My MP3 player has a feature whereby you can create a playlist on the fly by choosing music from the song list and adding it to what they call the Music Go List. Yesterday and today, I created such a list; as I am wont to do, I went through and chose one song starting with each letter of the alphabet (or equivalent thereof). For reasons that escape me right now, I started with Z and worked backwards to (. Which is not a typo; my MP3 player uses ASCII ordering, so non-alphanumeric characters appear at the top of the list, followed by numbers and then letters. I personally don't approve of ASCII ordering, and consider it a sign of sloppy programming, but you work with the tools you have. Then I worked forward and added 28 more songs. And then I stopped, because I only have two songs on my MP3 player that start with X. So in lieu of a list of ten things, here is a list of 56 things.
- Tom Petty - Zombie Zoo
- The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)
- The Bens - Xfire
- Rasputina - When I Was a Young Girl
- Jamiroqoui - Virtual Insanity
- Ben Folds Five - Underground [live]
- The Tories - Time For You
- The New Pornographers - Star Bodies
- Material Issue - Renee Remains the Same
- Candace Flynn - Queen of Mars
- Neko Case - Poor Ellen Smith
- The Beatles - One After 909
- The Shins - New Slang
- Sheryl Crow - Mississippi
- Pearl Jam - Leaving Here
- Tinted Windows - Kind of a Girl
- The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jump Jive an' Wail
- Billy Bragg - The Internationale
- Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
- Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitar
- Earl Scruggs and Friends - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Ben Folds - Effington (a capella)
- Mary Chapin Carpenter - Down at the Twist and Shout
- Marlena Shaw - California Soul
- Neko Case - Bowling Green
- The Lemonheads - Alison's Starting to Happen
- The Alarm - 68 Guns
- Christopher Walken and John Travolta - (You're) Timeless to Me
- Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
- A.C. Newman - 35 in the Shade
- The Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)
- Bobby Darrin - Beyond the Sea
- Sufjan Stevens - Casamir Pulaski Day
- Kiss - Detroit Rock City
- Killing Joke - Eighties
- Queen - Fat-Bottomed Girls
- The Kingston Trio - Georgia Stockade
- Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
- Big Country - In a Big Country
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Loreleis - Jesusland
- Paul Simon - Kodachrome
- INXS - Listen Like Thieves
- Cake - Mahna Mahna
- The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
- A.R. Rahman and M.I.A. - O...Saya
- 10,000 Maniacs - Peace Train
- Juice Newton - Queen of Hearts
- Eggchair - Red Rubber Ball
- Rosanne Cash with Bruce Springsteen - Sea of Heartbreak
- Erbest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours - Thanks a Lot
- The New Pornographers - Use It
- U.S. Marine Corps Band - Valdres
- Pernice Brothers - The Weakest Shade of Blue
- They Might Be Giants - XTC vs. Adam Ant
- James Naughton and Gregg Edelman - You're Nothing Without Me
- Ben Folds - Zak and Sara
Yeah, I know, Nelson. Shut up!
