Back At It: The Friday Shuffle

You know the rules. Put your digital music player on shuffle and report back the first ten songs it spits out. No "apron wringing" allowed.

Here goes:

1. Cemetary Gates (The Queen is Dead) -- The Smiths
2. Disco Lights (Science Fair) -- Emm Gryner
3. If I Can't Change Your Mind (Copper Blue) -- Sugar
4. Wrapped Up in Books (Dear Catastrophe Waitress) -- Belle and Sebastian
5. I Don't Want to Know (Rumors) -- Fleetwood Mac
6. Sick of Myself (100% Fun) -- Matthew Sweet
7. Good Man (The Animal Years) -- Josh Ritter
8. Can't Get a Line (Satellite Rides) -- Old 97's
9. American Music (Why do Birds Sing?) -- Violent Femmes
10. Other End of the Telescope (Ultimate Collection) -- Aimee Mann

General Thoughts: Wow! Great set. Not a bad song here.

Seen Live: Emm Gryner, Bob Mould (of Sugar), Belle and Sebastian, Matthew Sweet, Josh Ritter, Aimee Mann

Particularly enjoying right now: I'm on a total Josh Ritter kick ever since I saw him live last week. "God Man" is probably my favorite track on the new record. Also, I've kind of rediscovered Emm Gryner. I listened to her quite a bit in college and even got to see her at a house concert once.

Memory Trigger: Matthew Sweet's 100% Fun makes me think of high school. NS (HS boyfriend) and I used to love this record. It's still great.

Back to work...