{"id":16212,"date":"2025-04-11T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16212"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:43:33","slug":"friday-playlist-344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/friday-playlist-344\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yowza! Take a week off and not only does the music pile up, but there are also a couple large events to recognize. So this week\u2019s list is EXTRA large for your listening pleasure. And that\u2019s even with me probably cutting a song or two from my working list as I finalize what I share.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 4\/11\/25\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/2nfBlOpAWfemaSYuwOPA0O?si=c41531f99c164787&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201ccatch these fists\u201d &#8211; Wet Leg<br \/>\nLOOK WHO\u2019S BACK!!! WATCH OUT, FOOLS!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNW1\u201d &#8211; M\u00ean An Tol<br \/>\nWhoo, this song cooks! I assumed based on the band name they were somehow Scandinavian, or maybe Icelandic. Turns out they are just some British lads, and took their name from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%AAn-an-Tol\">a small stone formation in Cornwall<\/a>. Call it a JV Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRodeo\u201d &#8211; Momma<br \/>\nI\u2019ve already shared a couple songs from Momma\u2019s latest album, which officially came out while we were breaking. The album got terrific reviews so I gave it a spin this week and this was the other song that really stuck out to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolly\u201d &#8211; Jolie Laide<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been driving me crazy for a couple weeks what other band these folks sound like. There was a song a few years back that had a very similar vibe to this, including a man and woman responding to each other\u2019s lines, the film noir-ish music, etc. It also had a lot of whistling where this does not. Anyone else remember that song?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wolf\u201d &#8211; Witch Post<br \/>\nIs it wrong to put two man-woman songs back-to-back?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBackseat Banton\u201d &#8211; Bartees Strange<br \/>\nNot sure how I missed including this over the past two months. It was just about to drop out of my current music playlist, so I\u2019m glad I caught the error in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay\u201d &#8211; Sea Lemon<br \/>\nExactly the kind of dream pop I love the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLowdown (part 1)\u201d &#8211; Michael Kiwanuka<br \/>\nIf this hasn\u2019t already been used to soundtrack moments in TV shows and movies, it surely will be soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Man Needs A Vocation\u201d &#8211; Craig Finn<br \/>\nFinn\u2019s album <em>Always Been<\/em> also came out while we were away. I\u2019ve been listening to it all week. The addition of members of The War on Drugs as his backing band refresh his sound wonderfully. Several of the songs sound 100% like TWOD songs everywhere but in his vocals. This is one of the best examples. The opening keyboards. The drums. The chiming acoustic guitars that carry the song, and the little electric guitar flourishes throughout. This easily could have been on the last Drugs album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain In The River\u201d &#8211; Bruce Springsteen<br \/>\nWell now! Like Prince, Springsteen has a large vault of unreleased music. Unlike Prince, he periodically taps into it, brushing up songs that have lain fallow for decades and letting the public hear them. The biggest new music news of the past week was the announcement of The Boss\u2019 <em>Tracks II<\/em>, a package that will include 83 songs spanning seven full length albums, containing first recorded between 193 and 2018. Most of it comes from the 1990s, a decade when he stepped back from the public eye but was still apparently working quite hard. Also included is his legendary 1983 Garage Sessions work, during which he worked alone on many of the songs that became the hits of <em>Born in the USA<\/em> after he took them to the E. Street Band.<\/p>\n<p>This song comes a compilation of E. Street Band-styled songs recorded at various points during the quarter century scope of the entire boxed set.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Blondie - Dreaming\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TU3-lS_Gryk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDreaming\u201d &#8211; Blondie<br \/>\nUgh. Blondie drummer Clem Burke died this week. He had been sick for some time but hid his cancer diagnosis, so his passing came as a shock even to many close to him.<\/p>\n<p>Blondie was always mostly about Debbie Harry. Burke\u2019s driving beats held the whole operation together, though.<\/p>\n<p>Blondie\u2019s peak was less than four years long. Despite that they had a huge impact on music and culture, one that still influences bands trying to figure out what direction they want to go. You can argue about which Blondie single is the best. They had four number ones, which are good places to start. I\u2019ve long leaned towards \u201cDreaming\u201d though. I think some of that is because while those chart topping hits went different directions &#8211; disco, Euro-disco, Dancehall, and rap &#8211; \u201cDreaming\u201d was a perfect New Wave song, the genre the band helped bring to the mainstream. Harry softened her New York hardness a bit, making it feel more like an updated, Sixties girl band tune.<a id=\"fnref:1\" class=\"footnote\" title=\"see footnote\" href=\"#fn:1\">[1]<\/a> And then there were Burke\u2019s drums, an absolutely jaw-dropping performance. I did not know until this week that the drums you hear were his first take at the track, and he wasn\u2019t taking it all that seriously, thus played busier and with more abandon than he normally would. Harry and Chris Stein loved how they sounded and kept them for the final mix of the song. Amazing. And RIP.<\/p>\n<p>This track is, obviously, a live performance played over the recorded track. But watch Burke just beat the shit out of his kit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn:1\">Also, like <a href=\"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/reaching-for-the-stars-vol-111\/\">this week\u2019s RFTS post<\/a>, it has an AMAZING set of opening lines. <a class=\"reversefootnote\" title=\"return to article\" href=\"#fnref:1\">\u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yowza! Take a week off and not only does the music pile up, but there are also a couple large events to recognize. So this week\u2019s list is EXTRA large for your listening pleasure. And that\u2019s even with me probably cutting a song or two from my working list as I finalize what I share. \u201ccatch these fists\u201d &#8211; Wet Leg LOOK WHO\u2019S BACK!!! WATCH OUT, FOOLS!!! \u201cNW1\u201d &#8211; M\u00ean An Tol Whoo, this song cooks! I assumed based on the band name they were somehow Scandinavian, or maybe Icelandic. Turns out they are just some British lads, and took their name from a small stone formation in Cornwall. Call it a JV Stonehenge. \u201cRodeo\u201d &#8211; Momma I\u2019ve already shared a couple songs from Momma\u2019s latest album, which officially came out while we were breaking. The album got terrific reviews so I gave it a spin this week and this was the other song that really stuck out to me. \u201cHolly\u201d &#8211; Jolie Laide It\u2019s been driving me crazy for a couple weeks what other band these folks sound like. There was a song a few years back that had a very similar vibe to this, including a man and woman responding to each other\u2019s lines, the film noir-ish music, etc. It also had a lot of whistling where this does not. Anyone else remember that song? \u201cThe Wolf\u201d &#8211; Witch Post Is it wrong to put two man-woman songs back-to-back? \u201cBackseat Banton\u201d &#8211; Bartees Strange Not sure how I missed including this over the past two months. It was just about to drop out of my current music playlist, so I\u2019m glad I caught the error in time. \u201cStay\u201d &#8211; Sea Lemon Exactly the kind of dream pop I love the most. \u201cLowdown (part 1)\u201d &#8211; Michael Kiwanuka If this hasn\u2019t already been used to soundtrack moments in TV shows and movies, it surely will be soon. \u201cA Man Needs A Vocation\u201d &#8211; Craig Finn Finn\u2019s album Always Been also came out while we were away. I\u2019ve been listening to it all week. The addition of members of The War on Drugs as his backing band refresh his sound wonderfully. Several of the songs sound 100% like TWOD songs everywhere but in his vocals. This is one of the best examples. The opening keyboards. The drums. The chiming acoustic guitars that carry the song, and the little electric guitar flourishes throughout. This easily could have been on the last Drugs album. \u201cRain In The River\u201d &#8211; Bruce Springsteen Well now! Like Prince, Springsteen has a large vault of unreleased music. Unlike Prince, he periodically taps into it, brushing up songs that have lain fallow for decades and letting the public hear them. The biggest new music news of the past week was the announcement of The Boss\u2019 Tracks II, a package that will include 83 songs spanning seven full length albums, containing first recorded between 193 and 2018. Most of it comes from the 1990s, a decade when he stepped back from the public eye but was still apparently working quite hard. Also included is his legendary 1983 Garage Sessions work, during which he worked alone on many of the songs that became the hits of Born in the USA after he took them to the E. Street Band. This song comes a compilation of E. Street Band-styled songs recorded at various points during the quarter century scope of the entire boxed set. \u201cDreaming\u201d &#8211; Blondie Ugh. Blondie drummer Clem Burke died this week. He had been sick for some time but hid his cancer diagnosis, so his passing came as a shock even to many close to him. Blondie was always mostly about Debbie Harry. Burke\u2019s driving beats held the whole operation together, though. Blondie\u2019s peak was less than four years long. Despite that they had a huge impact on music and culture, one that still influences bands trying to figure out what direction they want to go. You can argue about which Blondie single is the best. They had four number ones, which are good places to start. I\u2019ve long leaned towards \u201cDreaming\u201d though. I think some of that is because while those chart topping hits went different directions &#8211; disco, Euro-disco, Dancehall, and rap &#8211; \u201cDreaming\u201d was a perfect New Wave song, the genre the band helped bring to the mainstream. Harry softened her New York hardness a bit, making it feel more like an updated, Sixties girl band tune.[1] And then there were Burke\u2019s drums, an absolutely jaw-dropping performance. I did not know until this week that the drums you hear were his first take at the track, and he wasn\u2019t taking it all that seriously, thus played busier and with more abandon than he normally would. Harry and Chris Stein loved how they sounded and kept them for the final mix of the song. Amazing. And RIP. This track is, obviously, a live performance played over the recorded track. But watch Burke just beat the shit out of his kit. Also, like this week\u2019s RFTS post, it has an AMAZING set of opening lines. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-16212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16634,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212\/revisions\/16634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}