“One That Got Away” – MUNA
MUNA’s first album was filled with great songs with a variety of influences, from indie to dance to country. Knowing that, I’m going to assume their follow-up isn’t going to be 100% shiny, late ’80s tracks like this, which sounds straight out of a 1988 American Top 40. Although that would be awesome.
“Perfect Blue” – Bodywash
Some dense, modern, shoegazey goodness for a cold, rainy morning here in Indy.
“Life in the Void” – The Reds, Pinks, and Purples
I swear every one of this band’s songs sound pretty much like this. Which isn’t a bad thing because they have a nice little niche carved out. Another good song for a rainy day.
“Tomorrow Never Comes” – Rancid
And then this will wake your ass up if the rain gets you down. Remember that summer when Rancid was huge for about 10 minutes?
“Goldfinger” – Ash
“Here in Your Bedroom” – Goldfinger
These songs will always be connected in my head, for an obvious reason. It helped that they were out at roughly the same time.
Ash, a band of Star Wars obsessed Irish kids, was pretty solid and put out good songs for a few years. Goldfinger is still making music but were never relevant again after this song. I take that back. I just learned they put out a song called “Superman” during the Covid quarantine that has over 120 million streams on Spotify. In comparison, “Here In Your Bedroom” only has 21 million streams. I just listened to “Superman” and it’s nothing special. It looks like it landed on two movie and one video game soundtracks, which might explain its popularity.
“Red Mosquito” – Pearl Jam
Yesterday PJ announced the first nine dates of their fall tour. One of those is in Indy. A local buddies has been in the Ten Club for decades and already procured tickets for us. I haven’t seen them in person in over 20 years. I’m very much looking forward to it.
“Growin’ Up” – Bruce Springsteen, live 8/9/78
I had to take C into school today and on my way home, as I flipped through the SiriusXM stations, came across this on the Springsteen station. Only Bruce could take a three-minute song and turn it into a 13-minute epic built around two lengthy monologues and have it turn out this magical.