1. Rob Coe - High and Outside (from the Suburban Home Records 15th Anniv. concert comp. Not a bad song. Might check out Coe more sometime. Probably not tonight, though.)
2. Calexico - Guero Canelo (damn, I do love this band. Was just telling the new ladyfriend last night about this concert DVD of theirs and how I no longer own it and should buy it again. This may actually happen tonight)
3. Justin Townes Earle - Black Eyed Suzy (so it's gonna be a mellow country-tinged shuffle, eh? Fine by me)
4. Cloak/Dagger - Kamikazes (whoops! never mind. bring on the rock!)
5. Dead To Me - Don't Wanna (saw this band open for Screeching Weasel back in March, the night *before* Ben Weasel's uh, 'incident'. But they were pretty great live, so I wound up downloading their EP "Little Brother", which is sorta slickly produced punk in a Fat Wreck kind of way, but in spite of that I actually like it quite a bit.)
6. Super Chron Flight Brothers - High Grade (still maintain that these dudes are putting out some of the best effing underground hip-hop going right now. I don't understand why they're not more well-known, even within that scene.)
7. Subhumans - Song No. 35 (Speaking of live DVD's, this arrived from Amazon yesterday. Will probably be this evening's viewing after the sun goes down).
8. Black Lips - Gentle Violence (I'm so very hit and miss with this band, but when they hit me just right, I love what they're doing. This is one of those songs that I really dig.)
9. Bad Religion - Change of Ideas (Not much to say here. It's a 54-second Bad Religion song. Nothing mind blowing, but a decent toe-tapper)
10. Ramones - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World (Awesome. One of my very favorite Ramones songs)

+1! Amazing Royal Crowns - Mr. Lucky (Well, hello, high school!)

1. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci--Can Megan--love this song, so pretty.
2. Air--Ghost Song--weird, I just re-read Virgin Suicides last weekend (this is from the movie soundtrack).
3. Yann Tiersen and Shannon Wright--the Amelie soundtrack guy joins up with a weird Southern singer-songwriter for something even weirder. ACtually I feel like I read they're on tour, or just had a tour, but this cd came out like . . . 5 or 6 years ago?
4. Elvis Costello--Radio Radio--weirdly, this is on a comp I have of 70s punk. Is Elvis Costello punk??
5. Saturday Looks Good to Me--When the Party Ends--I like this band and this reminds me to see if they've done anything lately.
6. Ladybug Transistor--Empty Bottles--I've always liked their sister band (Essex Green) better. They're playing here next weekend but it's in Raleigh so I probably won't go.
7. Joe Jackson--Steppin' Out--one of my top 40 songs!
8. Jawbreaker--Unlisted Track--from the end of Dear You, which I listened to ALL THE TIME when I was 16.
9. Brian Wilson--In Blue Hawaii--Smile is kind of a weird album.
10. Papas Fritas--People Say--not much to say, I like PF and this song is nice.

+! Future Bible Heroes-- I'm Lonely (and I love it)--have never actually listened to this sng before and I don't really like it.

1. The Nylons -- So Long
2. Michael Jackson -- Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
3. Bobby Goldsboro -- Honey
4. Cat Stevens -- How Can I Tell You
5. Whirly Girl -- Oxxo
6. New Edition -- If It Isn't Love
7. Kurt Russell (yes, THAT Kurt Russell) -- Sugar Sugar
8. The Four Preps -- Twenty-Six Miles (Santa Catalina)
9. Knowing Me Knowing You -- ABBA
10. Eric Carmen -- Never Gonna Fall In Love Again

+ Reparata and the Delrons -- I'm Nobody's Baby Now

Houston Person - Everything Happens to Me
The Apples In Stereo - Can You Feel It?
Cyndi Lauper - Until You Come Back To Me
Ray Bolger & Judy Garland - If I Only Had A Brain
Cracker - Yalla Yalla
Gary Numan - Stormtrooper In Drag
Cousin Silas - Process Of Subliminal Decay
Inker & Hamilton - Dancing Into Danger
Ralph MCtell - Streets Of London
Birdy Nam Nam - Body, Mind, Spirit

+Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning

Kathleen Edwards, One More Song the Radio Won't Like
Lena Horne, Unlucky Woman
Maybelle Carter, My Native Home
Joni Mitchell, Jericho
Dean Martin, Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
Uncle Tupelo, New Madrid
Mel Torme, I've Got the World on a String
Mandy Barnett, Give Myself a Party
Diana Jones, A Hold on Me
Maura O'Connell, I Hear You Calling Me

+1 Willie Nelson, I Never Cared For You

From a playlist of random stuff I made last night for sitting around a fire in the backyard drinking and listening to music:

Golden Earing - Radar Love
George Thorogood and The Destroyers - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous
Huey Lewis and the News - Hip To Be Square
INXS - Suicide Blonde
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
The Angels - Mr Damage
Australian Crawl - Hoochie Guchi Fioruchi Mama

The B-52s - Rock Lobster

Easy to Love - Harry Connick Jr.
What's New - Benny Goodman
Sonata #1 for solo violin (Bach) Nathan Milstein
Piano cto #20 in d minor (Mozart) Rudolf Serkin
Wintersong - Gerry Mulligan
Star Me Kitten - REM
Spohr Var on a Theme from "Alruna" in Bb - Michael Collins
La Mer (Debussy) Unknown artist
Last Chance on the Stairway - Duran Duran
Nemesis - David Gray

Beethoven Symphony #1 Menuetto Molto Vivace - Roger Norrington

I don't do the shuffle thing. But in my household we just finished playing Leonard Cohen's album Ten New Songs, which we here call the "chocolate chip cookie music". It's become the tradition in our house to play it when I make tollhouse cookies. My daughter has come to love that album, like I do. And yes, we all enjoyed the cookies.

1 MF Doom - Thank Yah
2 Dragonforce - The Warrior Inside
3 Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind
4 The Meters - Stormy
5 The Replacements - Shooting Dirty Pool
6 Surfer Blood - Fast Jabroni
7 Fashawn - Just Another Day
8 Matthew Sweet - Not When I Need It
9 Modeselektor - Die Clubnummer
10 Ernest Gonzales - We Can Live in a Forest
+1 Jay Reatard - There Is No Sun

1. Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra - Haydn, Symphony #72 in D Major: II. Andante
2. Charles Owen - Janácek, On an Overgrown Path: X. The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! (and is probably not what it seems)
3. Jeno Jando - Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier: Prelude & Fugue In A Major
4. Bastille Opera Orchestra - Berlioz, Requiem, Op. 5: VII. Offertorium
5. Weezer - Keep Fishin'
6. English Northern Philharmonia - Vaughan Williams, Job: Scene V, Dance of the Three Messengers
7. Los Fronterizos - Ramirez, Misa Criolla: Credo
8. Andreas Scholl - Guédron, Si Le Parler Et Le Silence
9. no idea who - Glass, Powaqqatsi (soundtrack): Video Dream
10. Wiener Staatsoper - Beethoven, Fidelio: Mir ist so wunderbar (wunderbar indeed)

+ Joe Sullivan - Got It and Gone

Nick Drake Saturday Sun
Charles Mingus - Devils Blues
The Fiery Furnaces - Oh Sweet Woods
The The - Helpline Operator (album version)
Razorlight - North London Trash
No More Kings - Michael (Jump In)
David Bowie - Little Fat Man (ripped from Extras)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Sucking Punch (album version)
The Blasters - Hollywood Bed (album version)
Huey "Piano" Smith - Don't You Just Know It

Iron and Wine - Free Until They Cut Me Down
Dispatch - The General
Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost
Sufjan Stevens - The Seer's Tower
Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
The Frames - Ship Caught in the Bay
Modest Mouse - You're the Good Things
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Wolfe Tones - God Save Ireland

+ Ray LaMontagne - Please

I can never resist a second round.

1 Lightning Bolt - Rain on the Lake I'm Swimming In
2 Jatoma - Bou
3 Wir Sind Helden - Blow Him Back Into My Arms
4 Big K.R.I.T. - Neva Go Back
5 Conet Project - Oblique
6 Ellen Allien & Apparat - Jet
7 The Bar-Kays - Shake Your Rump to the Funk
8 Brasstronaut - Fan
9 Flying Lotus - Dance of the Pseudo Nymph
10 Cannabis India - Hand of the King
+1 Grand Prix's - I See Her Pretty Face

Last before bed.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Haq Ali Ali long
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johnanna
Mark Knopfler - Riot
1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night - Even Ms. Butterfly Knows The Sun Shall Set On Every Empire
Signum - Shamisan (Album Mix)
Low - Two Step
Jessie J – Price Tag
Cantoma - Balafia
Afro Celt Sound System - part a Eistigh Liomsa Sealad - Listen to Me part b Saor Reprise

Caribou - Leave House

1 Adele - Last Night
2 I Am Your Autopilot - Smoke Screen
3 The Killers - Exitlude
4 Calexico - Guns of Brixton
5 Uninhabitable Mansions - Do You Have a Strategy?
6 Coldplay - We Never Change
7 Drink Up Buttercup - Even Think
8 Volcano Choir - Island, IS
9 Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh
10 Hank Williams III - No Values

+1 The National - Conversation 16

Iron & Wine - House By The Sea
Justin Townes Earle - Rogers Park
The White Stripes - The Nurse
Elvis Costello - The Spell That You Cast
The Black Angels - Haunting At 1300 McKinley
The Saints - River Deep Mountain High
Yo La Tengo - The Lie and How We Told It
Karen O And The Kids - All Is Love
Bright Eyes - Shell Games
The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement

Damn - so much great music. I think I'd be happy to relinquish control of the stereo to any of you.

ufez - great stuff. We seems to like a lot of the same stuff, I'm going to check out Super Chron Flight Brothers based on your recommendation. And it's nice to see some love for "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World", a song I always thought was under appreciated in the Ramones repitoire.

leesh - Lots of artists got lumped into punk early on since it was an easy label. I have a bootleg with lots of early punk news coverage and it's funny to see what they called punk. I recall one of them using a BOC song as the music bed.

JanetLand - The Kurt Russell cracks me up. I love that era of celebrity bubblegum records. I recently had Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster)'s cover of the BeeGee's "IOIO" come up on shuffle and had to play it twice.

arse_hat - Love to see Ray Bolger and Gary Numan together on a shuffle. I'm pretty sure that they never hung out together in real life. I also have the Conet Porject loaded on my MP3 player, which can occasionally be quite jarring.

dg - You are the only person I've ever seen with an Australian Crawl song on a shuffle! I don't know that song, but "Things Don't Seem" was an absolute fave in highschool.

DarkForest - I'll bet if record stores created "chocolate chip cookie music" sections more of them would still be around today.

Hugh Janus - I sort of lost interest in the Replacement by Pleased to Meet Me, but "Shooting Dirty Pool" absolutely kicks my ass.

notquitemaryann - That Weezer song sure does stick out amongst the other stuff!

I can never pass up a shuffle. Now I need to get off the couch and get my MP3 player.

1. the MERRY-GO-ROUND - She Laughed Loud (Listen, Listen, Listen collection) One of many fabulous songs from Emitt Rhodes.

2. OASIS - Wonderwall (What's the Stoy Morning Glory? 1995) The first two Oasis albums are still absolute faves of mine.

3. the MEMBERS - Romance (the Choice is Yours 1980) I bought this album after seeing them in "URGH! A Music War" and it was a staple on my high school radio show.

4. the RECORDS - Up All Night (Shades in Bed 1979) I'm a major power pop nerd and the Records were one of the bands that made that happen.

5. CAPTAIN SENSIBLE - Wot (the Collection) Sad to admit that my entry point for rap music was Adam Ant, the Clash, and Captain Sensible.

6. the POOH STICKS - Let the Good Times Roll (Million Seller 1993) I hadn't listened to the Pooh Sticks albums in years, but recently loaded them onto the MP3 player and am damn glad I did. I forgot how absolutely fun they are.

7. the KINKS -Death of a Clown (Something Else by the Kinks 1967) Originally a Dave Davies solo single (co-written with Ray and using the Kinks as the backing band) that ended up on a Kinks record.

8. BAUHAUS - Kick in the Eye (Mask 1981) I don't think these records has aged one bit - they still sound fantastic!

9. the UNDERTONES - Valentine's Treatment (Sin of Pride 1983) I love all of the Undertones albums (even the Feargal-less comeback album), but the first two are amongst my most played albums. Because of that I didn't give enough play to this album until the MP3 player era.

10. JOHNNY HORTON - the Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton collection) A childhood fave that I still have a soft spot for.

Slack-a-gogo - I know, it's kind of anomalous, a bit of 90s nostalgia to remind me once in a while that I was born in a recent century. Ditto the jazz at the end to a lesser extent, although I like Joe Sullivan in particular because his earlier solo recordings remind me of my dad's style and tone of playing (though Joe practiced a little bit more regularly, I guess)...

dg - You are the only person I've ever seen with an Australian Crawl song on a shuffle! I don't know that song, but "Things Don't Seem" was an absolute fave in highschool.
Yeah, it's not their best-known track, that's for sure. I'm a sucker for a song loaded with social commentary, I guess.