SUNDAY SHUFFLE #138

It looks like we might get two nice days out of the last three today; it would be nice if summer finally showed up. It would also be nice if I could stop going around and around in my head about the blog...we'll see if I put up some posts this week. Anyway, how about some music?

1. Ashes of American Flags (engineer demo)/Wilco (2)
2. I Feel Better/Frightened Rabbit (14)
3. Song for Myla Goldberg/The Decemberists (11)
4. No Dreams/Oakley Hall (8)
5. It's Not the End of the World/Sloan (17)
6. Almost Over/Elliott Smith (8)
7. The Lines You Amend/Sloan (13)
8. Guyamas Sonora/Beirut (5)
9. Ada/The National (17)
10. Down in the Valley/The Broken West (21)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #136

Woke up this morning and felt like doing a Sunday Shuffle. It's not indicative of anything necessarily, though I have been giving thought to coming back to blogging on a more regular basis. For now, ten random songs from my iTunes is enough...

1. My Goodbyes/South San Gabriel (6)
2. This Ain't a Scene/The Henry Clay People (9)
3. Snakes of Hawaii/Army Navy (9)
4. Furr/Blitzen Trapper (7)
5. A Side Wins/Sloan (18)
6. Stuck Between Stations/The Hold Steady (27)
7. Great Expectations/Elbow (14)
8. Silence Kid/Pavement (12)
9. Lady On The Water/Blitzen Trapper (6)
10. Look, Honey, Peaches/Portastatic (5)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #135

Today's shuffle is going to be a double issue for two reasons - today is my 38th birthday and this will be the last Sunday Shuffle for an indeterminate amount of time (more on that later). So, let's celebrate with a bunch of music...

1. Too Much to Hide/Joseph Arthur (12)
2. Weary Arms/Crooked Fingers (3)
3. Capturing Moods/Rilo Kiley (3)
4. Long As I Can See the Light/Creedence Clearwater Revival (5)
5. Slow Down Chicago/Canasta (9)
6. Jaipur/The Mountain Goats (14)
7. Time Left For Love/Shout Out Louds (8)
8. Sleep Sunshine/The Whigs (15)
9. Whatever (Folk Song In C)/Elliott Smith (12)
10. Flying High Again/Sloan (17)
11. Old Time Lovin'/Al Green (3)
12. Blood Bank/Bon Iver (5)
13. Nevermind The Phonecalls/Earlimart (12)
14. Forget Myself/Elbow (11)
15. Jigsaw/Mates Of State (6)
16. Idylls Of The King/The Mountain Goats (19)
17. Claws Tracking/Spoon (4)
18. Angela/Oakley Hall (4)
19. [Untitled Track]/The Black Keys (11)
20. Souls Like the Wheels/The Avett Brothers (5)
21. Act Of The Apostle/Belle and Sebastian (12)
22. A Sunday Smile/Beirut (4)
23. Pick Me Up/Dinosaur Jr. (10)
24. Flume/Bon Iver (9)
25. Manitoba/Tapes 'n Tapes (9)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #134

I'm on my second spring break of the year, so this week will either bring a handful of blog posts or I'll just accept the fact that I'm just a Sunday shuffler...

1. Where's That Hit?/Hoodoo Gurus (3)
2. Before I Do/Sloan (12)
3. These Days Nothing But Sunshine/The Clientele (8)
4. Challengers/The New Pornographers (22)
5. Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)/Pernice Brothers (15)
6. How To Fight Loneliness/Wilco (1)
7. Little Round Mirrors/Harvey Danger (46)
8. Green River/Creedence Clearwater Revival (9)
9. Open Eyes/Apples In Stereo (13)
10. Where I'm Anymore/Grandaddy (13)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #128

I started a couple different posts this week but I ended up deleting them. Maybe this week I'll actually write something and post it! But right now I'm going to get to the music since we're going out to breakfast in the near future...

1. You Can Always Count On Me (In The Worst Way)/Superchunk (8)
2. Queen of Cans and Jars/Guided By Voices (6)
3. Before I Do/Sloan (11)
4. This Is Something I Might Miss/I Love Math (3)
5. San Francisco/Lucero (4)
6. There's A Reason/A.A. Bondy (14)
7. Neon Bible/Arcade Fire (16)
8. Mistaken For Strangers/The National (16)
9. About This Love/Alejandro Escovedo (1)
10. Labyrinthian Pomp/Of Montreal (7)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #125

I had great plans to post this week and nothing came of it. I did actually write some songs yesterday, which I'm very happy about. College started back up this week too, so my life is busier once again. It's also possible I'll take a break from the blog but we'll see. For now, here are today's ten...

1. Don't Make Me a Target/Spoon (20)

2. The Penalty/Beirut (3)

3. War On War (live)/Jeff Tweedy (7)

4. Flying High Again/Sloan (16)

5. Untitled Instrumental/My Morning Jacket (8)

6. Will I Belong?/Sloan (19)

7. Andiamo/The Twilight Singers (10)

8. Nothing Left To Make Me Want To Stay/Sloan (14)

9. Que Lindo Sueno/King Khan and The Shrines (10)

10. The Good In Everyone/Sloan (12)

I guess it was Sloan's day today! 

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #124

THis past week went rather quickly, as I got back to work both at the school and at the Y. This week starts the new semester at PNC, so I'll be getting busier once again. The good news? There is only a half day of school this Wednesday, so I get a bit of a break in the afternoon before I have to teach swimming. On to music...

1. Sea Legs/The Shins (8)
2. Jezebel/Two Hours Traffic (12)
3. So Convinced/Superchunk (8)
4. Black Postcards/Luna (6)
5. We Close Our Eyes/British Sea Power (4)
6. Nothing Can Hurt You Now/Glossary (5)
7. Please Tell My Brother (live)/Jeff Tweedy (11)
8. I Could Have Done This Myself/Lightspeed Champion (3)
9. Ill Placed Trust/Sloan (15)
10. The Stars/American Music Club (7)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #116

I did tons of Algebra yesterday and have all of my chores done today, except for the laundry (and that's in progress). On my immediate agenda is the Bears/Packers game and trying to relax because it's going to be a crazy dash until Thanksgiving from here on out. Anyway, here's today's ten...

1. Fault Lines/The Mountain Goats (13)
2. Destroyer/Crooked Fingers (1)
3. Give 'Em All a Big Fat Lip/The Whigs (10)
4. Last Time in Love/Sloan (17)
5. Alone (demo)/Wilco (12)
6. Cupid's Trick/Elliott Smith (16)
7. Free Radicals Lament/Oakley Hall (4)
8. Of Evil/For Evil/South San Gabriel (3)
9. Cold Snap/Harvey Danger (12)
10. The President's Dead/Okkervil River (28)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #115

Lots to do today (including watching the Bears try and take out the undefeated Titans), so I'm just going to get to the music...

1. Reservations (demo)/Wilco (10)
2. writing snippet: Cream and Bastards Rule/Harvey Danger (8)
3. Set in Motion/Sloan (17)
4. Slow West Vultures/The Mountain Goats (13)
5. Twenty-Four/Centro-Matic (6)
6. Black Satin/The Raveonettes (5)
7. I'm Not Mad Enough/The Clientele (8)
8. Blue In Yr Eye/Amy Millan (9)
9. Shake And Pop/Nick Lowe (6)
10. Branches/Midlake (7)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #114

I did most of my chores yesterday, so I plan on watching football and reading for most of today. I also feel like I could nap, even though we gained an hour last night. Anyway, here's today's ten...

1. Paper Kitten Nightmare/Margot & the Nuclear So & So's (9)
2. Island Garden Song/The Mountain Goats (9)
3. Change Is Hard/She & Him (4)
4. Face Down In The Right Town/Earlimart (9)
5. Red Right Ankle/The Decemberists (10)
6. A Side Wins/Sloan (15)
7. Cool James/Harvey Danger (26)
8. Mutiny, I Promise You/The New Pornographers (17)
9. Pick Up If You're There/Mercury Rev (1)
10. Rooftops/Pela (11)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #107

This Sunday Shuffle is coming to you live from a rain-drenched Valparaiso, IN. Your DJ has spent most of his weekend dealing with water and includes a trip to the attic to search for the source of a leak. Good times. Then again, it could have worse and the rain is now over - Hurricane Ike has left our building. I've done my algebra and I'm reading to ramdomly play 10 songs from my iTunes. Enjoy!

1. Cut Your Hair/Pavement (7)
2. Seen How Things Are Hard/Elliott Smith (8)
3. Onions/The Mountain Goats (8)
4. Down In A Hole/Jason Isbell (1)
5. It's Me/Dinosaur Jr. (10)
6. room to rock/Matthew Sweet (4)
7. I've Gotta Try/Sloan (13)
8. The Family Gardener (live)/Jeff Tweedy (8)
9. A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger/Of Montreal (12)
10. Penny and Jack/The Essex Green (23)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #98

I spent over 4 hours putting together class lists and such at work this afternoon. Missed much of a beautiful day too. Plus, my brain is pretty much mush. Have I complained enough yet?

1. These Paper Walls/I Love Math (3)
2. Shiny/The Decemberists (3)
3. I Got Lost/Dinosaur Jr. (7)
4. The Things You Don't See/Canasta (7)
5. Wonderful Witches/Thurston Moore (4)
6. La Ferrassie/Tokyo Police Club (14)
7. Like A Rolling Stone/Drive-By Truckers (13)
8. Light Years/Sloan (11)
9. All the Wine/The National (9)
10. Silver Plate Complaints/Centro-Matic (16)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #96

Let's get right to it...

1. Our Faces Split The Coast In Half/Broken Social Scene (1)
2. Bloody Nose/Earlimart (11)
3. Loretta's Scars/Pavement (6)
4. Agony of Laffitte/Spoon (7)
5. He Brings Out The Whiskey In Me/Amy Millan (15)
6. I Understand/Sloan (18)
7. When The Angels Will Put Out Their Lights/South San Gabriel (2)
8. Undertaker/M. Ward (16)
9. Personal/Stars (7)
10. Your Desert's Not A Desert At All/Pela (10)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #94

It's a Father's Day edition, which means no change at all. Big shock, I know.

1. Onions/The Mountain Goats (7)
2. Tyrants/Black Mountain (4)
3. The Story Of Yo La Tengo/Yo La Tengo (9)
4. Carolina/M. Ward (7)
5. People Think They Know Me/Sloan (12)
6. The Gymnast, High Above the Ground/The Decemberists (10)
7. Georgia, Georgia/Elliott Smith (7)
8. Missing Pieces/Voxtrot (6)
9. I Don't Know Why/Ben Kweller (2)
10. 1209 Seminary/The Ponys (4)

Interesting grouping of songs - 3 were 7:16 or longer and 3 were 2:15 or shorter, with the rest falling somewhere in between.

eMUSIC ROUND TWENTY-EIGHT

Not even 2 weeks have passed since I posted about round #27 and here I am talking about my May downloads. Wow! I was feeling kinda 90s this time around with some other stuff thrown in...

Guided By Voices/Bee Thousand
My Morning Jacket/It Still Moves
Buffalo Tom/Let Me Come Over
Pavement/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Decemberists/Five Songs EP
Sloan/"All Used Up" and "Try To Make It" - 2 new songs from A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005

eMUSIC ROUND TWENTY-SEVEN

Once again, I'm late in letting you know what I downloaded at the end of April. I still feel like I haven't digested this music too much, though a couple of the albums I've listened to more than others. Always the way, though, isn't it?

My Morning Jacket/The Tennessee Fire - My first experience with MMJ was their latest album, Z, which I got for Christmas the year it came out (2005?). I really liked it and planned on picking up their earlier stuff...then never got around to it. Now eMusic has the entire catalog available, so I started with their first album. It's more acoustic-based and sometimes it's quite hard to understand what Jim James is saying but I've enjoyed it through a couple listens.

Frightened Rabbit/The Midnight Organ Fight - I'd never heard of this band until right before I downloaded the album and it's one of the albums of the year in my book. Literate, depressing rock with a Scottish accent. Just grab it now and thank me later.

Robert Forster/The Evangelist - Forster was one half of the songwriting team that made The Go-Betweens such a great band; the other half, Grant McLennan, passed away the other year. This solo album has some songs co-written by the two and the rest are somwhat informed by his passing. It's a lovely album and one I need to listen to a lot more than I already have.

Sloan/Navy Blues - Because I just can't stop with this band. They have a new album coming in a few weeks and I really should have a Sloan week around here to celebrate.

Luna/Romantica - I downloaded this on a whim. I own their last album, Rendevous, and while I like it well enough I've just never fallen in love with it. So why did I get this? I don't know but I'm glad I did. It's very tuneful and is filled with odd lyrics and it just works. I think I need to investigate the band further.

HEAVY ROTATION #4

It's been a few months since I've done one of these but lately I have a bunch of albums I can't stop listening to. And really, I don't want to stop.

Kathleen Edwards/Asking for Flowers
Nada Surf/Lucky
REM/Accelerate
Sloan/Between the Bridges
The Whigs/Mission Control
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks/Real Emotional Trash
American Music Club/The Golden Age

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #86

Let's get right to the music...

1. Last Time in Love/Sloan (15)
2. I Never Want To Go Home/The Whigs (6)
3. Broke Me Up/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (6)
4. Beyond Me/Sloan (6)
5. Razzle Dazzle Rose/Camera Obscura (14)
6. Titled Untitled/Kathleen Edwards (3)
7. Vampires in Blue Dresses/Margot & The Nuclear So & So's (6)
8. Blush/The Raveonettes (4)
9. King Kong '76/Patterson Hood (12)
10. Down On the Corner/Creedence Clearwater Revival (5)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #81

It's been a long week and I haven't given the blog much thought at all. I can still crank out a Sunday Shuffle, though...

1. It Covers the Hillsides/Midlake (6)
2. December/The Lemonheads (14)
3. Neptune's Net/M. Ward (23)
4. Abigail/The Broken West (14)
5. So Come Back, I Am Waiting/Okkervil River (10)
6. Hair Down/Cold War Kids (10)
7. Another Way I Could Do It/Sloan (13)
8. Nothing Up My Sleeve (demo)/Wilco (17)
9. Broke Me Up/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (5)
10. Red Wine, Success!/Cold War Kids (8)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #78

It's the Oscar-edition of Sunday Shuffle, which means...well, nothing. While I did see more movies in the theater last year than I have in a long long time, I still didn't see anything up for the main categories tonight. No No Country For Old Men. No Juno. The only category I'm truly up on is Animated Feature - I saw two of the three nominees! Still, I'm going to watch (and read during long sections of the broadcast as well). Right now? Ten songs, coming at ya...

1. Bottom of the World/Tom Waits (6)
2. Satellite/TV On The Radio (11)
3. Penpals/Sloan (10)
4. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton/The Mountain Goats (9)
5. I Understand/Sloan (15)
6. Non-Pythagorean Composition 3/Apples In Stereo (9)
7. Roscoe/Midlake (10)
8. You Know What It's About/Sloan (11)
9. South America/Shout Out Louds (7)
10. You and Me/Archers of Loaf (10)