5 Best Albums Featuring Disembodied Hands

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The Hold Steady’s latest album uses some familiar imagery for its cover. Turns out I’ve got about a dozen albums in my collection featuring disembodied hands on their covers. So I’ve put together a list of my 5 favorite albums featuring disembodied hands. For totally arbitrary reasons, I’ve left out albums featuring two hands shaking – which is also a surprisingly common theme. Here it is, the five best albums featuring disembodied hands on their covers:

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With Eyes Half Open

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Here is the running mix I promised earlier.

There’s a certain kind of song I like when I’m running. The music sets my pace, not in a strict sense, I don’t run to the beat — though when a song does sync up I love it. But it sets the tone. I want a song with moderate to low intensity or I end up sprinting and worn out before I’ve even started. But I don’t want anything too slow or I focus soley on my pain. It want to tilt my head back, with my eyes half open and settle in to a rhythm that feels like the pace of my body, like, I could run all day, comfortable but invigorated. These are songs that make me feel that way. Read more…

Best of 2008 – The Obligatory Post

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Here it is, my obligatory “Best of 2008…” countdown. Hit the link below to download the whole compilation in countdown order.

Dirty Dozen: Best of 2008 – a compliation by Tigers Walk Behind Me

I listened to a lot of really great music this year. More than ever I really believe if someone claims “there just isn’t any good music coming out now” well, they just aren’t listening.

And, here we go.

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Hymns, Volume I

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Like I mentioned earlier, I’m a sucker for songs with religious or existential themes.  I’ve got a running playlist collecting songs I like to think of as the hymns of popular music.

This mix is the first compilation in what I hope will eventually be a nice collection of some of my favorites. They are hardly traditional hymns, but they bring me closer to god, or eternity, or whatever is out there – or not – than most of what I’ve heard as a regular church attender.

I hope you find some of the same inspiration from these tracks as I do. Happy Thanksgiving.

Hymns, Volume I – a compilation from Tigers Walk Behind Me