Belated Essential 11 May 2011

I'm back! Computer problems have kept me away. I've been busy backing up my music to a cloud service so if the computer goes for good I'll still have it. I had over 300 MP3s from Amazon and I tunes. Wow. Anyway, Let's catch up with the songs your station should have been playing last month.

1) Paul Simon -- The Afterlife
This one is stictly a AAA pick. Rymin' Simon was never one to play it safe -- very clever in combining genres and is not afraid to use humor to make his points, a skill that is all to rare nowadays.
2) Mumford and Sons -- Roll Away Your Stone
This is the 3rd single off their debut and it looks like I'm going to buy the album cause I've liked everything I heard.
3) Brother -- Darling Buds of May
Every once in a while an English band will come around with a dynamite catchy song and they turn into a one hit wonder -- James, the Fratellis and Travis take a bow. This is a dynamite catchy song and time will tell if this is one of those bands.
4) Arctic Monkeys -- Don't Sit Down Cause I've Moved the Chair
If there's any justice, this isn't one of those bands.
5) Foo Fighters -- Walk
Starts off sorta slow and melodic and packs the punch of a tornado towards the end.
6) Adele -- Rumour Has It
Has a #1 smash that isn't dancefloor pop and for that alone I'm enternally grateful. This is more of her gospel flavored good stuff.
7) The Smithereens -- Sorry
Yeah, the kings of power pop are back, and even more than the Cars, they're picking up where they left off.
8) The Civil Wars -- Barton Hollow
Just plain purty country flavored folk.
9) Cage the Elephant -- Around My Heart
This shambling rowdy rock band sounds like it's channelling the Fixies this time out. Not a bad band to channel.
10) Bell X1 -- Velcro
I like this band cause they sorta remind me of the Talking Heads. God I miss them.
11) The Strokes -- Taken For a Fool
Why? C'mon, they're the Strokes!