The King of Pointland

The Future Sound of America

For a $25 donation to MoveOn.org, you can get an early copy of the Future Soundtrack for America. Of course, by the time the CD arrives in your mailbox it will be on store shelves, but it's for a good cause.

Here's the track listing:

1. OK Go : This Will Be Our Year
2. David Byrne : Ain't Got So Far To Go
3. Jimmy Eat World : Game of Pricks (BBC evening session)
4. Death Cab For Cutie : This Temporary Life
5. Blink-182 : I Miss You (James Guthrie mix)
6. Mike Doughty : Move On
7. Ben Kweller : Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
8. Sleater-Kinney : Off With Your Head
9. R.E.M. : Final Straw (MoveOn mix)
10. Bright Eyes : Going for the Gold (live)
11. The Long Winters : The Commander Thinks Aloud (future mix)
12. will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas : Money
13. They Might Be Giants : Tippecanoe And Tyler Too
14. Clem Snide : The Ballad of David Icke
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Date With the Night (live)
16. Fountains of Wayne : Everything's Ruined (acoustic)
17. Nada Surf : Your Legs Grow
18. The Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (live on the BBC)
19. Old 97's : Northern Line
20. Laura Cantrell : Sam Stone
21. Tom Waits : Day After Tomorrow
22. Elliott Smith : A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free

The Elliott Smith song is from the as yet unreleased (and posthumous) album Songs from a Basement on the Hill. And that looks like Chris Ware's artwork on the cover.