Somebody Let Me - Songs 2013

Back on the dance floor and in the groove in 2013.

1. Emiliana Torrini - Speed Of Dark (Tookah)
2. Fitz & The Tantrums - Break The Walls (More Than Just A Dream)
3. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Random Access Memories)
4. Dent May - Born Too Late (Warm Blanket)
5. Rhye - Last Dance (Woman)
6. St Lucia - September (When The Night)
7. Depeche Mode - Soothe My Soul (Delta Machine)
8. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Reflektor)
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Slave (Mosuito)
10. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers (Modern Vampires Of The City)
11. Mayer Hawthorne - Back Seat Lover (Where Does This Door Go)
12. Alice Russell - Heartbreaker (To Dust)
13. Lovers - The Modern Art Museum Of The Modern Kiss Goodbye (A Friend In The World)
14. Empire Of The Sun - Alive (Ice On The Dune)
15. Parenthetical Girls - Careful Who You Dance With (Privilege)
16. Glasser - Shape (Interiors)

Big Dream - Songs 2013

A quirky bunch of songs starting off with the biggest quirk of all. All from 2013 of course.

1. David Lynch - The Big Dream (The Big Dream)
2. Daughn Gibson - Mad Ocean (Me Moan)
3. Chelsea Wolfe - Feral Love (Pain Is Beauty)
4. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Wed 21)
5. Arcade Fire - It's Never Over [Oh Orpheus] (Reflektor)
6. Anna Calvi - Suddenly (One Breath)
7. Editors - Sugar (The Weight Of Your Love)
8. St Lucia - The Way You Remember Me (When The Night)
9. Pure Bathing Culture - Dream The Dare (Moon Tides)
10. The Polyphonic Spree - You Don't Know Me (Yes, It's True)
11. Paul McCartney - New (New)
12. Weekend - Sirens (Jinx)
13. The Sounds - Take It The Wrong Way (Weekend)
14. Jonathan Rado - Pot Of Gold (Law and Order)
15. Black Hearted Brother - Stars Are Our Home (Stars Are Our Home)
16. Lost In The Trees - Past Life (Past Life)

Same Old Night - 2013

A quieter folkier collection of songs from 2013.

1. Amor de Dias - Same Old Night (The House At Sea)
2. Wild Child - This Place (The Runaround)
3. The Olms - Another Daydream (The Olms)
4. Elf Power - Things Lost (Sunlight On The Moon)
5. Benoit Pioulard - Hawkeye (Hymnal)
6. Jim James - Dear One (Regions Of Light And Sound Of God)
7. Devendra Banhart - Daniel (Mala)
8. Dolly Varden - For A While (For A While)
9. Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Here I Am (Adam Green & Binki Shapiro)
10. She & Him - Baby (Volume 3)
11. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Kid (Under The Covers, Vol. 3)
12. The Wild Feathers - If You Don't Love Me (The Wild Feathers)
13. The Watson Twins - Love Of Mine (Pioneer Lane)
14. Blitzen Trapper - Ever Loved Once (VII)
15. Lee Harvey Osmond - Love Everyone (The Folk Sinner)
16. Jonathan Wilson - Love To Love (Fanfare)
17. Stereophonics - Indian Summer (Graffiti On The Train)
18. Camera Obscura - Troublemaker (Desire Lines)
19. Jacco Gardner - Summer's Gone (Cabinet Of Curiosities)
20. The Ruby Suns - In Real Life (Christopher)

Begin Away - Songs 2013

Begin Away - More songs from 2013

Getting back to posting some of those great songs from last year. This set rocks a little more and has a few of those wonderful retro psychedelic songs that made 2013 a great year of music for me.

The picture is the guy from Elephant Stone.





All albums released in 2013.

1. The Albertans - Begin The Beguin (Dangerous Anything)
2. Elephant Stone - The Sea Of Your Mind (Elephant Stone)
3. Psychic Ills - See You There (One Track Mind)
4. The Black Angels - I Hear Colours [Chromaesthesia] (Indigo Meadow)
5. MGMT - Plenty Of Girls In The Sea (MGMT)
6. David Bowie - Like A Rocket Man (The Next Day)
7. Wire - Doubles & Trebles (Change Becomes Us)
8. Jagwar Ma - The Throw (Howlin)
9. Depeche Mode - Angel (Delta Machine)
10. Bottomless Pit - Fleece (Shade Perennial)
11. Lightning Dust - Diamond (Fantasy)
12. Deerhunter - Sleepwalking (Monomania)
13. Pixies - Andro Queen (EP1)
14. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Don't Say A Thing (Revolution Number Zero)
15. White Fence - Pink Gorilla (Cyclops Reap)
16. The Sufis - Gotta Get Away (Inventions)

Life After Life

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, 2013.

This was a quick five day read in March 2014. It was  an interesting story of a woman with multiple lives. She keeps dying and then getting reborn again and again. It was very well written and very entertaining in a weird way of cheering on someone who keeps getting the chance to avoid various deaths.

It was also a fascinating historical fiction novel about World War II in England and about the people who lived through the horrifying times especially living during the London Blitz. 

I've always liked novels about multiple lives and living through multiple universes. This book does all take place in our historical universe but the idea of living over and over again and trying to get things right makes for an intriguing page turner.

Favorite Albums of 2013

I was a little late this year compiling my list of favorite albums but here they are for 2013. The usual list of 60.

1. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
2. Elephant Stone - Elephant Stone
3. Mikal Cronin - MCII
4. Joseph Arthur - The Ballad of Boogie Christ
5. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
6. Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others
7. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
8. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
9. Of Montreal - Lousy With Sylvianbriar
10. Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
11. David Bowie - The Next Day
12. Arcade Fire - Reflecktor
13. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
14. The Shouting Matches - Grownass Man
15. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
16. Futurebirds - Baba Yaga
17. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
19. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
20. Daughn Gibson - Me Moan
21. Patty Griffin - American Girl
22. Elvis Costello - Wise Up Ghost
23. Kurt Vile - Walk On A Pretty Daze
24. The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow
25. Paul McCartney - New
26. Califone - Stiches
27. Lightning Dust - Fantasy
28. Deerhunter - Monomania
29. Over The Rhine - Meet Me At The Edge Of The World
30. Hollis Brown - Ride On The Train
31. The Wood Brothers - The Muse
32. Atoms For Peace - Amok
33. Lee Harvey Osmond - The Folk Sinner
34. Charles Bradley - Victim of Love
35. Water Liars - Wyoming
36. Houndmouth - From The Hills Below The City
37. Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curriousities
38. Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
39. Wild Child - The Runaround
40. Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
41. Low - The Invisible Way
42. The Sufis - Inventions
43. Editors - Weight of Your Love
44. Arctic Monkeys - AM
45. Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassardors
46. MGMT - MGMT
47. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
48. Volcano Choir - Repave
49. Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God
50. Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up From Bones
51. Wire - Change Becomes Us
52. Psychic Ills - One Track Mind
53. Valerie June - Pushing Against A Stone
54. Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
55. Robyn Hitchcock - Love From London
56. Anna Calvi - One Breath
57. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
58. Son Volt - Honky Tonk
59. Moor Hound - Stifled Spirit
60. Juana Molina - Wed 21