{"id":16240,"date":"2025-04-25T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:58:30","slug":"friday-playlist-346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/friday-playlist-346\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slight change-of-pace this week. I\u2019ve been working on a new music project this week that has slowed down my processing of the new songs considerably. (I\u2019ll share more about that project next week.) Plus a couple of these songs\/bands are tough to Google, so I wasn\u2019t able to find out much about them. As a result, a slightly more lean playlist than we\u2019ve had recently. We should get back in the regular flow for the first playlist of May.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 4\/25\/24\" 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\/0CjGGESI2dR73y86TO3ju8?si=3ce0441fd3304c3c&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull of the Joys of Spring\u201d &#8211; The Sundries<br \/>\nWhat a joyous week this was, at least in terms of the weather and feeling like spring, etc. Bright, warm, sunny days. The grass is thick as hell after all our recent rains. All the trees, plants, and flowers are budded and bloomed and otherwise looking healthy after the retreat of winter. I\u2019m regretting not opening the pool sooner. Next weekend the lows are going to be in the 30\u2019s\u00b0, a good reminder that I did NOT open the pool yet because I didn\u2019t want to pay like we were heating the house in January to get the pool to a reasonable temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoline\u201d &#8211; The Bats<br \/>\nThe Bats have been together, without changing their lineup, for 43 years. Which is amazing. They sound like a band that came up a long time ago, and I mean that in the best way. Here they sing about a popular bike from their homeland of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome Down\u201d &#8211; Reb Fountain<br \/>\nWhere The Bats 100% sound like a band from New Zealand, this singer sounds more like she\u2019s from the UK and influenced by the trip-hop acts of the Nineties. She is, though, a Kiwi, too. And that\u2019s about all I can find about her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Your Funeral\u201d &#8211; Ultra Lights<br \/>\nAnother band that is hard to Google. I would have guessed they were the next, snotty, kind of arty, New York garage band, in the line of The Strokes and Parquet Courts. But they are from Atlanta. Which is wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Zero\u201d &#8211; Dream, Ivory<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been kicking this song around for a few weeks, never sure whether I should include it or not. Luckily for this brother act, I kept it around long enough to run into a week light on music so I had to finally use it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn This Mess\u201d &#8211; Say Sue Me<br \/>\nI just included a SSM track last week. But when they drop a song this good immediately after, there is no waiting period before I share it. Holy shit, the guitars!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive It Up\u201d &#8211; 8mm<br \/>\nLong-time music followers will remember this from the early days of my podcast. I\u2019m not sure if I first played this in 2005 or 2006. I do remember it came on the advice of a brother-in-music I\u2019ve lost touch with, and our shared joke was this song was so sultry that we felt like we needed to confess something to our wives after listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>8mm actually has some new music out. Their new song is ok, but doesn\u2019t stand up to this classic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Neil Finn &amp; Friends feat. Eddie Vedder - Take A Walk (Live from 7 Worlds Collide)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXo7jJ6_v18?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>\u201cTake A Walk\u201d &#8211; Neil Finn &amp; Friends<br \/>\nI missed honoring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7_Worlds_Collide_%28album%29\">the greatest concert series ever<\/a> earlier this month while we were on break. With two other New Zealand acts in this week\u2019s PL, seems like the perfect moment to rectify that oversight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slight change-of-pace this week. I\u2019ve been working on a new music project this week that has slowed down my processing of the new songs considerably. (I\u2019ll share more about that project next week.) Plus a couple of these songs\/bands are tough to Google, so I wasn\u2019t able to find out much about them. As a result, a slightly more lean playlist than we\u2019ve had recently. We should get back in the regular flow for the first playlist of May. \u201cFull of the Joys of Spring\u201d &#8211; The Sundries What a joyous week this was, at least in terms of the weather and feeling like spring, etc. Bright, warm, sunny days. The grass is thick as hell after all our recent rains. All the trees, plants, and flowers are budded and bloomed and otherwise looking healthy after the retreat of winter. I\u2019m regretting not opening the pool sooner. Next weekend the lows are going to be in the 30\u2019s\u00b0, a good reminder that I did NOT open the pool yet because I didn\u2019t want to pay like we were heating the house in January to get the pool to a reasonable temperature. \u201cLoline\u201d &#8211; The Bats The Bats have been together, without changing their lineup, for 43 years. Which is amazing. They sound like a band that came up a long time ago, and I mean that in the best way. Here they sing about a popular bike from their homeland of New Zealand. \u201cCome Down\u201d &#8211; Reb Fountain Where The Bats 100% sound like a band from New Zealand, this singer sounds more like she\u2019s from the UK and influenced by the trip-hop acts of the Nineties. She is, though, a Kiwi, too. And that\u2019s about all I can find about her. \u201cIt\u2019s Your Funeral\u201d &#8211; Ultra Lights Another band that is hard to Google. I would have guessed they were the next, snotty, kind of arty, New York garage band, in the line of The Strokes and Parquet Courts. But they are from Atlanta. Which is wild. \u201cAt Zero\u201d &#8211; Dream, Ivory I\u2019ve been kicking this song around for a few weeks, never sure whether I should include it or not. Luckily for this brother act, I kept it around long enough to run into a week light on music so I had to finally use it. \u201cIn This Mess\u201d &#8211; Say Sue Me I just included a SSM track last week. But when they drop a song this good immediately after, there is no waiting period before I share it. Holy shit, the guitars! \u201cGive It Up\u201d &#8211; 8mm Long-time music followers will remember this from the early days of my podcast. I\u2019m not sure if I first played this in 2005 or 2006. I do remember it came on the advice of a brother-in-music I\u2019ve lost touch with, and our shared joke was this song was so sultry that we felt like we needed to confess something to our wives after listening to it. 8mm actually has some new music out. Their new song is ok, but doesn\u2019t stand up to this classic. \u201cTake A Walk\u201d &#8211; Neil Finn &amp; Friends I missed honoring the greatest concert series ever earlier this month while we were on break. With two other New Zealand acts in this week\u2019s PL, seems like the perfect moment to rectify that oversight.<\/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-16240","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\/16240","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=16240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16241,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}