There are few ways you could possibly know how great this is:

The Weakerthans - Bad Time To Be Poor
Stephen Stanley and Carla MacNeil - Take Me In Your Hand
Weeping Tile - Public Square
Wooden Stars - Saskatchewan
The Inbreds - Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds
King Cobb Steelie - Seven Stars Remix
Barenaked Ladies - Legal Age Life at the Variety Store
The Golden Seals - Loving Arms
Cuff The Duke - Claire
Kate Fenner and Tony Scherr - Stolen Car
By Divine Right - Shaved Head
The Dill - Satan is the Whistler
The Local Rabbits - Record Body Count

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Unless of course you already downloaded it. And the Whale Music soundtrack. FINALLY.

Ahhhhhh. Signs point to this alleviating some recent and totally uncalled for sourness. Wouldn't that be nice? (Or I could actually take responsibility for that, but let's not get carried away.)

OK, back to cleaning.

Wait, though.

Take a moment for King Cobb Steelie, Local Rabbits and Weeping Tile. Take three moments if you need them. Now is no time for moment stinginess. This could only be improved upon, for me that is, by maybe Eric's Trip. And they even recorded Julie Doiron's album, so I'm cool with that. (Bonus? I can listen to an entire Julie Doiron album without the suiciding.) Oh, and as always, yay The Inbreds!

There's some hope for this music thing yet.