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My iPod and U

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The drawback to iPods is that, once you have your entire collection on it, you can no longer pull out a CD you haven't listened to for a decade (Some Great Reward by Depeche Mode, say) and experience it all anew ("I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life...").

In a desperate attempt to hear my music afresh, I've been listening to all my iPod songs (currently 813, I do a lot of mix and match) in alphabetical order.  You get all kinds of weird combinations (The one-two of Tool's Sober and Rachel Stevens' Some Girls is even more brilliant than it sounds).  I've got no Xs, one Q (Quand Vous Mourez de Nos Amours by Rufus Wainwright, ace) and one Z (Zero by Smashing Pumpkins).

U is the best. Five tracks, individually brilliant, together making what could be the world's best EP.  In order:  U Got The Look by Prince (of course) followed immediately by Uncle Fucka from the South Park Movie (I still laugh, every time), then a weirdo REM track called Underneath The Bunker, The Magnetic Fields celebrating the glories of Underwear ("If there's anything better in this world, who cares?"), and ending, naturally, with Union of the Snake by Duran Duran (What the HELL is that song ABOUT?). 

Download them all, I guarantee U-pleasure.

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