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“One That Got Away” – MUNA
\nMUNA’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.<\/p>\n
“Perfect Blue” – Bodywash
\nSome dense, modern, shoegazey goodness for a cold, rainy morning here in Indy.<\/p>\n
“Life in the Void” – The Reds, Pinks, and Purples
\nI 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.<\/p>\n
“Tomorrow Never Comes” – Rancid
\nAnd then this will wake your ass up if the rain gets you down. Remember that summer when Rancid was huge for about 10 minutes?<\/p>\n
“Goldfinger” – Ash
\n“Here in Your Bedroom” – Goldfinger
\nThese songs will always be connected in my head, for an obvious reason. It helped that they were out at roughly the same time.
\nAsh, 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. <\/p>\n
“Red Mosquito” – Pearl Jam
\nYesterday 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.<\/p>\n