Rush - Tom Sawyer Been stuck in my head for the past 4 days.
R.E.M. - Electrolite: A friend gave me a CD copy of New Adventures in Hi-Fi the summer before I got married, and it ended up in my car's CD player for much of that summer. I was staying in his basement in Kansas City for an internship and my wife lived in St. Louis. I have a lot of fond memories of listening to that album turned up loud so I could hear it over the 4000 RPM drone of my car's engine on the 4+ hour drive between me and her. Reminds me of being in love with her, of the joy of driving my MR2, of the tired-and-empty-and-happy feeling of driving around KC's interstates at 2 AM when no one else is out.
Weird noise stuff. Hella - Brown Metal (aka Zach Hill plays a mailbox). The Shining - Goretex Weather Report (aka Swedes can be weird too.) And, of course, Chu Ishikawa: