The Beatles confess, “I’m happy just to dance with you.” And Animal Collective immediately reply, “I’m not.”

What’s interesting about this, to me, is that the Beatles became less danceable over the course of their career, while Animal Collective have become more so.

For more on Alphabetical Shuffle, click the linked tag.  Or find out what on Earth is is in my original post about it.

The stretch of songs beginning with “How” are an aching, beautiful set, and has me wondering another very human question: Why is “How” so difficult sometimes? It can be even more difficult than “Why”.

How (The Cranberries)
How Can I Tell You (Cat Stevens)
How Deep is Your Love (The Bee Gees)
How Do I Let A Good Man Down? (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings)
How Do You Sleep? (Evangelicals)
How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon)
How Does It Feel? (Ronettes)
How Does It Feel? (Spacemen 3)
How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings)
How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)
How Sweet It is (To Be Loved By You) (Junior Walker & the All Stars)
How Sweet It is (To Be Loved By You) (Marvin Gaye)
How You Been (Certainly, Sir)
How? (John Lennon)

For more on Alphabetical Shuffle, click the linked tag.  Or find out what on Earth is is in my original post about it.

I’ve been listening to all of my songs in alphabetical order by title for a few weeks now (only while at work). Occasionally, a true bit of poetry emerges from what is ultimately a sort of shuffle, and while I mostly comment on this via Twitter, I’m going to start documenting such moments here when they require lengthier explanation. Here’s one now…

“Car” by Built To Spill followed by “car chase terror!” by M83

“Car” is one of my favorite Built To Spill songs and it has a wonderful line in it: “I want to see movies of my dreams.” “car chase terror!” seems like the audio portion of a movie about someone’s dream and thus seems like a fitting response to that line. It adds a little careful-what-you-wish-for element as well, since this particular dream seems more like a nightmare.