Trying To Be Good By Not Being ‘Round

First fifteen…

1. “Been It” by The Cardigans

2. Ute Lemper’s dreamy take on “La Vie En Rose”

3. Bill Frisell’s jazz reconstruction of “What’s Her Name Today” by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach

4. “My Love Life” by Morrissey

5. “Joy” by The Sundays

6. “Monday Morning Cold” by Erin McKeown

7. “Softly Moses” by Erin McKeown

8. Benny Carter and his Orchestra doing “Nightfall”

9. Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30 in E

10. “To Wait for Love” by Tony Orlando

11. Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”

12. “Another Nail for my Heart” by Squeeze

13. “D. Boon” by Uncle Tupelo

14. “Jubilee” by 10,000 Maniacs

15. “Goldberg Variation XIII” played by Glenn Gould

Yes, at some point I will get sick of this. It’s like Jodie Foster’s character in the movie ‘Contact’ being accused of listening to the clothes dryer for patterns in the random noise. Then again, there are either signs everywhere or nowhere . . . and I think we choose what we see when we look.

(Off to write invoices, listen to Glenn Gould, and wonder what the significance of two back-to-back Erin McKeown tracks indicates. In a thousand years, they’ll talk about iPod divination in the same way we talk about spilling the guts in ancient Rome. However, no pigeons were harmed in the making of this list.)