1) Dan Zimmerman – Influx
2) Sufjan Stevens – All the Trees of the Fields Will Clap Their Hands
3) John Langford – Hard Times
4) Reigning Sound – Get It!
5) Willie Nelson – He Was a Friend of Mine
6) Blue Scholars – Burnt Offering
7) Christine Laume – Rouge Rouge
Nick Cave – Grief Came Riding
9) Psapp – Hi
10) The Roots – Step Into the Realm
The title comes from having heard news that my old nemesis is in town this week. He doesn’t know that’s he’s my nemesis, but I have decided it is so after he came back from six months in London with the worst British accent you can imagine.
What the hell is up with people who move south, or east, or overseas, and return to the Midwest with their awful, pretentious, and horrible (did I mention horrible?) fake accents?
“Am I Procrastinating? Can I Get Back To You on That?” Edition
1. Do Your Sums-Die Like a Dog-Play for Home — The Bad Plus
2. Compromise — The Indigo Girls
3. Changing All Those Changes — Buddy Holly
4. Way ‘Cross Georgia — Howard Johnson & Gravity
5. Incandescent Blue — Bruce Cockburn
6. Boat of Car — They Might Be Giants
7. Rub Me Raw — Warren Zevon
8. Elevation — U2
9. My Oklahoma Home — Bruce Springsteen
10. Zee Zee — Gil Evans
When I lived in London, I picked up a little accent without noticing, but everyone just thought I was Irish (until I got back to the US, at which point I lost what little accent I had).
The “I don’t giva crap what plays; shuffle is my God” Edition
1. The Decemberists – “The Legioneer’s Lament”
2. Johan de Meij – “Journey in the Dark”
3. CSNY – “Ohio”
4. Steeler’s Wheel – “Stuck in the Middle with You”
5. America – “Tin Man”
6. Carl Orff – “Olim Lacus Colueram”
7. CCR – “Lodi”
8. Dan Fogelberg – “Leader of the Band” (Dan Fogelberg?!)
9. Marc Cohn – “Walking in Memphis”
10. Radiohead – “There There (The Bony King of Nowhere)”
Ok, that last one I picked because I wanted some Thom Yorke and I wasn’t getting any.