One Bunch of Songs

One Bunch of Songs

This mix always makes me happy...

1. Crazy About You - Whiskeytown
2. Bluebird - Bonnie Raitt
3. I Got Lost When I Found You - Ron Wood
4. Anyway - Stephen Stills/Manassas
5. I'm Not That Kat Anymore - The Sir Douglas Quintet
6. Dark End Of The Street - Flying Burrito Brothers
7. Mystifies Me - Ron Wood
8. Ill Fated - Golden Smog
9. Opelousas (Sweet Relief) - Maria McKee
10. Jesus, Etc. - Wilco
11. Get Back Temptation - Ollabelle
12. Darling Be Home Soon - Joe Cocker
13. All Or Nothing - Small Faces
14. Drown - Son Volt
15. When My Baby's Beside Me - Big Star
16. Rumor Has It - The Honeydogs
17. Nature's Way - Spirit
18. Darkness Darkness - Mott The Hoople
19. Smoothie Song - Nickel Creek
20. 20th Century Boy - T. Rex
21. Fox On the Run - Sweet
22. Roll Away The Stone - Mott the Hoople
23. Roll Away The Stone - Leon Russell
24. Lonesome And A Long Way Home - New Grass Revival
25. Kate - Ben Folds Five
26. Why Don't You Go Back To The Woods - Jerry Douglas
27. Hokey Pokey - Richard & Linda Thompson
28. Evangeline - Matthew Sweet
29. Banditos - Refreshments
30. Good - Better Than Ezra
31. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
32. Father Of Mine - Everclear
33. Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
34. Friends Of P. - The Rentals
35. Waitin' For The Wind - Spooky Tooth
36. My Love Is Alive - Joan Osborne
37. Dancing Queen - The Yayhoos

and more...

Best Albums of 2005

Best Albums of 2005

ACTUAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:

* Rodney Crowell - The Outsider
* Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot
* My Morning Jacket - Z

HYPOTHETICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

* Ryan Adams - My Favorite Tracks from his three 2005 CDs

ALBUMS PRODUCED BY PRODUCER-OF-THE-YEAR JOE HENRY:

* Allan Toussaint, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Billy Preston - I Believe to My Soul
* Susan Tedeschi - Hope & Desire
* Betty LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell to Raise

THE REST:

NMAS - Electric Blue Watermelon
Greenhornes - Gun For You
Gorillaz - Demon Days
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Duo - Best Reason to Buy the Sun
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
A Band of Bees - Free the Bees
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Wilco - Kicking Television
John Hiatt - Master of Disaster
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die
Sharon Jones - Naturally
Sara Lee Guthrie / Johnny Irion - Exploration
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

The Aristocrats "Soundtrack"

The Aristocrats "Soundtrack"

V2 Records just released a 'soundtrack' to the Aristocrats - no much, just a lot great audio excerpts.

Allison Moorer - The Duel

Allison Moorer - The Duel

Great record from 2004. Check this out.

XTC

XTC Back catalog is finally up on Rhapsody!

I was 8 years old the first time I heard XTC's 'Generals and Majors' in 1980. Its full-on herky-jerkiness appealed to me as one of the most goofy and fun songs I'd ever heard, and it's always had a special, sentimental place in my musical heart. Despite that, I never owned any XTC albums besides their 1986 masterpiece 'Skylarking' and their recent TVT CDs. I've been dying to explore their history since I signed up for Rhapsody a couple years ago, but until yesterday, only those TVT records were listed in the Rhapsody system.

Obviously, I was happy when I found all the XTC albums listed when I check the "Just Added" section this morning. This 148 song playlist contains all their tracks available for full streaming access. I excluded the 30-second samples of songs for purchase only, which does eliminate some classics (Dear God, Ballet for a Rainy Day and about 35 others). Instead 'Dear God' is represented by Sarah McLaughlin's cover from the 1995 XTC tribute disc 'Tesimonial Dinner.' I also include all the tracks from that disc, which features covers by some mid-90s alt-rockers like Freedy Johnston and Spacehog.

Hope you like it.

Atilla

Atilla - Amplifier Fire

If you like Benevento/Russo, you must...must hear Atilla at least once. They were an organ/drum who released one self-titled album in 1970. Oh yeah -- their organist was Billy Joel.

Billy's new box set 'My Lives' features one Atilla track called 'Amplifier Fire.' You just have to hear it.

The review of Atilla at Allmusic.com begins as follows...

'Many critics, fans, and college students have spent hours debating the serious question of what the worst album in the history of rock actually is. One listen to Attila would provide them with a definitive answer. Attila undoubtedly is the worst album released in the history of rock & roll — hell, the history of recorded music itself. There have been many bad ideas in rock, but none match the colossal stupidity of Attila. There's a reason why they're the only heavy rock organ-and-drums duo in the history of rock & roll — it's an atrocious combination.'

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Atilla review

Atilla review at Allmusic.com