A special, early playlist this week, as we are headed to Denver later today to visit family over the CHS fall break.
“Tell Me Why U Do That” – Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge
So Grace Bowers is some kind of prodigy. She’s still in her teens, has had an endorsement contract with Gibson guitars for four years, and is already putting out music that sounds like this.
“Clueless” – Beach Bunny
If Taylor Swift was a decade younger and made indie pop, it might sound like this song.
“Catholic Dracula” – Wild Pink
WP’s Dulling The Horns is one of my favorite albums of the year. This song is appropriate for the season.
“Ridiculous Thoughts” – The Cranberries
Speaking of the season, with it finally getting chilly and some days have a more gauzy look to the sky, that means I’ve been listening The Cranberries.
“Circle” – Big Head Todd and The Monsters
For people my age, BHT is probably the first band you think of when you think of Colorado. Currently our weekend plans include a trip up to the band’s home base of Boulder, although weather could alter that. Anyway, their Sister Sweetly was one of those 20-or-so albums that 90% of kids who went to college in the early Nineties had in their collection.
“No More Lonely Nights” – Paul McCartney
It’s kind of crazy how big Macca still was in the early ’80s. Three Number Ones and another #2 in the first four years of the decade. Plus the Beatlemania road show was keeping the Fab Four’s music as relevant as it had been since its initial release. This was his last, biggest hit of not only the Eighties, but his entire career until that random, regrettable Kanye West partnership nine years ago. Written for his film project Give My Regards To Broad Street, it features Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour on guitar. Both the movie and soundtrack got terrible reviews, but this song did ok, peaked at #6 in the US, #2 in the UK. It landed at #38 this week, just its second week on the Hot 100.