New Countdown: Play it Where it Lays

Frightened Rabbit

Happy 350th episode! It's hard to believe that I've been doing this countdown for roughly 7.5 years!

Bit of a theme this week, but mostly just a lot of really great songs! So, enjoy!


Countdown #350

***Featuring***
The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez from Sublime With Rome
Frightened Rabbit
Imagine Dragons
Judah and the Lion
The Killers
Muse
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Shinedown
Sir Sly
Vance Joy
Weezer

BONUS EPISODE: The Ten Highest Charting Songs (2010-2012)

The Black Keys

This was, by far, the easiest episode I've ever recorded. All hits. For a whole hour. This is a good one to put on for a friend who doesn't know about the podcast, or like, at a party? or something? It was a fun one.

The Ten Highest Charting Songs (2010-2012)

***Featuring***
The Black Keys
The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Gotye featuring Kimbra
Linkin Park
Mumford & Sons
Muse

Early, you say?

Well, as I mention at the beginning of the episode this week, I'm off to a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes concert tomorrow night. I'm super excited and can hardly wait, but it did mean that the deadline I've (sort of) set for myself was not going to work and so here I am. On a Wednesday morning (technically speaking), posting the countdown!

Countdown #29

I'll let you know how the concert was :)

Ok, well, maybe not IN the eight o'clock hour. But certainly near it

Ok, so maybe I end this podcast with something that turned out not to be true, exactly, but it's still a fun podcast :)

Countdown #28

New Countdown! With a new #1!

Here's the latest episode of the countdown!

I'm enjoying publishing it on Wednesday nights/Thursday mornings. It means practically zero wait time before i can see next week's list!

Countdown #27

Countdown #26 and a bit of accidental (though maybe not entirely inappropriate) irreverence

So, before I get my comments section flooded with hate mail (which would still be preferable to the nothing i get usually), I didn't mean to pick the very least appropriate John Lennon song to play in honor of his birthday. Although, I think maybe he might have gotten a dark chuckle out of it?

Countdown #26

25 countdowns in and still going strong!

Well, here it is: That highly anticipated 25th episode of the countdown! Lots of change. Listen and love it!

Countdown #25

23/Book Club!

Hey Everyone! Here's the latest episode of the countdown for your listening enjoyment!

Countdown #23

In other news, Dessa, who I played on the countdown a couple of weeks ago, is starting a book club! The first book is Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the reading starts on Saturday (9/18). Check out the Doomtree website for more information!

22 and the Boss

Hey everyone! First of all:

Countdown #22!

Second, I've been listening to a lot of Bruce Springsteen recently. I'm really enjoying the imagery in his lyrics and the stories he has to tell. Someone enjoying Bruce is not news, of course, but I was wondering if anyone out there has a favorite song of his. Leave me some comments :)

Countdown #21

What? 10:47 and i'm publishing the podcast? Fantastic! Of course it's wednesday night.... oh well. We're always improving, aren't we? hopefully.

Here it is!

Countdown #21

Unsinkable 17

Well here it is. Having survived power outages and A/C turmoil and everything, I finally got #17 together. I hope you enjoy. It's a fun one!

Countdown #17

Sweet Sixteen

Well, here it is. Countdown #16. Got some new stuff on there and some old stuff. And I'll get around to writing my Smashing Pumpkins experience soon.

Quick managerial note: I'm going to be taking something like the first 3-5 episodes down. If, for some reason, one of those is your favorite, but you don't have a copy, get it soon!

Countdown #16

#15 (but really #16, if you think about it...)

I suppose that I will have to update the numbering system to include the Flashback countdowns. Maybe I'll do it like the comic books and, for #24, skip right to the SPECIAL 25th EPISODE! (-sode, -sode-, -sode) (That was supposed to be an echo.)

For now, here's #15! Stay tuned for my post about the Smashing Pumpkins concert I'm going to tomorrow night...wait...it's 1:59 am. It's TONIGHT! Woohoo!!!

Countdown #15

Early morning posting!

Well, it's bright and early on Wednesday and here I am posting the new countdown. It's a pretty good one, in my opinion.

Couple of other things:

- I now have a twitter account. I realized that there were some people (Contrast Podcast alums, mostly) that didn't have Facebook, but DID have Twitter. And so, to better keep in touch with them, I have a Twitter account. Its @james80d (I think that's how you tell people what your Twitter username is. That's how I've always seen it done, anyways)

- My good friend Andy is treating me to tickets to the Smashing Pumpkins (Playing the National in Richmond, July 13th) for my birthday. So look forward to a post on that as it will DEFINITELY be a lifelong (or at least "since-I-was-16-long") dream come true. I'm so so stoked.

- The Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong with their mission to release 11 4-song EP's, one song at a time, for free. They released the first song of the second EP yesterday. It's at smashingpumpkins.com. I haven't heard it yet, but the other songs from this project have been pretty damn impressive.

And finally, here's the countdown!

Countdown #14

See you later guys!

Number 10!

Here's the newest Appetite For Distraction Alternative Top 10 Countdown!

Countdown #10

Stoked!

I'm really excited about this one. I think it's pretty cool. As always, I'd love feedback!

Countdown #8

Lucky 7!

An exciting week for the charts, people! Woohoo! Also, I'll be posting my thoughts and experiences from the Frightened Rabbit show soon. I promise!

Countdown #7

Here it is at last!

Hey everyone, here's the latest episode of the countdown!

Countdown #6