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My RIYLmusic Top 30 list for the week beginning June 05, 2006 [Where I get to pretend I'm a program director at my very own hip radio station (full story here)].

Three new ones this week:

Psapp The Only Thing I Ever Wanted My entire electronia collection consist of a couple Everything But the Girl discs and that Massive Attack CD where Shara Nelson sounds just like EBtG's Tracey Thorn. I really like EBtG a lot, but they get so serious sometimes, and hel-lo! they haven't put an album out in like for-ever! Enter Psapp (the first "p" is silent, I'm not sure about the last "p') - lighthearted electronia, and it's available on a brand-spanking-new release. Just one warning: the Fisher Price-meets-Black & Decker backing instrumentation might get on your nerves after a while. Decide for yourself - the whole album is streaming at MSN’s new release page. For the less adventurous, 3hive has posted a couple highlights from the disc.

Johnny Cash Personal File Forty-nine songs recorded at Cash's Herdersonville, TN home back in '73 and only discovered after his death in '03. I've only heard a couple tunes from this double disc - and I can't find any samples beyond the tiny ones offered on the Amazon page - but after seeing Walk the Line, I'm ready to hear some new-old Cash. I need to get Joaquin's lame attempt at Johnny's baritone out of my system.

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint The River In Reverse When Elvis Costello expands his horizons, he does it right - with folks like Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, and now piano legend Allen Toussaint. Bacharach had him doing some mellow sixties pop and Chet wasn't exactly known for being real upbeat (at least not around the time he worked with Costello), but with Toussaint Elvis gets to have some fun - and he's in great form with Toussaint's N'awlin sound backing him up. Verve Records is streaming the first single (Elvis' take on Toussaint's "Tears, Tears and More Tears") and MSN has some footage of the two from Jazzfest.

New additions are in GREEN.

1. ELVIS COSTELLO & ALLEN TOUSSAINT The River In Reverse
2. DAVE ALVIN West of the West
3. THE HEAVY BLINKERS The Night and I Are Still So Young
4. MATES OF STATE Bring It Back
5. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
6. THE RACONTEURS Broken Boy Soldiers
7. FLAMING LIPS At War With The Mystics
8. PSAPP The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
9. WORLD PARTY Dumbing Up
10. T-BONE BURNETT The True False Identity
11. JOHNNY CASH Personal File
12. MASON JENNINGS Boneclouds
13. JOLIE HOLLAND Springtime Can Kill You
14. BIG STAR In Space
15. THE SILVER JEWS Tanglewood Numbers
16. PAUL SIMON Surprise
17. NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
18. VARIOUS ARTISTS Big Star Small World
19. SNOW PATROL Eyes Open
20. FIELD MUSIC Field Music
21. JIM & JENNIE AND THE PINETOPS Little Birdy
22. JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS Rabbit Fur Coat
23. NEIL YOUNG Living With War
24. RHETT MILLER The Believer
25. MASON JENNINGS Use Your Voice
26. LOOSE FUR Born Again In The USA
27. STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 ...Tick...Tick...Tick
28. THE A-SIDES Hello, Hello
29. SONDRE LERCHE Faces Down
30. CAT POWER The Greatest

Dropping off the list this week:

• CHATHAM COUNTY LINE Speed of the Whippoorwill 
• MARAH If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry 
• GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere

Comments

[Citizen Mom]

XPN is playing the you-know-what out of that Mates of State song, "Think Long." Not bad!
I'm totally into the Raconteurs album. Makes me wish I was in high school...it's kegger music.