100 Free Songs
Be sure to head over to outof5 this week for our 100th entry. This time we each chose a theme and did individual 10-song mixes. My theme, "Sucking Up: Songs that Pander for Play," was inspired by an entry in that "50 Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time" book, specifically (and rightly) busting on "Pilot of the Airwaves." In retrospect the Joe Jackson song is a poor pick. Kirsti's suggestion of Fishbone's "? (Modern Industry)" would have been a better fit.

Hey, do me a favor: download this week's Out of 5 and tell me if it's anywhere as interesting to listen to as it was to create. This "Random Association" theme took an extra week to compile. Andrew kicked us off by sending a song to the next participant in line, that person associated it with a new song and sent it to the next, etc. Since we only received one song ahead of us, I had no idea what led Dee to choose Bryan Ferry's cover of "Falling in Love Again," but my first instinct* was Madeline Kahn channeling Marlene Dietrich in Blazing Saddles. And as a bonus, I learned how to conver YouTube videos into mp3s.

*My second instinct was Klaus Nomi covering the same song, but I thought such repetition might be inappropriate.