Sinead O’Connor: The Singing Bird
This is from her great double album, She Who Dwells…

Prince: Sophisticated Lady (live)
Oops, not sure of the source! Guest vocals by Shelby J?

Prince: Crazy (live)
“Put your hands together, come on!” Shelby J again?

Prince: Guitar (live)
Um…not doing so well on the sourcing.

Emmylou Harris: Hot Burrito #2
Snagged from the vinyl. Cool gadget! Now if I can only figure out how to do this with my cassette player.

2. 5 Women – Because if I were a man I would like to have 5 … uhm, no, just a great one to listen to with the amp on a very high level.

3. Pop Life – Sounds always like I hear it for the first time, this song cheer me up.

4. Erotic City – the title says it al, I wanna live overthere and hear this great song every day, specially in my car.

5. She’s always in my hair – she just always is … and he is too But to stay serious, that damn good guitar part just gives me goosebumps.

1. I wish u heaven – a damn near perfect song from Lovesexy made even better, unbelievably, on the 12″ remix treatment.

2. Old friends 4 sale – “some things are better left unsaid, some people are better left untrusted….” now, now, Mr P, cheer up! One of my favorite unreleased songs – from the Work Vol 2

3. Train from unreleased album Dream Factory – what was he playing at not releasing this great pop song, made all the better with those wonderful steam engine sounds?

4. The Cross – from Sign O the Times. One I’ve grown to love over time and which fits the mood of this album perfectly.

5. 3121 – enjoyable enough funky album track, although it is blown away into outer space by his live versions in the London aftershows

2. Velvet Underground / I heard her call my name (1968, from “White Light/White Heat”) — This Lou Reed song is typical of where rock music was headed in 1968 — far away from the lightness of the previous year’s Summer of Love. Although the background vocals here still sound almost conventional.

3. Jan and Dean / Yellow balloon (1966, from “Save for a Rainy Day) — Sometimes, the shuffle segues can make your head explode. Coming straight off VU into this was a jarring experience.

4. The Kinks / Scattered (1993, from “Phobia”) — At first, this late-period Kinks song sounds way too much like a Pretenders ripoff, but I should have known Ray Davies would add enough twists and turns to make things interesting.

5. Bob Dylan / Don’t think twice, it’s alright (1963, from “The Freewheeling Bob Dylan”) — After hearing a million different versions of this song, from Bob and from others, it’s refreshing to hear the original, which still sounds better than any subsequent version.

1. “Along Comes Mary” by the Folk Swingers from “Raga Rock,” 1966. An album of session cats using a sitar-like lead instrument to cover pop hits of the time. Like, it’s real groovy!

2. “Mon Amour” by Pearls Before Swine from “These Things Too,” 1969. I’ve got rips of several albums by this group; sometimes I love the albums and sometimes I find them too precious and “serious” to be tolerated.

3. “Turkey Chase” by Bob Dylan from the soundtrack to “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,” 1973. I caught a good portion of this movie on cable the other night; it was better than I recalled.

4. “Will You Visit Me On Sundays” by the Louvin Brothers from “Will You Visit Me On Sundays,” 1968. Great grim country: “At morning I’ll meet darkness” on the hanging tree.

5. “My Old Pal” by Jimmie Rogers, Victor 23191, 1928. One of the lodestones of country and thus an ancestor of damn near everything we listen to today.

1. “Isn’t It A Pity” by George Harrison from “All Things Must Pass”, 2001.
2. “Jesus On The Mainline” by Ry Cooder from “Paradise and Lunch”, 1974.
3. “Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)” by Simply Red from “Greatest Hits”, 1996.
4. “Early In The Morning” by Eric Clapton from “Just One Night”, Disc1, 1980.
5. “Something About You” by Level 42 from “Level Best”, 1989.