Shooflypie

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

Here I am at another anniversary-type number for the Sunday Shuffle. Hard to believe I've gotten up this high and that I've been doing this for over a decade. I've also been thinking I might get to here and then discontinue the shuffle, but now that I'm here...I at least want to hit 500, so I'll hang in for another year or so. I know a blog is such an old-fashioned thing at this point, but I am about to turn 46...you can draw your own conclusions. To celebrate, I am not only going to run for 20 songs today, but I've also changed the theme of my blog. I'd had the previous theme for a very long time and it felt like time for a change. It's currently a rainy early spring day (and I'm on spring break), so listening to some music and doing some reading sounds like the right thing to do. As always on these anniversary episodes, here's the history of the Sunday Shuffle... #1 - 8/27/06 #50 - 8/19/07 #100 - 7/27/08 #150 - 9/9/09 #200 - 10/17/10 ...

I listen to most of my music via Spotify these days, though I will buy mp3 albums when the price is decent and I have some spare cash. That means I'm able to listen to way more albums than I used to and I'm able to try new artists that I never would have gotten around to in the old days. There was a lot of great music in 2014 and here are 10 albums that I loved... 1. Spoon/They Want My Soul - This is Spoon's sixth straight fantastic album and might actually be my favorite. That's hard to do 8 albums into a career. I don't know if the 4 years off the band had in between albums or if maybe Britt Daniel's time in Divine Fits contributed to the greatness of these 10 songs but something did. From the opening rock of "Rent I Pay" to the spacey, synth sound of "Inside Out" to the sunny sounding "Do You" to the whistling on "Knock Knock Knock," there is so much to be found here. In fact, I'm playing this album while I write...