Sunday Shuffle #210

I hope everyone had a great Christmas yesterday - we certainly did. I did get some new music, though all in a physical form. Haven't listened to any of it yet but I will very very soon. Meanwhile, let's get the last Sunday Shuffle of 2010 going!

1. Destroyer/King Khan And The Shrines (2)

2. If You Let Me Be Your Anchor/Dawes (5)

3. The Ballad of Bjorn Borg/Pernice Brothers (4)

4. Moby Octopad/Yo La Tengo (1)

5. Without a Heart/Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (7)

6. The Game Gets Old/Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (8)

7. I Can See Your Future/Belle and Sebastian (8)

8. Chasing After Deer/Midlake (3)

9. My Pretend/Apples In Stereo (2)

10. Nobody/Shearwater (2)

Sunday Shuffle #209

It's the last Sunday Shuffle before Christmas, which is hard to believe but here we are. Christmas music has been eligible for the shuffle the past few weeks but nothing's come up. Maybe today. I know for a fact that I'll be at my parents' house frosting sugar cookies this afternoon - a yearly tradition that I love.

1. What I Mean to You/Justin Townes Earle (5)

2. My Lovely Jezebel/Elvis Costello (5)

3. Changing Partners/Elvis Costello (1)

4. Philippians 3:20-21/The Mountain Goats (2)

5. Sunshine State/Superchunk (3)

6. Fallen Idol/Imperial Teen (1)

7. Islero/Crooked Fingers (5)

8. Won't Want For Love (Margaret in the Taiga)/The Decemberists (4)

9. Useless Switch/Portastatic (3)

10. Modern Art/Art Brut (4)

Sunday Shuffle #208

It's been a rough week and this upcoming one won't be much different. Music helps, though, so let's get to today's ten...

1. Play The Part/Little Joy (1)

2. Theme to Wendel Stivers/Spoon (3)

3. Sleepin In/The Morning Benders (7)

4. Floating Vibes/Surfer Blood (5)

5. We Can Work It Out/The Beatles (3)

6. Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2/Apples In Stereo (1)

7. You Don't Have To (If You Don't Want To)/Gentleman Jesse (3)

8. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent/The Mountain Goats (2) - 2 weeks in a row!

9. Nomenclature/Andrew Bird (2)

10. Gwen, Now and Then/The Broken West (1)

Sunday Shuffle #207

I'm in a work mode today, in part because I couldn't find the motivation to get much done yesterday. Accordingly, we'll jump right into the music...

1. 1 Samuel 15:23/The Mountain Goats (3)

2. Shame Shame/Sloan (1)

3. Northern Lights/Bowerbirds (1)

4. Black Hole/She & Him (4)

5. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent/The Mountain Goats (1)

6. The Angel's Share/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (4)

7. Sensory Deprivation/Sloan (2)

8. I Fought Piranhas/The White Stripes (1)

9. What I Mean to You/Justin Townes Earle (4)

10. It Ain't Easy/Robert Forster (1)

Sunday Shuffle #205/206

It's my annual Sunday before Thanksgiving weekend double issue. Why a double? We'll spend most of next Sunday driving back home from PA, where we'll have had a great time with my side of the family. I wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving as well.

1. Ballad Of Sire Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)/Yim Yames (4)

2. As I Rise/The Decemberists (2)

3. 36 Inches High/Nick Lowe (2)

4. Disney Time/Jarvis Cocker (2)

5. Crimson/Apples In Stereo (1)

6. River's Edge/Great Lake Swimmers (3)

7. Chesley's Little Wrists/Pavement (2)

8. We Are Underused/Pavement (4)

9. Here's Where The Strings Come In/Superchunk (2)

10. On My Way/American Music Club (1)

11. All I Got Is Me/Spoon (2)

12. Sallie's Heart Is Stone/Say Hi (1)

13. Blue Angel/The Love Language (9)

14. The Old Days/Dr. Dog (3)

15. Awkward Kisser/Telekinesis (5)

16. Baby's Coming Back To Me/Jarvis Cocker (2)

17. The Ghost Inside/Broken Bells (2)

18. I Know You/Sloan (2)

19. God, Please Let Me Go Back/Josh Rouse (1)

20. There Will Be No Divorce/The Mountain Goats (1)

Sunday Shuffle #204

Not much to say, so let's get right to the music...

1. Ruination Day/Gillian Welch (3)

2. Staples/Buffalo Tom (2)

3. The Royal We/Frankel (2)

4. Dress Me Like a Clown/Margot & The Nuclear So & So's (4)

5. Heavy and Hanging/Patterson Hood (4)

6. Way Out West/Big Star (6)

7. Videotape/Radiohead (1)

8. Big Light/Roman Candle (4)

9. A Long Time Coming/Sloan (3)

10. Rule of Three/The Lemonheads (2)

Sunday Shuffle #203

It's been a busy week for various reasons and this upcoming week will be busy for some of the same reasons. I hope everyone remembered to turn their clocks back last night...

1. January Wedding/The Avett Brothers (6)

2. I Will Kill Again/Jarvis Cocker (1)

3. Help Help/Mates of State (1)

4. Someday I'll Be Forgiven for This/Justin Townes Earle (1)

5. You Threw A Spark/Crooked Fingers (5)

6. White Collar Boy/Belle and Sebastian (4)

7. Station Approach/Elbow (3)

8. Chill Out/The Hold Steady (3)

9. The Lost Brigade/Ted Leo & Pharmacists (2)

10. I Know You/Sloan (1)

Sunday Shuffle #202

I hope the football games on my TV today are treats and not tricks. Happy Halloween to you all. Don't think today's ten will be very spooky but you never know...

1. Proud Mary/Creedence Clearwater Revival (4)

2. The Past/Teenage Fanclub (7)

3. Crumble/Dinosaur Jr. (5)

4. Calculating Bimbo/Belle and Sebastian (6)

5. You Are Free/Joseph Arthur (3)

6. Lucky One/Michael Penn (3)

7. Biology Tricks/Centro-Matic (2)

8. Take Heart, Sisters/Bowery Boy Blue (2)

9. The Salesman (Tramp Life)/White Rabbits (1)

10. Die Die Die/The Avett Brothers (1)

Sunday Shuffle #201

Back to the regular old shuffle today...

1. A Bite Out Of My Bed/The New Pornographers (10)

2. Border Guards/The Rosebuds (2)

3. Wait And See/Reigning Sound (3)

4. Snake Song/Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (7)

5. A Slow Parade/A.A. Bondy (2)

6. Hello Darlin'/The Rosebuds (1)

7. Pour Me Up Another/Amy Millan (1)

8. Time To Die/The Dodos (3)

9. River's Edge/Great Lake Swimmers (2)

10. Sonnet 46/Roman Candle (4)

Sunday Shuffle #200

I have combed through the archives to pull up the dates of the other big episodes of Sunday Shuffle. Here is a quick recap:

#1 - Aug. 27, 2006

#50 - Aug. 19, 2007

#100 - July 27, 2008

#150 - Sept. 9, 2009

There have been some skipped weeks and double issues along the way but 200 is a pretty big number. This feature has been a constant for over 4 years now and is ingrained into my Sunday routine. And yes, there are long stretches where these Shuffles have been the only posts I've done...and I'm okay with that.

Enough with the talk - it's time to get to the music. I'm making today a double issue, so here's today's twenty...

1. Anonanimal/Andrew Bird (4)

2. Any Time At All/The Beatles (1)

3. Angela/Oakley Hall (3)

4. I Feel Better/Frightened Rabbit (1)

5. Kiss Yourself/Verbena (2)

6. My Punishment For Fighting/The Rosebuds (2)

7. Daisychain/Matthew Sweet (2)

8. Uncovering The Old/Dr. Dog (2)

9. Everywhere I Go/Lissie (4)

10. I'm Not There/Buffalo Tom (2)

11. Mole/The Mountain Goats (4)

12. The N.S./Sloan (1)

13. Nature's Wrath/The Budos Band (5)

14. I Will Sing You Songs/My Morning Jacket (2)

15. She Handed Me a Mirror/Elvis Costello (3)

16. Change of Time/Josh Ritter (4)

17. Shadows/Yo La Tengo (1)

18. Motion Suggests/Pavement (2)

19. Romanian Names/John Vanderslice (2)

20. Low Branches/Superchunk (4)

Sunday Shuffle #199

Today is 10/10/10 and to celebrate I'm going to do what I always do and write down the first 10 songs from shuffle mode on my iTunes. 10!

1. Faust Arp/Radiohead (2)

2. Lowdown/Tom Waits (1)

3. Reach Out/Sloan (3)

4. Pride of the Yankees/Patterson Hood (3)

5. I Wanna Know Girls/Portastatic (1) - an acoustic version

6. Better Things/Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (8)

7. Most People Are DJs/The Hold Steady (1)

8. The Lady Vanishes/White Rabbits (2)

9. Rabbit/The Essex Green (2)

10. Angela/Jarvis Cocker (3)

Sunday Shuffle #198

I'm off to a later start than usual today because I was up late. Why? I drove down to Indy last night to see The National with my friend Trevor and some of his friends. It was a great show (more on it later) and great to finally meet Trevor face to face. It's also a football Sunday and I have stuff to do for English, so let's get to the music...

1. My World/The Thermals (2)

2. You Won't Let Me Down Again/Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (7)

3. Who Makes Your Money/Spoon (5)

4. I Felt the Chill Before the Winter Came/Elvis Costello (2)

5. Dark as Days/Army Navy (2)

6. An Imagined Affair/Elbow (1)

7. Unison Falling Into Harmony/Great Lake Swimmers (2)

8. Runaway/The National (13) - perfect!

9. In My Younger Days/Eels (1)

10. Tuberculoids Arrive In Hop/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (11)

Sunday Shuffle #197

I didn't get much done on my weekend to-do list yesterday and I want to watch football today even though my Bears don't play until tomorrow night, so we'd better jump right into the music...

1. The Trouble With River Cities/Pela (1)

2. Take Good Care of the Poor Boy/Sloan (2)

3. Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)/Yo La Tengo (1)

4. Bandits/Midlake (1)

5. Fat/Archers of Loaf (1)

6. Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider/Of Montreal (2)

7. Someone I Can Be True With/Sloan (1)

8. Trash Talk/Reigning Sound (1)

9. Wild West Love Song/Marah (1)

10. Saints/Army Navy (3)

Sunday Shuffle #196

I have lots to do today and that doesn't include all the football I want to watch. I also have a couple posts I want to get to this week and ideas for more but we'll see what happens. For now, let's get right to today's ten...

1. June's Foreign Spell/Spoon (1)

2. Something for You/Pernice Brothers (9)

3. Broken Window/Arcade Fire (1)

4. Into the Open/Heartless Bastards (1)

5. Production City/The Whigs (1)

6. Cast Iron/Superchunk (6)

7. Sonnet 46/Roman Candle (3)

8. Blind/TV On The Radio (2)

9. Whenever We Finish/Two Hours Traffic (1)

10. When We Were Alive/The Thermals (4)

Sunday Shuffle #195

Today is the first Sunday of the 2010 NFL season and I can't wait. While I do love baseball, I also love football...and my White Sox are pretty much done for as far as the playoffs go this year. I don't necessarily have high hopes for the Bears but we'll see. I also love music, so let's get to some...

1. Straight Shooter/Reigning Sound (2)

2. Take Good Care of the Poor Boy/Sloan (1)

3. And Your Bird Can Sing/The Beatles (2)

4. Weary Arms/Crooked Fingers (3)

5. Twin Peaks/Surfer Blood (6)

6. Backseat Sweetheart/Two Hours Traffic (1)

7. Market Girl/Headlights (2)

8. the most important words (ps 80:5)/The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (4)

9. It Ain't No Fun to Me/Al Green (4)

10. Re: Stacks/Bon Iver (1)

Sunday Shuffle #194

It's been a busy week, which explains the lack of posts this week. I had intentions but you know how that goes. Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend!

1. If A Song Could Be President/Over The Rhine (3)

2. I'm So Glad She Ain't Never Comin' Back/Cracker (1)

3. Embassy Row/Pavement (4)

4. A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger/Of Montreal (1)

5. Cue The Elephants/Bishop Allen (1)

6. Strange Overtones/David Byrne & Brian Eno (4)

7. Farewell To the Pressure Kids/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (1)

8. Don't Come Back/Mary Weiss (2)

9. Black Hole/Gentleman Jesse (3)

10. Here Comes the Phantom/The Clientele (1)

Sunday Shuffle #193

I've managed to post every day this week, something I haven't done in a long while. I've found some balance this week and I hope to keep that balance as we get fully into the school year and my college semester. For now, however, let's get to the music...

1. Catacomb Kids/Aesop Rock (1)

2. Been There All the Time/Dinosaur Jr. (3)

3. Money City Maniacs/Sloan (3)

4. Mole/The Mountain Goats (3)

5. House of Lies/The Broken West (1)

6. Easy Morning Rebel/My Morning Jacket (3)

7. Cajun Country/Hoodoo Gurus (2)

8. Get Back/The Beatles (1)

9. Stereo/Pavement (5)

10. Summer Is The Champion/Laura Veirs (3)

Sunday Shuffle #192

I've spent a lot of time not sitting at the computer this past week. Instead, I've been staring at the TV catching up on various shows on DVD and the DVR. That all starts to change tomorrow when I start college and work at the school starts back up on Wednesday. My short summer vacation is over already but that's okay. I don't mind the routine. And speaking of routines, here's today's ten...

1. Way Out West/Big Star (5)

2. Step On It, Jean/Sloan (1)

3. Reset Anytime/Centro-Matic (2)

4. Golden Pony/Army Navy (2)

5. Small Deaths/The Dodos (2)

6. Room With a View/Imperial Teen (3)

7. Get To The Table On Time/M. Ward (1)

8. I Understand/Sloan (1)

9. Slicker Drips/The White Stripes (2)

10. Life 2: The Unhappy Ending/Stars (1)

Sunday Shuffle #191

Another week has flown by and I still haven't managed any other posts. I have been ingesting books and comics and TV and movies, so maybe this week I can get my act together and talk about them a bit. This is my summer vacation week, which I'm very much looking forward to.

1. Duet For Guitars #2/M. Ward (1)

2. The Palace At 4 a.m./A.C. Newman (1)

3. In This Camp/Midlake (3)

4. Now We Can See/The Thermals (5)

5. Autumn Sweater/Yo La Tengo (1)

6. OK/Higgins (3)

7. Hurtin' You/Ben Kweller (1)

8. Queen of Everything/Haley Bonar (1)

9. Execution/Spoon (1)

10. [Untitled Track]/The Black Keys (3)

Sunday Shuffle #190

I had planned on jumping into a bunch of posts once my class finished but I found myself unable to focus earlier this week. Over the last few days, I've been hitting the DVR pretty hard and have caught up on True Blood, Entourage, and Friday Night Lights. I've also read some comics and finally settled into the new Gary Shteyngart novel. My plan is to generate some posts this week but we'll see. For now, let's get into the music...

1. Try To Make It/Sloan (2)

2. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal/Of Montreal (2)

3. Headsfull/Amy Millan (1)

4. Life is White/Big Star (6)

5. I Know That's Not Really You/American Music Club (3)

6. Automaton/Pernice Brothers (2)

7. Islero/Crooked Fingers (4)

8. The Things You Don't See/Canasta (2)

9. Unhinged/The Drams (1)

10. Here Comes The Sun Again/M. Ward (1)