coffeepaper.jpgFor many Christians across the world, Sunday is a day for rest as dictated by God. For those of us in the western world, Sunday is the last day of the weekend. For those in school, Sunday is always a welcomed day off. In other words, Sunday is a great day for most, as it can be dedicated to leisure. It's the day we can wake up late, and enjoy a cup of coffee with the Sunday paper.

The name "Sunday" predates Christianity and comes from Egyptian culture, and any month beginning on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th. Sunday also holds significance here in the United States during this time of year for the NFL football games played during the season.

In music, you'll be hard-pressed to find songs that were written specifically about Sunday. However, the day is mentioned in thousands of great songs and can be used to convey many of the ideals associated with Sunday. For this playlist I have selected only the very best tracks that contain the word "Sunday" somewhere in the song title.

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"Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I'm too much of an erratic, moody baby! I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away.

Peace, love, empathy.
Kurt Cobain

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your alter.
Please keep going Courtney, for Frances.
For her life, which will be so much happier without me."

So ended the suicide note of Kurt Cobain, one of the most influential artists of the 1990s. On April 5, 1994 Kurt Cobain put a shotgun to his head and pulled the trigger while he was whacked out on heroin. (unless that is, you believe the murder conspiracy theories). Although his wildly popular rock band Nirvana are considered the pinnacle of the grunge movement, they only released 3 full-length albums of new material in their short life.

It's hard to put into words how much influence Kurt Cobain had on music, attitudes and culture. Many consider Nirvana the band that

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Progressive rock fascinates me. Especially the stuff created during the genre's 1970's peak. Grown men in tight jumpsuits and capes playing incredibly complicated music with amplified rock instruments is just not something I find easy to pass up.

Although the lyrics are a big part of the prog rock scene, sometimes you just wanna strip away all the talk about spaceships, hobbits and astral travel and get straight to the music. This desire was the spark which ignited this collection of prog rock instrumentals.

Prog rock (or art rock, as some call it) is a form especially loved by musicians for the technical skill required to perform it. The style also tends to have a psychedelic element, and is unafraid of experimentation. It continues today with torch-carriers like The Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria. Splinter genres include progressive metal, avant-progressive rock and neo-progressive. 

This lyric-less 19 track playlist contains some of the biggest names in progressive rock,

Sometime around the turn of the century, circa 1999 - 2000, a website called Mullets Galore caught fire and was soon the subject of water cooler talk in offices across the nation. 

If you ask me, this distraction was a contributing factor to the dot com bust. What could be funnier than that photo of the basketball playing midgimullet? How much VC was spent on paying whole departments to surf Mullets Galore? Ah, the flush years...

Anyway I digress, the mullet, for those in a coma since 1999, is simply a haircut that is short on the sides and long in the back. The style is strongly associated with the demographic most likely to attend a truck pull, be arrested for domestic violence and drive a hand-painted Camaro.

Billy Ray Cyrus in particular, helped the order of the crimson nape claim the mullet as their defining hairstyle. However, a little time spent revisiting photographs of 80's bands, especially new wave bands, reveals that the mullet was once embraced by a higher echelon of