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Playlist #263

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Folks, it feels like today has been a whole month of Mondays dumped on me all at once. I don’t even wanna get into it. Here’s a playlist for y’all while I go sit in a corner and try not to plan murder.

  1. The Florida Mass Choir, “Storm Cloud Rising”: The song featured on the last couple of episodes of Season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again, and I dug it. It’s very moody and atmospheric for a gospel song.
  2. Rage Against the Machine, “Sleep Now In Fire”: For when you need to feel a bit of rage in your soul, there really is no one better.
  3. Reel Big Fish, “Hungry Like the Wolf”: The best version of this song, hands down. It just needed those ska horns.
  4. Alannah Myles, “Black Velvet”: Apparently she didn’t start seeing a dime from this song until rather recently. And that is just absolute bull honkey.
  5. Roger McGuinn & Tom Petty, “King of the Hill”: I do love listening to the Tom Petty Sirius XM station, because his catalog is deep enough that I can still get surprised by a song I wasn’t really aware of like this one.
  6. Them, “I Can Only Give You Everything”: I also get to hear songs like this one on the Tom Petty station. There are so many songs by Them that I just don’t know, because their stuff just wasn’t widely available when I was a kid, and now I’m purposefully seeking it out because why the hell not?
  7. Wilco, “One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)”: I love the little repeated guitar figure in this song so much, I don’t even mind that the song is damn-near 10 minutes long.
  8. The Envy Corps, “Story Problem”: A friend I worked with back seventeen, eitghteen years ago introduced me to this song. I still love it.
  9. Frank Turner, “Get Better”: For when I need to try to feel more optimistic, which is challenging today.
  10. Soul Coughing, “Fully Retractable”: For when it is, in fact, fully retractable.

Playlist #252

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Happy Monday, folks! Seems like winter wanted to give us one last snow day this season, so I’m sitting at home enjoying an extra day off. Here’s a playlist for you to while away those hours.

  1. Jason Isbell, “Songs That She Sang In The Shower”: Southeastern is filled with great story songs, and this is one of the best on there. I always wonder how autobiographical songs are, and can’t help but feel this one comes from personal experience.
  2. Boygenius, “Not Strong Enough”: These three write and perform some of the best songs I’ve heard in the past several years. I’m so glad they decided to form a supergroup and bless us with songs as good as this one.
  3. Brandi Carlisle, “Turpentine”: Brandi Carlisle remains one of the unsung treasures of country-tinged Americana. If she’d only ever written just this song, that’d still be the truth. But she’s done several albums’ worth of songs that are all just as good. It’s kinda wild.
  4. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “It’ll All Work Out”: I heard a remix of this song the other day on the Tom Petty Radio SXM station that emphasized the acoustic guitar over other instruments. I kinda low-key love it the way I love the album version I’ve heard dozens of times.
  5. Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”: Did you know you can make a five minute rock song playing the same four chords over and over in the same patter the whole time? ‘Cause Iggy Pop does.
  6. Led Zeppelin, “Hey Hey What Can I Do”: It’s the Led Zeppelin song that I can play on the guitar! Hurray!
  7. David Gray, “First Chance”: I feel like every song on the Draw the Line album is just fantastic.
  8. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, “Born Secular”: One of the best songs on one of the best albums ever.
  9. Rage Against The Machine, “Killing In The Name”: “Some of those who work forces/are the same that burn crosses.” Just as relevant and accurate today as it was the day this song released over thirty years ago.
  10. The Rolling Stones, “Mixed Emotions”: Man, no one escaped the ’80s unscathed.