ARTIST: Empress Zhangsun
TITLE: Effect of a Habit
- Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
- Music is My Hot, Hot Sex - CSS (from an iPod Touch commercial.)
- Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie
- Hold Your Head Up - Argent (one of the true one-hit wonders. I don't think Argent ever had another Top 40 single.)
- The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani (aka my ringtone)
- Don't Bring Me Down (live) - A cover of the ELO song by The New Pornographers (an iTunes exclusive)
- Sweet Emotion - Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke (a mellow cover of the Aerosmith song)
- Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well - Mike Doughty
- From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come) - Dave Edmunds covers a fun, late-1970s Bruce Springsteen song. Edmunds is one of the rare rockers of the singer-songwriter era to specialize in covering his contemporaries' material. I bought this LP at a yard sale exclusively for this song.
- Everybody Went Low - John Hiatt
- Reggae Merengue - Tommy McCook & The Supersonics (this instrumental was sampled by Lily Allen for her song "LDN")
- Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band (how are you supposed to find instrumentals like this when there's no lyrics? Also, DJs don't announce all their songs anymore. I may have gone online to check a station's online playlist to track down this frequent movie soundtrack staple.)
- Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne
- Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
- Precious (live) The Pretenders, live at the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, December 1979. I bought the two-LP set in Central Square, Cambridge, last winter.
- Thankful - Glenn Phillips (This song from the former Toad The Wet Sprocket singer was a free download from iTunes. I think I was given this promo download as a credit-card-style coupon at SXSW in 2007?
- Blue - The Thorns
- Gypsy March - Grand Ole Party (I saw the GOP at the free party for BUST Magazine, at SXSW 2008.)
- Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
- Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations
