Songs I Love Right Now

We have a nice MP3 server at work. Everyone has dropped their music on it. So at the start of the day I just point to the top-level directory, randomize the whole kit'n'kaboodle and listen away. Most of it is crap but there are some real gems in this mix. This is my current song love list (in the order that I discovered the songs, top being the most recent):

• *Blue October - Calling You
• Jets to Brazil - Morning New Disease
• *Modest Mouse - The Fruit that Ate Itself
• Collective Soul - Tremble for my Beloved
• *The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
• Barenaked Ladies - Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
• Marcy's Playground - Our Generation
• Lou Bega - Tricky, Tricky
• Andre Bocelli & Sarah Brightma - You take my breath away
• *KMFDM - Anarchy (God and the State)
• Foo Fighters - This is a Call
• At The Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept
• Doves - Some Cities
• A Perfect Circle - Imagine
• Opposite Day - Mr. Plain
• Wheatus - Love is Mutt From Hell
• OK Go - Your So Damn Hot
• Bluejuice - Here We Go Now (remix)
• OK Go - Return
• Harvey Danger - Old Hat
• Breaking Benjamin - Medicate
• Hot Hot Heat - No, Not Now
• *Baggsmen - Long Strong Diamond
• *Wheatus - Sunshine
• Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
• *Phish - Bouncing Around the Room
• Moldy Peaches - Who's Got the Crack?
• *Moldy Peaches - Downloading Porn with Davo
• Mindless Self Indulgence - Tom Sawyer
• Plummet - Damaged
• Eurythmics - I Need A Man

Songs marked with "*" are amazingly good. Plastickelly will get pissed if I don't put links to these songs, but since I'm at work and do not have Internet connection, I can't realistically add links. Go to itunes and pick them up. If you have the software installed you can sample some of the songs on this list.

If you only have time to listen to a few, I recommend "Moldy Peaches - Downloading Porn with Davo" and "Baggsmen - Long Strong Diamond". Both of those are truly original pieces and both are available on itunes. I think that the Peaches have some kind of cult-following in the NY area. The Baggsmen are a band discovered by my colleague who plays bass for Slappy's Groove Shack (see link to the right, I can't remember it off the top of my head) when he visited Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago. All their stuff is pretty good, "Long Strong Diamond" is a masterpiece, however.