Happy Tuesday, folks! I’m back from Florida, and just in time if the weather is anything to go by. We had a lot of fun at Disney World, and I built me a lightsaber. Yes, I am a giant geek. Anyway, here’s a list of songs.
- Bikini Kill, “Rebel Girl”: I want to be in a band that plays this song live. It’s just so much fun.
- The National, “I Need My Girl”: I just love the guitar riff in this song. The whole song is just gorgeous and moody and perfect.
- Blondie, “Dreaming”: I always forget that Blondie were capable of this driving, powerful sort of song, not that disco-glammy “Heart of Glass” stuff all the time.
- Jack Johnson, “Flake”: When you leave the beach, but the beach don’t leave you.
- Extreme, “Hole Hearted”: The story is that the guitarist just got a 12-string acoustic and took it with him to the bathroom. When he came out, he’d written the chord structure for this song, and they did a quick demo of it that turned out better than any actual recording attempt they tried at a later date, so the version you hear on the album is that demo version. Wild.
- Soundgarden, “Burden in my Hand”: I heard this song about a half dozen times on Sirius XM over the course of a few weeks, so it’s stuck in my head. I dig it.
- Waxahatchee, “War”: I love how simple yet complex her songs are.
- U2, “Atomic City”: The chorus sounds almost note-for-note like “Call Me.” It’s weird.
- Echosmith, “Cool Kids”: I was not one of the cool kids in school. Ever. No one ever thought I was cool. My wife makes the argument that she thinks I’m cool now, but I know I’m even lamer now than I was back then. See previous statement about building a lightsaber at Disney World.
- Electric Light Orchestra, “So Serious”: Sure, by this point in the band’s history, they were really just ELO, there were no strings (except for the guitars, natch), and it’s mostly just Jeff Lynne accompanied by Jeff Lynne and Jeff Lynne, but the dude could write damn catchy songs.
Charlie Cottrell 