Let this week…

1. Blue Sky Boys – Let Me Be Your Salty Dog
2. Robyn Hitchcock – Rainy Twilight Coast (alternate version)
3. The Beatles – Piggies
4. Brandi Carlile – I Will
5. Beastie Boys – Shadrach
6. Minor Threat – Straight Edge
7. Modest Mouse – Truckers Atlas
8. Doc & Merle Watson – Freight Train Blues
9. Caribou – Melody Day
10. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s Blues

… begin.

It’s the time of the season…

1. Bill Evans – Witchcraft
2. The Decembrists – A Bower Scene
3. Pavement – Rain Ammunition
4. Yo La Tengo – Sometimes I Don’t Get You
5. Spoon – The Fitted Shirt (live)
6. The Cure – In Between Days
7. Spoon – Rhthm & Soul
8. Pink Floyd – Don’t Leave Me Now
9. Leon Redbone – Diddy Wah Diddy
10. The Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friends

… for random songs.

Now’s the time.

1. Sarah Vaughan – Thou Swell
2. Big Black – I Can’t Believe
3. Dino Jr – Show Me The Way
4. Liz Phair – Dance Of The Seven Veils
5. Big Star – September Gurls (live)
6. Sea And Cake – Flat Lay The Water
7. Jimi Hendrix – Hear My Train a-Comin (acoustic)
8. Fiona Apple – A Mistake
9. Mazzy Star – She’s My Baby
10. Tord Gustavsen Trio – Tears Transforming

The time is now! – to share your own random 10, that is.

Ruh roh. Here comes this week!

1. Boubacar Traore – Benidiagnamogo
2. Sarah Vaughan – Alone
3. Big Black – Grinder
4. John Coltrane – Mr P.C.
5. Eric Clapton – Layla (live)
6. Norman Blake – Under The Double Eagle
7. Neko Case – Star Witness
8. Colorblind James Experience – Colorblind’s Night Out
9. De La Soul – Kicked Out of The House
10. Adrian Belew – Time Waits

Look out!

Behold, a Monday!

1. The Smiths – You’ve Got Everything Now
2. De La Soul – Skit 3
3. Big Star – 13
4. Smaller Animals – The First Decision
   

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5. Spoon – Rhthm & Soul
6. The Coctails – Prisoner Of The Highway
7. The Kinks – Dancing In The Street
8. The Who – A Legal Matter
9. The Shins – So Says I
10. Beastie Boys – What Comes Around

Behold it!

Bored on the fifth of July…

1. Guided By Voices – A Trophy Mule In Particular
2. Green Day – Warning
3. Big Star – Thirteen
4. Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band – Never Swat A Fly
5. Rolling Stones – Heart Of Stone
6. Tokyo Police Club – Juno
7. Tokyo Police Club – The Harrowing Adventures Of…
8. Elliott Smith – Son Of Sam
9. Eric Clapton – Smile (live)
10. Tanya Donelly – The Night You Saved My Life

Two TPC songs from the same album. Improbable!

Let’s Do Eet!

1. Cowboy Junkies – 200 More Miles
2. Pavement – Black Out
3. The Breeders – Chances Are
4. Madeleine Peyroux – The Summer Wind
5. Eric Clapton – Willie And The Hand Jive
6. Cassandra Wilson – Autumn Leaves
7. Dino Jr – Lose
8. Cassandra Wilson – Lover Come Back To Me
9. Santana – Savor (live)
10. Nirvana – Polly (live)

Odd how the Tuesday after a Monday off feels exactly like a real Monday.

It’s a brave new world…

1. Rolling Stones – I’m Alright
2. Blue Sky Boys – Picture From Life’s Other Side
3. Adrian Belew – Young Lions (acoustic)
4. Broken Social Scene – Texico Bitches
5. Vetiver – Strictly Blue
6. LCD Soundsystem – Pow Wow. Sounds a lot like one of the outtakes from the Talking Heads’ “Remain In Light”.
7. Tortoise – Spiderwebbed
8. Neil Young – On The Way Home (live @ Massey)
9. The Beatles – Dr Robert
10. The Feelies – The High Road

“Dr Robert” was based on a character in one Huxley novel, and The Feelies were named after the full-sense movies in another Huxley novel. And now you know.

Hillary approves.

95 degrees with 80% humidity? Tres miserable!

1. Robyn Hitchcock – Superman
2. The Cure – Close To Me
3. Vampire Weekend – Holiday
4. Tonya Donelly – So Much Song
5. Swirlies – Bell. one of the great noise-pop bands of the 90s.
6. Robyn Hitchcock – Shimmering Distant Love
7. Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band – You Should Never Swat A Fly
8. The Kinks – Two Sisters
9. The Kinks – David Watts
10. The Kinks – Situation Vacant

Three songs in a row from the same Kinks album ?

If my math is right (well, if I chose an accurate hypergeometric distribution calculator, and the hypergeo dist was the right way to calculate it), the probability of getting three songs from that album in a random ten is: 0.000001425. (5225 songs on my iPod, 13 songs on that album, choosing 10, looking for 3 from that album)

I have no idea how to calculate the odds of those three coming up in a row, though.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…

1. Marah – The Apartment
2. Vetiver – Rolling Sea
3. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – Bernard Jenkins
4. The Breeders – Pinnacle Hollow
5. Andrew Bird – Plasticities
6. Spoon – Black Like Me (live)
7. Beatles – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
8. The Cure – Heroin Face
9. Miles Davis – Blues By Five
10. The Shins – Fighting In A Sack

…it’s Monday!