I want to be in charge of the music

I've never thought very highly of the Indigo Girls -- always found them preachy and insufferably bland. "Shame On You" is irresistible though -- both catchy and funny.

Perfect.

Brian: YOU ARE BANNED ON THIS BLOG FOREVER!!!!

Ok, you're not banned. But you should know that this list of songs are all the non-preachy and really good ones. There are three additional covers they do as well which could be added to this list to get the Best of the Indigo Girls according to Greg.

All Along The Watchtower

Down By the River

Tangled up in Blue

OMG yes, you have to ban Brian.

This is an excellent list.

I have seen a couple of these live! My favorite.

This Train Revised is especially appropriate for the season. In a darkly cynical sort of way.

I used to work at a shopping mall that had a three hour tape loop of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas tunes. It played from mid November to New Year's day. Before that year, I didn't have strong feelings about Mannheim Steamroller. I do now. The word "loathe" comes to mind easily.

Indigo Girls or nearly anything else, would have been a welcome change.

I don't care who's in charge of the music as long as I'm in charge of the volume :-)

What? You don't like "Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire?"

Greg - Everybody wants to be in charge of the music ;)

JBJ: I know, I know.

Hey you guys were great on Conan the other night!

Hey, you even picked my wife's (Galileo) and my (World Falls) favorite songs! I'll vote for you to be in charge.

At least you don't have family members who insist on listening to the local 100% Christmas/Holiday music station all the time you are home. It has become yet another reason I fucking hate this time of year.

Heh, LGBT marching music for the holidays... Why am I not surprised.

Because gay artists rock?

I didn't see the obnoxious little drummer boy on your list, so you've got my vote, Greg.

The drummer boy holds a special place on a special list. The drummer boy is why I wrote this post. The drummer boy needs to stop drumming. I can't stand to LISTEN TO THE DRUMMER BOY ANY MORE!! I CAN'T STAND THE RUMPUMS!!!!! I CAN'T STAND THE RUMPUMS!!!! ARRRRRRGGGGGG!@!!!!!#32##

Greg, there are certain stores that I keep track of for this time of year. Costco, for instance, doesn't do store-wide music. Neither does Wal-Mart (there are compensations for their management being terminally stingy.) Trader Joes is another (and nicer than Wal-Mart in many ways.)

Then there are the radio stations. Fortunately I have a pretty fair collection of CDs for car use, plus gizmos that let me plug my cellphone (with Pandora!!) into the car audio. It's worth finding out which radio stations are naughty and which are nice; one reason I now listen to KSLX is precisely because they have a "no Christmas music" policy at the same time their main competitor pulled a "nothing but" stunt starting at the beginning of November two years ago (AAAAAaaaarrrrrrrhhhhh!!!!! indeed.)

Or you can get stuff like "Twisted Christmas" as an antidote.

Try "christmas at Kmart" by the late great Root Boy Slim and His Sex Change Band.

Xmas music is one reason I subscribe to satellite radio.