There are only a few people trustworthy enough with a fall playlist to make suggestions for track addenda … and one of them spoke up. Thus appendix A of the Official 2005 Fall Playlist.

The Young Dubliners, ‘Bodhran.’ As the first track off their album Red, ‘Bodhran’ sets the mood with Irish fiddles over an undeniably catchy beat. The Young Dubs will forever be linked to the autumn season by virtue of the fact that we discovered them while they were opening for Jethro Tull.

The Guess Who, ‘New Mother Nature/No Sugar Tonight.’ Falling two songs after the best breakup song of all time, ‘No Time,’ off their album American Woman, this is one of those songs to which you already know the lyrics (or at least the hook). It starts slowly, unauspiciously, but before long you’re rocking out, chanting the Sound of Music-esque lyrics ‘da doo da dah dah dah da dow …’ And, try as they might, any onlookers who would normally make fun of you are rocking out too.

Ben Folds Five, ‘Battle of Who Could Care Less.’ Because you think ‘The Rockford Files’ actually is cool and postmodern songs with ironic aesthetic distance can be self-referntially hip. And the fact that ‘Battle’ makes a great singalong helps too.