Shufflin' Towards The Weekend

Bad Obsession-Guns N' Roses: Both Use Your Illusion I & II were the first albums that I fell in love with for better or worse. Some tracks are painfully not that great, but I still have both albums memorized lyrically. This track has got a bluesy barroom feel complete with harmonica. Whenever I hear any of these albums it takes me back to many a summer mowing the yard in the sweltering heat with a comically large silver Sanyo tape player attached to my belt.

I Think I Smell A Rat-The White Stripes: Whenever I listen to some White Stripes songs they can be technically so simplistic, but the end result is catchy as hell...such as this one for example.

Give Me A Beat-Girl Talk: When listening to Girl Talk it's akin to listening to some sort of musical mad scientist in the way he layers, samples and switches various tracks from artists as varied as Tom Petty to Ice Cube. It's almost like combining two foods that should be disgusting, but taste delicious. Anyway go here to see all the samples that make up this particular track.

Take The Picture Off-RJD2: Deadringer is a fun little album and this is simply a minute long cut of RJD2 doing some scratching.

Easejimi-Nightmares On Wax: This is off a really great underrated electronic album that is a combination of laid back jazz (horns mostly) and minimalist beats (usually boom baps). It sounds to me like what I imagine futuristic jazz should sound like.

Positive Contact-Deltron 3030: If I've said it once, I'll say it again: "Will someone please make this album into a hip-hop sci fi futuristic post apocalyptic anime soon...please"?

The Beatles-Penny Lane: This was off the first Beatles album I ever purchased which was Magical Mystery Tour. I'm usually pretty indifferent when it comes to Paul songs, but this one is quite nice because it reminds me of visiting home for some reason.

Crosshairs-Dangerdoom: I had super high expectations when this album came out. I mean MF Doom + Adult Swim X Danger Mouse should = mind bogglinly awesome. However you know how you build up how cool something is going to be in your mind and when you finally watch/hear it you've built it up so much that it could never even remotely be as awesome as you imagined it. That's exactly what happened with Dangerdoom for me...it wasn't "Oh my God this is the best thing ever" but "Eh, this was OK...I guess".

Hot Love-T. Rex: For me T. Rex is the perfect mixture of over the top 70's rock combined with sort of cheesy hippyish leanings. Half of this song is just a bunch of people yelling La-La- La-Lalalala and it still exudes sheer coolness. Below you can see a live version complete with over the top tambourine playing goodness.

Beck-Orphans: This was off the last Beck album, which I haven't really given that much of a chance. I've listened to it all the way through once or twice and been sort of...Eh. I mean it's good, but it's not really Beck good (which I'm sure makes little to zero sense at all). I'll probably give it another chance and who knows maybe it will click.

-Astroboy