Summer Music List

After I got the newspaper this morning I checked the TV listings and saw that Bright Leaves is on Iowa Public Television tonight at 11. I got really excited, then realized that nobody else could possibly care, so I kept the secret all to myself.

Also, did you see this week on ESPN where Harold Reynolds made one of the little leaguers quote a line from Billy Madison? The kid was in the broadcast booth because he got injured and somehow it came up that the players on the team all love the movie, and eventually they egged the kid on to screech, "Stop looking at me swan!" on national television. It was kind of amazing.

This is that list I mentioned that I was going to make of music that has delighted me this summer, either for the first time or noticeably more than it had before. In no intentional order:

• The Black Keys "10 A.M. Automatic"
• Cut Copy "Saturdays"
• Art Brut "My Little Brother"
• The Nice Boys "You Won't See Me Anymore"
• Aphex Twin "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball"
• Sagor & Swing Promo Disc
• Colleen Everyone Alive Wants Answers
• TV on the Radio "Staring at the Sun" (original & Diplo remix)
• M.I.A. "Sunshowers"
• Sufjan Stevens "Come On! Feel the Illinoise"
• Jason Forrest Lady Fantasy EP
• Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
• Roy Orbison "Crying"
• The Soft Pink Truth "Kitchen (L. Voag)"
• Miss Kittin "Allergic"
• Blondie "Heart of Glass"
• !!! "Get Up"
• The Rapture "Sister Saviour" (esp. the DFA Dub)
• Caribou "Medium Sized Working Dog (Steady Steady)"
• Lo-Fi-FNK "Unighted"
• LCD Soundsystem "Yeah (Crass Version)"
• DJ /rupture Low Income Tomorrowland Mix (esp. the first half)
• James Taylor "Break Me or Take Me"
• Superpitcher "Happiness (M. Mayer Mix)"
• Wolf Parade "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts"
• The Decemberists "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
• KRS-One "Sound of da Police" (???)
• Tortoise "DJed"
• Out Hud Let Us Never Speak Again
• Ciara "Goodies"
• Jaga Jazzist "Oslo Skyline" et al.
• Deathprod "Dead People's Things"
• Phonophani "Take Off Your Wooden Coat"
• Crime Mob "Knuck If You Buck (Pistol Pete Remix)"
• Eluvium "An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death"
• Four Tet
  - "Smile Around the Face"
  - "She Moves She"
  - "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth"
  - "As Serious As Your Life"
• Les Trolls "Babyboy"
• Med "Hold"
• The Raveonettes "Ode to L.A."
• The Streets "Empty Cans"
• Television "Marquee Moon"
• Greg Davis "Nicholas", which is based around "Introduction" from Nick Drake's Bryter Later