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I have a busy day ahead, so I'm just going to get right to today's ten... 1. AT&T/Pavement (14) - last played on 7/24/16 2. Streetlights/Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (11) - last played on 3/15/17 3. The Government Darling/Spoon (12) - last played on 3/11/17 4. See My Way/Nude Beach (27) - last played on 9/27/17 5. Beach Baby/Bon Iver (4) - last played on 3/13/15 6. Radio/Teenage Fanclub (10) - last played on 10/15/16 7. With Or Without You/U2 (9) - last played on 12/18/16 8. Keep On Running/The Smithereens (11) - last played on 11/2/14 9. St. Apollonia/Beirut (5) - last played on 2/21/16 10. Got To Get You Into My Life/The Beatles (11) - last played on 1/29/17

I almost did an edition of Sunday Surf this morning, because yesterday was frontman Matthew Caws' birthday. However, I figured 4 artist-centered Shuffles was enough for the time being. So, let's go classic this morning and get right to today's ten... 1. Cruel Summer/Superchunk (43) - last played on 7/23/17 2. Get Out the State/Spoon (12) - last played on 3/11/17 3. High And Lonesome/Eels (7) - last played on 3/3/13 4. Autoclave/The Mountain Goats (2) - last played on 4/12/15 5. The Party Line/Apex Manor (17) - last played on 5/1/16 6. I Can See Your Future/Belle & Sebastian (20) - last played on 2/21/16 7. What I Mean to You/Justin Townes Earle (9) - last played on 12/11/16 8. Rampage/Blair (9) - last played on 2/7/16 9. No Lucifer/British Sea Power (5) - last played on 9/27/15 10. A Side Wins/Sloan (22) - last played on 5/28/17

The last Sunday Spoon was only back in February, right before the new album came out, so why am I doing another one already? Well, this weekend saw the 10 anniversary of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga , which might be my favorite Spoon album, so I thought it would be good to celebrate the band today. In addition, I bought/downloaded the aforementioned new album, Hot Thoughts , last night so that I could have all of their music available today. I really like Hot Thoughts , but had only been listening via Spotify. All of that means Spoon gets their 4th edition of the Shuffle, which is the most by any artist. Before we get to today's ten, I want to quickly mention we are going to see Spider-Man: Homecoming this morning. Can't wait! 1. Hot Thoughts (2) - from Hot Thoughts 2. Who Makes Your Money (25) - from Transference 3. Staring at the Board (19) - from A Series of Sneaks 4. Cvantez (9) - from Telephono 5. Do I Have To Talk You Into It (2) - from Hot Thoughts 6. I Didn't Come Here t...

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 posted a new Heavy Rotation yesterday, so if you haven't taken a look, please go back and do so. I also hope to get one or two non-music posts up this week, but we'll see how it goes. For now, let's do the second shuffle of June and get to today's ten... 1. Bloom/Radiohead (12) - last played on 11/15/15 2. I'll Be The One/Badfinger (2) - last played on 12/7/14 3. She Says What She Means/Sloan (21) - last played on 11/14/16 4. Concordia Military Club/The Rosebuds (4) - last played on 11/2/14 5. Sinisteria/Crooked Fingers (8) - last played on 1/30/16 6. Beginner's Luck/Eels (5) - last played on 2/20/16 7. Written In Reverse/Spoon (19) - last played on 1/19/17 8. Short Version/Wild Flag (14) - last played on 11/16/14 9. Poor Fool/Justin Townes Earle (3) - last played on 11/1/14 10. Main Man/T. Rex (9) - last played on 1/1/17

I'm going to do a bit of a "spring forward" edition this morning, which means I'm going to skip over the first song that pops up and start with the second. I think I'll keep doing that throughout, so you get all the even numbered songs, #2 - #20. Why not? 2. Bechamel/Pernice Brothers (16) - last played on 5/15/15 4. Red Hill Mining Town/U2 (5) - last played on 3/13/16 6. Late-Century Dream/Superchunk (18) - last played on 11/18/15 8. Your Weather/Dinosaur Jr. (19) - last played on 8/3/16 10. Centre For Holy Wars/The New Pornographers (2) - last played on 1/27/15 12. Girls and Boys (Pet Shop Boys 12" Remix)/Blur (3) - last played on 2/28/16 14. Hard To Find/The National (25) - last played on 2/12/17 16. Metal School/Spoon (17) - last played on 1/20/17 18. I'm in Love (With Arthur Dove)/Portastatic (8) - last played on 7/29/16 20. Simple X/Andrew Bird (4) - last played on 5/1/16

Friday saw the release of new albums by Ryan Adams and Strand of Oaks, among others. It also put us a week away from the new Old 97s and a month away from the new Spoon album, Hot Thoughts . My Old 97s catalog is mainly on CD, which doesn't lend itself to a shuffle very well. On the other hand, I've already done 2 Sunday Spoons (the last being 6/21/15) and since I'm very much anticipating the afore-mentioned album, today seems perfect for doing a third. So, let's get to it... 1. Is Love Forever? (20) - from Transference 2. Who Makes Your Money (24) - from Transference 3. Loss Leaders (15) - from Soft Effects 4. No You're Not (19) - from A Series of Sneaks 5. Reservations (17) - from A Series of Sneaks 6. Dismember (11) - from Telephono 7. All I Got Is Me (10) - b-side to "Don't You Evah" 8. The Mystery Zone (23) - from Transference 9. Chloroform (16) - from A Series of Sneaks 10. Got Nuffin (6) - single version

I had a big Super Bowl shuffle post I was working on last week, trying something new too, and...I didn't get it finished before the game started, so I just deleted it. Oh well. Let's get to today's ten... 1. If I Wanted Someone/Dawes (14) - last played on 4/4/15 2. Trip Through Your Wires/U2 (4) - last played on 4/1/12 3. Jackie/The New Pornographers (4) - last played on 11/13/16 4. Low Key/Tweedy (7) - last played on 3/23/16 5. Happiness Burns/Two Hours Traffic (5) - last played on 10/2/16 6. Insolence/Shearwater (13) - last played on 3/30/16 7. Black Like Me/Spoon (23) - last played on 1/21/17 8. I'll Still Be True/Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (15) - last played on 11/19/16 9. January Wedding/The Avett Brothers (12) - last played on 10/23/16 10. Platform Blues/Pavement (14) - last played on 7/24/16

Seems silly to do one of these today, but music has always been a big part of who I am. Music is something to be shared, something that can bring us together. We need that right now. We are all different, but we should be able to find common ground. Sure, a song is a small thing, but those small things add up. If you listen to this mix, I hope you find a song that you like, that brings you joy. Here are today's ten... 1. Hands Up Baby/Camera Obscura (3) - last played on 3/13/16 2. Loss Leaders/Spoon (12) - last played on 5/22/16 3. Picking Up Too Fast/Centro-Matic (6) - last played on 6/28/15 4. Let It Be/The Beatles (6) - last played on 5/3/15 5. I Won't Back Down/Tom Petty (1) - I've listened to this hundreds of times on CD 6. Summer Is The Champion/Laura Veirs (5) - last played on 12/29/10 7. Maternity Ward/Art Brut (12) - last played on 1/4/15 8. I'll Be Your Key/The Jayhawks (9) - last played on 12/21/16 9. Farewell To the Pressure Kids/Broke...

This is the second shuffle I've done today. I tried something new for the first one - using a Spotify playlist I've been adding to since the start of the year of every song or album I chose to play. It was up over 300 songs over more than 20 albums and at least as many single songs. I used shuffle mode for the playlist...and got 5 songs from one album, 3 from another, and 2 from a third. Not what I was looking for, so I scrapped it. I'll have to go back to the drawing board with ways of incorporating Spotify into the Shuffle every week. Alternatively, I may just aim for 450 of these and call it done for a while, maybe combined with trying to make more playlists again. We'll see. For now, let's get to the second version of today's ten... 1. Fleeting One/First Aid Kit (7) - last played on 12/26/15 2. It Was A Beautiful Car/M. Ward (8) - last played on 5/22/16 3. Think For Yourself/The Beatles (5) - last played on 3/9/16 4. Beautiful Beat/Nada Surf (9) - l...

I ran out of steam on my 2016 best-of lists and I don't feel like spending today writing them. I do need to do a better job of writing about things in the moment. For example, there were so many albums I loved last year that it would have been impossible to say things about most of them. I did try to write reviews for most of the books I read, but they were posted on my Goodreads account and then linked to my Facebook and Twitter. I'm sure I've said this at the beginning of many years and we'll see how well I do. As for the Sunday Shuffle, I don't know how much longer I'll continue it. #450 sounds like a nice place to stop if I decide to do so. Then again, #500 sounds even cooler. The problem is that my iTunes only represents a fraction of what I listen to in a given week. Maybe I bring back the Sunday Sculpt once or twice a month. Maybe I try to put together a new playlist every month as well. I guess I'll just have to see where I go with all of it. For...

Hard to believe I'm typing this on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. The weather has certainly turned in the past couple days, so it does feel more Thanksgiving-like that way. I'm excited to have the week off from my TTT course and to have only a two day week at school. Some family is already here and more will be arriving. I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday week! Let's get to today's ten... 1. Rox In The Box/The Decemeberists (18) - last played on 3/13/16 2. Scythian Empires/Andrew Bird (10) - last played on 8/7/16 3. Rock On/T. Rex (11) - last played on 2/7/16 4. The House That Heaven Built/Japandroids (22) - last played on 11/9/16 5. Can You Tell/Ra Ra Riot (4) - last played on 1/11/15 6. Harvey Haddix/The Baseball Project (5) - last played on 2/12/12 7. Rise To Me/The Decemberists (17) - last played on 5/24/15 8. No You're Not/Spoon (17) - last played on 8/13/16 9. Andiamo/The Twilight Singers (5) - last played on 6/30/13 10. My Heartbeat's D...

Today feels like a shuffle day, so let's get right to today's ten... 1. Nothing Is Good Enough/Aimee Mann (5) - last played on 11/1/15 2. Atom/British Sea Power (3) - last played on 3/13/11 3. Kingdom of Love/The Soft Boys (9) - last played on 4/10/16 4. House Of Cards/Radiohead (22) - last played on 11/13/15 5. Jealousy/Spoon (11) - last played on 6/20/15 6. Museum Of Flight/Damien Jurado (15) - last played on 3/22/16 7. Little Hill/Telekinesis (14) - last played on 9/1/15 8. Revenge/Spoon (10) - last played on 6/5/15 9. It Takes All Kinds/Aimee Mann (4) - last played on 3/10/15 10. Baby, We'll Be Fine/The National (5) - last played on 3/4/16

I need to be knee deep in schoolwork today and I would like to finish the book I'm reading too (I'm now officially 8 books behind pace to make my goal for the year), so I'm going to jump right into today's ten... 1. Car Radio/Spoon (18) - last played on 8/9/15 2. Looking Over My Shoulder/Elliott Smith (9) - last played on 5/17/15 3. Every Single Switch/Centro-Matic (5) - last played on 7/15/12 4. Slow Fade/Teenage Fanclub (11) - last played on 2/21/16 5. England/The National (25) - last played on 3/11/16 6. Brief Candles/The Zombies (13) - last played on 10/31/12 7. I Got the Hots/The Soft Boys (9) - last played on 1/17/16 8. Snakes in the Grass/The Essex Green (8) - last played on 2/2/16 9. Watch Out For Me Ronnie/Yo La Tengo (10) - last played on 12/13/15 10. New York, New York/Ryan Adams (3) - last played on 3/22/16

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 started my musical morning by listening to the rest of The Joshua Tree  (I started it last night after listening to the corresponding episode of U Talkin' U2 To Me? ) and thought about continuing on to listen to albums the rest of the day. However, it's been three weeks since I've done one of these and six weeks since I've done a "regular" version, so why not jump into some shuffling... 1. What You Do To Me/Teenage Fanclub (6) - last played on 3/26/15 2. They Want My Soul/Spoon (14) - last played on 6/26/15 3. Look At You/My Morning Jacket (9) - last played on 3/24/13 4. Away When You Were Here/Ben Folds Five (11) - last played on 10/26/14 5. Another New World/Josh Ritter (17) - last played on 4/22/15 6. Stay With Me/Ryan Adams (10) - last played on 6/23/15 7. Floating Vibes/Surfer Blood (10) - last played on 12/14/14 8. Foolish Young Bastard/Patterson Hood (9) - last played on 3/29/15 9. Criminal Piece/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (14) -...

It's become more difficult to become immersed in any particular albums over a concentrated period of time. I love the fact that Spotify exists because I get to hear way more music than I ever used to...but it also makes it harder to remember what I've been listening to in any given week. I also don't really listen to music in the car or while I'm walking in town or even doing the dishes; instead, I'm listening to podcasts. I love that medium and am always trying to catch up (and usually failing) on the ones I like while also trying new ones. All that said, I am still just as passionate about music and do get into grooves with some albums. Here are the ones I've been listening to the most in the past month or two... Courtney Barnett/Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit - I first became aware of Barnett when I heard her song "Avant Gardener" (possibly via All Songs Considered). I loved her lyrics, which were delivered in a singsong style...

I know I already did one of these about 6 months ago but last night I read that Spoon played an afterparty of their show (which was a Spoon cover band playing 2 whole albums). That's awesome and it makes me want to listen to their equally awesome music. So, I'm going to do that... 1. Nobody Gets Me But You (18) - from Transference 2. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case (15) - from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 3. Wanted to Be Your (6) - from Telephono 4. Sister Jack (11) - from Gimme Fiction 5. The Beast And Dragon, Adored (12) - from Gimme Fiction 6. Rhthm & Soul (12) - from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 7. Change My Life (8) - from Love Ways 8. My Mathematical Mind (11) - from Gimme Fiction 9. Who Makes Your Money (19) - from Transference 10. Inside Out (16) - from They Want Your Soul

It's a good thing the Super Bowl party I'm going to is next door because today's snowstorm means traveling much farther than that is a no go. My parents were supposed to come as well but they are snowed in and even had church cancelled this morning. As for the game itself, I'm more rooting against the Patriots than rooting for the Seahawks but I do hope it's at least competitive. I'm going to do something quite different today. Every Sunday I do this shuffle, I let the music run long after the first 10. Some days I might listen to 100 songs this way or more. So, in honor of Super Bowl XLIX I'm going to list the first 49 songs that pop up today. Crazy, yes, but why not... 1. Bartomelo And The Buzzing Of Bees/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (16) - last played on 9/15/13 2. Let's Love/Matthew Sweet (7) - last played on 4/15/12 3. Karen/The National (1) - loaded onto iTunes some time in Dec. 2014 4. Black Hole/She & Him (9) - last played on 6/23/1...

I wasn't 100% sure I was going to continue the shuffle in 2015. I got burned out on it last year and went 4 1/2 months without doing one. When I did one at the end of September, I thought I might dip my toe in and out but ended up getting back into the swing. I'm enjoying the process again. Another reason to keep this feature going is that my other long-standing Sunday morning tradition has come to an end. For well over a decade (and probably for at least 15 years) I watched The Sports Reporters on ESPN. This past week, however, we cut our cable and I no longer can watch. I will definitely miss that ritual, so it's going to be good to keep this one going, at least for a while. If I do stick with this throughout the year, I will reach #400 before the end of the year. Maybe that would be a good stopping point. We'll see. All of that leads me to this: here are today's ten... 1. 30 Gallon Tank/Spoon (13) - last played on 10/12 2. Daphnia/Yo La Tengo (4) - last pl...