Speaking of Pop, the BBC has cancelled Top of the Pops.

My last ten songs in iTunes:

Get Drunk With Dignity
Donna the Prima Donna
Hello Stranger
Evil Will Prevail
Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
Alternative Ulster
The Lottery Song
Wake Up Little Susie
Stranded in the Jungle
Precious

Donna the Prima Donna

Dion! Yay!

Listening to Mojos July cover disc "Revolver Reloaded". Possibly even better than their Chess Records-disc -- a CD that had only one small flaw: no Thea Gilmore. Which this one got.

I think I've got my Best of Aught Six So Far mix all figured out. All had to be released (well, OK in one case re-released, and, alright, in two cases never released in the first place but found rather) between January and now.

01 Field Jacket Blues - Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye
02 White Collar Boy - Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
03 Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico - Garden Ruin
04 The Battle* - Caitlin Cary and Ryan Adams - No Depression: What It Sounds Like Vol 2
05 Steady As She Goes (acoustic version) - the Raconteurs - iTunes exclusive
06 Rise Up With Fists!!! - Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
07 Goin' Against Your Mind - Built to Spill - You in Reverse
08 The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) - the Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
09 Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise - the Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs EP
10 John Saw That Number - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
11 Emergency - the Widerness - Vessel States
12 Denied - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
13 Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
14 Painter in Your Pocket - Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
15 Leftover Life - The Minus 5 - (The Gun Album)
16 In the Sun - Michael Stipe featuring Joseph Arthur - In the Sun EP
17 The Biggest Lie - Dolorean - To: Elliott From: Portland
18 When I Am Gone - Sparrow House - unreleased
19 Pay Me My Money Down - Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
20 The Mighty Tide - the Red River - unreleased (to the best of my knowledge)

At least that's the order right now. I will try to get this up w/brief liner notes in the usual confines soon.

* = This song was orignally recorded at some point while Whiskeytown was still together. It was first released on a bonus disc with Caitlin Cary's first solo album in 2002 and then was re-released on a No Depression comp this year - which is the first time I heard it. And it motherfucking kills, so I included it. Emusic subscribers can get it there.

Great performance and interview with the original Pink Floyd on the BBC: [link]

The interview is both sad and funny. Sad, because Sid is so lucid. Funny, because the interviewer completely doesn't get the rock and roll aesthetic ("why do you have to play at such high volume?")

Sad, because Sid is so lucid.

And cute. He looks like Gram Parson's curly headed kid brother.

Funny, because the interviewer completely doesn't get the rock and roll aesthetic.

Heh. I loved that disclaimer, "I don't want to prejudice you..." on top of the truly weasley "Perhaps I am too much of a musician to appreciate them..."

Iggy could've answered his question better. "It's loud because you need to feel it in your body, not just in your ears. The bass reflex in your chest should be enough to give you CPR. Have you ever been near a press-machine on a Detroit assembly line?"

Through Gawker Clips I came across a an old forgotten music video that might appeal to Hec and Plei: Duran Duran's The Chauffeur, [link] a surprisingly sophisticated video inspired by Helmut Newton. What's driving me nuts is that I'm fairly sure someone ripped off the choreography of the dance at the end, but I can't think of who. Britney Spears, maybe?

ETA: oh yeah, def NSFW.

maybe Madonna?

I tend to agree. I looked at Lucky Star and Vogue. It may be the case that the dancer was heavily influenced by Lucky Star.