Friday Random 10 plus 5

It's been a while, so here's a random sampling of tunes from my new iMac's music library, chosen by the Party Shuffle function in iTunes (listed by song/artist/album):

Driven Under/Seether/Disclaimer II
Jack The Ripper/Link Wray & His Ray Men/The Swan Singles Collection
No Sign Of Life/Ok Go/Oh No
Who Do You Love?/Ted Leo & the Pharmacists/Living With The Living
Oxycontin Blues/Steve Earle/Washington Square Serenade
Play Tough/Apples In Stereo/New Magnetic Wonder
Me, I'm Not/Nine Inch Nails/Year Zero
Friends of Mine/The Shatners/Sad Encounter with Shirtless Boy on Short Bus Ride
Lets Not Talk About Love/Heather Nova/Storm
Bonus/Ministry/Rio Grande Blood
Spinning World/Foxglove/http://music.download.com
The Fall (Live In London)/Ministry/Rantology
Love Gets Strange/Don Dixon/E E E *
Glass Concrete and Stone/David Byrne
Enjoy Yourself/Todd Snider/East Nashville Skyline
Drive featuring Michael Stipe/Dashboard Confessional/MTV2 Album Covers: Dashboard Confessional & R.E.M.

(*By the way, "E E E" is one of those unknown albums by one of those under appreciated artists that you really should seek out and snap up. Don Dixon is an amazingly talented song writer, producer (including the first two R.E.M. albums), and musician who has labored under the radar for far too many years. "E E E" was released in 1989, but it is a mix of pop, rock, and R&B that sounds as fresh today as it did then. Maybe fresher, given the current crop of pablum we are inundated with. It is still available, so your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find it, buy it, and listen to it repeatedly. And keep an eye out for Don's latest album, "The Entire Combustible World in One Small Room", or for that matter any of his releases. You won't go wrong---trust me!