SUNDAY SHUFFLE #126

I know I talked about suspending the blog last week but I get to Sunday and I have to do the shuffle. It's been a ritual for over 2 years now and I don't want to stop. As for the rest of the blog, I don't necessarily want to stop that either. I think I just have to accept that I won't post on everything I want to and just be happy posting when I have the time and inclination. Anyway, here's today's ten...

1. Natural Disaster/Andrew Bird (2)
2. Lit Up (Remix)/The National (10)
3. Winter '68/The Black Angels (11)
4. Untitled Instrumental/My Morning Jacket (9)
5. Smokin from Shootin/My Morning Jacket (6)
6. Rivers/Destroyer (6)
7. One True Vine/Wilco (12)
8. Blood Bank/Bon Iver (2)
9. Late-Century Dream/Superchunk (13)
10. On the Way Back Home/Lucero (4)

A couple songs I haven't heard in over a year-and-half; a couple songs I just downloaded the other day; that same MMJ instrumental that played last week, and Wilco. Interesting batch today, no?

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 #112

I may actually get to a blog post other than a Sunday Shuffle this week. We'll see. Meanwhile, here's the music...

1. Instrumental 1/Wilco (12)
2. Me & Keith/Verbena (3)
3. Fire Island, AK/The Long Winters (8)
4. Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)/The Pernice Brothers (14)
5. Fernando/The Baseball Project (2)
6. Come Crash/A.C. Newman (5)
7. Please Be Patient With Me/Wilco (1)
8. The Other Side/Sloan (2)
9. Chesley's Little Wrists/Pavement (6)
10. Sax Rohmer #1/The Mountain Goats (3)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #93

A very late start to the Shuffle today but we only got home about a half hour ago. We stayed overnight at my parents' house because we had an open house to go to last evening and then needed to go to graduation this afternoon plus another open house. Yep, it's open house season. A nice night last night and and a nice day today. And to top it all off, our friends Tammy and Craig had their second child this morning, 10 days ahead of schedule. Congratulations to them and welcome to the world, Cole Snyder!

1. The Thanks I Get/Wilco (11)
2. Proud Mary/Creedence Clearwater Revival (4)
3. Time Fades Away/Neil Young (3)
4. Kamera (Alternate Version)/Wilco (25)
5. on the occasion of a departure (ps 39:4)/The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (22)
6. The Conversation/The Twilight Singers (12)
7. Woman/Joseph Arthur (10)
8. Duet For Guitars #1/M. Ward (7)
9. Plaza Trinidad/Destroyer (4)
10. Faust Arp/Radiohead (15)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #92

Welcome to June! Looks like summer might be here to stay - I took the storm windows off yesterday, so it had better be.

1. Trouble/Voxtrot (6)
2. Introduction/Voxtrot (5)
3. Arms & Hearts/The Hold Steady (15)
4. Astro/The White Stripes (7)
5. Kicking TV/Wilco (13)
6. Honey, I Never Had You/The Raveonettes (3)
7. New Year's Day/The Broken West (18)
8. Stop Breaking Down/The White Stripes (7)
9. Summertime/Josh Rouse (9) - A perfect song to pop up today!
10. Ella's Arms/Warren Zanes (10)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #90/91

There will be no Sunday Shuffle next weekend, as we will be in Pennsylvania to celebrate my step-grandfather's 100th birthday. That means today's edition will be a double issue...

1. Who May Be Lazy/M. Ward (7)
2. Raining In Darling (Cold Rock. Dull Grass)/The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (12)
3. Knuckles/The Hold Steady (19)
4. Hospital Beds/Cold War Kids (10)
5. Half Dead/The Mountain Goats (7)
6. Butterfly Nets/Bishop Allen (7)
7. Beautiful Car/M. Ward (6)
8. Click, Click, Click, Click/Bishop Allen (9)
9. Shadowcat/Canasta (7)
10. Dead Man's Will/Iron and Wine/Calexico (17)
11. Kicking TV/Wilco (12)
12. Jen Is Bringin the Drugs/Margot & the Nuclear So & So's (10)
13. I Just Missed You/Mary Weiss (4)
14. What Happened.../Grandaddy (10)
15. Blue In Yr Eye/Amy Millan (8)
16. Go to Sleep/The Avett Brothers (5)
17. Vice Rag/A.A. Bondy (11)
18. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear/Okkervil River (5)
19. God, Please Let Me Go Back/Josh Rouse (5)
20. Little People/The White Stripes (6)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #82

Happy Easter!

1. Not For the Season (demo)/Wilco (17)
2. Arms Akimbo/Two Hours Traffic (8)
3. The Decibels and the Little Pills/American Music Club (4)
4. Rose Parade/Elliott Smith (15)
5. Hello Lola/Apples In Stereo (8)
6. Gimme Back My Dog/Slobberbone (14)
7. Rainy Streets/Superchunk (15)
8. Burn That Broken Bed/Iron and Wine/Calexico (19)
9. Introducing Angels/Destroyer (2)
10. Lord, Don't Pass Me By/The Ladybug Transistor (4)

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)

LISTEN!

Right now Wilco is live on the radio and internet right here. Tune in and listen! That's what I'm doing the rest of the night...

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #77

It's the first progress report Sunday of 2008! It's 45 degrees outside and not even 8:00 yet! Here's ten songs at random from my music on iTunes!

1. Cream and Bastards Rise/Harvey Danger (30)
2. Truth Lies Low/The Drams (12)
3. American Hearts/A.A. Bondy (10) - also on the iPod
4. Who May Be Lazy/M. Ward (6)
5. Fortunate Son/Creedence Clearwater Revival (3) - also on the iPod
6. Heavy Metal Drummer (demo)/Wilco (11)
7. Rollercoaster/M. Ward (19)
8. Aging Faces/Losing Places/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (4) - also on the iPod
9. Burn That Broken Bed/Iron and Wine/Calexico (18)
10. Yawny at the Apocalypse/Andrew Bird (6)

MUSIC 2007

I may be one of the last bloggers to get around to my list of top ten CDs for the year. That's okay, it's not like I'm on the cutting edge. I thought it was a really good year for music and it was hard to pare things down to the best 10. Or my favorite 10...however you want to call it. My favorite artist released a new album this year and it's quite good but it didn't make the list. Sorry, Bruce. Sorry also to Dinosaur Jr. and A.A. Bondy and Sea Wolf and Pela and Elliott Smith and Kings of Leon and John Vanderslice and Sloan and Bishop Allen (though you guys made it last year with different versions of many of the songs off your album). Here's what did make the cut...

1. Wilco/Sky Blue Sky
2. Spoon/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. New Pornographers/Challengers
4. The National/Boxer
5. Radiohead/In Rainbows
6. Arcade Fire/Neon Bible
7. The Broken West/I Can't Go On I'll Go On
8. Band of Horses/Cease to Begin
9. Okkervil River/The Stage Names
10. The Shins/Wincing the Night Away