So many up votes for Shostakovich! I even named one of my cats Shosty after him.

I heard Beers, Steers, and Queers a few years before I actually watched Deliverance. That "squeal like a pig" bit was slightly less funny in the movie.

Your Woman! That's a song that I will completely forget about for large swaths of time, but when I hear it, I immediately want to listen to it several more times.

Even when they do address it, they get it so, so wrong.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time looking at the wall during this song last time I saw him live.

Thanks for hosting the shuffle thread! I don't do a lot of commenting on articles, but I look forward to this thread every week.

Lush and Lanegan? I approve!

So the one Wednesday I get to the TI right after 11:00 is the one day that your shuffle thread got delayed. To atone for participating in someone else’s shuffle thread, here is a brand spankin’ new shuffle.

Bill and Marvin? Yes, please.

Ugly Duckling – Energy Drink
Iron & Wine – Peace Beneath the City (Live at Lollapalooza)
The JudyBats – What We Lose
The Pipettes – Dirty Mind
Peter Gabriel – Sky Blue
Mosquitos – Semente
Commodores – Brick House
Monty Python – Meaning of Life

UK Surf is my preferred version of Wave of Mutilation. So good.

Jane’s Addiction – Ain’t No Right
Gang Gang Dance – Interlude (No Known Home)
Low – Walk Into the Sea
Gene Vincent – Be-Bop-A-Lula
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Shooting Sun
John Vanderslice – Break Those Coins
Janelle Monáe – BaBopBye Ya

It's also where I bought my Atari - on layaway over a few months of determined saving - so it has a special place in my heart.

I know ours had a pretty decent music selection too, at least as far as I could tell at that age. I spent a lot of time in that store.

Olivia Newton-John's Physical on vinyl from Ben Franklin's in small-town Kansas. I…I may still own this. And have later gotten it on CD.

I have a few of their albums, but I have neglected so far to load any of them onto my iPod. This is a good reminder to do so!

Two I Zimbra's in one shuffle thread. I approve!

I Zimbra is just amazing.

All hail the return of the shuffle thread! To celebrate, here’s a supersized shuffle, weirdly riddled with collaborations and punctuated song titles, and bookended by Spanish language tracks.

Loved for Tori and Kate. Also, fun fact, when I was growing up, if I saw South abbreviated, it was generally just as S. Which meant that, until I heard someone say the title out loud, I thought So. Central Rain was just R.E.M. putting arty punctuation after the word "so".