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“Midnight Sunburn” – Dog Ears
\nBig, crunchy, power pop for mid-summer.<\/p>\n
“I Need Ya” – Somebody’s Child
\nIf the Strokes were from Ireland, they would probably sound like this.<\/p>\n
“Forgiving Ties” – Deer Tick
\nI had to triple check this wasn’t a lost Tom Petty demo that someone else had finished.<\/p>\n
“The Spiral” – Body Maintenance
\nThis is some proper-ass post punk from Down Under. Like all great post punk, it could be from 1983 or 2003 just as easily as be the brand new song it actually is.<\/p>\n
“Crank” – Catherine Wheel “Seasons” – Chris Cornell “Little Bit of Sun” – Semisonic Two videos this week!<\/p>\n
\nOne of the music sites I follow posted this week about the 30th anniversary of the release of Catherine Wheel’s Chrome<\/a><\/em> album. While I’m partial to Ferment<\/a><\/em>, “Crank” is an awesome song, and likely how most people my age discovered the band.<\/p>\n
\nI just listened to the Temple of the Dog\/Grunge episode of 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s<\/a>. The guest was professor and music critic Eric Harvey, who it turns out is from Indianapolis and went to Franklin College just south of the city. I looked up what he has written and came across his retrospective review of the Singles<\/em> soundtrack for Pitchfork<\/a>. It’s a great read about that entire era. Naturally I put on the soundtrack (I’m going to re-watch the movie at some point) and I remembered how this song totally blew me away the first time I heard it. I wasn’t a big Soundgarden fan yet, but I knew what their general aesthetic was. And this seemed to be the exact opposite. Such a great song by such a great artist. RIP.<\/p>\n
\nIt always makes me happy when Semisonic puts out another great, nearly perfect pop tune.<\/p>\n