You know you wanted it, and you get it, rough and hard. El Chriz starts us off this week, here is 1/30's Itunes Shuffle:
1. Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (Live)

I have never seen Radiohead live... but strongly believe I should. Although Thom Yorke sounds like a wailing cat at times, there is an ethereal beauty behind his vox that is simply stunning. The piano and vocal to this track are great.

2. Led Zeppelin - Kasmir

Have you ever received a lap dance to this song? If I did, I would never say. Truth be known, not one of my favorite Zeppelin songs. It's still an amazing piece, don't get me wrong, but my favorite period of Led Zeppelin ends with album IV.

3. The Church - Silver Machine

A cover of Hawkwind's classic song (1971)—a "driving rocker" sung by Lemmy before he founded Motorhead. The Church's version of this song is pretty good... though lacks the punch of the original.

4. Pearl Jam - Pry, To

The track where Eddie mutters "P-R-I-V-A-C-Y is privacy, man" over and over for about 30 seconds. Kind of a throwaway track on the excellent Vitalogy.

5. Tom Petty - The Man Who Love Women

A fun little ditty that could have been on The Beatles White Album. Tom kicks ass. This is from The Last DJ, an album hated by critics, adored by fans.

6. U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing [Perfecto Mix]

Achtung Baby! is in my personal top ten albums of all time... a comfort album if you will. This is a really bad "club" remix. Makes we want to drink gin & tonics and wear spandex just so I can get down with how gay this sounds. This shouldn't be on my IPod let alone a Best Of U2 compilation (from the b-sides disc). The original song, however, kicks ass. Bono and boys at the top of their game.

7. Chris Isaak - Two Hearts

A great ballad from San Fransisco Days... used wonderfully in Scott/Tarantino's True Romance. I'm a big fan of Chris Isaak. He has a tight band, and like Dwight Yoakam, he stays true to the roots of his genre.

8. Tesla - Paradise [Live]

From Five Man Acoustical Jam, the live album that spawned "Signs" and MTV's Unplugged (I still need to get the show they did with The Black Crowes). This is probably the best album to listen to if you doubt Tesla's classic rock sensibilities or question why El Chriz would even like them . They cover The Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Stones, etc.... all acoustic.

9. Frank Black - What Ever Happened To Pong?

From Frank Black's second solo album, Teenager of the Year. A great rocker that questions the demise of pong. I'm a Frank Black admirer. The guy is so prolific it's scary.

10. Frank Black - The Creature Crawling

From his third album. Here he abandoned The Pixies sound and started writing songs and performing in a style that made him sound like a bar band. I hated it at first. But the new Frank Black sound has really grown on me and I can understand why he wanted to change his style. After all, how can you top The Pixies? Might as well start from scratch, get a new vehicle and drive in another direction. If you are lucky, your fans will come along for the ride.

P.S. The only cheese from this listening session was brought to you by U2.

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.

Sir Jon’s 1.30 Shuffle
1. Pearly Gates- Mobb Deep ft. 50 cent
Haha, fuggin mushmouf Fifty kills me everytime. Sorry, this song has a really catchy beat and a cool lil chorus about making it to the pearly gates, unfortunately it is rapped by mobb’s new buddy Fitty Cent, and you can barely make out what he is mumbling. Why is this guy famous?

2. Pavement- AT&T
Very cool dissonant Pavement fare sent my way by the almighty Josh. Malkmus really controls this track, almost more than most Pavement, his guitar is fresh, and his screams and yelps at the finish leave you wanting more of that paved stuff underfoot.

3. Laid Back- Mr. Bentley
Good little rap, pretty standard beats, but good flow. Is this Farnsworth Bentley? If so, no negro dresses better than this sucker, and I envy him cuz he has no real job and gets to hang with 3000, dang it!

4. Love Letter- The Perceptionists
Now this is what rap should be. Complex, great lyrics about a crush and obsession, layered beats, indie rap at its best. I yearn for this when I hear bass rumbling through the street and some horrid lil wayne song about big butts is playing on some doofuses’ car stereo, but alas, not many will ever hear it.

5. Someday- RJD2
A short(minute and a half) but nice ditty from RJ’s latest album. Mostly just RJ picking away on his guitar, it just displays how friggin talented this guy is, and how much the Josh will eventually kick his butt once he gets fully going!!

6. Consequence- Incubus
Kickin’ rocker from Incubus first mainstream label album. It kinda encompasses the best of this band, scratchin’ from their dj, big hooks on the guitar, and belting from Brandon, the lead singer. Syrupy and cheesy, new-agey lyrics, but so easy to sing along to.

7. Bubble Pop Electric, ft. Johnny Vulture- Gwen Stefani
Great Production here for my pop siren. You guys know my Gstef kick, but this is a jamming number, and even though I wish we got more from 3000 than just his scripted talking, its 3000’s producing as well. And man, I would definitely take Gstef to the back seat!

8. Pennyroyal Tea- Nirvana
Best ever song about constipation? Everybody jumped on the amazing version of this song on the Unplugged album, but the original version of this on In Utero right here is so much better. Here Kurt gets to wail and screech, and you get Krist’ bass thumping, and then the best drummer in ages, Davey Grohl, bashing on the drums. Its only unfortunate that Davey’s last couple Foo albums haven’t been as good, b/c all his Nirvana stuff is awesome, first couple Foo are great and Probot kicks ass; as well he seems to be one of the most engaging personalities out there, but I digress. Pennyroyal Tea is awesome.

9. Black Capricorn Day- Jamiroquai
Boy, little bit of a change, and why exactly do I have Jamiroquai on my Itunes? Is this as much of a partyfoul as say, Scorpions or Tesla? Quite possible, I went through a J-quai faze in the late 90s, it was rough, but at least he just tries to rip off Stevie Wonder and some disco, and he does an Aquarius meets early Stevie job here, and it works pretty well, funky number.

10. Scatterings of Africa- Johnny Clegg and Savuka
My mouth literally dropped open when this came on. I contemplated skipping it and choosing song 11 instead of this, but that would be cheating and Crusaders don’t cheat unless it gets us more ‘quila. Good god, this is horrid 80s synthesized, wannabe Paul Simon Afrikaaner music. Bad African chants in the background over what I can only assume can be Johnny Clegg? Yikes, I only ripped this album from another teacher because Wildlife by Pmac was on the album I swear, what a fuggin way to end my shuffle.