High school just seemed like a blur--

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Eels
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Vagrant

The Eels' new album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is like no other album out on the market in 2005. Clocking in at over 90 minutes and 33 songs and spread out over the course of two discs, the album finds the Eels leader E opening up his personal Pandora's Box and letting everything out musically, lyrically, and emotionally. This is the most searingly personal album E and his ad-hoc stable of cohorts has recorded since Electro-Shock Blues — though it's not as unremittingly dark. It is blessed because of — not in spite of — its excesses.

Ben Folds
Songs for Silverman
Epic

Observant, acerbic, and unabashedly sentimental, the self-produced Songs for Silverman may be heavy on the ballads, but Ben Folds and his smart new combo deliver each tale with the efficiency of a single organism.

John Prine
Fair and Square
Oh Boy

After being sidelined with health problems and occupied with other recording projects, John Prine returns with his first album of new songs in a decade with Fair and Square. The dozen new Prine songs featured on this disc boast the songwriter's usual measure of pithy, regular-guy wit and real world observations, but the performances speak of a weary sadness that adds a very different edge to the music.

Bruce Springsteen
Devils & Dust
Sony

On Devils & Dust — his followup to 2002's The Rising, his acclaimed reunion with the E Street Band — Bruce Springsteen goes it alone, but retains Brendan O'Brien, the producer of The Rising. He winds up with an album that's a spiritual cousin to Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad, but Devils & Dust is more varied, both musically and lyrically, than either of those records. In fact, it's his most interesting and compelling album in years.

Chet Baker
Career: 1952-1988
Shout Factory
West Coast Jazz, Cool, Vocal Jazz

Tim Burgess (former Charlatan UK frontman—solo)
I Believe [Bonus Tracks]
Koch

The Caesars (just download “Jerk It Out” from the iTunes advert if you like it)
Paper Tigers
Astralwerks

Elvis Costello
King of America [Expanded]
Rhino

The Cure
Faith [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino

The Cure
Pornography [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino

The Cure
Seventeen Seconds [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino

Dizzy Gillespie
Career: 1937-1992
Shout Factory

Eric Heatherly
Lower East Side of Life
Koch

Jefferson Airplane
The Essential
RCA

Dean Martin
Live from Las Vegas
Capitol

Joni Mitchell
Songs of a Prairie Girl
Rhino

The Mountain Goats
The Sunset Tree
4AD

New Order
Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Warner Brothers

Original Soundtrack
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hollywood


The Power Station
The Power Station [Expanded]
Capitol

Frank Sinatra
Live from Las Vegas
Capitol

Rick Springfield
Written in Rock: The Rick Springfield Anthology
RCA

Stereolab
Oscillons from the Anti Sun
Beggars Too Pure

Susie Suh
Susie Suh
Sony



Star Wars Risk. New game.

Singer stumbles on Ice during Anthem but redeems herself on GMA's Weekend Edition. I thought it was great of them to give her a chance. We have all had days/times such as that and she nailed it. Kudos to the Weekend Edition of Good Morning America. Good job Kate and Bill.

The labels are wrong again. Downloading is the future. Get used to it.

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This post's title is from Social D and "Story of my life" from Social Distortion.