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I wasn't sure if I was going to do an edition of the Shuffle today, in part because I left off last night halfway through The Breeders' Pod . I'm in a music group on Facebook and that album has been posted a few times lately...and since I'd never heard it, I figured it was past time. Unsurprisingly, I thought it was really good and will be listening to it more in the near future. Speaking of the near future, I hope to get a new Heavy Rotation done relatively soon. This afternoon we are going to see Thor:Ragnarok and I can't wait. It looked great from the first trailer and everything I've heard since has supported that fact. Maybe I'll get a review up at some point too. For now, though, I've rambled enough. Let's get to today's ten... 1. Whenever We Finish/Two Hours Traffic (6) - last played on 7/25/17 2. Get Out of Cities/Blur (3) - last played on 2/10/17 3. Brand New Start/Little Joy (8) - last played on 4/28/13 4. Half Right/Elliott S...

It's the middle of October and the middle of a 3-day weekend. I was trying to think of a way to have today's shuffle be the middle of the songs somehow, but decided it was more work than I wanted to do. So instead, let's just get to today's ten... 1. Saint John/Cold War Kids (3) - last played on 6/19/11 2. Last Night In Town/The Twilight Singers (10) - last played on 2/12/17 3. Cobra Tattoo/The Mountain Goats (4) - last played on 2/21/16 4. Stick Together/Eels (17) - last played on 8/20/17 5. They Killed John Henry/Justin Townes Earle (3) - last played on 1/27/13 6. The Ambassador/The Hold Steady (8) - last played on 9/24/17 7. Ghosts of Syllables/Admiral Radley (8) - last played on 8/7/16 8. Feud/Band Of Horses (16) - last played on 6/9/16 9. Flowing/Teenage Fanclub (16) - last played on 10/1/17 10. Two Of Us/The Beatles (4) - last played on 5/12/13

It was extremely humid, but I started my day with a 4 mile run in 33:05. Not bad. You know what else isn't bad? Music. Let's get to today's ten... Oh, and Happy Father's Day to those of you to whom it applies! 1. Got Nuffin/Spoon (21) - last played on 3/11/17 2. Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns/A.C. Newman (18) - last played on 11/13/16 3. Your Dreams Have Come True/Sloan (11) - last played on 11/15/16 4. Trip Through Your Wires/U2 (5) - last played on 2/12/17 5. Song for Myla Goldberg/The Decemberists (8) - last played on 4/4/15 6. Bitches In Tokyo/Stars (6) - last played on 2/7/16 7. Had/Portastatic (5) - last played on 11/22/15 8. Liquid In, Liquid Out/The Thermals (12) - last played on 1/15/17 9. Still Beating/Josh Ritter (8) - last played on 5/6/17 10. Neighbor/Band of Horses (31) - last played on 6/19/16

I still have my weekend house-cleaning chores to do and I need to get some more work done on my schoolwork. Also, the football games start at 2:00, so I'm going to get right to today's ten... 1. When I Was Young/Nada Surf (26) - last played on 4/6/16 2. Some Boys/Death Cab For Cutie (18) - last played on 4/21/15 3. Lines In The Suit/Spoon (5) - last played on 5/21/16 4. Calling All Doctors (alternate version)/Telekinesis (10) - last played on 11/16/14 5. Cowboy Song/Blur (2) - last played on 6/30/13 6. Press/Superchunk (27) - last played on 1/11/17 7. Silver Clouds/Bowerbirds (4) - last played on 2/23/14 8. Wave/Alejandro Escovedo (3) - last played on 2/18/12 9. Thirteen/Big Star (17) - last played on 6/29/16 10. For Annabelle/Band of Horses (30) - last played on 6/19/16

I've still been on a high from last weekend's Matthew Sweet show and have shuffled his music a handful of times since then. Heck, I'm even wearing my brand-new Matthew Sweet shirt that my wife bought me. Rather than subject you to yet another Sunday Sweet, I decided to just make this a regular episode. Usually, I let the shuffle run all day, but I started the great Drive-By Truckers live album, It's Great To Be Alive! , last night and I want to get back to that. The new DBTs album is less than 2 weeks away! Okay, enough geeking out about music; it's time for today's ten... 1. Reptile Style/Reigning Sound (6) - last played on 4/5/15 2. Care of Cell 44/The Zombies (14) - last played on 3/6/16 3. NW Apt./Band of Horses (30) - last played on 6/8/16 4. Uglier/Redd Kross (5) - last played on 3/14/15 5. Heartbreaker/The Walkmen (24) - last played on 11/7/15 6. The Rake's Song/The Decemberists (7) - last played on 12/13/15 7. Charmer/Aimee Mann (19) - last p...

Today's my 23rd anniversary, so I'm taking the shuffle all the way to 23 songs.. 1. She Comes To Me In Dreams/Great Lake Swimmers (6) - last played on 2/28/16 2. on the occasion of a departure (ps 39:4)/The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (7) - last played on 10/21/12 3. Electric Music/Band of Horses (16) - last played on 6/9/16 4. Racing Like A Pro/The National (16) - last played on 4/9/16 5. Radio Campaign/M. Ward (4) - last played on 3/25/12 6. Fear City/Elliott Smith (7) - last played on 10/5/14 7. 36 Inches High/Nick Lowe (7) - last played on 1/3/16 8. Brief Candles/The Zombies (14) - last played on 5/22/16 9. I Want To/Best Coast (9) - last played on 5/22/16 10. Ballad Of Wendy Baker/Ben Kweller (14) - last played on 10/11/15 11. Back to Your Heart/Dinosaur Jr. (10) - last played on 2/20/16 12. Patterns/Telekinesis (26) - last played on 4/10/16 13. In My Dreams/Eels (7) - last played on 2/21/16 14. The Appleblossom Rag/Josh Ritter (19) - last play...

It's time for another themed installment of Sunday Shuffle and today I'm focusing on Band of Horses. Their new album, Why Are You OK , came out just over a week ago and I've given it a few spins. It's a solid entry into their catalog, which includes four other albums; the 10th anniversary of their first album, Everything All The Time , occurred back in March. There are 55 songs spread over those five albums (the first album and Cease To Begin were only recently loaded into iTunes), which means we'll get to 18% of them this morning. Before we get to today's ten, I'd like to take a moment and wish a Happy Father's Day to those it applies to, with a special mention to two big music fans who are celebrating their first one - Ryan McCracken (my awesome cousin) and Brett Evans (who just became a father this week)! Alright, let's hear some tunes! 1. Neighbor (30) - from Infinite Arms 2. Compliments (29) - from Infinite Arms 3. Weed Party (7) - from Eve...

I hope Peyton Manning can win another Super Bowl today...but I have the feeling the Panthers are going to run away with it. I do hope it's a competitive game...sure, deviled eggs and tiny meatballs and crab dip and Yuengling is all well and good, but a boring game is no fun. Before I get to the game, I have school work to do. I think I can let the shuffle run to 50 songs while I'm working, though. It's fun to do the extended versions on these days and since it's Super Bowl L... I. Agony of Laffitte/Spoon (17) - last played on 1/23/16 II. We're Gonna Make It/Mavis Staples (9) - last played on 1/3/16 III. The Owl & The Pussycat/Luna (6) - last played on 1/11/15 IV. She Handed Me a Mirror/Elvis Costello (6) - last played on 10/27/13 V. There's A Key/M. Ward (16) - last played on 1/17/16 VI. The Modern Leper/Frightened Rabbit (6) - last played on 9/20/13 VII. Astro/The White Stripes (15) - last played on 3/2/14 VIII. I'm Wrong/Sharon Van Etten (10...

I should probably just change this blog's name to Sunday Shuffle at this point... 1. Waiting for Slow Songs/Sloan (12) - last played on 4/26/15 2. Butchers Tale (Western Front 1914)/The Zombies (13) - last played on 4/5/15 3. Picking Up Too Fast/Centro-Matic (5) - last played on 10/30/14 4. Sidewalk/Superchunk (18) - last played on 3/11/15 5. Woods/Bon Iver (4) - last played on 10/30/14 6. You Tell Me Where/The New Pornographers (7) - last played on 5/21/15 7. All The Wine/The National (4) - last played on 4/19/15 8. Long Vows/Band of Horses (13) - last played on 2/13/15 9. Theater/Middle Brother (16) - last played on 12/14/14 10. Murdering Oscar/Patterson Hood (8) - last played on 5/24/15

It's been well over a year since the last Heavy Rotation but I've been hitting these albums pretty hard over the past couple weeks, so it's time for a new installment... Ryan Adams & The Cardinals/Cold Roses - I think I've mentioned by big Ryan Adams listen last fall in the run-up to his great self-titled release. I'd been a fan in the early 2000s and then lost touch due to the sheer volume of music he put out. Out of all the albums that were new to me, Cold Roses made the biggest impression. It's a double album and while that can sometimes lead to bloat, I've always admired the ambition of doing one (and I don't think there's bloat in this case). "Magnolia Mountain," a perfect shambling rocker, opens the album and it's followed by the more melancholy "Sweet Illusions"; a great 1-2 punch. Later on the first disc, I love the repeated "I could never close/I could never get close enough/I could never get close enough....

I'm going on record right now that I do not want 6 inches or more of snow on Tuesday. Do something else, winter storm. 1. Archangel Tale/M. Ward (3) - last played on 4/29/12 2. Better Dead Than Lead/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (12) - last played on 1/25/13 3. Infinite Arms/Band of Horses (22) - last played on 9/15/12 4. Genesis 30:3/The Mountain Goats (6) - last played on 11/1/11 5. Vice Rag/A.A. Bondy (3) - last played on 9/4/11 6. Punch And Judy/Elliott Smith (7) - last played on 3/1/13 7. Elvis Presley Blues/Gillian Welch (7) - last played on 4/8/12 8. Movin Away/My Morning Jacket (10) - last played on 12/21/11 9. June Showers/Superchunk (9) - last played on 11/21/12 10. Elevation/U2 (3) - last played on 8/19/12

It has been a busy couple of weeks, filled not only with a vacation but also Shakespeare in the park and a wedding down around Purdue, to name the bigger events. You may have noticed that this is another "double issue" - we will be away on another mini-vacation at the end of the week so it's just easier to do things this way. I hope to get back to posting more often this week but it may not happen with the short week. Anyway, let's get to today's twenty... 1. Make It Right/J Mascis (15) - last played on 3/17/12 2. Destroyer/Crooked Fingers (4) - last played on 11/13/10 3. I Understand/Sloan (13) - last played on 7/9/12 4. Not Your Lover/Blitzen Trapper (2) - last played on 10/27/10 5. When I Lose My Eyes/Saturday Looks Good To Me (5) - last played on 5/13/12 6. All the Lightning Rods/Centro-Matic (4) - last played on 2/20/12 7. For An Hour With You/J Tillman (4) - last played on 5/17/12 8. Every Single Switch/Centro-Matic (4) - last played on 6/25/12 9. ...

It's time once again to check in with what I've been listening to the most over the past few weeks... Band of Horses/Cease To Begin - Cooler temperatures and changing leaves put me in the mood for this band and the mood stayed when the weather turned warmer again. There is a nice convergence in the epic mood-setting of this band as you are driving down a road where colorful leaves are piling up in the bright sunshine. No one is ever gonna love you more than I do, indeed. Band of Horses/Infinite Arms - One BoH album lead to another, in this case their excellent effort from last year. This album is absolutely one of my 2010 favorites and probably is my favorite Band of Horses album at this point, which is saying something. This is such a strong batch of songs. I'm quite excited to hear they are working on the follow-up. A.A. Bondy/When the Devil's Loose - Not quite sure why I dipped back into this album, though it's possible it's the fact I haven't ye...

This is the last Sunday Shuffle of my 30s, as my 40th birthday is on Tuesday. I'm also on spring break from the day job but I have a paper due today and one tomorrow for college, plus some final papers looming. So, I'll stop rambling and we can get to the music... 1. Blue Beard/Band of Horses (13) 2. Time Will Tell/The Black Crowes (3) 3. Leftovers/Jarvis Cocker (2) 4. Rainy Days and Mondays/Cracker (1) 5. Agony of Lafitte/Spoon (7) 6. Good/Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (2) 7. Wasted Hours/Arcade Fire (11) 8. I Keep Coming Back/The Afghan Whigs (9) 9. Wedding Day/Alejandro Escovedo (3) 10. Living In Debt/The Henry Clay People (6)