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Playlist #273

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Happy Monday, folks! Just a week until I head to Virginia Beach. Also, it’s the Wife’s birthday this weekend! Hurray!

  1. The Gray Charlies, “Mill Street, 1am”: I’m still super-proud of the lyrics I wrote for this one, and the singer knocked it out of the park. Also, Clyde’s guitar solo fits perfectly. Go listen.
  2. Matt Berninger, “Martini Me Fatso”: I love this song and hate its title. The title is awful. The song itself, on the other hand, rocks. It’s nice that he’s putting out so many singles lately. I hope he keeps it up.
  3. Soundgarden, “Blow Up The Outside World”: A classic of the genre.
  4. Nashville Teens, “Tobacco Road”: Much like the Holy Roman Empire, the name is a complete misnomer. These guys aren’t from Nashville and they definitely aren’t teens. But it’s a pretty solid slice of British Invasion rock.
  5. Justin Townes Earle, “Flint City Shake It”: A good ol’ rock’n’roll song about how Flint became a bit of a Rust Belt wreck. And it doesn’t even get into the water crisis there.
  6. Golden Smog, “Another Fine Day”: I’m a sucker for good supergroups. And one that includes members of Wilco, the Jayhawks, and Soul Asylum? Too good.
  7. fun., “Some Nights”: A night of heavy drinking seems like a bad idea when you’re in your twenties; as you reach my age, it seems like a good way to drink yourself to death.
  8. Drive-By Truckers, “Goddamn Lonely Love”: A great early Jason Isbell tune from his time with the Truckers.
  9. Coldplay, “The Scientist”: Remember when Coldplay were a band that played instruments? Good times.
  10. Andrew Bird, “Pulaski At Night”: This one’s on here entirely because my Wife loves it. And it is a damn good song. I understand why she loves it so much.

Playlist #271

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Happy Monday, folks! It’s beach week – we’re heading down to Crystal Beach, TX, to meet up with my family and hang out in a beach house for a few days. But that’s not until Thursday. Monday through Wednesday is still teaching small children how to create and edit videos, and right now it’s time for a playlist!

  1. Bryan Andrews, “Backwoods Backwards”: I kept seeing this song in particular pop up in reels on Facebook for the better part of a week, and damn if it’s not a banger. Dude’s trying to reclaim outlaw country from…well, whatever the hell country music as turned in to. Bootlicking, mostly.
  2. Phoebe Bridgers, “Motion Sickness”: “Emotional motion sickness” is such a good turn of phrase that it almost makes me sick that I wasn’t the one who wrote it.
  3. Matchbox 20, “Mad Season”: There’s just something about these ’90s alt-rockers that I keep coming back to time and again.
  4. Josh Ritter, “Getting Ready To Get Down”: When you discover that you’re probably a lesbian and your parents decide to send you to a Bible college
  5. The Mountain Goats, “Training Montage”: I honestly wish this was the song that played during the training montage in Rocky IV rather than whatever Survivor song they played instead.
  6. The National, “Wake Up Your Saints”: I always love the horn section in this song. I should use more horn sections in my own music.
  7. Dan Auerbach, “Trouble Weighs A Ton”: A part of me will alwayw love songs that are just a vocal and an acoustic guitar.
  8. Sting, “Fragile”: The emotion in this song always gets to me. It’s so sad and forlorn and somber and I really just want to sit and cry when I listen to it.
  9. Golden Smog, “V”: This song, on the other hand, is so uptempo that it’s hard not to sing along when it comes on. God bless Golden Smog.
  10. Van Morrison, “Wonderful Remark”: I learned this one on the guitar a few years ago. Easy song to play, and really great to sing.

Playlist #29

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Happy Monday! Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and with it my lack of desire to do anything other than lounge around in bed all day. It’s getting colder outside and the days are shorter, so let’s listen to some music, what do you say?

  1. The Cactus Blossoms, “Mississippi”: David Lynch put this one in the revival Twin Peaks series. I liked the song, didn’t care for the show.
  2. Calexico, “Guero Canelo”: As previously stated, I’m a sucker for basically anything these guys wanna do, music-wise.
  3. The Decemberists, “We All Go Down Together”: Watched The Suicide Squad over the weekend. Loved the movie, especially the soundtrack, which featured a Decemberists song at one point. Not this one (no, it was “Sucker’s Prayer”), but I love this song regardless.
  4. The Georgia Satellites, “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”: If there’s a better song about waiting until marriage, I haven’t heard it.
  5. Glen Phillips, “Revelator”: Did not realize until quite recently that this is, in fact, a Gillian Welch cover. Live and learn, I guess.
  6. Golden Smog, “Until You Came Along”: I love the harmonies in this song. Love them.
  7. The Grass Roots, “I’d Wait A Million Years”: Every single song I have ever heard by the Grass Roots has been a banger. This one is no different.
  8. Hockey, “Song Away”: I don’t remember where I first heard this song. Probably on a TV show or something. But I dig it.
  9. Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell, “This Must Be The Place”: I’ve said before that I dig it when Sam Beam (the guy from Iron & Wine) collaborates with pretty much anyone. I haven’t ever heard a bad song come from him collaborating, and if he and, say, Calexico wanted to spend the rest of forever working together again and again and again, I would not complain.
  10. The National, “Wake Up Your Saints”: “Wake up your saints, Jenny, I need them,” pleads Matt Berninger. Same, Matt. I could use a saint or two in my corner.