100 Years

I’ll wrap up today with this shot of the doorway leading into the new store, which for the whole year of 2017 proudly wore this emblem celebrating Books-a-Million’s 100th year in operation. I’m so glad they decided to carry on for year 100 (and beyond!) here in Southaven! Next time, we’ll head inside for 10 bonus pics of the interior that I’ve taken on numerous subsequent visits to this store (as I go here pretty often). But remember, if you’re impatient, you can always check out my original tour in the album here :) Of course, also be sure to come on back this Saturday for the promised Overstock photoset… and for today’s music recommendations, a special Switchfoot set! For reasons. (I’ve got 12 albums and 126 songs on my iPod, so this ain’t the complete thing yet! But I do intend to get there, so if I choose to post the rest in the future, keep an eye out for that…)

 

1. Ode to Chin (to note, these aren’t in any particular order, such as release date or my favorites; I simply hit shuffle.)

2. The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues)

3. Meant to Live 🔥

4. Might Have Ben Hur

5. Sooner or Later

6. Gone 🔥

7. Redemption 🔥

8. The Fatal Wound

9. Adding to the Noise 🔥 (I know it seems like I’m only giving songs from The Beautiful Letdown fire emojis, but I promise, that’s just due to the way my shuffle has chosen to play things. I’ll give other albums some love too, don’t worry.)

10. Prodigal Soul

11. Needle and Haystack Life 🔥 (see, here’s one of those other-album offerings now!)

12. You Already Take Me There 🔥

13. Ba55 🔥

14. Oh! Gravity 🔥

15. Dirty Second Hands 🔥 (Switchfoot’s style can vary, but this is the most un-Switchfoot-like one I think I’ve heard. And yet I still love it.)

16. Dig New Streams 🔥

17. Chem 6a 🔥

18. Afterlife 🔥 (you shouldn’t have bugged me to flag other albums with fire emojis, now we’re just entering a never-ending stream of the things)

19. The World You Want

20. Amy’s Song

21. Incomplete 🔥

22. You

23. We’re Gonna Be Alright

24. All or Nothing at All

25. The Original 🔥

26. Learning to Breathe (only 100 more to go XD )

27. Dare You to Move 🔥

28. This is Your Life 🔥

29. Where I Belong 🔥

30. Enough to Let Me Go 🔥

31. Voices 🔥

32. The Setting Sun

33. Dare You to Move (yes, some are duplicates. For completeness [so that the list gets to 126], I’m keeping them in there.)

 

…and that’s the end of day one of listening. I’ll probably come back and edit this with the rest, so stay tuned.

 

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34. Back to the Beginning Again (indeed!)

35. Let it Happen

36. More Than Fine 🔥 (I hate AT&T, so I don’t mean for this suggestion to be taken seriously… but this song does admittedly seem like it would go well with their current ad campaign.)

37. Redemption (this is one of my duplicates, and I gave it a fire emoji earlier, so I’m refraining from doing so again, but it’s really difficult please help me)

38. Take My Fire

39. American Dream

40. Burn Out Bright

41. Love is the Movement 🔥

42. The Loser

43. Ammunition 🔥

44. The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

45. Living is Simple

46. Company Car 🔥

47. This is Home

48. New Way to Be Human 🔥

49. Yet

50. Say It Like You Mean It 🔥

51. Ammunition

52. On Fire 🔥

53. Mess of Me 🔥

54. The Strength to Let Go

55. 4:12 🔥

56. Politicians 🔥 (a song we can all get behind!)

57. Concrete Girl

58. Vice Verses 🔥

59. Erosion

60. You’re the One I Want

61. This is Your Life (again, so. very. hard. not to put a fire emoji next to the duplicates…)

62. Don’t Be There

63. Love Alone is Worth the Fight 🔥

 

Halfway through seems like a good place to stop for day two! Hopefully I’ll get through the whole list quickly…

 

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Let's try for live updates for night three! Not that I anticipate many of y'all will be sitting here actively refreshing this photo page, but it's a fun idea nonetheless :P

 

64. Let Your Love Be Strong

65. Home

66. Yesterdays

67. Bullet Soul 🔥

68. Dark Horses 🔥

69. Souvenirs (this song snuck up on me; Dark Horses ran perfectly seamlessly into it. Turns out, Souvenirs immediately follows Dark Horses on Vice Verses. What are the odds of shuffle putting those two right beside one another?!)

70. The Blues

71. Meant to Live

72. Lonely Nation

73. Always

74. Amateur Lovers

75. Red Eyes

76. Bomb

77. The Economy of Mercy

78. The Beautiful Letdown

79. White Lies

80. All I Need

81. Hello Hurricane

82. Adding to the Noise

83. I Turn Everything Over

84. Playing For Keeps 🔥

85. Thrive 🔥

86. Daisy

87. Your Love is a Song 🔥

88. Easier Than Love 🔥

89. Free 🔥

90. Oxygen 🔥

91. Head Over Heels (In This Life)

92. Selling the News 🔥 (I was wondering when this one would finally show up!! I doubt I could pick a favorite Switchfoot song - clearly, I've given fire emojis to a whole lot of 'em! - but this one always stands out. [Again, that isn't to say others don't - just thought I'd share that here, haha])

93. Let It Out 🔥 (another great one! I just can't name but a few off the top of my head, is all.)

94. Circles 🔥

95. Twenty-Four 🔥 (ah, finally, the last song from The Beautiful Letdown! Took it long enough; all the others have played already [some twice]. In keeping with all the others, this one gets a fire emoji, too. That album is just awesome. Longtime followers may [or may not] be surprised to learn I have it in my car's CD player this week. You would also probably not be surprised to learn this is the very first time I've replaced the CD that had been in there exclusively for, oh, probably two years now. Name that CD in the comments and you win 400 follower points!* * - No cash value.)

96. Slipping Away

97. We Are One Tonight (this is weird... I just realized not a single song from Where the Light Shines Through has played. I guess they must all be coming up after 100...? EDIT: well dang, that's odd! It's not showing that album at all, for some reason. No wonder it hasn't been playing. I know it's on my iPod, and if I look up songs individually they appear, but neither under "albums" or "artists --> Switchfoot" does it show. Strange... I guess I'll just have to add those separately at the end of this list, haha!)

98. Rise Above It 🔥

99. Golden

100. I Dare You to Move (as I've noted before in past lists, this is [technically] different from the usual "Dare You to Move," without the "I" at the beginning)

 

Well... I'm not sure what's causing that problem with Where the Light Shines Through, but I'll be sure to listen to that one at the end (like I said), as long as I can figure out how to get my iPod to allow me to do that seeing as how it's not wanting to cooperate with me here! Anyway, 100 of 126 (...plus the missing 12) seems like as good a place as any to stop for tonight. Come on back, I hope to listen and have the rest of the list posted soon!

 

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So I wasn't able to listen to their full discography before Saturday, unfortunately, but I'm still sticking to my promise and finishing up the endeavor this week (it's now Monday, October 28th as I write this; I started the mission last Monday, October 21st).

 

101. Innocence Again

102. Wonderful Feeling

103. Happy is a Yuppie Word 🔥

104. Awakening 🔥

105. Poparazzi 🔥 (love this one!)

106. Blinding Light 🔥

107. Restless 🔥

108. Stars 🔥 (would have recognized this one better had I heard it before the concert instead of after, but at the same time, that probably would have ruined the surprise, so I'm okay with it :P )

109. Faust, Midas, and Myself 🔥

110. The Hardest Art (feat. Kaela Sinclair)

111. Let That Be Enough

112. The War Inside 🔥 (is it bad if I want to specify which ones are extra great? Like, I'm giving out fire emojis, that should be enough, but hey...)

113. Something More 🔥

114. Only Hope (another seamless transition - turns out this is another instance where this song immediately follows the one before it, on the album! What are the odds?!)

115. Saltwater Heart

116. Under the Floor

117. Underwater

118. When We Come Alive 🔥

119. Who We Are 🔥

120. All I Need (Acoustic)

121. Don't Want Your Money 🔥

122. Joy Invincible 🔥

123. Native Tongue 🔥 (such a rockin' song)

124. Edge of My Seat 🔥 (I was afraid of this... my count is off by two XD Let's see if I can dig through and find the ones I missed...)

 

Aha, found 'em! Pretend they're up there in-between 63 and 64 XD

 

125. Life and Love and Why

126. Sing It Out

 

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And, just for completeness' sake, here are the songs from Where the Light Shines Through.

 

127. Holy Water 🔥

128. Float 🔥 (dude this song is great! Although I'll likely just be repeating this for the whole album, knowing me XD )

129. Where the Light Shines Through 🔥

130. I Won't Let You Go 🔥

131. If the House Burns Down Tonight 🔥 (I'd prefer it didn't, but the song is still a good one :P )

132. The Day That I Found God

133. Shake This Feeling 🔥

134. Bull in a China Shop 🔥

135. Live It Well 🔥

136. Looking for America (feat. Lecrae)

137. Healer of Souls 🔥 (geez, when you put full albums together like this, it really emphasizes how many fire emojis I'm giving out...)

138. Hope is the Anthem

 

...and that's a wrap! Thanks for following along, folks :)

 

(c) 2019 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

 

Done