Top 8 for January 2, 2014, plus an aside

I Need to Know Where I Stand by Rhett Miller from Live at Eddie's Attic

Pitchfork describes it as “a decent Meg Ryan movie of a pop song”. I'm not sure if that's a compliment (it wouldn't be, coming from me) but I think it's a darn fine song.

Tombstone Blues by Bob Dylan from Biograph (originally from Highway 61 Revisited)

The sun ain't yellow, it's chicken. Jes' sayin'.

No. 1 for November 23, 2013

The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček

A charming student production at Boston Conservatory. Well sung, acted and designed. Kudo's to the little kid playing the frog nervously standing up to the poachers at the very end, croaking out his line in phonetically learned Czech. If I believed in such a thing, I'd call it adorable.