On This Useless Night - Songs 1990

Another mix of songs from albums released in 1990. More of an Americana feel although the mix starts off with a couple of Canadian bands. Goes into some power pop, country rock and early indie before closing out with some classic shoegazing.

In 1990 I was really into many of these bands. In particular Blue Rodeo, The Northern Pikes, Steve Earle, Rosanne Cash, Indigo Girls and the Cowboy Junkies were getting a lot of play. A couple of new bands that impressed me a lot were The La's and The House of Love. I gradually grew to like the Posies. I was always looking forward to a new Robyn Hitchcock record.

I would discover The Rembrandts a few years later and go back and get this album. The same with The Chills and Yo La Tengo. I liked Mazzy Star as I had been following David Roback's earlier bands Opal and the Rain Parade but it would be their follow album to this one that would make them one of my all time favorite bands. I would discover Galaxie 500 many years later. I had heard of this band but never really listened to them. I stared listening to them a few years ago and went back and collected all their albums.

Pic is Galaxie 500

1. Blue Rodeo - What Am I Doing Here (Casino)
2. The Northern Pikes - Dream Away (Snow In June)
3. The Posies - Golden Blunders (Dear 23)
4. Uncle Tupelo - Screen Door (No Depression)
5. Steve Earle - The Other Kind (The Hard Way)
6. Rosanne Cash - What We Really Want (Interiors)
7. Indigo Girls - 1 2 3 (Nomads Indians Saints)
8. The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit (Submarine Bells)
9. The Rembrandts - Everyday People (The Rembrandts)
10. The La's - Son Of A Gun (The La's)
11. Robyn Hitchcock - Queen Elvis (Eye)
12. Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning (Caution Horses)
13. Yo La Tengo - You Tore Me Down (Fakebook)
14. The House Of Love - Crush Me (The House Of Love)
15. Mazzy Star - Blue Flower (She Hangs Brightly)
16. Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow Is Falling (This Is Our Music)

Yesterday's World - Songs 2001

A second selection of songs from albums from my collection released in 2001. Starts out with some neo-psychedelic fun before getting into some indie rock.


Pic is Super Furry Animals

1. Circulatory System - Yesterday's World (Circulatory System)
2. Super Furry Animals - (Drawing) Rings Around The World (Rings Around The World)
3. Built To Spill - In Your Mind (Ancient Melodies Of The Future)
4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Sailor (Bravery, Repitition and Noise)
5. Mercury Rev - Tides Of The Moon (All Is Dream)
6. Pulp - Sunrise (We Love Life)
7. The Beta Band - Human Being (Hot Shots II)
8. David Byrne - Like Humans Do (Look Into The Eyeball)
9. R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life (Reveal)
10. Sparklehorse - Gold Day (It's A Wonderful Life)
11. Radiohead - Knives Out (Amnesiac)
12. Spiritualized - Do It All Over Again (Let It Come Down)
13. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Mind The Gap (Behind The Music)
14. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells)
15. The Strokes - Soma (Is This It?)
16. Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today (Gorillaz)

Last Night - Songs 2001

Songs from many of the albums in my collection that made 2001 such a great year for music.

1. The Strokes - Last Night (Is This It?)
2. The White Stipes - Fell In Love With A Girl (White Blood Cells)
3. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong (Amnesiac)
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock & Roll (B.R.M.C.)
5. Weezer - Don't Let Go (Weezer)
6. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Sister Surround (Behind The Music)
7. Sloan - If It Feels Good Do It (Pretty Together)
8. Frank Black & The Catholics - Bullet (Dog In The Sand)
9. Jim White - Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi (No Such Place)
10. Chris Whitley - To Joy [Revolution Of The Innocent] (Rocket House)
11. Pete Yorn - Black (Musicforthemorningafter)
12. Ryan Adams - New York, New York (Gold)
13. The Shins - Know Your Onion! (Oh, Inverted World)
14. R.E.M. - All The Way To Reno [You're Gonna Be A Star] (Reveal)
15. My Morning Jacket - The Way That He Sings (At Dawn)
16. Spoon - Everything Hits At Once (Girls Can Tell)

Just Another Day - Eno Cycle

So how many more of these all things Eno mixes are there? Lots.  This is the fifth mix of the Eno Cycle tribute to Brian Eno as artist, producer, writer, collaborator, etc. I think I'm about half way through the playlist.

1. Brian Eno - Just Another Day (Another Day On Earth, 2005)
2. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire (Here Comes The Warm Jets, 1973)
3. Roxy Music - Editions Of You (For Your Pleasure, 1973)
4. David Bowie - Heroes (Heroes, 1977)
5. Talking Heads - Heaven (Fear Of Music, 1980)
6. Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981)
7. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs (Sacred Songs, 1980)
8. U2 - Bad (The Unforgettable Fire, 1984)
9. Peter Gabriel - Loved To Be Loved (Us, 1992)
10. Brian Eno & John Cale - Spinning Away (Wrong Way Up, 1990)
11. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Home (Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, 2008)
12. Brian Eno - Backwater (Before And After Science, 1977)
13. Paul Simon - Another Galaxy (Surprise, 2006)
14. Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day (Seize The Day, 2004)

Deep Blue Day - Eno Cycle

Back again for more all things Eno. The Eno Cycle continues with the fourth mix of a tribute to Brian Eno as artust, producer, writer, collaborator, etc. More Talking Heads and David Bowie but also Laurie Anderson, Robert Fripp, Paul Simon, Owen Pallett, Shearwater, and James Blake. Roxy Music and Phil Manzanera returns. Ultravox is back covering a great Eno tune and MGMT does a song titled Brian Eno.

1. Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day (Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, 1983)
2. Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (For Your Pleasure, 1973)
3. Laurie Anderson - Speak My Language (Bright Red, 1994)
4. Owen Pallett - Chorale (In Conflict, 2014)
5. Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (Diamond Head, 1975)
6. Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - Evening Star (Evening Star, 1975)
7. Talking Heads - Listening Wind (Remain In Light, 1980)
8. Paul Simon - Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean (Surprise, 2006)
9. Shearwater - Hurts Like Heaven (Fellow Travelers, 2013)
10. James Blake - Digital Lion (Overgrown, 2013)
11. David Bowie - No Control (Outside, 1995)
12. MGMT - Brian Eno (Congratulations, 2010)
13. Ultravox - King's Lead Hat (Vienna, 1980)
14. Brian Eno - Cindy Tells Me (Here Comes The Warm Jets, 1973)

No One Receiving - Eno Cycle

Still more all things Eno. The Eno Cycle continues with the third volume of this tribute to Brian Eno as an artist, producer, writer, contributor, etc.

Ths usual suspects... David Byrne, Talking Heads and U2 but Daryl Hall, Material, Chris Whitley and Dido make a first appearence. Grace Jones, Coldplay and Depeche Mode are back and of course Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry.

1. Brian Eno - No One Receiving (Before and After Science, 1977)
2. Brian Eno & David Byrne - America Is Waiting (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981)
3. U2 - Zoo Station  (Achtung Baby, 1991)
4. Daryl Hall - NYCNY (Sacred Songs, 1980)
5. James Chance & The Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself (No New York, 1978)
6. Talking Heads - Stay Hungry (More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978)
7. Material - Holding On (One Down, 1982)
8. Roxy Music - Do The Strand (For Your Pleasure, 1973)
9. Bryan Ferry - Wildcat Days (Mamouna, 1994)
10. Brian Eno - Juju Space Jazz (Nerve Net, 1992)
11. Grace Jones - Hurricane (Hurricane, 2008)
12. Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Songs Of Faith And Devotion, 1993)
13. Chris Whitley - Weightless (Long Way Around: An Anthology 1991-2001, 2002)
14. Coldplay - Lost! (Viva La Vida Or Death And All, 2008)

My Squelchy Life - Eno Cycle

More all things Eno. The second mix of the Eno Cycle continues to show Brian Eno as an artist, producer, writer, collaborator, etc.

More Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, Devo and Roxy Music. Also Grace Jones, Karl Hyde, Phil Manzanera, Depeche Mode, Anna Calvi, Damon Albarn, and James. We also hear  Elf Power covering Eno.

1. Brian Eno - My Squelchy Life (Nerve Net, 2014)
2. David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans (Earthling, 1997)
3. U2 - Numb (Achtung Baby, 1991)
4. Depeche Mode - I Feel You (Songs Of Faith and Devotion, 1993)
5. Eno & Hyde - Slow Dows, Sit Down and Breathe (High Life, 2014)
6. Grace Jones - Sunset Sunrise (Hurricane, 2011)
7. Talking Heads - I Zimbra (Fear Of Music, 1980)
8. Devo - Jocko Homo (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1978)
9. Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat (Before and After Science, 1977)
10. Phil Manzanera - Big Day (Diamond Head, 1975)
11. Roxy Music - Pajamarama (Roxy Music, 1972)
12. David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (Lodger, 1979)
13. Elf Power - Needles In The Camel's Eye (When The Red King Comes, 1997)
14. Anna Calvi - Desire (Anna Calvi, 2011)
15. Damon Albarn - Heavy Seas Of Love (Everyday Robots, 2014)
16. James - Tomorrow (Wah Wah, 1994)

Here He Comes - Eno Cycle

All things Eno. The first mix of the Eno Cycle. This series showcases Brian Eno as artist, producer, writer, collaborator, etc.

David Byrne and Talking Heads, David Bowie, Daniel Lanois, Devo, Ultravox, U2, Jane Siberry, Jon Hassell, Laraaji, Slowdive and of course Roxy Music.

1. Brian Eno - Here He Comes (Before and After Science, 1977)
2. Talking Heads - Warning Sign (More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978)
3. David Bowie - Sound And Vision (Low, 1977)
4. Devo - Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA (Duty Now For The Future, 1979)
5. Ultravox - Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead (Ultravox!, 1977)
6. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (Roxy Music, 1972)
7. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment (My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981)
8. Jon Hassel & Farafina - Flash Of The Spirit [Laughter] (Flash Of The Spirit, 1988)
9. Laraaji - The Dance No. 3 (Day Of Radiance, 1980)
10. Slowdive - Machine Gun (Souvlaki, 1993)
11. Jane Siberry - Sail Across The Water (When I Was A Boy, 1993)
12. U2 - With Or Without You (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
13. Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Viva La Vida Or Death And All, 2008)
14. Daniel Lanois - The Maker (Acadie, 1989)

Shine On - Songs 1990

A lot of good music came out in 1990 and this is a collection of some of the songs from albums released that year that spent some time on my stereos. I especially loved The La's and The House of Love and still listern to those albums regularly. The World Party album also got a lot of play as did Sinead O'Connor. The Madchester stuff was fun for a while as was Deee-Lite. I had listened to some of the previous Pixies and Sonic Youth albums but I really wasn't a big fan at the time. A lot of their work grew on me over the years. I discovered Ride a few years later and Sun Dial much later.

The pic is The La's.

1. House of Love - Shine On (The House Of Love)
2. The La's - There She Goes (The La's)
3. The Charlatans U.K. - The Only One I Know (Some Friendly)
4. Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches)
5. Deee-Lite - Good Beat (World Clique)
6. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Violator)
7. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (Ritual De Lo Habitual)
8. Pixies - Velouria (Bossanova)
9. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (Goo)
10. Sun Dial - Exploding On Your Mind (Other Way Out)
11. Ride - Vapour Trail (Nowhere)
12. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (Deep)
13. Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes (I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got)
14. Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk (Heaven Or Las Vegas)
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (The Good Son)
16. World Party - Is It Too Late? (Goodbye Jumbo)

Never Turning Back Again - Songs 2009

Volume six contines the upbeat indie rock of the previous mix and once again contains songs from some of my favorite albums released in 2009.

Starts off with one of my favorite songs of 2009.

1. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Veckimest)
2. St. Vincent - The Strangers (Actor)
3. Telepathe - So Fine (Dance Mother)
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Trick Poney (IRM)
5. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Wolfgang Anadeus Phoenix)
6. Animal Collective - My Girls (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
7. Monsters of Folk - Say Please (Monsters of Folk)
8. Yo La Tengo - Avalon Or Someone Very Simiar (Popular Songs)
9. Sonic Youth - Leaky Lifeboat (The Eternal)
10. The Horrors - Do You Remember (Primary Colours)
11. The High Strung - The Lifestyle That Got Away (Ode To The Inverse Of The Dude)
12. Anton Barbeau - Plastic Guitar (Plastic Guitar)
13. Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust On The Ground (I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose)
14. The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Give It A Rest (The Phenomenal Handclap Band)
15. Great Northern - Houses (Remind Me Where The Light Is)
16. Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor - All You Lovers (Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor)
17. The Dodos - Fables (Time To Die)
18. Young Fresh Fellows - Never Turning Back Again (I Think This Is)

I Wanna Be Trash - Songs 2009

The fifth volume in my series of songs from albums released in 2009 is a slightly reworked edition of a mix previously made at the end of that year.

More upbeat indie rock.

1. The Whip - Trash (X Marks Destination)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (It's Blitz!)
3. The Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game (Technicolor Health)
4. Suckers - Beach Queen (Suckers)
5. Peter Bjorn and John - It Don't Move Me (Living Thing)
6. Franz Ferdinand - Turn It On (Tonight: Franz Ferdinand)
7. Girls - Hellhole Ratrace (Album)
8. Washed Out - Feel It All Around (Life Of Leisure)
9. L'Avventura - Swandive (Your Star Was Shining)
10. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing (Sumertime)
11. Camera Obscura - French Navy (My Maudlin Career)
12. Tinted Windows - Can't Get A Read On You (Tinted Windows)
13. Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone (Two Suns)
14. Animal Collective - I Think I Can (Fall Be Kind EP)
15. Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall (Popular Songs)
16. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Kingdom Of Rust)

Let It Roll - Songs 2009

The fourth volume in my collection of songs from my favorite albums released in 2009.  This set also has more folk and Americana but closes with some quirky indie rock.

Pic is Jim James.

1. Yim Yames - Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Tribute To)
2. Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes (Around The Well)
3. Steve Earle - Where I Lead Me (Townes)
4. Rosanne Cash - Girl From The North Country (The List)
5. Ryan Bingham - Dylan's Hard Rain (Roadhouse Sun)
6. Jill Sobule - Where Is Bobbi Gentry? (California Years)
7. Hoots & Hellmouth - You And All Of Us (The Holy Open Secret)
8. The Avett Brothers - Slight Figure Of Speech (I and Love and You)
9. Devendra Banhart - Can't Help But Smiling (What Will We Be)
10. Brandi Carlile - Pride and Joy (Give Up The Ghost)
11. Tyler Ramsey - Ships (A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea)
12. Bowerbirds - Northern Lights (Upper Air)
13. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose (When The Devil's Loose)
14. Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair (Keep It Hid)
15. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others (Veckatimest)
16. Lightning Dust - I Knew (Infinite Light)
17. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Logos)
18. Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You (Dead Man's Bones)

And You Are No Longer A River To Me - Songs 2009

A third volume of songs from my favorite albums released in 2009. This is a collection of songs about heartache.

Pic is Cass McCombs.

1. Akron/Family - River (Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free)
2. Mike Bones - One Monent's Peace (A Fool For Everyone)
3. Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye (Parc Avenue)
4. Richard Swift - Already Gone (The Atlantic Ocean)
5. The Duke and The King - Still Remember Love (Nothing Gold Can Stay)
6. Swan Lake - Paper Lace (Enemy Mine)
7. M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You (Hold Time)
8. Yusuf - Thinking 'bout You (Roadsinger)
9. Fiction Family - When She's Near (Fiction Family)
10. Eels - That Look You Gave That Guy (Hombre Lobo)
11. The Swell Season - In These Arms (Strict Joy)
12. A Fine Frenzy - What I Wouldn't Do (Bomb In A Birdcage)
13. Buddy Miller & Julie Miller - Gasoline and Matches (Written In Chalk)
14. Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire (Artificial Fire)
15. The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine (Poison & Wine)
16. Jason Isbell - Cigerettes and Wine (Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit)
17. Will Hoge - The Wreckage (The Wreckage)
18. Rhett Miller - I Need To Know Where I Stand (Rhett Miller)
19. Wilco - You and I (Wilco)
20. Cass McCombs - Dreams-Come-True-Girl (Catacombs)

60 Albums 2004

My favorite albums in my collection released in 2004.

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
3. Ambulance LTD - LP
4. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
5. The Detroit Cobras - Baby
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
7. Chris Whitley - Weed
8. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
9. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
10. Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
11. Los Lobos - The Ride
12. John Fogerty - Deja Vu All Over Again
13. Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty
14. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
15. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows
16. The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion - Damage
17. Kelley Stoltz - Antique Glow
18. Espers - Espers
19. Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
20. Brian Wilson - Smile
21. Tom Waits - Real Gone
22. The Out Crowd - Then I Saw The Holy City
23. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
24. The Beta Band - Heroes To Zeroes
25. Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
26. Mavis Staples - Have A Little Faith
27. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
28. Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
29. Todd Snider - East Nashville Skyline
30. Blanche - If We Can't Trust The Doctors...
31. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
32. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic
33. The Green Pajamas - Ten White Stones
34. Blitzen Trapper - Field Rexx
35. Lou Reed - Animal Serenade
36. Chris Whitley - War Crime Blues
37. Frank Black - Frank Black Francis
38. Cloud Cult - Aurora Borealis
39. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
40. Vetiver - Vetiver
41. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
42. R.E.M. - Around The Sun
43. Jim White - Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
44. The Vines - Winning Days
45. Old Crow Medicine Show - O.C.M.S.
46. Sam Phillips - A Boot and a Shoe
47. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
48. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
49. The Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
50. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Wake Up Captain
51. The Twilight Singers - She Loves You
52. Air - Talkie Walkie
53. Southern Culture On The Skids - Mojo Box
54. Chuck Prophet - Age of Miracles
55. Marissa Nadler - Ballads of Living and Dying
56. Patti Smith - Trampin'
57. Califone - Heron King Blues
58. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
59. Gomez - Split The Difference
60. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door

60 Albums 2003

My favorite albums released in 2003.

1. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
2. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music
4. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
6. The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
7. Ry Cooder & Manual Galban - Mambo Sinuendo
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own
9. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
10. The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side
11. The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama
13. David Bowie - Reality
14. Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
15. Damien Rice - O
16. Calexico - Feast of Wire
17. The New Pornographers - Electric Version
18. The White Stripes - Elephant
19. Richard Thompson - The Old Kit Bag
20. Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace
21. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
22. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
23. Chris Whitley - Hotel Vast Horizon
24. Joe Henry - Tiny Voices
25. Will Hoge - Blackbird On A Lonely Wire
26. The Postal Service - Give Up
27. Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
28. The Kingsbury Manx - Aztec Discipline
29. The Thorns - The Thorns
30. Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue
31. Pete Yorn - Day I Forgot
32. Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
33. John Hiatt - Beneath This Gruff Exterior
34. The Strokes - Room On Fire
35. The Essex Green - The Long Goodbye
36. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
37. The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown
38. Warren Zevon - The Wind
39. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
40. Over The Rhine - Ohio
41. The Dreadful Yawns - Early
42. Azure Ray - Hold On Love
43. Lilys - Precollection
44. Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
45. The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
46. Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
47. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
48. Six Organs of Admittance - Compathia
49. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
50. Dido - Life For Rent
51. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
52. North Mississippi Allstars - Polaris
53. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
54. The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
55. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
56. Neil Young - Greendale
57. Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian
58. The Dandy Warhols - Welcome To The Monkey House
59. Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
60. Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere

60 Albums 2006

My favorite albums released in 2006. A wonderful year for great music.

1. Cat Power - The Greatest
2. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
4. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
5. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
6. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
7. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
8. Damien Youth - Alchemy
9. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
10. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
11. Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black
12. M. Ward - Post-War
13. Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
14. Darker My Love - Darker My Love
15. Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantual
16. Chris Whitley - Reiter In
17. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
18. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
19. The Black Angels - Passover
20. Neil Young - Living With War
21. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
22. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
23. Frank Black - Fast Man Raider Man
24. Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings
25. The Swell Season - The Swell Season
26. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
27. Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler
28. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
29. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality: One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird
30. Jackie Greene - American Myth
31. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
32. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers, Vol. 1
33. The Black Hollies - Crimson Reflections
34. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
35. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
36. T-Bone Burnette - The True False Idetity
37. Califone - Roots & Crowns
38. Assembly of Dust - Recollection
39. Calexico - Garden Ruin
40. Hem - Funnel Cloud
41. Los Lobos - The Town and The City
42. Solomon Burke - Nashville
43. Richard Buckner - Meadow
44. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
45. The Weepies - Say I Am You
46. Kelley Stoltz - Below The Branches
47. Richard Butler - Richard Butler
48. Clinic - Visitations
49. Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours To Keep
50. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
51. Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream
52. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
53. Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread
54. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
55. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
56. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
57. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River In Reverse
58. The Divine Comedy - Victory For The Comic Muse
59. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
60. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

60 Albums 2008

My favorite albums released in 2008.

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
4. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
9. Calexico - Carried To Dust
10. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
11. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
13. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
14. Jackie Greene - Giving Up The Ghost
15. Winterpills - Central Chambers
16. The Quarter After - Changes Near
17. Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
18. The Kills - Midnight Boom
19. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen
20. John Hiatt - Same Old Man
21. The Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger
22. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
23. Black Mountain - In The Future
24. Vetiver - Thing Of The Past
25. Darker My Love - 2
26. Beach House - Devotion
27. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
28. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
29. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
30. The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
31. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
32. She & Him - Volume One
33. The Wood Brothers - Loaded
34. Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies
35. Beck - Modern Guilt
36. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
37. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
38. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
39. Solomon Burke - Like a Fire
40. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
41. Robert Forster - The Evangelist
42. The Walkmen - You & Me
43. The Donkeys - Living On The Other Side
44. The Baseball Project - Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
45. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
46. The Pillbugs - Everybody Wants A Way Out
47. Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere - Nudge It Up A Notch
48. The Dodos - Visiter
49. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme
50. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
51. Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
52. Shawn Mullins - Honeydew
53. Santogold - Santogold
54. Ida - Lovers Prayers
55. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
56. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
57. North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando
58. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
59. Dungen - 4
60. Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds

Out In The Sweet Unknown - Songs 2009

Another volume of songs from some of my favorite albums released in 2009. This collection is more folk and Americana flavored along with that indie rock vibe.

Elvis Costello, Robyn Hitchcock and Exene from X show up too.

Mix title comes from the opening track.

1. Heartless Bastards - Be So Happy (The Mountain)
2. Devendra Banhart - Goin' Back (What Will We Be)
3. Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - Big Sur (One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur)
4. The Dutchess and The Duke - Scorpio (Sunset/Sunrise)
5. The Cave Singers - Summer Light (Welcome Joy)
6. The Felice Brothers - Penn Station (Yonder Is The Clock)
7. Dan Auerbach - When The Night Comes (Keep It Hid)
8. Sleepy Sun - Golden Artifact (Embrace)
9. Califone - Funeral Singers (All My Friends Are Funeral Singers)
10. Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows (Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)
11. Exene Cervenka - Surface Of The Sun (Somewhere Gone)
12. Bon Iver - Blood Bank (Blood Bank)
13. Andrew Bird - Anonanimal (Nobel Beast)
14. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - What You Is (Goodnight Oslo)
15. The Skygreen Leopards - Dixie Cups In The Dead Grass (Gorgeous Johnny)
16. Monsters Of Folk - Whole Lotta Losin' (Monsters Of Folk)
17. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Hard Row (Summer Of Fear)
18. The Decemberists - Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga) (Hazards Of Love)
19. Noah and The Whale - Blue Skies (The First Days Of Spring)
20. The Kingsbury Manx - Over The Oeuvre (Ascenseur Ouvert!)

60 Albums 2002

My favorite albums released in 2002. Since I put this together Beck may have moved up a couple of places to the top.

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3. Beck - Sea Change
4. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
5. David Bowie - Heathen
6. Sigur Ros - ( )
7. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
8. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
9. Nada Surf - Let Go
10. The Vines - Highly Evolved
11. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
12. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
13. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
14. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Dap-Dippin With Sharon Jones
15. Doves - The Last Broadcast
16. Kathleen Edwards - Failer
17. Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
18. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
19. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
20. Yo La Tengo - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science
21. Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air
22. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
23. Steve Earle - Jerusalem
24. Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
25. Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love To You
26. Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
27. North Mississippi Allstars - 51 Phantom
28. Gomez - In Our Gun
29. Robyn Hitchcokd - Robyn Sings
30. Neko Case - Blacklisted
31. The Telepathic Butterflies - Introducing The Telepathic Butterflies
32. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?
33. Alejandro Escovedo - By The Hand Of The Father
34. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
35. Tom Waits - Blood Money
36. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide
37. Buddy Miller - Midnight and Lonesome
38. Marianne Faithful - Kissin Time
39. The Green Pajamas - This Is Where We Disappear
40. Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
41. Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy
42. Jackie Greene - Gone Wanderin'
43. The Sadies - Stories Often Told
44. Great Lakes - The Distance Between
45. The Warlocks - Phoenix
46. Hank Williams III - Lovesick, Broke & Driftin'
47. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Judo
48. Luka Bloom - Between the Mountain and the Moon
49. Joan Osborne - How Sweet It Is
50. Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon
51. Primal Scream - Evil Heat
52. Duncan Sheik - Daylight
53. Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
54. Greg Brown - Milk of the Moon
55. The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
56. Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible
57. The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages of...
58. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
59. Orchestra Baobab - Specialist In All Styles
60. Supreme Beings of Leisure - Divine Operating System

60 Albums 1999

My favorite albums released in 1999.

1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Wilco - Summerteeth
3. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
4. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
5. Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
6. Beck - Midnite Vultures
7. The Clash - From Here To Eternity: Live
8. Los Lobos - This Time
9. The White Stripes - The White Stripes
10. Blue Rodeo - Just Like A Vacation
11. The Green Pajamas - Seven Fathoms Down and Falling
12. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
13. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
14. Ian Brown - Golden Greats
15. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
16. The Essex Green - Everything Is Green
17. Pavement - Terror Twilight
18. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
19. Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels For Sophia
20. Mike Ness - Cheating At Solitaire
21. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
22. Blur - 13
23. Moby - Play
24. Chris Whitley - At Martyrs'
25. Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
26. Freakwater - End Time
27. The Beta Band - The Beta Band
28. Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines
29. John Mellencamp - Rough Harvest
30. Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
31. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
32. Damien Jurado - Rehearsals For Departure
33. The Apples In Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie
34. David Bowie - Hours
35. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
36. Joe Henry - Fuse
37. Dido - No Angel
38. Marshall Crenshaw - #447
39. Travis - The Man Who
40. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
41. M. Ward - Duet For Guitars #2
42. The Charlatans - Us and Us Only
43. Old 97's - Fight Songs
44. Suede - Head Music
45. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Echo
46. The Walkabouts - Trail of Stars
47. Julie Miller - Broken Things
48. Houndog - Houndog
49. My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
50. Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
51. Elf Power - A Dream In Sound
52. Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
53. The Church - A Box of Birds
54. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
55. Van Morrison - Back On Top
56. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Crusades of the Restless Knights
57. Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
58. Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
59. Groove Armada - Vertigo
60. Spain - She Haunts My Dreams

Hooting Heads Will Roll - Songs 2009

The first mix of my series on the songs of 2009 from albums in my collection releases that year. This mix was created and posted to my previous blog toward the end of 2009 when I was recapping the year.

I had made some other mixes for 2009 at the time and some newer versions of thoses mixes will be posted as part of this series. This mix is the only one that I kept as I originally made it.

This one has a weird indie rock dance feel to it which I liked.

Pic is Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

1. Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling (Two Dancers)
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (It's Blitz!)
3. Metric - Help I'm Alive (Fantasies)
4. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream (Empire Of The Sun)
5. Phoenix - 1901 (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)
6. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension (Phrazes For The Young)
7. The Raveonettes - Last Dance (In And Out Of Control)
8. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator (Break Up)
9. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenager In Love (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart)
10. The Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts (Wild Young Hearts)
11. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Bitch, I Love You (Tell 'em What Your Name Is)
12. PPP - On A Cloud (Abundance)
13. Yacht - Pychic City (See Mystery Lights)
14. The xx - Crystalised (xx)
15. Bat For Lashes - Daniel (Two Suns)
16. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (Bitte Orca)
17. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (Psychic Charms)
18. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
19. Florence & The Machine - Cosmic Love (Lungs)
20. The Big Pink - Velvet (A Brief History Of Love)

60 Albums 1998

My favorite albums released in 1998.

1. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
2. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Elliot Smith - XO
6. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
7. R.E.M. - Up
8. Calexico - The Black Light
9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung Out In Heaven
10. The Detroit Cobras - Mink Rat or Rabbit
11. Beck - Mutations
12. Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings
13. Oasis - The Masterplan
14. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
15. Freakwater - Springtime
16. Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow
17. John Fogerty - Premonition
18. Chris Whitley - Dirt Floor
19. Golden Smog - Weird Tales
20. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
21. Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
22. Son Volt - Wide Swing Tremolo
23. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
24. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
25. Holly Golightly - Serial Girlfriend
26. Cat Power - Moon Pix
27. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
28. Sloan - Navy Blues
29. R.L. Burnside - Come On In
30. Oscar Lopez - Seduction
31. Todd Snider - Viva Satellite
32. Mojave 3 - Out Of Tune
33. Richard Buckner - Since
34. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
35. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
36. John Mellencamp - John Mellencamp
37. Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
38. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
39. Peter Case - Full Service No Waiting
40. Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key
41. The Asteriod #4 - Introducing...
42. The Church - Hologram of Baal
43. Robyn Hitchcock - Storefront Hitchcock
44. Air - Moon Safari
45. Gomez - Bring It On
46. Stacey Earle - Simple Gearle
47. Mark Lanegan - Scraps At Midnight
48. Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman and Bernadette
49. Astrid Williamson - Boy For You
50. The Minders - Hooray For Tuesday
51. Hank Dogs - Bareback
52. The Handsome Family - Through The Trees
53. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
54. Tortoise - TNT
55. The Doleful Lions - Motel Swim
56. The Grip Weeds - The Sound Is In You
57. Mason Jennings - Mason Jennings
58. The High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy
59. His Name Is Alive - Ft. Lake
60. Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge