Sunday Random 10 (x2)

Hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend! Been busy around TWDQ HQ, so we're a week behind again. Let's see what the little green Nano came up with this week.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

05/27/2012
Arcade Fire - Sprawl I (Flatland)
The Clash - Clampdown
Billy Bragg - Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Rickie Lee Jones - The Moon is Made of Gold
Joe Henry - The World and All I Know
The Who - My Wife
Old 97's - Please Hold On While the Train is Moving
Feist - Caught a Long Wind
The Lovin' Spoonful - Lovin' You
The Kinks - Here Come the People in Grey

06/03/2012
Bonnie Raitt - God Only Knows
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
Ivy - The Conversation
Dolly Varden - Forgiven Now
Jonathan Rundman - Minneapolis
The Baseball Project - The Closer
Patty Griffin - Go Now
Tinted Windows - Nothing to Me
Rockpile - You Ain't Nothin' But Fine (Live)
Todd Rundgren - We Gotta Get You a Woman

Good week for Adam Schlesinger's side projects (Ivy, Tinted Windows). We also get Bonnie Raitt's nice Joe Henry cover and Jonathan Rundman's 19-second tribute to what would soon become his metro area of residence. We'll see if he ever leaves here. Also, we do not endorse some of the sentiments in Mr. Rundgren's first big hit. Smart women are even more fun, Todd.

Should be a good week for new tunes, with new Beach Boys, Rhett Miller, and Shawn Colvin discs due out, so we'll see if any of them show up in the shuffle.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question ("Amen. Wouldn't it be great if the media stopped referring to non-apology apologies as apologies?"), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 (x3)

Hey, how did we get three weeks behind? Oh yeah, we were cleaning TWDQ HQ last weekend for a Mothers' Day celebration--then it turned out to be such a nice day that everyone wanted to be outside.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!


05/06/2012
R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Crowded House - Into Temptation
The Coasters - Young Blood
Kirsty MacColl - Caroline
Legendary Shack Shakers - Two Tickets to Hell
The Who - Sea and Sand
Taylor Swift (feat. The Civil Wars) - Safe & Sound
Brinsley Schwarz - Brand New You, Brand New Me
The New Standards - The Inchworm
The Who - Sally Simpson

11. The Who - Imagine a Man

The Nano had quite the thing for The Who this week.

05/13/2012
Blind Pilot - I Know
The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends
Arcade Fire - Windowsill
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Paul McCartney - She Said Yeah
Fountains of Wayne - Cemetery Guns
Muddy Waters - My Home Is In the Delta
Wilco - Sonny Feeling
The Beatles - Love You To
The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

Lots of Beatles here, which isn't a surprise. The Soggy Bottom Boys track always reminds us of Dan Tyminski's wife's great quip when he told her that in the musical numbers in O Brother, Where Art Thou, she'll hear his voice but see George Clooney singing:  "Dan, that's my fantasy."

05/20/2012
The Lovin' Spoonful - Younger Generation
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
The Beach Boys - Sloop John B.
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Old 97's - The Dance Class
Dwight Yoakam - Little Ways
The Pogues - Fiesta
Los Straitjackets - Ana (Anna)
The Replacements - Androgynous
Gary U.S. Bonds - Daddy's Come Home

Bonus
11 - Gear Daddies - Little Red Corvette
12 - Lost Dogs - Breathe Deep

The Nano's got a "All Day and All of the Night" streak going here. A pair from the 'Mats great Let it Be, a tune from the recently acquired Bonds live at King Biscuit Flower Hour disc, and when we let it keep rolling, the first two bonus tracks were quite excellent as well.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Don't you just love schadenfreude?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Too much going on yesterday, so here's what the little green Nano coughed up--yes, we've had a cold--on Sunday.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Brinsley Schwarz - Down in the Dive
The Replacements - Achin' to Be
The Jayhawks - Closer to Your Side
Fountains of Wayne - It Must Be Summer
The Beatles - Tell Me Why
Beki Hemingway - Only Thing Worse
Buddy & Julie Miller - Ellis County
The Beatles - Something
Muddy Waters - You Shook Me
The Beatles - Sea of Time

Wow, three from the mop-tops! I swear it knows we're booking travel to the UK. (Okay, that last one's George Martin from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.) Reminds us that the Harrison documentary's out tomorrow. Having been sick, we opted to skip the Fountains of Wayne show Saturday night. We also need to learn that terrific Miller song for one of the Tuesday night shindigs at TWDQ HQ.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Who the hell booked this idiot in the first place?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Hope you all celebrated Record Store Day in the traditional manner. We picked up a Lovin' Spoonful anthology yesterday to add to the mix for this week, so we'll see if it comes up. (The three Van Morrison LPs acquired haven't been burned from vinyl to disc yet.)


Let's...Hit...Shuffle!


Dolly Varden - We Are Lucky (Live)
The New Standards - Toxic
Bonnie Raitt - Million Miles
The Monkees - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Dr. John - Kingdom of Izzness
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (feat. Louis Armstrong) - Rockin' Chair
Junior Brown - Surf Medley
Lucinda Williams - Blessed
Arcade Fire - Modern Man
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - If You Call


The Dolly Varden tune's a live track that may appear on their forthcoming album. (Get a sneak peek here.) Yes, that's a Britney Spears cover by the terrific New Standards. Couple of new songs from solid new albums by Ms. Raitt and the Doc. Lucinda's title track made our Faves compilation last year.


We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Will her personal Warhol clock never run down?), now in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Sunny/rainy/sunny/stormy Sunday here at TWDQ. Fortunately, the hail and storms bypassed us here.

Let's see what the little green Nano had for us today. Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live)

Drive-By Truckers - The Boys from Alabama

Los Lobos - When the Circus Comes

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Kirsty MacColl - Can't Stop Killing You

Florence + the Machine - Remain Nameless

The Beatles - I Dig a Pony

Hank Williams Sr. - Your Cheatin' Heart (single version)

Bryan Ferry - Bob Dylan's Dream

The Ike Reilly Assassination - God and Money

Well, we broke the two-week Wilco lead-off streak, which is funny since we just ordered Wilco tix yesterday. The Costello tune might be our favorite Elvis tune after this. It also gives us an good excuse to post this little slice of awesomeness. And that Gin Blossoms song is a killer rock 'n roll tune.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why did Hilary Rosen need to apologize for telling the truth?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it! Been a long day, so here's what the little green Nano came up with this morning.

Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

Wilco - Wishful Thinking

Greg Brown - I Don't Know Anybody in This Town

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Without a Heart

Yusuf - Heaven/Where True Love Goes

The Kinks - Picture Book

Carly Simon - Just Like a Woman

Joe Henry - Fireman's Wedding

Jeff Arundel - It's Okay

Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love

Dan Zanes - When the Curtains of Night are Pinned Back

Wilco leads off for the second week in a row. We'll see if they can keep the streak up next week. The wonderful Kinks tune (from The Village Green Preservation Society) made a memorable appearance in a HP printer commercial a few years back. The Carly Simon track is one of the less memorable Dylan covers on Amnesty International's 4-disc Chimes of Freedom. If you don't own Joe Henry's terrific Kindness of the World, go track down a copy. Same goes for Dan Zanes' Parades and Panoramas.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why isn't this guy on the Sunday morning talk shows?), already in progress.

Sunday Random 10 catch-up

Wow, where did those three weeks go?

Oh well, Let's...Hit...Shuffle!

03/18/2012

XTC - Playground

The Rascals - You Better Run

Diane Birch - Photograph

Old 97's - The Other Shoe

The Beatles - She's Leaving Home

This Train - Great Atomic Power

Muddy Waters - Young Fashioned Ways

Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)

Van Morrison - Real Real Gone

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Without a Heart

(Bonus) Mavis Staples - In Christ There Is No East or West

We actually went out and picked up Van the Man's Enlightenment after hearing the Belfast Cowboys terrific cover of "Real Real Gone".

03/25/2012

The Rascals - A Beautiful Morning

Elvis Presley - You're a Heartbreaker

The Muppets - Wipe Out

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Live)

Geraint Watkins - Two Rocks

Brendan Benson - Misery

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg

Preservation Hall Jazz Band (feat. Anita Briem) - C'est Si Bon

The Coasters - Three Cool Cats

One of our favorite Costello tunes, from the Live at Hollywood High album, and we learned of the Coasters original from Ry Cooder's cover on the fine Chavez Ravine.

04/01/2012

Wilco - Hummingbird (Live)

The Decemberists - Foregone

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Kirsty MacColl - Miss Otis Regrets

The Band - Acadian Driftwood

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down

The Beatles - Misery

The Who - I'm a Boy

The Who - Quadrophenia

Joe Henry - Nico Lost One Small Buddha

(Bonus) The Honeydogs - Dear Prudence

Seemed to be in a Beatleish mood today. I'm sure it knows we were watching the Abbey Road Crosswalk cam yesterday. Interesting back-to-back murder songs, too.

We now return you to This Week's Discussion Question (Why isn't it ever about race?), already in progress.