Saw this meme a while back on mamamusings and thought it would be an amusing exercise. The rules are: sort your music collection by title and pick the first song listed for each letter of the alphabet. I decided to go one further and include songs for each numeral and miscellaneous punctuation marks. Here goes:

• "A Big Hunk O' Love," Elvis Presley, The Number One Hits.
• "B + A" Beta Band, The Three EPs.
• "C Is The Heavenly Option," Heavenly, Le Jardin De Heavenly.
• "D-C-G," Silo the Huskie, Cringe.com/pilation.
• "E Motel," The Clean, Old Enough To Know Better - 15 Years Of Merge Records.
• "Fabliau Of Florida," Wallace Stevens, Poetry Speaks.
• "Galveston Bay," Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost Of Tom Joad.
• "H.W.C.," Liz Phair, Liz Phair.
• "I (Heart Sign) Apple," The Mekons, I (Heart Symbol) Mekons.
• "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era," Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted.
• "K-Jee," M.F.S.B., Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack.
• "L Dopa," Big Black, Songs About Fucking.
• "Ma Rainey," Sterling Brown, Call & Response - The Riverside Anthology To The African American Literary Tradition.
• "Nadine," Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight.
• "O Death," Camper Van Beethoven, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.
• "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)," Parliament, Live: P-Funk Earth Tour.
• "Quarrel With The World," Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Bait and Switch.
• "R & R," Charles Mingus, In A Soulful Mood.
• "SAAB," Randys, Cringe.com/pilation.
• "T. & T.," Ornette Coleman, Ornette!
• "U Can Do (Life)," De La Soul, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump.
• "Vague Space," Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus.
• "W-I-F-E," Old 97's, Wreck Your Life.
• "x-ray man," Liz Phair, Whip-Smart.
• "Ya No Hay Mujeres Feas," Tito Puente, The Very Best of Tito Puentes and Vicento Valdes.
• "Zebra," The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs.
• "09-15-00 (Part One)," Godspeed You Black Emperor! Yanqui U.X.O.
• "1 Million Bottlebags," Public Enemy, Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black.
• "2 Piano Pieces: 1," Daniel Barenboim, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words.
• "3 Away," Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pretty Girls Make Graves EP.
• "4 (from The Dream Songs)," John Berryman, Poetry Speaks.
• "5 Nights," Grafton, Salt Horse Release Party CD.
• "6' 1"," Liz Phair, Exile In Guyville.
• "7 Chinese Bros.," R.E.M., Reckoning.
• "8 Ball (Remix)," NWA, Straight Outta Compton.
• "9-9," R.E.M., Murmur.
• "?," Outkast, Stankonia.
• "...and Carrot Rope," Pavement, Terror Twilight.
• "(Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy," The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs.
• "#1 Hit Song," The Minutemen, Double Nickels On the Dime.

Liz Phair gets the top prize for occupying three slots. Stephen Malkmus gets second place with three entries split between Pavement and his solo career. Honorable mention to The Magnetic Fields and R.E.M. with two apiece. A little odd that Yo la Tengo didn't make it: with 185 songs, they have the biggest single virtual shelf in my library (although Stephen Merritt's combined catalog —6ths, Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and Magnetic Fields — edges them for total volume at 187).