My Listening Hours: Favorite Downloads, July–September

I must admit I bookmarked a ton of good-looking blog posts with every intention of going back to listen and/or download the mp3s, but I utterly failed to follow through. Still, I did manage to find eleven new-to-me songs that really knocked me out. Many of these tracks came from the Cargo Culte and For the Sake of the Song. I recommend you follow them if you're not already.

Don't forget, there's a convenient little mp3 player down in the lower-left corner. just press play and kill forty-five minutes. The songs might look a little random but I actually think this makes a pretty cohesive playlist.

• Wooden Shjips: I Hear the Vibrations (2009)
• Steve Young: One Car Funeral Procession (1981)
• Theoretical Girls: You Got Me (1978)
• Phoenix: 1901 (2009)
• John Vanderslice: Too Much Time (2009)
• Guru Guru: Next Time See You at the Dalai Lhama (1970)
• The Delmore Brothers: I'm Lonesome Without You (1946)
• Cowboy Junkies: Working On A Building (1988)
• Cluster: Caramel (1974)
• Harmonia: Watussi (1974)
• The Modern Lovers: Government Center (1976)

Comments

[Ander]

Wow, that Harmonia song is incredible. I'd never heard them before. And thanks for putting together this mix-it definitely got me through the afternoon.

[Linda]

Thanks again for posting "Watusi." It's pretty amazing that you knew Engineers used that as a sample in "Clean Coloured Wire."

[scott pgwp]

Linda, it was a total coincidence - I heard both songs for the first time within a couple of weeks of each other.