3 pm - 4 pm

3 P.M. You are out of this world now. You might as well keep going. Skip James's Complete Early Recordings (Yazoo) will be your guide. The eerie falsetto ray sails out beyond the surface clicks and scratches. You may also need PJ Harvey's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island), where the air is rarefied. By the time you read this you should be able to purchase Björk's Greatest Hits (Elektra). When you feel it is time to re-enter the atmosphere, cue up Ralph Stanley (DMZ/Columbia), a new installment of Dr. Stanley's beautiful art. Scare the pants off your death-metal nephew with the ancient tale "Little Mathie Grove": "And with his sword (he) cut off her head and kicked it against the wall."

1. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (3:03)
2. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues (2:54)
3. Skip James - I'm So Glad (2:51)
4. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune (3:22)
5. PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home (3:44)
6. PJ Harvey - This Is Love (3:50)
7. *Björk - Hyperballad (5:23)
8. Björk - Human Behavior (4:13)
9. Björk - Big Time Sensuality (4:56)
10. Björk - Venus as a Boy (4:41)
11. *Ralph Stanley - False Hearted Lover's Blues (4:51)
12. *Ralph Stanley - Henry Lee (4:42)
13. Ralph Stanley - Lift Him Up, That's All (4:40)
14. Ralph Stanley - Little Mathie Grove (4:29)

* Different version to compilation