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Listening to iTunes from A-Z

March 2, 2005

For no particular reason, I am listening to 26 albums on my iTunes/iPod setup starting with an A album and ending with a Z one. I'm through H as of right now, which is why I'm coming to you. I don't have any albums by bands that start with the letter Z. This means I need to download/buy an album sometime in the next day or two to soothe my OCD tendencies. Let me know if you have any thoughts. I'll update the list as I listen to albums.

Update: Thanks for the Z suggestions! I'll probably use the Zutons, but I'm not even half way there, which means you still have time to sway me.

A: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Worlds Apart
B: The Beatles - Rubber Soul
C: Clem Snide - End of Love
D: David Bowie - Space Oddity
E: Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
F: Final Fantasy - Has A Good Home!
G: The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
H: Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
I: Imperial Teen - On
J: Jude - No One is Really Beautiful
K: K-Os - Exit
L: Low - The Great Destroyer
M: Muse - Absolution
N: New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
O: Of Montreal - If He is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children?
P: Posal Service - Give Up
Q: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
R: Roxy Music - Country Life
S: Superdrag - Headtrip In Every Key
T: Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
U: Ultimate Fakebook - Open Up and Say Awesome
V: VHS or Beta - Night on Fire
W: Wheat - Hope and Adams
X: XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus pt. 2)
Y: Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Z: The Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?

Comments (7 comments so far)

Comment #1:

Zutons - "Who Killed the Zutons". You will recognize the song 'Pressure Point' from a Levi's commercial. The rest of it is good, if not staggeringly original.

Posted by Michael on March 02, 2005 at 2:04PM

Comment #2:

For your New Pornographers fix, get something by Zumpano; for your downtempo indie snob soul, Zero 7.

This is not considered an endorsement of either band, however...

Posted by Robbie C. on March 02, 2005 at 5:52PM

Comment #3:

Zero Zero - "AM Gold." Highly recommended by people you don't know randomly reading your website.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=5304396

Posted by A Ben on March 02, 2005 at 7:15PM

Comment #4:

Zeitgeist -- mid 80s Austin band with ties to Glass Eye, The Continental Club, Captain Quackenbushes Intergalectic Coffeehouse, and Richard Linklater. Selected cut: Translate Slowly

Not available for download (at least on iTunes) so you'll have to purchase a used disc and upload....sorry.

Posted by SteveC on March 03, 2005 at 12:26AM

Comment #5:

zutons sound nearly identical to the coral.

another option would be ZZZZ, new album on polyvinyl.

Posted by sleeve on March 08, 2005 at 1:58PM

Comment #6:

You need an *album* that starts with Z, or a band or just a song? Because I got Z on my iPod, baby. ;-)

Posted by Mush on March 09, 2005 at 2:17PM

Comment #7:

a little suggestion from your cousin: zion I. he's an underground hip-hop guy with a kind of trippy sound. it's hard to describe, but his sound is pretty original i think.

Posted by adrian on March 16, 2005 at 2:41AM

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