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South Dakota mix

South Dakota is much prettier than I’d expected it to be. I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn’t the nice rolling hills and bucolic farms we found there.

It was pleasant driving today, and the iPod was apparently picking up on that. It was pretty mellow from the time we plugged it in — a little ways into South Dakota — until we crossed into North Dakota.

iPod’s South Dakota mix

  • Summertime Killer Luis Bucalov
  • Pass in Time Beth Orton
  • Green Grow the Rushes REM
  • I Saw the Light Todd Rundgren
  • Coldsweat The Sugarcubes
  • Cemetery Party Air
  • Yellow and Rose James Taylor
  • Friend Golden Smog
  • Under Control The Strokes
  • Distant Land Mad Lib
  • Auctioneer REM
  • Surfin’ USA The Beach Boys
  • Catch the Sun The Doves
  • Kate Ben Folds Five
  • Take My Word Uncle Tupelo
  • Angel Band The Stanley Brothers
  • Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down Uncle Tupelo
  • Nicotine and Gravy Beck
  • Bouncin’ Round the Room Phish (as we passed over the Continental Divide!)
  • Everloving Moby
  • Retrieval of You The Minus 5
  • At Least That’s What You Said Wilco
  • Vertigo U2
  • The Girl from Ipanema A. Gilberto
    • Music

    Does Dan DeLuca want to rumble?

    DeLuca, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, says of Wilco’s “Kicking Television: Live In Chicago” …

    One of these days, Jeff Tweedy will collapse under the weight of his own self-importance. But not just yet. "Kicking Television" ... will do nothing to harm Wilco's status as the most revered of independent-spirited American rock bands.
    Tweedy's forays into experimental noisemaking on his band's recent efforts ... have been overpraised, as if the emotionally limited singer-songwriter was the closest thing this generation has to John Lennon or Kurt Cobain. But while "Kicking" may not be the tour de force of a soul-searching genius, it does document a top-notch band bringing studio creations impressively to life. ...

    “Collapse under the weight of his own self-importance”? “Emotionally limited singer-songwriter”? Like the album or don’t like the album (and it seems that DeLuca does like it), but please be kind (or at least polite) to my Mr. Tweedy.