Several new songs by old artists this week. And some new songs by new artists. In other words, a normal week.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn The Sun\u201d – Blondie<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve had a little too much sun this week. It\u2019s been miserable. This song makes me feel a little better about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreakaway\u201d – Been Stellar<br \/>\nThese kids keep cranking out good tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern Man\u201d – MORN<br \/>\nKick ass music from Wales!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMove Now\u201d – Marshall Crenshaw<br \/>\nOne of my all-time favorite writers of pop songs is back with a new album of old tracks. <em>From The Hellhole<\/em> collects songs he released on vinyl for Record Store Day between 2012 and 2016 and then went out of print. Not up to his classics, but still good stuff here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot To Have Love\u201d – Pulp<br \/>\nAs with The London Suede last week, Pulp is one of those bands that went away for a while then came back, sounding the same, and as good, as in their prime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLive Forever\u201d – Sloan<br \/>\nThese Canadian power pop legends are about to release the 14th album of their career. That\u2019s a lot, even with the CAD-USD conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrossing Fingers\u201d – Rocket<br \/>\nAnother Rocket jam filled with \u201890s nostalgic goodness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDEAD\u201d – Sudan Archives<br \/>\nOne of the most original and interesting songs I\u2019ve heard this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust Like A Flower\u201d – Winter<br \/>\nWinter said this captures the essence of daydreaming in her bedroom as a teen. I definitely hear that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)\u201d – The White Stripes<br \/>\nThe Stripes second album, <em>De Stijl<\/em>, was released 25 years and one week ago. It would be another 18 months or so before they exploded into the mainstream with tracks off <em>White Blood Cells<\/em>, but you could hear them working on getting to that point on this album. Here is side one, track one. Because you know Jack would prefer you to listen to it on vinyl.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the album came out the same day as my 29th birthday party. An evening where, after dinner and many drinks a large group of friends went to The Levee in Kansas City to listen to Sonny Kenner. A show at which I ignored a lot of my friends to talk to a young lady who had just moved there from Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSummertime Girls\u201d – Y&T<br \/>\nI just read a book about hair metal. More about that next week. Y&T didn\u2019t get a ton of space in it, but they were referenced, so perfect week to throw this one in as our summer bookender.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce - Dr. Feelgood (Official Music Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/trGX3ET3jTQ?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>\u201cDr. Feelgood\u201d – M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<br \/>\nWhile we\u2019re on that subject, let\u2019s end things with one of the best songs of that era. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new songs by old artists this week. And some new songs by new artists. In other words, a normal week. \u201cIn The Sun\u201d – Blondie We\u2019ve had a little too much sun this week. It\u2019s been miserable. This song makes me feel a little better about it. \u201cBreakaway\u201d – Been Stellar These kids keep cranking out good tracks. \u201cModern Man\u201d – MORN Kick ass music from Wales! \u201cMove Now\u201d – Marshall Crenshaw One of my all-time favorite writers of pop songs is back with a new album of old tracks. From The Hellhole collects songs he released on vinyl for Record Store Day between 2012 and 2016 and then went out of print. Not up to his classics, but still good stuff here. \u201cGot To Have Love\u201d – Pulp As with The London Suede last week, Pulp is one of those bands that went away for a while then came back, sounding the same, and as good, as in their prime. \u201cLive Forever\u201d – Sloan These Canadian power pop legends are about to release the 14th album of their career. That\u2019s a lot, even with the CAD-USD conversion rate. \u201cCrossing Fingers\u201d – Rocket Another Rocket jam filled with \u201890s nostalgic goodness. \u201cDEAD\u201d – Sudan Archives One of the most original and interesting songs I\u2019ve heard this year. \u201cJust Like A Flower\u201d – Winter Winter said this captures the essence of daydreaming in her bedroom as a teen. I definitely hear that. \u201cYou\u2019re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)\u201d – The White Stripes The Stripes second album, De Stijl, was released 25 years and one week ago. It would be another 18 months or so before they exploded into the mainstream with tracks off White Blood Cells, but you could hear them working on getting to that point on this album. Here is side one, track one. Because you know Jack would prefer you to listen to it on vinyl. Also, the album came out the same day as my 29th birthday party. An evening where, after dinner and many drinks a large group of friends went to The Levee in Kansas City to listen to Sonny Kenner. A show at which I ignored a lot of my friends to talk to a young lady who had just moved there from Indianapolis. \u201cSummertime Girls\u201d – Y&T I just read a book about hair metal. More about that next week. Y&T didn\u2019t get a ton of space in it, but they were referenced, so perfect week to throw this one in as our summer bookender. \u201cDr. Feelgood\u201d – M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce While we\u2019re on that subject, let\u2019s end things with one of the best songs of that era.<\/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-16404","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\/16404","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=16404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16405,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16404\/revisions\/16405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}