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New iPod top 10 to the right.

Bill Withers - Lonely Town, Lonely Street
This is the live version, a bonus track on Still Bill and I think it also appear on Live At Carnegie Hall. He's got a great voice and on this record proves you can be funky even with a pretty small band. Crystal clear recording for a live track.

N*E*R*D - Run To The Sun
Producers of the moment The Neptunes own band and this is the version from the original album before they re-recorded it with live instruments and it's great. Lovely how the iPod sometimes randomly segues such complimentary tracks back to back.

Cody ChesnuTT - Serve This Royalty
Another appropriate segue from the sprawling mixed bag 'The Headphone Masterpiece'. It is a bit long but I have a thing for overly ambitious eclectic sprawling double albums. Even one recorded on shit equipment in someone's bedroom.

The Everly Brothers - Yves
I just recently realised, having flicked through their 'Definitive Collection', how many great songs these guys recorded. Amazing. I haven't heard this one before but from the title you can gather it has a bit of French influence. Not a classic but not bad at all.

Todd Rundgren - Believe In Me
What an amazing talent and unrecognised, I think, by the wider world. This is from one of his earliest albums Runt and is one of his beautiful ballads with great harmonies. Only two minutes long.

The Walker Brothers - Fat Mama Kick
Okay. Haven't listened to 'Nite Flights' really yet but this is a Scott Walker song and he's off somewhere completely different from where he was headed on Scott 1-4. You can hear the seeds of the tracks on Tilt but let's not go there.

Cody ChesnuTT - She's Still Here
The iPod not being as random as I would like here. Listen to that tape hiss, nice organ though.

The Montgolfier Brothers - In Walks A Ghost
From another album I haven't heard yet.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle
Thought I would check these guys out as they get so much respect from certain quarters. They've yet to really click with me though certainly some of the songs are pretty good. What appears to be most impressive is the number of albums they released in such few years. Their whole reputation rests on 2 or 3 years of work.

Guided By Voices - Awful Bliss
Must listen to this album properly (Bee Thousand). Prolific doesn't even begin to describe Robert Pollard. This is a fine 50 seconds of acoustic strumming.

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