Cafe Closed Tonight:

Due to winter break the Cafe will be closed until January. We'll be back on Sundays at midnight again through the Spring semester. :-)

The Overnight Cafe's Top-20 albums of 2010:

#20 - The Big To-Do - Drive-by Truckers
#19 - My Best Friend Is You - Kate Nash
#18 - What Lasts - These United States
#17 - Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn
#16 - Brothers - The Black Keys
#15 - Stuck On Nothing - Free Energy
#14 - See You On the Moon - Tift Merritt
#13 - Thankful Dirt - Thankful Dirt
#12 - The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man On Earth
#11 - The Union - Elton John & Leon Russell
#10 - Together - The New Pornographers
#9 - Volume Two - She & Him
#8 - Write About Love - Belle & Sebastian
#7 - Heaven Is Whenever - The Hold Steady
#6 - Infinite Arms - Band of Horses
#5 - Summer House - Gold Motel
#4 - The Brutalist Bricks - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
#3 - One and All - Pieta Brown
#2 - What We Lose In the Fire, We Gain in the Flood - The Mynabirds
#1 - Shame, Shame - Dr. Dog

I based my choices on how often I played from a certain disc and also on the strength of exceptional tracks. Rankings of course are arbitrary and I really felt that odering them was like splitting hairs. That said, of all the albums I've heard in 2010, Dr. Dog's Shame, Shame was outstanding front-to-back is by far my favorite of the year.


Visit Dr. Dog's website here.

Playlist Video:

Dr. Dog's "Shadow People" from their current album "Shame, Shame"

Playlist 38:

Memphis Time - Gin Blossoms - Congratulations, I'm Sorry
I Hate It When That Happens To Me - John Prine - Fair and Square

I'm Gonna Make It Better - She & Him - Volume Two
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
L.A. Rain - The Mynabirds - What We Lose In The Fire, We Gain In The Flood

White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Kooks - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
My Darling - Wilco - Summerteeth

Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk - The New Pornographers - Together
Bad Time - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
The Ghost Of Rockschool - Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love

Trains - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights
No Place To Fall - Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes
See You On The Moon - Tift Merritt - See You On The Moon

You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall & Oates - Essential Hall & Oates
Lost In Love - Air Supply - Lost In Love
Biggest Part Of Me - Ambrosia - One Eighty

Fireworks After Midnight - Gold Motel - Summer House
Don't Steal Our Sun - The Thrills - So Much For The City
All I Know - Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing

Look What We Found - Delaney & Bonnie - Home
My Girl To Me - Dawes - North Hills
Stronger Than - Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn

Bare Trees - Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees

Playlist Video:

Electric Light Orchestra's "Diary of Horace Wimp" from their 1979 album "Discovery"