If you were a fan of Canadian music in the 1990s you might remember these guys. Their album “God Shuffled His Feet“ was/is a favorite of mine. Good Sunday morning song from that one.
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Song of the Day 2/8/19 The Clash “Train in Vain”
So apparently, today is international Clash day and in celebration of the 40th anniversary ,this year, of the release of London Calling, here’s one of my favorite songs by the Clash.
( also one of the greatest all-time album covers )
Song of the Day TBT – Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
A little reggae flavor on this Thursday. From the classic 1972 soundtrack to the film by the same title.
New Music Discoveries
The Beths – You Wouldn’t Like Me
When multiple bloggers I trust start recommending the same band, its time to pay attention. When I’m in love with a song about 5 seconds into it, time to stop what I’m doing to check them out. This is what happened with New Zealand band The Beths. While I missed when their debut album dropped last year, fellow bloggers Steve for the Deaf and Aphoristical both featured them in just the past couple weeks. Rather than go on too much about them, here are links to Steve and Aphoristical’s posts, which are much more fun to read and erudite than I could ever be. Just suffice it to say these catchy power pop gems (think Weezer, or Best Coast)will be on serious rotation the rest of the year on my listening device. There’s not a bad song on the album, so here’s a random cut.
Spielbergs – Five On it
I heard this song on a new music playlist and immediately loved the loud, somewhat fuzzy big guitar sound. And then fellow blogger The Soul of a Clown also featured them recently. Spielbergs reminds me of bands like Japandroids or Cloud Nothings. They’re are a three piece indie rock band from Oslo Norway who put out a debut EP last year – this song is from their debut album, This is Not the End, which came out last week. From the feedback squeals at the beginning and end, this song is two and half minutes of guitar bliss.
Tancred – Queen of New York
Ok I’m detecting a theme for this installment of New Music Discoveries – guitar, guitar, guitar! And fellow blogger recs! Tancred is the stage name of Jess Abbott, who writes great guitar pop songs like this one. As with The Beths, this came out last year so not super new (but who cares) – I was alerted to it The Soul of a Clown, who posted this great review of Tancred’s album Nightstand a few days ago. I’m a complete sucker for these types of bands!
Song of the Day Sunday Morning 2/3/19 William Tyler – Fail Safe
Finally warming up (relatively speaking) from the deep freeze of the past week – here’s a piece that captures the feeling of the sun out and the temperature rising – time to be getting up and doing stuff.
Song of the Day 2/3/19 The Beatles “Norwegian Wood(This Bird has Flown)
When I was about 14, I asked for music by The Beatles for a Christmas present. I was thinking White Album but what I got was a compilation called Beatles Love Songs which was fine but not exactly the Rock and Roll I had in mind. Norwegian Wood was on that album and I was “ meh” about the song.
Well, chalk it up to youthful stupidity. This song is amazing.
Song of the Day 2/2/19 Paul Westerberg “Runaway Wind”
I woke up this morning in the mood for a little Paul Westerberg, then I realized there are about 1000 songs by him that I like. Here’s one of them
Song of the Day Sunday – Alfredo Rodriguez – Super Mario Brothers 3
Something whimsical on this Sunday.
Song of the Day 1/27/19 Los Lobos “Set Me Free”
It seems like it’s been 100 weeks in a row of cloudy Sundays so when I woke up and saw the sunshine this morning I knew I wanted something a little more upbeat than my usual Sunday morning pic. This is the song from their 1987 album “By the Light of the Moon“ This was the album that introduced me to Los Lobos .
Song of the Day 1/26/19 Old 97s “Murder (or a Heart Attack)”
Great band from Texas it’s been around more than 20 years it always seems to just be on the edge of making it big. Kind of rock, kind of country, kind of punk, and this one’s a little bit more on the side of pop.
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