I mentioned I listened to the new Matthew Sweet album the other day. It wasn’t very good. But when I found it on Spotify it let me to his old catalog, which included this gem. I’m sure you have a mixtape somewhere with this song on it.
Bonus bonus points for what looks like a VHS of this video from MTV.
“World that’s ugly and a lie”
Oddly, I haven’t listened to much Man Overboard much. This album probably came out a few weeks ago, but along with most things, I’m behind. Listened to the whole album, which is self-titled, and the whole thing was added to my daily playlist. This is the first track and at the very start I didn’t think I was going to like it, but once this song got rolling, I knew I’d be in for the whole album.
Other stuff I listened to today while I worked on some things: Madina Lake, The Frantic, The Cab, Divided By Friday, Jason Derulo, Letters From Home, and Matthew Sweet. Wow, I listened to a ton today. Besides Man Overboard, the Divided By Friday EP made the playlist.
“You’re so worth all of this torture.”
Wow an official video for this song? The line popped into my head this morning, as songs do but I’m usually not by the computer or I don’t want to share that it was an Avril song the finally got a Selena song out of my head (which happened this week).
“We should get jerseys cause we make a good team.”
I was attempting to create a playlist on Spotify to combine my usual iTunes playlist with new stuff I’ve found on Spotify. At the same time, I was reading this article on Grantland about Noel Gallagher.
The obvious next step, figure out what Oasis songs I had in my playlist. I had three. And it wasn’t very interesting: Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, and Don’t Go Away. After some digging, I’m up to about 10.
Oasis was my favorite band at one point, somewhere around 8th or 9th grade. Oasis was my first concert. The past 10 years or so? Not so much Oasis. Except for my two years at work when I could only listen to CDs (no internet or iPod), I’m pretty sure I spun a lot of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
So here is a less than a huge hit, which is one of my favorites. It’s off The Masterplan, which if you don’t remember, was an album of B-Sides which was better than almost everything else out at the time.
Not sure this is peppy enough for the summer soundtrack. But just listen. It’s so familiar and catchy. A few seconds in, it sounds like you’ve heard it a thousand times before.
Put this on the summer soundtrack.
Don’t lie. It’s fun.
I was a big fan of this song a few months ago, but couldn’t find it anywhere online to share. The other day I was catching up on my feeds and this popped in. Enjoy.
Just this week I was wondering if Chiddy Bang was going to be my song of the spring. (It would have been last summer’s song, but Passion Pit took over.) Then the Childish Gambino EP that I got last week popped on to my iPhone.
I’m completely hooked on Freaks and Geeks. Here be the video …
Freaks and Geeks from Donald Glover on Vimeo.
You need a few listens to catch all the genius lines. If you think he looks familiar. It’s Donald Glover. He’s on Community. You should watch Community. Thursday TV is still the best, if you skip Outsourced and whatever that terrible Couples show is.
When I was looking for links to Chiddy Bang and Passion Pit posts, I found that they were my two Summer Soundtrack posts from last year. I named Passion Pit Track 1 almost exactly a year ago. So I guess naming summer tracks is already allowed. So I’ll put Freaks and Geeks as Track 1. Maybe this year there will be more than 3 tracks. Or maybe this will be the only one.
Panic! at the Disco dropped the ! for their last album and when I would have to review that album to friends, there was no other description than that it was lacking some !.
Maybe the ! has been back for a while, but this is the first I’m hearing about it. Check their site.
Stuck in my head all weekend (good thing it’s good) … As for the video, not sure what’s up with the zombies …
The cowbell is so odd at the beginning though. It’s all I hear and so out of place.