I'll admit it: my Tiger Lillies library is not complete. I first discovered them through "Shockheaded Peter" and have been adding albums randomly, one by one, some old, some new. My most recent acquisition is "Death and the Bible," which was released in 2001.

Wow. I think this is the ultimate busker's album. The use of all the flotsam-and-jetsam percussion, including what sounds like bike horns and rubber ducks, the not-very-fancy-possibly-out-of-tune ukulele, the harmonica, the saw, combined with the gorgeous, filthy lyrics .... My god, "Strawberry Jam" alone is a busker's paradise.

The Tiger Lillies is like the most awesome band I wish I could ever see in a BART station. Of course, if I ever had, I'd have lost my job because I'd have sit, enraptured, watching them for as long as they played, giving them my last dime and forgetting to go to work.