilah” by The Dresden Dolls.