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yep, another shuffle post...

You can blame the Cubs and their 0-2 start for this one. Or my fantasy team's lackluster day. Or an annoying client. Whichever. I'm just not in the mood to post much of anything tonight.

Yo La Tengo - "Alrock's Bells" (taken from Ride the Tiger)
The Cure - "Catch" (taken from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)
Iron & Wine - "The Night Descending (demo version)" (later version taken from The Sea & The Rhythm)
Grateful Dead - "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (taken from Aoxomoxoa)
Eels - "It's a Motherfucker" (taken from Daisies of the Galaxy)
The Knife - "Rock Classics" (taken from Deep Cuts)
R.E.M. - "Parakeet" (taken from Up)
Dinosaur Jr - "The Lung" (taken from You're Living All Over Me)
Disco Inferno - "Lost In Fog" (taken from It's A Kid's World)
Spoon - "Plastic Mylar" (taken from Telephono)
Spoon - "Believing is Art" (taken from Girls Can Tell)

Quite an interesting shuffle, if a little uninspiring. Two mediocre songs from well below average albums by artists I really love (Yo La Tengo, R.E.M.) and an absolutely horrible song by someone I otherwise love ("Rock Classics") keeps this one pretty boring. Props to the Eels and Dino Junior songs though, two of my favorites from both bands. That demo version of "The Night Descending" is fantastic, I like it much better than the souped up version that came out on the EP. And, yes, iTunes really did spit out back-to-back Spoon tunes to wrap up the shuffle.