I Believe in Locomotion

Here’s your Thanksgiving edition of the Shuffle. I hope everyone is having a healthy and happy holiday.






“You Are My Face,” Wilco
Wilco meets Pink Floyd on this track from their new album, Sky Blue Sky. One of my favorite domestic releases this year, it landed on the year-end lists of quite a few of my mates here at The Current. What were some of your stand-out albums of the year?

“Calling You,” Jevetta Steele
This is an Oscar-nominated song from the film Bagdad Cafe (1988). When this song popped up I immediately put the movie in my Netflix queue. Jevetta’s voice is stunning.

“Derelict,” Beck
One of the least played tracks from Odelay (1996). It’s got a nice little Middle Eastern flavoring in the middle. Maybe it’s just me, and I know nothing in his catalog compares, but I’m still waiting for Beck to deliver an album even half as good as this one. Or Mellow Gold, even.

“Fight the Power,” Public Enemy
Rosie Perez in boxing gloves. Remember that? And sampling Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" was sonically and thematically brilliant.

“Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind),” Loretta Lynn
From 1967. Coal Miner’s Daughter was the start of my inexplicable man-crush on Tommy Lee Jones. I feel like you need to know these things. Here’s a clip of Loretta singing the song with Jeannie C. Riley, the gal who did “Harper Valley, P.T.A.”