(This Year #25) February 23 - Blood Royal from the Orange Raja, Blood Royal EP. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-2M...

I've been thinking about when songs break up a sentence over two lines and the line break suggests an alternative meaning for a while now and finally learned the word for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambm...

(This Year #24) February 22 - Orange Ball of Pain from Nothing For Juice. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrN...

(This Year #23) February 21 - Full Flower from Nothing For Juice. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9HS...

(This Year #22) February 20 - Against Agamemnon from Howl...a Farewell Compilation of Unreleased Songs. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDbc...

(This Year #21) February 19 - Duke Ellington from The Long Secret. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZXv...

(This Year #20) February 18 - The Only Thing I Know from Orange Raja Blood Royal. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNB...

(This Year #18) February 17 - Song for Dana Plato from Songs for Peter Hughes. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApbK...

finally the algorithm understands me

(This Year #18) February 16 - Noche del Guajolote originally from I Like Walt. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIj...

(This Year #17) February 15 - Hatha Hill from Orange Raja, Blood Royal. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgO-...

things i have to make to get them out of my head

why do they call it premature ejaculation and not spontaneous cum bustion

(This Year #16) February 14 - Going to Port Washington from The Wedding Record. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvi...

(This Year #15) February 13 - Song for John Davis from Songs About Fire. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJiQ...

a lil mental break as a treat

smooth brain (ft rob thomas)

(This Year #14) February 12 - Pure Gold from Songs About Fire. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpGx...

(This Year #13) February 11 - Wrong! from Taking the Dative. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81b...

(This Year #12) February 10 - Whole Wide World from Sweden. You can listen to it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0VT0GA6kys

(This Year #11) February 9 - Some Swedish Trees from Sweden (the album). You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-py...

(This Year #10 (I am bad at counting)) February 8 - Sept 19 Triple X Love! Love! You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z48W...

does no kings include the go off kings

(This Year #7) February 7 - Snow Crush Killing Song from Sweden. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=utYO...

why is the led zeppelin song houses of the holy not on the led zeppelin album house of the holy. who allowed this.

(This Year #6) February 6 - Third Snow Song from Philyra. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Glr...

(This Year #5) February 5 - The Recognition Scene from Sweden. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9C...

trout mask reptilia

(This Year #5) February 4 - Going to Tennessee from Why You All So Thief? split EP. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUu4...

(This Year #4) February 3 - Pure Heat from Why You All So Thief? EP. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSd...

(This Year #3) February 2 - Going to Jamaica from Taking the Dative. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvgF...

(This Year #2) February 1 - Alpha Gelida from Taking the Dative. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1a... It does not seem to be the first of the "alpha" series in the, looking ahead or behind to January 1st, the book indicates that "Alphabetizing" is part of the series as well.

in the off chance anyone is reading John Darnielle's This Year book, maybe my research can save you some time (or you can add to mine): docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (I think the spoiler warning implied)

Heavy metal cover of Hanson's mmmbop called umlaut

(This Year #2) January 31 - Going to Wisconsin from The Hound Chronicles. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zylG...

(This Year #1 (in medias res)) January 30 - Orange Ball of Peace from Taking the Dative (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...), also on the compilation album Ghana (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_(... You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygfp....

i bought john darnielle's new book (thisyearbook.com), might try to read about one song every day and make a post, we'll see how that goes.

i spent 7.5 hours today hitting ice with a claw hammer trying (unsuccesfully) to clear my driveway

sorbet? give them some aspirin

show me someone who says they won't poop in a public toilet, i'll show u someone who is full of shit

are u a supervisor or a sub par visor am i right fellow bosses

scientist who is secretly 3 ducks in a lab coat trying not to give themselves away: quark.

fancy restaurant where the appetizer is so small another server immediately takes it away because they think you are done

making a sparkling wine call it et tu brut

no its not cute scums only makes puns when distressed

when astronomers go drinking do they call it a corona mass injection

is the plural of dollar general dollars general

the existence of stanley knives implies the existence of tucci knives

u know when you make rice you measure the water you measure the rice add a little oil (maybe a boulion cube if ur feeling spicy) put it on high till it boil put on the lid set the timer forget to turn it down to simmer anyway i'm eating carbon for dinner

foreigner voice: i'm sot blooded / check it and see i've got a BAC of point nine oh three