This Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, or, Boy We Really Are a Music Blog.

I don't have an iPhone, or iTunes. iAnything. When I'm faux-jaying at a friend's place, the thing that always annoys me about iPod-havers is that they seem to have lots of songs, but few albums. I don't have the patience to make or review playlists, when I just really want to play all of Armed Forces, okay? So glancing at the 'Artists' on a iPod isn't a decent measure of musicool. I'm a full album sort of snob, so my Artists list is pretty representative.

And since I don't have iTunes, my ability to generate clever stats that stand in for, I dunno, analysis, is limited. But I hit a upon randomizing technique that is perhaps the best cock measuring device a music blog can have. Below is a list every fourth name on my Artists list (except 'Various Artists, and a couple names that were just too long to type). We all have a bazillion albums at this point, so I tried to trim. Initially, it was every third, but that wasn't abbreviated enough. By the end, I wanted to go to every fifth, but that was corking up my methodology too much.

It does have its drawbacks however; the thing that really stands out this is boy do I have the Last Days of Disco soundtrack. But look mom: meme! Everyone play! I recommend picking a higher number. Makes the post far more comestible.

5 Deez
Air Miami
Akufen
Alicia Bridges
Amy Alison
Andrea True
The Anomoanon
Arcade Fire
Art Brut
Atmosphere
Band of Horses
Beck
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Watt
Bettie Serveert
Big Star
Billy Bragg
The Black Keys
The Blow
Bob Mould
Boredoms
The Brand New Heavies
British Sea Power
The Brothers Kendall
Burnside Project
The Buzzcocks
Call and Response
Carol Douglas
The Carter Family
Chavez
Chic
Chris Whitley
Cinerama
Clem Snide
Cold War Kids
Cornelius
The Cult
Daniel Johnston
David Thomas Broughton
Deadly Avenger
Death from Above 1979
Del McCoury
Devo
The Dirtbombs
Don Ray
Drazy Hoops
Dubtribe Sound System
Edith Frost
Elliot Smith
Enon
The Essex Green
Everything but the Girl
The Fall
The Flatlanders
The Forms
Francis Monkman
Frank Jordan
Frightened Rabbit
Gam
Gillian Welch
The Go-Betweens
Granchan Moncur
The Halo Benders
Reverend Horton Heat
Herbert
Hold Modal Rounders
Interpol
J Dilla
Jeffrey Taylor
The Jody Grind
The John Doe Thing
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Kelly Hogan
La Brea Stompers
Lambchop & Hands Off Cuba
Le Tigre
Lenny Kravitz
Lloyd Cole
Lotion
Love
Low Skies
M. Ward
Magnolia Electric Co.
Martin Hederos/Mattias Hellberg
Mates of State
Mekons
The Mice
Miles Davis
Miss Crabtree
Mogwai
The National
Neil Young
New Bomb Turks
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nine Inch Nails
The Offbeats
Oneida
Other Dimensions in Music
Paul Westerberg
Pell Mell
Phylr
Pizzicato Five
The Police
Qausi
Rainer Maria
Rebecca Gates
Richard Bruckner
Robbie Fulks
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Roxy Music
Ry Cooder
San Francisco Seals
The Scene is Now
Sheryl Crow
The Silver Jews
Slow Dazzle
Sonic Youth
Spoon
Steely Dan
Steve Wynn
The Style Council
Sugar
Supersuckers
Talulah Gosh
Ted Leo
Television Personalities
Thelonious Monk
Richard & Linda Thomson
Tobin Sprout
Tortoise
Triple Forbidden Taboo
Underworld
Varnaline
Vince Guaraldi
Walt Mink
Whale
Wilco
Yo La Tengo