...isn't feeling very clever this week and therefor can't find any obvious jokes/patterns/etc. in this week's offerings.  Instead, here's deep fried, bacon wrapped, cheese filled hot dogs.

Would this work as a Taste of the Town? Please say yes...

Y'all know how to play: Put your iPod/iTunes/Zune/whatever on shuffle and list the first ten songs to come up. No cheating to make yours look cooler.

1. Elton John - My Father's Gun
2. Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
3. Agents of Good Roots - Sultans of Swing
4. The Strokes - Reptilia
5. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray
6. Miles Davis - Blues for Pablo
7. Jimi Hendrix - Message to Love
8. Pretty Willie - Lay Your Body Down
9. Hank Williams - You're Gonna Change (Or I'm A Gonna Leave)
10. Bob Dylan - Tell Me, Momma

...is apparently in the mood for some Kelly Willis.

Y'all should know how to play by now, but in case you don't here's how this works. Put your iPod/iTunes/Zune/Whatever on shuffle and list the first ten songs to come up in the comments. No cheating to make yours look cooler.

1. Guns 'n Roses - It's So Easy
2. Kelly Willis - That'll Be Me
3. Kelly Willis - Heaven's Just a Sin Away
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through the Jungle
5. Two Dollar Pistols (with Tift Merritt) - We Had It All
6. Muddy Waters - I Want to Be Loved
7. Ernest Tubb - Slippin' Around
8. The Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel
9. Hank Williams Jr. - Midnight Rider
10. Alabama - Jukebox In My Mind

...is maybe trying to tell us something about the Tide's post season travels with all the California songs.  I sure hope my iPod is psychic...

It also provides an excuse to post our favorite picture of Rose Bowl Stadium.

1. Lefty Frizzell - California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
2. Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
3. Paul Westerberg - Runaway Wind
4. Mama Cass Elliot - California Earthquake
5. Bill Monroe - Wayfaring Stranger
6. The Queers - Debra Jean
7. Albert King - California
8. David Allan Coe - California Turnarounds
9. AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
10. The New Pornographers - Jackie

A tribute to Todd, since he likes this song so much...

This thing is all over the place this week. From the churning metal of Kylesa to the folk-ish Avett Brothers to the electronic bounce of Ladytron to the unclassifiable weirdness of Fantômas. My apologies that an Auburn band showed up in the mix, but hey, they're awesome. Anyway, you know the drill...

01: Fantômas - "Book1: Page 11"
02: Immortal Lee County Killers - "Let's Get Killed"
03: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Black Hair"
04: Radiohead - "Palo Alto"
05: The Avett Brothers - "I Would Be Sad"
06: Secret Chiefs 3 - "Welcome To The Theatron Animatronique"
07: Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train"
08: Ladytron - "Destroy Everything You Touch"
09: Gogol Bordello - "I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again"
10: Kylesa - "Where the Horizon Unfolds"

...has an early dose of Your RBR Gospel Hour.

1. Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families
2. Gov't Mule - Bad Little Doggie
3. Johnny Cash - Oh Come, Angel Band
4. Big Boi - Interlude
5. Bob Dylan - Sugar Baby
6. Modest Mouse - All Night Diner
7. Six Finger Satellite - Law of Ruins
8. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
9. Dwight Yoakam - Throughout All Time
10. The Jayhawks - I'd Run Away

...is apparently in the mood for some Hank Williams.

Perhaps my iPod was simply responding to the horror that is the new Kenny Chesney/ESPN "song."

Y'all know how it's done, so get to shufflin'.

1. Hank Williams - Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door)
2. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Dark as a Dungeon
3. Hank Williams - I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay
4. Emmylou Harris - Mansion on the Hill
5. Midlake - Branches
6. Hank Williams - They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
7. Willie Nelson - Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
8. Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs
9. Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights
10. Gram Parsons - Zah's Blues

...misses the days of sexy dames on record covers.  Some personal favorites along with Electric Funk, which you should go buy now.  Your ears will thank you.

Commence shufflin'.

1. Two Dollar Pistols - You Ruined Everything
2. Merle Haggard - Today I Started Loving You Again
3. The Groovie Ghoulies - Singing the Blues
4. Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys - Uncle Pen
5. Jimmy McGriff - Spinning Wheel
6. Syd Barrett - Love You
7. Neko Case - Stinging Velvet
8. Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite
9. Bob Dylan - Joey
10. Charlie Rich - I Take It On Home

...continues to find ways to be football related.

Over my shoulder? Yes please...

Y'all know how to play, so shuffle 'em up and get to listing.

1. The Jayhawks - Over My Shoulder
2. Son House - John the Revelator
3. Dwight Yoakam - No Such Thing
4. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
5. Gomez - Hamoa Beach
6. AC/DC - Have a Drink On Me
7. George Strait - I Hate Everything
8. Johnny Cash - The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
9. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
10. Paul Westerberg - Footsteps