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! 

eMUSIC ROUND THIRTY-FIVE

My last group of downloads from eMusic in 2008...

The Kills/Midnight Boom
Pavement/Wowee Zowee
Spoon/Telephono
Bon Iver/For Emma, Forever Ago
Lightspeed Champion/Falling Off the Lavender Bridge

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #122

Last one for 2008. I plan on putting up my year-end top tens and wrap-ups over the next few days and then it's time for another year...

1. Skating/Vince Guaraldi (4)
2. Finer Feelings/Spoon (18)
3. Argonne Limit Co./Centro-Matic (20)
4. Yeah Sapphire/The Hold Steady (14)
5. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear/Okkervil River (8)
6. Afterword/Rag/M. Ward (20)
7. Broke Me Up/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (7)
8. Stop Breaking Down/The White Stripes (9)
9. Live On/Sloan (7)
10. My Heartbeat's Dying/The Raveonettes (4)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #117

I was planning on doing a "double issue" today since I don't know when we'll get back from PA next Sunday but I'm getting a late start, so I'll just do the usual and be done. Hope to get up a post or two before we leave but we'll see...

1. Pocket Boys/Army Navy (4)
2. Bandit Queen (w/DT)/The Decemberists (7)
3. No Dreams/Oakley Hall (6)
4. Demons Are Real/Guided By Voices (4)
5. Big City/The Broken West (14)
6. A Night With The Jersey Devil/Bruce Springsteen (2)
7. I Could Be Underground/Spoon (5)
8. Advance Cassette/Spoon (7)
9. Bow to the Middle: Religion of Politics/The Rosebuds (5)
10. Stuck Between Stations (live on The Current)/The Hold Steady (10)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #105

Today's Sunday Shuffle kicks off the third year of this feature. I downloaded a handful of new albums this week, so I'm interested to see if anything pops up from one of those. Hope everyone is enjoying the three-day weekend!

1. Autoclave/The Mountain Goats (2)
2. PCH One/Pernice Brothers (25)
3. Get Up Get Out/The Rosebuds (8)
4. Impossible Germany (Live)/Wilco (8)
5. Backwash/Archers of Loaf (17)
6. Jealousy/Spoon (11)
7. Dancefloors/My Morning Jacket (3)
8. Don't Talk Anymore/The Whigs (14)
9. Reset Anytime/Centro-Matic (12)
10. Low Branches/Superchunk (6)

eMUSIC ROUND TWENTY-NINE

I finished out my current round of downloads just a couple days ago - here's what I grabbed this time out...

My Morning Jacket/Evil Urges
Julie Ocean/Long Gone And Nearly There
Centro-Matic & South San Gabriel/Dual Hawks (double album)
I Love Math/Getting To the Point Is Beside It
Tokyo Police Club/Smith
"Ant In Alaska" and "Say You"/Liz Phair (bonus tracks on the Exile In Guyville reissue)
"All I Got Is Me"/Spoon (new song on the Don't You Evah single/EP)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #80

Did everyone remember to set their clocks ahead?

1. Baboon/The Mountain Goats (9)
2. Lie to Me/Tom Waits (8)
3. Half Moon/M. Ward (5)
4. I Know That's Not Really You/American Music Club (4)
5. The Unwanted Things/Ted Leo/Pharmacists (5)
6. Rainy Streets/Superchunk (14)
7. I Came Here to Say I'm Going Away/Okkervil River (5)
8. Jersey Clowns/Josh Rouse (9)
9. The Underdog/Spoon (15)
10. Ghost/Voxtrot (5)