Fred, finally someone else who likes "Red Blooded Woman"! An awful lot of people absolutely loathe it. It's not as good as "Toxic" though, which really is good enough even to convert non-Britney fans. "Amazing" is good too though. It's actually been a very good couple of months for chart singles.

Anyway, I've changed my mind, single of the year so far is Twista's "Slow Jamz", which manages to be both the funniest and the sexiest hip-hop track in a long time.

Now I need a New Yorker to go by Other Music

Don't they do mail order?

The only Brittney song I can think of is the Pepsi commercial.

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2). The former is still sinking in, but I am now the property of the latter. SUCH a sucker for Andy's love songs, in their several forms.

I really really REALLY love this CD.

Yes they do -- othermusic.com

I have no single of the year so far! I feel bereft.

Anyway, I've changed my mind, single of the year so far is Twista's "Slow Jamz", which manages to be both the funniest and the sexiest hip-hop track in a long time.

Hmm, I can get behind you on that one, Angus! It's one of the things I've downloaded from iTunes. Um, along with "Toxic". And some Dar and Indigo Girls and Prince! Er.

othermusic.com

It's not listed on their online catalog. I think perhaps because it is a semi-boot CD-R that they are only selling in-store.

The first time I heard "Toxic," I thought it was appallingly bad. It sounded like a big mish-mash of crap that wasn't sure what it wanted to be, with all the effects and instrumental breaks.

Now? I love that damn song. I get it now!

It's not listed on their online catalog

Dude, there's this modern invention called a telephone....

Dude, there's this modern invention called a telephone....

Don't you mock me, mister silverclad.

I need to report something shameful.

I am marrying a woman who...well, I'll just let the stories speak for themselves.

Today, at the pizza place where we got a slice she saw me humming along with the song on the radio.

JZ: "What's that song?"

Me: ???????? "You've never heard it before?"

JZ: "No."

Me: "It's...Freebird. I spent pretty much my entire freshman year of college playing air guitar to that song on a lacrosse stick. All of us did. How can you not know Freebird? This is the literary equivalent of saying, 'Did you say Jean Osten?'"

Then - on the very same day! - we watched the new remake of The Italian Job.

JZ: "What's that song?"

Me: ??????????? "You can't tell me you've never heard this song before."

JZ: "Nope."

Me: "'Money'? Pink Floyd? Okay, this is a cover, but still. This song is both ubiquitous and incessant. It's on one of the biggest selling records of all time. They had to invent a new chart for Dark Side of the Moon because it wouldn't go away. That's why they chart catalog sales separately."

JZ: "Never heard it."

On the same day! Even Angus could ID both of those songs and he goes out of his way to avoid the rock and roll.

Wow. I kind of wish I had never heard Freebird - it's a pretty song if you've only heard it the five hundred times as opposed to the zillion. The only time I have thought it was pretty in the last 5 years was when Andre Braugher sings it in Duets.

I wonder if she ever thought it was odd that it was the same thing shouted at every performance ever when bands ask for requests.

I can't have spent better money in the last month than on the new Iron and Wine and the Sfujan Stevens. They are both 100% perfect albums. And they are oddly similar as well. The only thing wrong with them is that while one is playing - I kind of wish it was the other instead.

Also - I just got home from Kill Bill Vol. 2 and I think I am going to have to buy the soundtrack. QT has the ear for good movie music (that plus the shameless stealing of good movie music from others).