Doing the Shuffle, the iPod Shuffle
Music I listened to on the way to work and back:
“A Sorta Fairytale” – Tori Amos
“World Without End” – Laurie Anderson
“Sultan, So Mighty” – Vic Chesnutt
“Big Ugly Wheels” – The Beat Farmers
“Tell Me about the Forest” – Dead Can Dance
“Not Now John” – Pink Floyd
“I’m Sorry” – Hothouse Flowers
“Long Distance Runaround” – Red House Painters
“Please Be Kind” – Frank Sinatra
“The World’s My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum” – King Crimson
“Birdie Brain” – The Fiery Furnaces
“Danny Boy” – Johnny Cash
Not a bad one in the bunch, but I’m in the mood to share The Beat Farmers:1
On this day..
- Beautiful Math - 2010
- Air Video Review - 2010
- Music, Glorious Music - 2009
- The Persistence of Cats - 2008
- with a shout-out to Jay for introducing me to their music, well, beyond “Happy Boy” which I knew from Dr. Demento. *Sigh* I miss Dr. Demento. Anyway, thanks Jay. [↩]
RIP Country Dick Montana
Yeah, the thing I love about the Beat Farmers is the mix of cool alt-country and the crazy weirdness of Dick. He was friends with Mojo Nixon and the wrote some songs together.