Top Ten On Random - iPod Mix

The Lemonheads – Ceiling Fan In My Spoon – that’s a fun Sunday afternoon song.

R.E.M. – Nightswimming – song that makes you wish it was late at night and you didn’t need to wake up in the morning.

Guided By Voices – Twilight Campfighter – Perhaps I’m stating the obvious but for a band that released so much music each song seems like lots of attention and craftsmanship was given to it. But most of all love. Just love.

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve – Watching The Detectives - Live in 1996 Bootleg – one pit-stop on the renaissance man’s race around the track, accompanied by his very own mad scientist.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Think About Me – From the Playback Box. My iPod is beginning to look like some AAA radio programmers wet dream. Maybe this isn’t a good thing. Anyway. Playback is the ideal box set an artist should release. A healthy amount of released album cuts but a huge chunk of unreleased material that doesn’t suck. Because like my old man always says to me “Son, there is a reason it never came out in the first place.” To which I say “Yes, Father.”

Afghan Whigs – Summer’s Kiss – I cannot say enough good things about these guys. In my eyes they are fantastic. If I was in a band, I hope this would be the music we would play.

Patsy Cline - When You Need A Laugh – I was gonna say something hokey, like they just don’t make ‘em like they used to, but it’s true and that sucks. While I don’t like greatest hits collections that much there is a line of them called the Definitive Collection that I can get behind and this comes from that. The sound is tip-top and the songs are even better.

The Essex Green – This Isn’t Farm Life – Honestly, I bought this for the group’s Kinksian name. How lame is that? Just because it had the word Green in it. But it also came out on Merge and figured I’d take my chances.

HEM – When I Was Drinking – This is one of those songs from one of those albums (Rabbit Songs). It’s pretty, quiet, and especially melodic. I like to read or go to bed with it. Unfortunately, HEM’s follow-up albums never equaled this one.

Jacob Miller & The Fatman Riddim Section - Dread At The Control – Some Heavyweight Super Dub to finish the afternoon off.

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