May 1 - June 7

Updates have not happened lately.  38 days of selections will go here, in this post, and the rest will proceed as normal.

Spoon - The Way We Get By

Finally caught up.  Happy May Day.  Almost 33% of the year is in the past.

Soundtrack for walking beneath an overpass tagged into oblivion.

Spoon - The Way We Get By

Miss Kittin - Rippin Kitten

04/30/11

The remix version of this song adds a chorus that is really, really bad.  However, it comes with a music video that wasn't made by someone in the YouTube community.

"Honey, give me a real jungle knife."

Miss Kittin - Rippin Kitten

Mike Doughty - Unsingable Name

04/29/11

From how often Mike Doughty has shown up in this blog, it seems like I listen to him a lot more than I do.

Mike Doughty - Unsingable Name

Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Night

04/28/11

For some strange reason, all my Bob Dylan tracks disappeared except for this and three others.  Maybe that isn't a terrible thing.  I could have been stuck with three bad Dylan tracks, such as Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather.

"Will you be with me when the moon is bright?"

Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Night

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

04/27/11

Nice cover.  I never seek out the Cowboy Junkies, but I also won't turn them down.

"Everyone who's ever had a dream, everyone who's ever played a part."

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Micah P. Hinson - The Fire Came Up to My Knees

04/26/11

This choice was after listening to a lot of new music from M. Ward, this guy, and the newer Bad Religion Album.  The last 15 seconds of the song really sealed the deal for me.  However, this YouTube version doesn't have the same cracking, disintegration that is at the conclusion of the album version.

Micah P. Hinson - The Fire Came Up to My Knees

The Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae

04/25/11

At night in the summer, it does look like there was a rapture on Bonnie Brae sometimes.  Paper blowing in the wind, abandoned streets, and maybe Greg Dulli, thinking about it all.

The Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae

"The soul, the screen, the smoke in between"

The Queers - I Only Drink Bud

04/24/11

This song has always made me smile.  I agree, Miller tastes so bad.  Then again Joe Queer, Bud isn't too great either.

The Queers - I Only Drink Bud

M. Ward - Helicopter

04/23/11

Yeah, yeah...there was another M. Ward track a week or two ago.  I still need to stick to my own rules, so that song was the best for the day.  So it goes, so it goes.

M. Ward - Helicopter

I'm From Barcelona - Can See Miles

4/22/11
YouTube doesn't have a posting for this.  I trust you.  You can find the song somewhere.

"Don't let them get to you."

Ryan Adams - To Be Young

Terrible error.  Rancid - Bob is not the song of the day.  That spot goes to Ryan Adams.  Sing along.

"Oh one day when you're lookin back, you were young and man you were sad."  Yep, thanks for the perspective Mr. Adams.  Now, you need to make an album as good as Heartbreaker again and you'll be a superhero.

Ryan Adams - To Be Young

Rancid - Bob

If it hadn't been 2am, I would have thought I was consistently mishearing the song.  Nope.  It's just that sloppy of a cover.  It sounded a lot like the last time I heard NOFX slobbering all over a microphone.

Rancid - Bob

Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun

4/20/11

"I see you shine in your way, go on, go on, go on."

Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun

Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire

04/19/11

Mixed up the dates with 04/18/11.  I tell you, blog reader, because I'm certain you want precision.

This was a very near tie, but the video the YouTube poster made to go with the song made it pull in a nose ahead of several other songs.  Good song for a rainy drive getting lost in a town where I should know where I'm going at 2am.  Oh, perhaps that would make that a song for Tuesday and not Monday.  Time to stop typing.

Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire

Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2

04/18/11

Nothing will ever top this song from the Cohen songbook.

"that was called love for the workers in song."

Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2

M. Ward - I'll Be Yr Bird

04/17/2011

Coming across a song like this makes me reconsider not following up on more music from a performer.  I have kept this on my iPod for years, along with "Helicopter," but I have never looked for more music beyond the one album I have.  I think that will change tomorrow.

It's nice to find a video on YouTube that someone did more for than just inserting a picture of the album; curious that she's billed as "hot clown."

"I'm the tiger you never had.  I'm not the first hit when you got it bad.  I'm not your second.  I'm not your third, but I'll be your bird."

M. Ward - I'll Be yr Bird

Morrissey - Let the Right One Slip In

04/16/11

"What kept you so long?"

Morrissey - Let the Right One Slip In

Wolf Parade - Shine a Light

4/15/11

It's a long ride in traffic on a road that is closed up ahead for no apparent reason.

"Some folks float and some are buried alive
With our little boots, we built another world
Gonna chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain to the light
That's fine our blood is alive."

Wolf Parade - Shine a Light

The Thermals - Pillar of Salt

Another band that I first heard after an impulse purchase at Newbury Comics on a snowy Boston night several years ago.  Within two weeks of buying the album, I received two mix cds that had their songs on them, which was a nice coincidence.

The Thermals came at the break of a lull I found with music lacking the exuberance that I remembered from years prior.  So much that I was finding seemed passive or indifferent, missing the intensity of feeling that I needed to hear.

"We don't carry dead weight long."

The Thermals - Pillar of Salt