Sunday Shuffle Shutdown

It turns out last week was my last Sunday Shuffle. It wasn't planned and I might have done things differently if I had known. So why am I stopping? My wife and I bought a new computer as a joint Christmas present, which means I've had to reload all my music into iTunes. As a consequence, all of my play counts were lost. It seems silly to keep on shuffling when almost everything I have would be the first play and all of my tracks in the high 20s and 30s and even high 40s (Harvey Danger's "Little Round Mirrors" comes to mind) are all reset. I will probably still do a shuffle on Sunday for myself, since I've been doing it for 3 plus years. I'm also mulling possibilities that would replace that feature on the blog, so stay tuned for next Sunday to see if I came up with something.

Sunday Shuffle #161/162

It's time for the annual Sunday-before-Thanksgiving double issue...

1. Embassy Row/Pavement (12)

2. Black Wave/Bad Vibrations/Arcade Fire (17)

3. Hands (demo)/Fanfarlo (3)

4. Cream and Bastards Rise/Harvey Danger (34)

5. Domesticated Lovers/Josh Rouse (6)

6. The Greatest Sum (electric)/The Avett Brothers (9)

7. San Francisco/Lucero (7)

8. On a Freezing Chicago Street/Margot & The Nuclear So & So's (12)

9. In The Mausoleum/Beirut (6)

10. My Very Best/Elbow (18)

11. Loosens/Sloan (14)

12. Shangri-La/M. Ward (14)

13. Morning Of/Le Switch (4)

14. Injustica/Kathleen Edwards (13)

15. Dirt On Your New Shoes/Bishop Allen (7)

16. London Bridges/Josh Rouse (10)

17. Myriad Harbor/The New Pornographers (20)

18. Floating in the Forth/Frightened Rabbit (11)

19. 66/The Afghan Whigs (2)

20. Sick Priest Learns to Last Forever/Destroyer (11)

Sunday Shuffle #150

I can't leave the Sunday Shuffle holding at #149 for who knows how long, so I'm back already to get it to a nice even number. Yes, I am a nerd. And yes, I am a music nerd too...

1. Alone (a.k.a. Shakin Sugar) (demo)/Wilco (2)

2. Moral Centralia (demo)/Harvey Danger (13)

3. Starling Of The Slipstream/Pavement (7)

4. Set Me Free/The Kinks (2)

5. Me In Honey/R.E.M. (15)

6. Apartment Story/The National (19)

7. From/Dr. Dog (10)

8. Highly Suspicious/My Morning Jacket (8)

9. Hand-Me-Down Tune/The Avett Brothers (11)

10. Impossible Germany (live)/Wilco (9)

Sunday Shuffle #149

My plans for posts got derailed by college classes this week. I'm going to have a lot to do this semester and my coping mechanism yesterday was to pretend I had nothing at all to do. Not very efficient. Still, I do want to post from time to time as it will be a good antidote to my English class. For now, though, here's some music...

1. Stop And Think It Over/Mary Weiss (2)

2. Black Sand/Jenny Lewis (10)

3. Expensive Tastes/Cold War Kids (8)

4. Angeles/Elliott Smith (23)

5. This Tornado Loves You/Neko Case (2)

6. Junior Panthers/Sloan (16)

7. I'll Be Yr Bird/M. Ward (6)

8. Cool James/Harvey Danger (28)

9. A Call To Arms/Beirut (5)

10. Colleen/Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (13)