Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Lighting Issues Mix

Tons of songs on today's shuffle so let's get to it.  Check out the Amazon pages for the albums containing today's songs above:

United Provinces of India by Cornershop
Screen Door by Uncle Tupelo
A Dirty Song by The End Men
This Town by Don Ryan
Flags for Everything by Let's Active

Bastards of Young by The Replacements

Superball by Magic Kids

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Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of Track Listing: 1. United Provinces of India, 2. Topknot, 3. 911 Curry, The, 4. Natch, 5. Double Decker Eyelashes, 6. Biro Pen, The, 7. Supercomputed, 8. Once There Was a Wintertime, 9. Double Digit, 10. Don't Shake It

Uncle Tupelo - Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology - MP3 Download This Uncle Tupelo download is available in DRM-free, MP3 256kbps format. Uncle Tupelo MP3's will play on iPod(r) and all MP3 players. Individual tracks and samples of the songs from this album are available by clicking on the product image on the left. Need help? Click here and search for "downloads" to learn more.

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History Formed in a Minneapolis basement in 1979, the Replacements were a notorious rock 'n' roll circus, renowned for self-sabotage, cartoon shtick, stubborn contrarianism, stage-fright, Dionysian benders, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, and--ultimately--critical and popular acclaim. While rock then and now is lousy with superficial stars and glossy entertainment, the Replacements were as warts-and-all "real" as it got. In the first book to take on the jumble of facts, fictions, and contradictions behind the Replacements, veteran Minneapolis music journalist Jim Walsh distills hundreds of hours of interviews with band members, their friends, families, fellow musicians, and fans into an absorbing oral history worthy of the scruffy quartet that many have branded the most influential band to emerge from the '80s. Former manager Peter Jesperson, Paul Stark and Dave Ayers of Twin/Tone Records, Bob Mould and Grant Hart of rivals Husker Du, the legendary Curtiss A, Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, power-pop hero Alex Chilton, Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, and replacement Replacements Slim Dunlap and Steve Foley: all have something to say about the scene that spawned the band. These and dozens of others offer insights into the Replacement's workings--and the band's continuing influence more than fifteen years after their breakup. Illustrated with both rarely seen and classic photos, this, finally, is the rollicking story behind the turbulent and celebrated band that came on fast and furious and finally flamed out, chronicled by one eyewitness who was always at the periphery of the storm, and often at its eye. " T]his consistently engaging and poignant work . . . . is a] loving, appropriately ramshackle tribute to one of the most beloved rock-and-roll bands of the 1980s. . . . The band's story is an archetype of the joys and pitfalls of underground success."--"Publishers Weekly" "The Replacements were superheroes: They rescued a whole planet from '80s music. Jim Walsh's loving, engrossing oral history is the book they deserve."--Nick Hornby, author of "High Fidelity"

20 Piece Superball Eyeballs All eyes will be on you when you arrive with a bag of twenty bloodshot eyeballs that really bounce! These bouncy superballs make great Halloween party favors or a little extra something special for

Band of the Week: Year 2, Month 4, Week 1: A Social State

Hailing from Scranton, Pennsylvania - home of The Office, Indie Rock band A Social State went old school on their most recent release. Everyone's Your Friend was recorded live direct to analog tape. This method helped to create the warm and rich sounds of heard on the record. 


One stand out track on the album is Arcadia.  The song begins with a howl of feedback and kicks in with a powerful driving beat and Edward Cuozzo's powerful vocal onslaught.  The song broods and soars all the while being driven forward by the relentless rhythm section.


Dads and Cigarettes is a gentle, almost lilting song and serves to show-off the depth and versatility of this young band.


You know the drill by now - check them out and Like and Follow.



Check out the song County Prison below:

 

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Everyone's Your Friend is available now at amazon - click the album cover below:

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Storms approaching Mix

Time to batten down the hatches here in Tennessee. Call it Stormpocalypse 2012.  

I have to be quick before I get blown away - so prepare to be blown away by an awesome shuffle! See what I did there?

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Here is the shuffle:

<-------- Tom Tom Club -  Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

Tom Tom Club - Shock the World - Chris and Tina (from Talking Heads) and friends get their groove thing on.  Shocking!

<----------Kort - Invariable Heartache

KORT (Kurt Wagner from Lambchop (not the X-Men) and Courtney Tidwell) doing their best Conway and Loretta on Picking Wild Mountain Berries.

<-----The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang 

New Brunswick, New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem have The Spirit of Jazz.


<--------The Tourists - Should Have Been Greatest Hits

The Tourists featured Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart before they formed the Eurythmics.  They cover Dusty Springfield on a lush, new wavy version of  I Only Want to Be With You.


<-----------The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

We close out this morning shuffle with the opening track from The Velvet Underground's third album. Candy Says was written about Candy Darling who was the Candy who came from out of the Island in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wildside

Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Cheer Up Sleepy Jean Mix

I wish I had some Monkees' music in my MP3 player. I may have to remedy that soon.  As we remember Davy Jones, we remember the cultural phenomenon and cool music of this made for TV band of days gone by.  There have been some amazing tributes written by a wide variety of musical artists.  Say hey!

Late - so let's get onto the list.

I created a spur-of-the-moment randomish playlist from which to shuffle and I'm pleased with the results:

First up, Rocks Off is off the uber-classic Rolling Stones album, Exile on Main Street. It captures the loose, filthy rock and roll music the band was making at that time. 

"I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed.
Plug in, flush out and fire the f**kin' feed.
Heading for the overload,
Splattered on the dirty road,
Kick me like you've kicked before,
I can't even feel the pain no more." - Jagger/Richards

<----Holy crap - you can download the 2010 Remastered version of Exile for just $2.99 at Amazon.com!!!

 Me and a friend once drove 80 or so miles in a convertible with the top down in a drizzle to see the next  band in the daily shuffle.  Will and the Bushmen were from Mobile, Alabama before settling in Nashville. Later Will's and my life would intersect in a most unexpected way.  Can't Turn Back the Clock was on the band's 1991 album Blunderbuss (not to be confused with the new Jack White album of the same name - unless in your confusion you check out Will and the Bushmen, in which case be confused).

  <-----Blunderbuss by Will and the Bushmen - buy the CD at Amazon.com


Off! makes classic West Coast punk rock for the 21st Century.  Not surprising since the lead singer is ex-Black Flag/Circle Jerk Keith Morris.  I

<---download First Four EPs by Off! at Amazon.com

Finally, we bring you some classic Jamaican sounds from 1968. It's Toots and the Maytals with title track from their album Sweet and Dandy. Go ahead and prepare to feel the movin' and the groovin'.

  <----Download Sweet and Dandy by Toots and the Maytals at Amazon.com


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Black Flag: Live Although Black Flag was unquestionably one of the greatest and most explosive live rock bands of all time, few of the band's shows were documented on video before its breakup in 1987. Although the band only managed two British tours during its existence,

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Toots & The Maytals Toots & the Maytals' edition of 20th Century Masters is a very good summation of the group's greatest songs and therefore, their very importance. This doesn't have every great song they've ever done, and is not as comprehensive as other overviews assemble

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street 18-song matching folio to the classic Stones album features transcriptions of: Rocks Off * Tumbling Dice * Let It Loose * All Down The Line * Stop Breaking Down * Casino Boogie * Torn and Frayed * Black Angel * Loving Cup * Happy * Soul Survivor * Shake Your Hips * Rip This Joint * and more. Also includes photos.