Sunday, May 19, 2013

Listen to the Music

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
- Frank Zappa

Every three weeks or so I hike over to my local library and check out a music CD. Listed below is a chronological tab of the CDs I have checked out since January 2006, when I began this activity.

Artist Title
Miles Davis The Complete Birth of the Cool
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart Take Me to God
Paul McCartney Driving Rain
Yoko Ono/Ima Rising
Semisonic All About Chemistry
Fu Manchu California Crossing
Paul Simon Graceland
Ned's Atomic Dustbin Are You Normal?
Lisa Loeb Hello Lisa
Res How I Do
Everclear Sparkle and Fade
Ani DiFranco Evolve
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar
Everclear Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
Wheat Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second
U2 The Joshua Tree
Terry Radigan Radigan
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
Radiohead Kid A
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
Pavement Brighten the Corners
R.E.M. Reveal
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones
Sara Evans Born to Fly
James Iha Let It Come Down
Juliana Hatfield Please Do Not Disturb
Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Water
Bonnie Raitt Fundamental
Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Thom Yorke The Eraser
Maria Mena White Turns Blue
The Twilight Singers Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers
Jessica Andrews Now
Meat Beat Manifesto Subliminal Sandwich
Jonatha Brooke 10¢ Wings
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
Heather Myles Highways and Honky Tonks
Jackson Browne Running on Empty
Susan Werner I Can't Be New
Cheap Trick Rockford
Alannah Myles Rockinghorse
Philip Glass Songs from Liquid Days
Bananarama Pop Life
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
Aretha Franklin Jump To It
Jonatha Brooke Steady Pull
Maria McKee Maria McKee
Peter Gabriel Us
Indigo Girls Come On Now Social
The Shamen En-Tact
SHeDAISY The Whole SHeBANG
The Bravery The Sun and the Moon
Björk Volta
Norah Jones Not Too Late
Radiohead In Rainbows
David Byrne Uh-Oh
The Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are
The Breeders Mountain Battles
Lily Allen Alright, Still
The Kills Midnight Boom
Sarah Harmer You Were Here
Veruca Salt American Thighs
Susanna Hoffs Susanna Hoffs
KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic
Tori Amos Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Ace Frehley Anomaly
The Mars Volta Octahedron
Robert Plant Pictures at Eleven
Susan Tedeschi Wait for Me
Beth Orton The Other Side of Daybreak
The Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon
Slash Slash
Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape
Steve Vai Sound Theories Vol. I & II
Alannah Myles A-lan-nah
Indigo Girls Swamp Ophelia
Arctic Monkeys Humbug
Christina Aguilera Bionic
Sade Soldier of Love
Amy Winehouse Back to Black
Lucinda Williams West
Lou Reed Rock and Roll Heart
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Duffy Endlessly
R.E.M. Accelerate
P!nk Funhouse
Janis Ian God & the FBI
Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love
Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone
Alison Krauss & Union Station Paper Airplane
She and Him Volume Two
Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement
The Murmurs Blender
Veruca Salt Eight Arms to Hold You
Luscious Jackson Natural Ingredients
Donna Summer Crayons
Colbie Caillat Breakthrough
Alicia Keys The Element of Freedom
The Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Jeff Beck Emotion and Commotion
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Norah Jones The Fall
Jane's Addiction The Great Escape Artist
Katie Melua The House
The Flaming Lips Embryonic
Britney Spears Femme Fatale
Trisha Yearwood Where Your Road Leads
The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Roberta Flack The Very Best of Roberta Flack
Andy Summers Synaesthesia
Sarah McLachlan Laws of Illusion
Christina Aguilera Back to Basics
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
Madonna Hard Candy
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Mirror Traffic
And currently...
Tegan and Sara Heartthrob

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