Archers of Loaf – Strangled By The Stereo Wire: Just in time for the reunion tour!

Walt Mink – Boots: Very, very 90′s.

Lightning Bolt – Rain On The Lake I’m Swimming In: Very mellow tune with very wacky, strange sounds.

Archers of Loaf – Chumming The Ocean: Yep, feeling that reunion tour!

Tom Waits – Lucinda: The kickoff song from the fantastic 2008 tour.

Kid Silver – My Electric Sky: Great, little-known musician from the enjoyable Dead City Sunbeams album.

The Dead Milkmen – Conspiracy Song: Silliness.

Dreadnots – Flight of Idea (delayed): Trippy endings are good endings.

Sonic Youth – Bull In The Heather: Catchy song from the Experimental Jet Set… album, continuing an endless collection of strong albums from the seemingly timeless band.

Husker Du – No Reservations: On their (self-proclaimed) hit or miss last studio album, I think this is one of Mould’s stronger songs from the collection.

Tim Buckley – Buzzin’ Fly: Without provocation, some Tim Buckley songs had recently popped into my head. And, now the ipod.

The Paper Chase – The Small Of Your Back The Nape Of Your Neck (The Blizzard): Still one of my favorite recent releases, albeit a few years old now. A great collection of songs each based on natural disasters, making for a jolly, feel-good experience with each track.

Robyn Hitchcock and Deni Bonet – DeChirico Street: A fun song that popped up live a lot during the mid- to late-90′s.

Merzbow – Tape Dada: An older, less blistering noise track from Merzbow.

Lou Barlow – Blue Sunshine: One of the older home recordings.

Sonic Youth – International Spy: From one of the self-released, experimental albums; a bit less noisy, and much shorter, than most of these tunes.

Carnival Art – Blind: Michael Petak’s band with a loud and fast opening tune to the album Thrumdrone.

Rasputina – A Quitter: Quieter song by the cello-focused band, complete with a nifty CD-extra that keeps the track running for ten minutes (aren’t bands tired of that gag by now)?

Chainsaw Kittens – The Leash: Quieter song from the Tyson Meade led band.

Jeff Beal – Lodz and Management Plot: From the Carnivale soundtrack, a plot-named, haunting track.

Dire Straits – One World: I don’t think I would have believed somebody if they told me I had this Dire Straits album on the iPod. Learn something every day I guess.

Rasputina – Possum of the Grotto: Much faster and distorted from their previous showing here.

The Books – An Owl With Knees: Very bookish, I guess. On the whole, I don’t think The Books ever really impressed me much after my initial exposure to the very good The Lemon of Pink.

Sunny Day Real Estate – 8: As in, the eighth song of the Random Eight?

Radio Thailand – Pad Pen Pinh: I sometimes wonder if people in Thailand would laugh at me for having this on the iPod.

The Living Blue – Serrated Friend: From Fire Blood Water, a really fantastic album from a relatively unknown band (worth adding, an album that can be purchased on the Amazon marketplace for a whopping penny + shipping…worth the risk, I’d say).

Cranium – You Pretend That You Depend But Now You Are, Are You, Visible?: The title is only half as confusing as the actual song.

Merzbow – Extract 1: At only a little over four minutes, this Merzbow song isn’t nearly long enough to drive the neighbors crazy…but it is a good start.

Snog – The Grey Menace: Synth political heroics, or some such thing.

Catherine Ribeiro – Parle-Moi D’un Homme Heureux: Haunting vocals, old-sounding tune.

Walt Mink – Act of Quiet Desperation: Speedy little (mostly) acoustic song with that 90′s indie sound.

Meg Lee Chin – Deeper: Pigface-ish without the Pigface.