Happy Monday, folks! Does the world seem a little brighter this week to you, too? It does to me. Here’s some songs.
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “Parade of Loons”: I dig this new (to us) Tom Petty song. It feels like classic Petty, because of course it is, and the larger collection it came from is quite good as well.
- MJ Lenderman, “Rip Torn”: A country song about actor Rip Torn. Seriously. It references Men in Black. It’s worth a listen.
- Heather Nova, “New Life”: Am I at Lilith Faire? I feel like I’m at Lilith Faire, and I could just float away on a gossamer cloud.
- Edwyn Collins, “A Girl Like You”: A nice slice of 90s Britpop cool.
- Adeem the Artist, “Going To Hell”: I’d rather go to hell with Adeem than to heaven with Jason Aldeen.
- Frank Turner, “The Way I Tend To Be”: I love the use of the mandolin in this song. Between that and the simple but effective drum pattern, this song just gets stuck in my head an average of about once a week. I’m not complaining, though.
- John Lennon, “Oh Yoko!”: There’s just something about the use of parallel structure between the verses that I absolutely love in this song.
- Van Morrison, “Steal My Heart Away”: I still tend to think of this as part of late-career Van, even though the song is almost 25 years old at this point. There was just something of a renaissance among a certain class of singer-songwriters in the early 2000s, wasn’t there?
- Bobby Weir, “Only A River”: Grateful Dead + Josh Ritter = great song. I’m not a math person, but the math here checks out.
- Jars of Clay, “Reckless Forgiver”: I someday hope I can forgive recklessly. Just tossin’ out forgiveness to anyone and everyone all willy-nilly. Not quite there yet, though. Marylou Feehan fuckin’ knows what she did.
