I'm having trouble with the "What does it mean?" category. I do have one song where the singer mumbles a lot. Would that work?

It's hard to garble naudle zauss
With all these marbles in my mouth...

Hayden and I have a song in common!

Hey, I was thinking of you when I put it on there. Specifically, I was thinking that you'd be scandalized by my shocking revelation that I don't like Fugazi.

I'm listening to the Wrens' The Meadowlands right now, which is so incredibly good that I can't believe I managed not to put one of these songs on the mix.

I won't be done until I have to be, so I will send them then.

No problem. I'll post it as soon as I can.

I know maybe 4 songs on your mix

I probably know fewer than that for Angus and Hayden TOGETHER. there's just waaay too much music to keep track of.

I have never thought a song was about me.

Specifically, I was thinking that you'd be scandalized by my shocking revelation that I don't like Fugazi.

Nah. First, because, while I wanted them for that category, I usually think they're in the overrated-but-historically-important category myself. (I only own three of their albums). Plus, there was a cover story in the local City Paper last fall about how Fugazi are boring and rock should be about women and booze, or something.

The letters to the editor after it ran were the funniest part.

Yeah, I read both the story and the follow-up, which read a lot like that evisceration of Chuck Palahniuk & the follow-up on Salon.

But I tend to agree with the assessment -- Fugazi are long on ideas and short on listenable. I even sold off my ancient (but surprisingly unscuffed, which says something right there) copy of Repeater last year.

Alex Chilton, “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” – Bach’s Bottom

Hayden, the drummer from the band I used to manage was also an organist. A few of us stopped by to hear him practice for an upcoming recital. He was using the big pipe organ at Princeton & invited us to check it out. It had a buncha keyboards, pedals & two or three banks of stops. He demonstrated how the stops were essentially an early synthesizer, manipulating overtones to change timbres. He played a little Bach. "I love the Bach stops!" Without missing a beat I said I love the Boxtops, too, & started singing "The Letter". Which would be an excellent 1967 and/or #1 song now that I think about it.

Without missing a beat I said I love the Boxtops, too, & started singing "The Letter".

Very cool! You're a very clever guy, Joe, if no one's told you that today.

Because I am SMRT.

Heh. In Czech, "smrt" means "dead."

"The Letter" is a great song. Not reading the other liner notes until I finish my mix. Which is getting close. Yesterday I was able to look at the three or four apparently unrelated groups of songs I have and discern a potential theme that would mesh them all into a coherent mix. Order out of chaos! I think.

One theme to rule them all...

I wanted to use Lyra Jane's birth year song for my cover song. I have a cassette somewhere of a Billy Bragg show where he covered that. I went absolutely nuts the first time I heard the original. It's still my favourite Buzzcocks songs. If the cassette didn't sound like ass already, I might have tried to digitize it somehow.

Yeah, that's some great Buzzcocks, but I can't say it's my favorite, because there are so many great contenders for that role (and they're all on Singles Going Steady, too).