iPod Top 25 Most Played as of 2/03/08

By popular (read: one) demand:

1. Incredible Hulk cartoon theme (1966 version)
2. Dark Star / Beck
3. Chick Habit / April March
4. Star Witness / Neko Case
5. Hold Tight! / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
6. Heart of Glass / Blondie
7. Anonymous Collective / Stereolab
8. And It Rained All Night / Thom Yorke
9. Naughty Naughty / John Parr
10. Maps / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. No Cars Go / Arcade Fire (Neon Bible version)
12. Float On / Modest Mouse
13. All I Need / Radiohead
14. Brown Sugar / ZZ Top
15. Cool / Gwen Stefani
16. Digital / Joy Division
17. Pull Shapes / The Pipettes
18. Captain America cartoon theme (1966 version)
19. John Saw That Number / Neko Case
20. The National Anthem / Radiohead
21. Atmosphere / Joy Division
22. Airbag / Radiohead
23. Baby It's You / Smith
24. Black Mirror / Arcade Fire
25. Here Come Cowboys / The Psychedelic Furs

"No Cars Go" ended up as bumper music in the Super Bowl telecast tonight. I guess this means something. And with regard to #9, all I can say is that I found the song again recently and was transported back via a wave of unhealthy nostalgia to a misspent summer where my dad lived in a house in a remote woodsy locale and I wasted too many hours watching MuchMusic beamed down to a NASA-sized satellite dish. The video just can't be beaten:



So, as best I can figure it, after he gets slapped by Lisa Rinna for making unseemly advances, he gets a glimpse of what his life could really be like: driving around in the Rolls-Royce he was fixing and cavorting in a hotel room with a half-dozen girls wearing headbands. He test-drives that fantasy through the end of the combo guitar and keyboard solo, then realizes that true satisfaction lie with the girl who he has just allowed to get away. Thankfully, she is apparently quite patient and is still standing at the curb. Our hero's maturity is rewarded when his car turns into a spaceship.