This is a mix I made for Joey O. a couple months ago when I hung out with him up in Philly:

1. Henrietta Collins and the Wife Beating Child Haters - "Drive By Shooting"
2. Apollo Sunshine - "Phoney Marony"
3. Spymob - "On Pilot Mountain"
4. The Sands - "House Of Golden Proportions" (demo)
5. Ruth Ruth - "Jerome"
6. The Oranges Band - "Atmosphere"
7. System Of A Down - "Attack"
8. John Mellencamp - "Love And Happiness"
9. Travis Morrison - "The Word Cop"
10. The Roots - "Push Up Ya Lighter"
11. Freeway and Beanie Sigel - "Philly Niggas"
12. Gwen Stefani f/ Ludacris - "Luxurious" (Zone 4 Remix)
13. DJ Chris J. - "I'm Rich Bitch"
14. Prince - "Shockadelica"
15. They Might Be Giants - "Am I Awake"
16. Sloan - "The Good In Everyone"
17. Frank Black - "Freedom Rock"
18. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - "Come Baby Come"
19. Little Feat - "Strawberry Flats"
20. The Posies - "That Don't Fly"
21. Bruce Springsteen - "Candy's Room"
22. R.E.M. - "Time After Time Etc. (Live Medley: Time After Time/Red Rain/So. Central Rain)"
23. Steely Dan - "Barrytown"

Labels: Apollo Sunshine, Baltimore music, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Lee, mixtapes, Prince, Sloan, Spymob, Steely Dan, Ted Leo, The Posies, They Might Be Giants, Travis Morrison

Albums:
1. T.I. - King
2. Prince - 3121
3. Jon Auer - Songs From The Year Of Our Demise
4. Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat
5. Jaheim - Ghetto Classics
6. Remy Ma - There's Something About Remy
7. Little Clayway - Still Movin' Independently
8. various artists - Unruly Club Classics Vol. III
9. B.G. - The Heart Of Tha Streetz, Vol. 2 (I Am What I Am)
10. Juvenile - Reality Check

Singles:
1. DJ Khaled f/ Paul Wall, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Pitbull - "Holla At Me Baby"
2. Toni Braxton - "Take This Ring"
3. T.I. - "What You Know"
4. Foo Fighters - "No Way Back"
5. B.G. f/ Mannie Fresh - "Move Around"
6. Remy Ma - "Conceited"
7. Jamie Foxx f/ Ludacris - "Unpredictable"
8. Ray Cash f/ Scarface - "Bumpin' My Music"
9. Heather Headley - "In My Mind"
10. E-40 f/ Keak Da Sneak - "Tell Me When To Go"
11. All-American Rejects - "Move Along"
12. Lil Wayne - "Hustler Musik"
13. Prince - "Black Sweat"
14. Chamillionaire f/ Krayzie Bone - "Ridin'"
15. Kelly Clarkson - "Walk Away"
16. Chris Brown - "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)"
17. Daddy Yankee - "Rompe"
18. Lil Kim - "Woah"
19. Fall Out Boy - "A Little Less 16 Candles, A Little More 'Touch Me'"
20. Twista f/ Pitbull - "Hit The Floor"
21. Pussycat Dolls f/ Will.I.Am - "Beep"
22. Cassidy - "Cassidy Theme"
23. DJ Shadow f/ Keak Da Sneak and Turf Talk - "3 Freaks"
24. Keyshia Cole - "Love"
25. T.I. - “Why You Wanna”
26. Three 6 Mafia - "Poppin' My Collar"
27. Click Five - "Catch Your Wave"
28. Morningwood - "Nth Degree"
29. Donnell Jones f/ Jermaine Dupri - "Better Start Talking"
30. Shawnna - "Gettin' Some"
31. Beyonce f/ Slim Thug and Bun B - "Check On It"
32. Ghostface f/ Ne-Yo - "Like That"
33. Ne-Yo - "So Sick"
34. Notorious B.I.G. f/ Twista, Bone Thugs N Harmony, 8Ball & MJG and Swizz Beatz - "Spit Yo Game" (Remix)
35. Christina Milian f/ Young Jeezy - "Say I"
36. Sean Paul - "Temperature"
37. Teddy Geiger - “Confidence (For You I Will)”
38. The Lox - "Take Everything"
39. Kirk Franklin - "Looking For You"
40. Rihanna - "S.O.S."
41. The Fray - "Over My Head (Cable Car)"
42. Dilated Peoples - "Back Again"
43. KT Tunstall - "Black Horse And The Cherry Tree"
44. Dem Franchize Boyz - "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
45. Alicia Keys - "Every Little Bit Hurts"
46. LL Cool J f/ Freeway - "Whatcha Want"
47. Matisyahu - "King Without A Crown"
48. Kelis f/ Too $hort - "Bossy"
49. T-Pain f/ Mike Jones - "I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)"
50. Jaheim - "The Chosen One"

Labels: Baltimore music, hip hop, lists, Prince, R and B, Steely Dan, T.I., The Posies

Meme time!

Total volume of music files on my computer: at the moment, 565 mp3's, which I guess is a big number, but I don't feel like I download a lot or listen to music on my computer that often. I have an old iBook with pretty limited hard drive space, which means almost everytime I want to download something new, I have to find something I don't mind deleting to make room. I hope to get a new computer in the near future so that I don't have to worry about this issue anymore.

Last CD I bought was: on the same day, Grand Buffet's Five Years of Fireworks and Sloan's A Sides Win, both career retrospectives wherein I was already familiar with a lot of the songs, and was motivated to purchase mainly for the DVDs packaged inside.

Song playing right now: Chaka Khan "I Feel For You"

Five songs I listen to a lot these days: (I'll try not to make any of these redundant with similiar lists I put on this blog) NEK "Face Down" (Remix), Steely Dan "Babylon Sisters", Brendan Benson "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)", T.I. "ASAP", 112 "My Mistakes"

And I am passing this on to be filled out by:
Jeff
Mat
Hillary
Anthony
Zac

Labels: Baltimore music, Brendan Benson, Grand Buffet, meta, Steely Dan, T.I.

in my stereo:

Brooke Valentine - Chain Letter
The Movement volume #3: Bmore Live 2005
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust
Prince and the Revolution - Parade
Lake Trout - Another One Lost
Grand Buffet - Dicer: The Unheard Funk Tracks
Will Smith - Lost & Found
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
DJ K-Swift - The Club Queen Jump Off
Steely Dan - Everything Must Go

Labels: Baltimore music, Elvis Costello, Grand Buffet, hip hop, In My Stereo, Prince, R and B, Steely Dan

in my stereo:

Huli Shallone - It's My Turn
Trick Daddy - Book of Thugs: Chapter AK, Verse 47
Chisel - Set You Free
Travis Morrison - Travistan
Rod Lee - Operation: Start-Up
Enon - High Society
Nas - It Was Written
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Labels: Baltimore music, Enon, In My Stereo, Nels Cline, Steely Dan, Superchunk, Ted Leo, Travis Morrison, Trick Daddy

Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan box set
I owe a lot of my taste for dad rock to, well, my dad, and since growing up listening to Steely Dan in my dad's car, my jones for the Dan has slowly grown. A few years ago I had Pretzel Logic on vinyl and my roommate at the time had a couple other albums, and then this year I found one of my dad's old tapes that had Gold on one side and PL on the other and played it in my car over and over. So the other day when I saw this box set, which collects all 7 of the original 70's/early 80's era SD albums, for less than $40, I had to snap it up. I've heard most of the albums at some point before, but this still a lot that's new to me and I'm real excited about finally getting to delve into the catalog.

Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
Over the summer this hot indie rock girl I used to work with was selling a bunch of old CD's when she needed money, and I snapped up a bunch of late 90's rap CD's she had no use for anymore, including this classic (and Busta's ELE, which is almost as good). I loved all the singles at the time and it's great to finally hear the album. Dude really was one of the G.O.A.T.'s. "Dead in the middle of Little Italy/little did we know that we riddled some middle man who didn't do diddly"!!!!

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
I never really had any curiousity about Dylan before, he was just one of those guys whose place in the canon I was willing to accept, but he didn't have any joints on classic rock radio that I loved like, say, Springsteen. But after I heard and fell completely in love with "Simple Twist of Fate", I realized that a couple of the only other Dylan songs I'd ever really liked ("Shelter From The Storm" and "Tangled Up In Blue") were on the same album, and that I had to have that album. It may be years before I'm enticed to check out any more Dylan, but for now this is good for me.

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is The Talking Heads
I'd been hearing about this and glancing at old vinyl copies on eBay for years, but by the time it finally got the huge reissue this year, my interest in the Heads was on a down cycle, so I was quite as hyped about it. And while I don't think it toally deserves its mythic status, it is a pretty good document of the era and there are a few tracks that totally kill the studio versions, "Drugs (Electricity)" especially.

Pulp - His 'n' Hers
I copped This Is Hardcore and Different Class in the late 90's, and their value to me seemed to grow with each year, so this year I finally checked out the one that gets hyped by fans as better than DC. And while it's not quite that, there are some pretty incredible moments, like "Babies" and "Acrylic Afternoons".

Prince - 1999
I've been down with Purple Rain and the pre-superstardom albums for a while (one of these days I'm going to dedicate a post to the underrated self-titled album), but I'd never gotten around to checking out the bridge between those 2 eras until a few months ago. While it's not as amazing as that other double album (duh), it's still the man near at his peak with some choice LinnDrum action.

Blink 182 - Blink 182
Just barely not this year, but if it was, it would definitely be in my top 10 for '04. "Josie" aside, I was never much into their early singles, but after loving the singles from this one (especially "Down") I snapped it up from a pile of promos that a friend who worked at DC101 let me pick through. It's a completely awkward, conflicted attempt at 'maturity' from a band that has spent most of its career pretending to be 19 to appeal to 14-year-olds, but they manage some great moments in spite of themselves. Travis Barker is perhaps my favorite drummer that isn't in a band I pariticularly love.

Labels: hip hop, lists, Prince, Steely Dan