Dracula----by Marbles (Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo)

I like this song. It has a Halloween theme. Happy Saturday!

I Still Remember - Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress



These lyrics are why I love Micah P. Hinson:

Aren't you the one who said
What doesn't kill you will make you stronger
Anyway
That didn't bring you the confidence
To make you want to stay
Again
With me
Tonight

...then later in the song...

I still remember thinking
How lovely it would be
To hold you for eternity
Or at least until you fell asleep
Fell asleep

That one's from his first album. Just got the Baby and Satellite EP a couple days ago. Beautiful. New full-length Oct 10. Can't wait.

Why I Cry
The Magnetic Fields
Get Lost



I'm really starting to warm up to The Magnetic Fields. I guess I only missed that boat by about ten years.

Hey Sandy
Polaris
Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete



Just received season two of the world's greatest television show, The Adventures of Pete & Pete. An early 90's Nickelodeon show that featured music and guest appearances by The Magnetic Fields, Michael Stipe, Luscious Jackson, Iggy Pop, Jeneane Garafolo, Steve Buscemi and Adam West among others. This is the theme song from the show, and is one of the few things in the world that can put a smile on my face no matter what mood I am in.

Tonight You Belong To Me
The Broadway Hush or Eddie Vedder & Janet Weiss

"Police Sweater Blood Vow"---THE FIERY FURNACES

I dare you to find a cooler song from the last year!

Halloween on the Barbary Coast - The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death In The Future Head



"Well, the retards left, when the evening came... equilibrium makes us all the same. Boy, you still got shit for a brain... It's Halloween on the coast again."

Fuck yeah, Wayne. Fuck yeah.

"Did You See the Words?"----THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
This one is great....I bought this album right before Zach left Seattle. Hadn't properly listened to it until recently. This song is rad.

In The Mouth A Desert - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted



Still think the Dukes do it better, but couldn't find the album art for a posting.

Spanish Castle Magic
Jimi Hendrix
Axis: Bold As Love



After buying Guitar Hero on Saturday night, I spent the next six hours hell-bent on mastering the game. I made it through the easy and medium levels pretty quickly, and during that time, this became my favorite song to pretend to play while pressing buttons on a small plastic guitar. Everyone should own Guitar Hero its the world's greatest video game, and I now truly understand why I once walked around a party at Erik and Abbie's, the drunkest I've ever been, demanding to play it.

Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde



"Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?" Perfect start to a perfect song.

Company In My Back
Wilco
A Ghost Is Born



"Hide your soft skin, your sorrow is sunshine. Listen to my eyes."

Jeff Tweedy is a fucking genius.

Mr. Tough
Yo La Tengo
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass



This is Ira doing his best impression of Steve. This song is pure pop genius. Buy the new Yo La Tengo album now!

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - The Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite




Oh please god make it stop!! Why?!?... How?!?! How the fuck did this song pop into my head! I'm just walking through the shop and boom... I'm singing this piece of shit.

Ha ha! hopefully some of you now have it in your heads!

"Flower Gardens"---Chad Van Gaalen----download it for free at http://www.subpop.com/scripts/main/bands_page.php?id=445


"You'll have to swim in through the pppppppppppppppppipes."

Cha Cha Cha - The Little Ones - Sing Song EP



I'm currently a sucker for pop gems. This is one. This CD just arrived in the mail yesterday... I'm digging the artwork too.

7/4 (Shoreline)
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene



Whenever I listen to this song by myself, I tend to jump up and down and play air guitar, especially the multi-guitar rock breakdown before the outro. When did Canadians get the monopoly on the coolest rock music being made?

Stadiums and Shrines II
Sunset Rubdown
Shut Up I Am Dreaming



This song fucking rocks! It's a fucking rock anthem! Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Favorite line: "I'm sorry anybody dies at all these days"

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground - Loaded



These don't have to be obscure do they? This song was in my head upon waking this morning. Being that Zach is such a VU fan I just knew I had to post it. But yeah, does it get any better than this? Not in my book.

11:11
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
The Swimming Hour



There's not a whole lot of debate on the brilliance of Andrew Bird today. This song is from back when he was still sporting the Bowl of Fire moniker and the first album he started to get farther away from the Squirrel Nut Zippers sound (a band he was sort of in for a while). It's an amazing song, with all the usual texture and layers of Andrew Bird, lilting violin tracks that seem to swim through each other and his amazing voice. I think what I love about it most is that it makes no sense whatsoever with lyrics like, "So many die drinking milk in front of a window/ I once knew a woman who got in the way/ Of the intentions of a windy day/ Don't hold a cup in any season/ Don't make me choose between rhyme or reason/ Don't drink that milk in front of that window/ You might as well blame it on the will that the wind chose."

Bad As They Seem
Hayden
Everything I Long For



With the iPod on shuffle at work this song hits me hard. Like a rock thrown straight to the head from 1996. When did 1996 become ten years ago. I definitely listened to this song while pining over a girl ten years ago, I probably even cried while listening to this song ten years ago (I know I'm just inviting Ben to write a smart ass comment). Hayden has a way of sounding earnest and sincere that only a Canadian singer song-writer could and there's something about the way the guitar just rattles on this song (the low E is tuned down to an A) and the multi-track self harmonizing in the chorus. He's only gotten better with age (See Elk Lake Serenade or Skyscraper National Park), but its this song, with its video of him sitting on a bed, mowing his lawn, and wanting more from life that drew me in ten years ago.

Make Like Paper - Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar



Dammit Zach, you made me get this stuck in my head. I love this song actually, so that's not really a bad thing. I think it was the Chamblee-Dunwoody Lane reference that originally hooked me... that's an Atlanta reference for you Midwesterners... and sometimes i think the song goes on too long (12 minutes is a long-ass song), but I think it's the raw guitar sound that makes this one a standout on what I consider a superb album.

The Zookeeper's Boy
Mew
And The Glass Handed Kites



I have never both completely hated and enjoyed a band as much as this band Mew, and I'm all messed up about it. This isn't the best song on the record (if that is your quest, may I suggest Special or Circuitry of the Wolf), but it is the most indicitive of my issue with Mew. The song alternates between a) wicked synth-laden verse sections with fantastic distorted guitar/bass jams, and b) the most unabashed, total fucking cheeseass, synth-laden falsetto chorus ever put to record. It is a total mindfuck, because I actually FEEL embarrassment when i listen to it, but yet I CANT stop listening to it. Adding to my confoundment is a surprisingly effective guest vocal appearance by J. Mascis on two songs. Go figure.

Lily and Parrots
Sun Kil Moon
Ghosts of the Great Highway



This song plays in the movie "Shopgirl" when Jason Schwartzman's character sees Sun Kil Moon play live for the first time. At the time I had no idea it was Sun Kil Moon, it took me until about 2/3 of the way through the movie to realize that he was on tour with Mark Kozelek. Not my brightest movie watching moment. The sadder part is that I used to skip past this song whenever I listened to the album because it didn't fit very well with the rest of the songs. It still doesn't. It's a ball-rocker, as D. Crane would say, in a sea of mostly melancholy folk songs, but by itself it's a great fucking song.