Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 21
Chart Week: February 12, 1983 Song: “Down Under” – Men at Work Chart Position: #1, 15th week on the chart. Spent four non-consecutive weeks at #1 in January and February. If you’ve paid very close attention to my music posts over the years, you may recall that I kicked around a project in which I would find the best single…
Friday Playlist
Our era of good music continues. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/0FebwLRclSTqONuy1UaoVU?si=28z2nTVeRl-1Oaj-NF8MSw “Cosmic Cave” – Ex Hex. This is a hell of a fun rave-up that really should make everyone who hears it jump around like a maniac. “Harmony Hall” – Vampire Weekend. Everything has a backlash, especially in music. If you’re too smart, too clever, or too-anything, there will be a backlash. VW’s last…
Friday Playlist
This was our winteriest week of the season. Two days with sub-zero temperatures and windchills 20-30 degrees colder than that. Today is supposed to be the beginning of a major warm-up, but we woke to 4” of snow and a two-hour school delay. (Update: School was cancelled for the day about five minutes after I posted this.) So I thought…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 20
I’m on nephew duty the next couple days so I’ll go ahead and post this late on a Sunday to kick off the week. Chart Week: January 28, 1984 Song: “Let the Music Play” – Shannon Chart Position: #18, 12th week on the chart. Peaked at #8 the week of February 25. Reached #1 on the US Dance Club Songs…
Friday Playlist
The music continues to flow. It’s been a really good stretch of both single and full length releases. So I’m going to pump the list up a little this week to make sure I’m sharing the new stuff in a timely matter. Hopefully the extra tunes will warm your day a little. https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/1GMkqjGNaq40pXDQO6Nn41?si=Ogt9zpZaT4CF5XhfxkNxoQ “Jeremy” – Muncie Girls. Two curveballs on…
Friday Playlist
The music finally hit this week. There has been a steady flow of new tracks all week. There are at least five new albums out today that I am interested in (Sharon Van Etten, Deerhunter, Maggie Rogers, The Twilight Sad, and Steve Gunn) along with a couple others I’d like to get to. We’ll start to see that flood of…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/6lsxd7tiXpVxHRRltE7bi3?si=51ADVtDtRIaMj3veUAMFjA “Seventeen” – Sharon Van Etten. Still no new albums worth getting excited about. But next week is the first big push of new disks, including Sharon Van Etten’s newest. Of the early singles she’s released from it, this is my favorite. I love it’s rough edges and long, slow build. “Sunday Driver” – The Raconteurs. The Raconteurs are back!…
Friday Playlist
Is it Friday already? Time for the first playlist of the year, then! https://open.spotify.com/user/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y/playlist/1ZBwe63X1Mfd9rjfpKcQfr?si=7fzREkOnQpaA-dBv3AkGxA “Blue” – Thyla. This is kind of a perfect January song. Lyrically, it is dark and depressing, the singer complaining constantly about being “blue, blue, blue, blue, bluuuuuueeee.” Yet the music is driving and powerful as if it is pushing her through those January blues to…
Starting Off Strong (In Theory)
Happy New Year! Hope your celebrations were safe, happy, and the headaches/stomaches that resulted have passed. Our New Year’s Eve went well. The Pacers game was good. Well, other than spending 15 minutes to travel three blocks right before our parking garage. Not sure what the hell was going on but traffic was a nightmare. The Pacers won by 8,…
Stats
The always interesting final music stats post of the year. This year’s – or last year’s more properly – December numbers are even more out of whack than in the past thanks to our addition of the Sonos speaker to our household. In fact, December threw off the entire year’s numbers. December 2018 Bing Crosby – 210 Frank Sinatra –…