SUNDAY SHUFFLE #140

I spent most of the day at a picnic as part of a celebration of my 20th high school reunion. It was a blast but it's late, so here comes the music...

1. Major Label Debut (Fast)/Broken Social Scene (2)
2. All I Need Is Y0u/Portastatic (7)
3. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)/The Decemberists (5)
4. Black Eyed Suzy/Justin Townes Earle (4)
5. Cocoon/The Decemberists (5)
6. Better Dead Than Lead/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (2)
7. Andiamo/The Twilight Singers (12)
8. Priest's Knees/Destroyer (12)
9. Singer Castle Bells/Great Lake Swimmers (5)
10. Disappear/Crooked Fingers (3)

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 #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)

eMUSIC ROUND THIRTY-ONE

I have things to download this week, so I'd better let you know what I grabbed in August...

Dr. Dog/Fate
Gillian Welch/Time (The Revelator)
Ra Ra Riot/The Rhumb Line
Verbena/Souls For Sale
Hoodoo Gurus/Magnum Cum Louder
The Decemberists/Castaways And Cutouts

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