May 22, 2024

Little bit of a long gap, busy, logs going on. Have come across some good music, just haven't jotted it down. Another day at work trying to knock a few things out so slapped on a shoegaze channel. Good times. More to come.



Flying - The Telescopes

Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Say it Ain't So - Weezer

Dilemma - Green Day

February 15, 2024

Started stacking up... Quick trip to FL for work. Little bit of music coming back, plus some new (to me) music...Then a song from a cooking session with Daughter and Cousin. Then some random songs from a busy work day.

Lead Me On - Fletcher
Blame Me - Bathe Alone

Dangerous Game - Blu DeTiger

My Mind (now) - Paris Paloma

One more Hit - Weezer

This is the Feeling - Transviolet

Kinda Smacks - Royal and the Serpent and Gayle

abcdfu - Gayle

Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

Antihero - Taylor Swift

Slumber Party - Ashniko

Spitting off the Edge of the World - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Honey - Samia

Veronica Mars - Blondshell

Cutting this one off after a couple weeks, but might keep logging songs today... really digging them...

more to come.

March 4, 2019

Long gap. Sold our house last year. Bought a new one. Crazy busy over holidays. Work pressure continues to be steady and unrelenting. Music is still always there to be a balm for my soul. Just easy to get stuck in long dry spells with not much music. It's a problem.

Been listening to a lot of old favorites in the form of the entire catalogs of Metric and The Airborne Toxic Event. Both bands are so strong start to finish. A couple of my absolute faves. Anyway, here is some new music...


Can't Calm Down - Hand Habits
Piece of Cake - Weezer
Nobody - Hozier
Bottom Step - Living Hour
In Your Head - Nilüfer Yanya
Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines
Tell Me What It's Worth - Lightspeed Champion
Heavyweight Champion of the World - Nilüfer Yanya

Hope to get some more on here in the near future.

December 18, 2014

2014 drawing to a close. Work has been demanding enough of my focus that I haven't been able to listen nearly as much as I would like.

Lots of music on NPR top album lists, top 20 lists etc... Here are some that caught my ear.


Traces of Our Tears - The Rentals
Coffee - Sylvan Esso
Carissa - Sun Kil Moon
The Body Electric - Small Town Heroes
Morning - Beck
Sparrow - Joe Henry
Full Stick - Herzog
Palace - The Antlers
Two Weeks - FKA Twigs
Dark Side of the Moon - Chris Staples
Small Window - Luluc
Archie, Marry Me - Alvvays
Soon Come Soon - Young Fathers
Cleopatra - Weezer

August 27, 2014

Weird mood. First week of school, Occasional bursts of strong emotion. Chance to work with headphones blaring out the outside world. Stumbled upon the 100 best alternative songs from 1994. There are a handful I really like. A bunch I don't. Interpol has some shiny new music that comes out soon. Here are a few songs that caught my ear.




Loser - Beck
Undone-The Sweater Song - Weezer
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
My Desire - Interpol
Everything is Wrong - Interpol
Ancient Ways - Interpol
Tidal Wave - Interpol

More later.

August 24, 2009

Whew. Time is just flying by. Today our baby girl turns 4 months. I'll list a few notable events of the past few months...

• Lots of Baby Stuff
• New roof on our house
• Started up our fishtank again
• 2 of my fave people spent 9 weeks away in Europe
• Attended Green Day Concert in Philadelphia with one of my best friends
  
• Have enjoyed reasonably stable outlook all summer.
  
• Lots and lots of music... some of it listed below.
  

Help I'm Alive - Metric
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - Weezer
Fix You - Coldplay
Kristy, Are You Doing OK? - The Offspring
The Mountain - Heartless Bastards
Dustland Fairytale - The Killers
Last of the American Girls - Green Day
21 Guns - Green Day
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Rake Song - The Decemberists
Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
The Calculation - Regina Spektor
Laughing with - Regina Spektor
Study War - Moby
Zombie - The Cranberries
Le Disko - Shiny Toy Guns

September 17, 2008

Nerve racking time of waiting. Trying to keep my head on straight. And trying to be ready to be the strong one for once. Relationships are better, but still seem on the edge of disappearing. I lose myself in the music because it moves me at a level that life rarely does. Here's some of what I'm listening to...

Love is Noise - The Verve
Hash Pipe - Weezer
Karma Police - Radiohead
Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event
Minority - Green Day
Everything will be all right - The Killers
I'm Not OK - My Chemical Romance

July 8, 2008

Last Saturday, I woke up with a song in my head but the only line I could remember was the short chorus consisting entirely of na na na na na na nas. I googled the line of na nas but could only come up with goofy power anthems from the seventies. So I just purposed to pay attention if I heard the song again. Lo and behold, later that afternoon, Sirius radio came through for me. The song was E-Pro by Beck. Short and sweet, but pretty damned catchy. Lyrics are pretty mysterious, but are existential and bitter... right up my alley. Anyway, here are a few songs that are getting it done for me right now.

E-Pro - Beck
Angels on the Moon - Thriving Ivory
Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Shut up and let me go - The Ting Tings
That's not my name - The Ting Tings
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Handlebars - Flobots
Pork and Beans - Weezer
Viva la Vida - Coldplay


Always listening for the music of my life.

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