Got an ipod for Christmas! What to put on it?

[Anonymous]

I get new music ideas from TV. I don't watch a ton of TV, but the shows I do watch have music playing in different scenes and I've gotten ideas from bands:

the show House - the producers have awesome taste in music and music drives the key scenes

the Hills on MTV - yes I watch it - I have a family, a fulfulling career, great friends, and I work out and make home made meals so if I want to spend 20 minutes watching useless TV get off my back!!! They have a ton of music on this show, most worthless but a few good songs.

30 Rock - great show but I don't think I've ever gotten music ideas from it. But you get the idea. And some ads have good songs from popular/new music.

[Anonymous]

Pink Martini

[Anonymous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPlvi0irqW4&feature=related

[Anonymous]

All the new music I listen to I discovered from TV commercials, movies, and songs played in stores. I Google the lyrics to find the artist, or use my Shazam app (awesome if you have an iPhone: it listens to and identifies songs). In the past couple years, I've fallen in love with Feist, Stars, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Pandora is great.

[Anonymous]

None of this is recent, but I think Vanessa Carleton has classical traning -- Julliard, maybe? I like her most popular CD (with Thousand Miles).

Another artist I LOVE is Poe. She hasn't released anything recently, but her first two CDs are terrific. I've been listening to them for years and I still hear new things almost every time -- especially on Haunted.

In a totally different genre: Lyle Lovett. Joshua Judges Ruth is a favorite as is his newest CD (forgot the title.)

[Anonymous]

Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations and some "bootleg" grateful dead. (in quotations because they are now released legitimately).

[Anonymous]

Wilco