“Blue Tuesday” – Francis of Delirium
Spotify has been spitting a lot of FoD tracks at me lately. I’ve yet to hear one I did not like. I don’t think I realized, when I’ve shared songs from them in the past, that they are based in Luxembourg. That might be a new pin on our musical map.
“Mother Mary” – Late Bloomer
The first song of 2024 that has grabbed me and won’t let go. Also an entry in the Country or Not bucket. Two birds, one stone!
“Terrible News” – Middle Kids
We’ve now heard five songs from the next MK album. All are good to very good. Makes me a little nervous if anything is left to delight me on album release day next month.
“Coping” – LAYMAN
Can you tell these kid are from Australia?
“This Is Not America” – David Bowie, Pat Matheny
I watched the 1985 flick The Falcon and The Snowman last week. Pretty good. The movie was a bit of a box office dud, and this, the de facto theme, barely cracked the Top 40. Not sure that’s the impact the creators behind each were going for.
“USA” – The Orwells
‘Merica. Also mentions Kansas prominently and I just read a retelling of an Orwell story. I had to play this. Props to my people who have made it out of Kansas.
“Listen, The Snow Is Falling” – Galaxie 500 covering Yoko Ono
I don’t get many chances to play this these days, but it is snowing this morning. Not a lot, but enough that I’m going to drive the girls to school.
“Jump” – Van Halen
As promised, most videos this year will be from 1984. This song debuted on the Billboard Top 40 in only its second week in the Hot 100 the week of January 21. It would eventually spend five weeks at number one. Not Van Halen’s best song, but certainly their biggest. It took a few weeks but in late February I was scrounging together my allowance money to buy the 1984 album, which opened a whole new world to me.