Modern Minstrels

Back to School Shuffle

The iTunes Music Store has a new playlist up called Back to School Shuffle. It's an awesome list of songs, and is arranged such that odd numbered songs are fairly well known and the following even numbered song is from a lesser known band of similar style. Good stuff.

Some personal recommendations from the list:

• Different - Acceptance
• Sugar We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
• Everything is Alright - Motion City Soundtrack
• New Slang - The Shins
• Helena - My Chemical Romance
• The Killers - Mr. Brightside
• This Modern Love - Bloc Party
• The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie
• Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
• Collide - Howie Day
• Float On - Modest Mouse
• Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
• Dirty Little Secret - All American Rejects
• Best Mistake - JamisonParker
• Chicago - Sufjan Stevens

And there's a bunch of songs in the playlist that I haven't heard of and am going to need to check out. So if you find anything good that I haven't already mentioned, leave me a recommendation in the comments.

Oh, and I love the text from the Playlist Notes:

Does your roommate think he's cool because he loves Arcade Fire? Trump him with Wolf Parade. Wooing that girl in your lit class who thinks The Killers are the coolest thing going? Sing sweet Bloc Party nothings in her ear and see what happens.

Plus the Playlist Notes use the term "musicologist" which is what I have on my business card.