1/30 Shuffle by The Josh: It's that time again, getting it going early this morning. Here goes:

1. The Beatles-Don't Let Me Down

This is the rooftop version when they were recording Let It Be, from some bootleg I got of the whole rooftop concert. This version kicks ass, shows what an amazing band The Beatles were, they roll through this thing without even an off key note or anything. I love this song, John's lyrics are fantastic, and when John goes "I'm in loooove for the first time..." and the song goes into that badass little shimmy. Fantastique. Great great keys by Billy Preston too.

2. Supergrass-Pumping On Your Stereo

Oh baby! A raging little rocker from Gaz and the 'Grass boys. This sounds like a lost Stones rocker, Exile/Sticky Fingers style. I love them saying "can you hear us humping on your stereo" instead of pumping like the title. Great track. Great video too with their weird long puppet bodies, directed by Hammer N Tongs who went on to direct Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which kicks ass too.

3. Patton Oswalt-When You Buy A Humvee

Patton! I love Patton Oswalt, hilarious album, Feelin' Kinda Patton. This particular bit is about dbags with Humvees and it's very short.

4. Zwan-Yeah!

I like the Zwan album. It's not great, and has its' weak moments, but it's got a nice happy sentiment to it and some nice little jammin' songs. This one is really indicative of Corgan's happy go lucky attitude on the album. Most of it seems to be about faith and love. And he says 'fuckin' which I always enjoy when used right.

5. Louis Logic & J.J. Brown-Morning After Pill

Ooh yeah I like this one. Sir Jon, this was on one of your hip-hop mixes. I don't know a lot about these guys, but they seem to be in the vein of stuff like Atmosphere, P.O.S. and that ilk. Funny little rap about drinking too much and hating yourself the next day.

6. Super Furry Animals-The Horn

You guys know, by now, of my undying love for everything Super Furry Animals. They're one of my absolute favorites. This is off of Love Kraft, their most recent album, which kicked ass and didn't get a lot of recognition. A very jaunty track, I could bounce on a pogo stick to this. Oh those delicious Welsh bastards.

7. Lil' Kim-The Jumpoff

I hate Lil' Kim, but I can't deny the great little catchiness of Timbaland's beat on this song. I read an interview with Timbo where they asked him about beats he made that he thought weren't done justice to, and he mentioned this one. Lil' Kim's raps are incredibly generic and her rhymes are preschool bullshit. I can still dance to this though.

8. Love-Your Mind And We Belong Together(Bonus Track)

This is a bonus track on the re-issue of the great Forever Changes. Love is great, Arthur Lee was a genius for a while. I love how guitar heavy Love's music is. There's a great urgency to this track and a lot of Love's music. A lot of people call Love forefathers of punk, and in some ways they are. There's a great break in this track where it switches tempos and it just has this stabbing guitar strum repeating. Fantastic guitar solo too. Chriz, I think you'd like these guys.

9. Pavement-Spit On A Stranger

Terror Twilight, what a great album. This song, in my opinion, belongs up there with great love songs/ballads. The tune, the lyrics, it's fantastic and syrupy and has just the right sentiment to it. I'm a Pavement groupie though, so don't mind me.

10. Why?-Bad Entropy

I like Why? a lot, his stuff is very homemade, reminds me of Zappa a lot too. I haven't listened to this song so much, but it sounds really cool. I'm a big fan of one of Why?'s side projects, Hymie's Basement. I need to check this stuff out more, it's odd.