{"id":16461,"date":"2025-07-25T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16461"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:18:57","slug":"friday-playlist-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/friday-playlist-358\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to extra-stuffed this week. So stuffed that I\u2019ll only include one summer song. And apologies to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZOtxTyJmxVI?si=CEyLN-NvgwJMovsv\">Chuck Mangione<\/a>, but there\u2019s no room to honor his passing with more than these words.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 7\/25\/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\/35X5UYCMtCeOZsTTLDDBv3?si=8ba6894dbcc7486e&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSummer Nights\u201d &#8211; Van Halen<br \/>\nPerfect late July song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTouch Myself\u201d &#8211; The Beaches<br \/>\nNot a remake of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wv-34w8kGPM?si=NplPDugcr1yT5Fzw\">that song<\/a><\/em>, but definitely about the same subject. And a strong Song of the Summer contender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCowbella\u201d &#8211; bar italia<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure if they were going for this, but every time I hear this song I think of Elastica. Or maybe druggier Elastica?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scene\u201d &#8211; Hotline TNT<br \/>\nSome poor DJing here. I\u2019ve only been sitting on it since the summer began. It deserved to be shared much sooner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdored\u201d &#8211; Been Stellar<br \/>\nNot quite as good as the songs they released a year ago. It\u2019s a little more contemplative and less straight rock. It reminds me a bit of Silversun Pickups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaint By Number\u201d &#8211; Coral Grief<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been kicking a few of this band\u2019s songs around for several weeks. I finally broke down and picked this one to share with you. I hope you like it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cReticence\u201d &#8211; Girls Names<br \/>\nThis song is a decade old, so from before I started doing Friday playlists. I 1000% would have included it had FPL\u2019s existed then. I love this band\u2019s blend of dark post punk and jangly indie rock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet It Happen\u201d &#8211; Tame Impala<br \/>\n<em>Currents<\/em> was released 10 years ago last week. Its highlight is this stone-cold classic. Five stars all around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwilight Zone\u201d &#8211; Golden Earring<br \/>\nGeorge Kooymans, guitarist and vocalist of Golden Earring, died this week. His passing got lost in the wave of other, more notable deaths this remarkable week. Shame. One of the obits I read suggested that if the term Two-Hit Wonder was a thing, Golden Earring might be the best example. \u201cRadar Love,\u201d from 1973, is a Classic Rock radio staple. This track went to #10 in 1982 and has never dropped out of rotation on Eighties stations. Eleven-year-old me thought it was the coolest song on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWar Pigs\u201d &#8211; Black Sabbath<br \/>\nYou didn\u2019t have to be a fan of Ozzy Osbourne to know a shitload of his songs. That\u2019s certainly the case with me. I never owned one of his albums or singles, never taped a song of his off the radio, never downloaded any of his songs. I was never deep enough into metal to be interested in his music. But I can sing along to the choruses of at least half a dozen of them because Ozzy was always in the air. <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I learned that Ozzy was actually a big hippie in the Sixties. That helps to explain this song, one of the most incandescent, ferocious anti-war songs ever made. It kicks all kinds of ass. He may have loved darkness and the occult, but deep down he just wanted everyone to love each other and have a good time. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing he made it to 76. One obituary this week stated that researchers had studied him and determined that he was a genetic freak, able to tolerate drugs and alcohol in quantities far beyond the normal human being. That explains a lot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Nine Inch Nails and VARIOUS ARTISTS - &quot;Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie&quot;\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSn5c8HArw4?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>&#8220;Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie&#8221; &#8211; Nine Inch Nails and Various Artists<br \/>\nI miss good mashups like this. I know things got a little out of hand in that moment, about 20 years ago, when mashups blew up. But when done well, how can you not like them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to extra-stuffed this week. So stuffed that I\u2019ll only include one summer song. And apologies to Chuck Mangione, but there\u2019s no room to honor his passing with more than these words. \u201cSummer Nights\u201d &#8211; Van Halen Perfect late July song. \u201cTouch Myself\u201d &#8211; The Beaches Not a remake of that song, but definitely about the same subject. And a strong Song of the Summer contender. \u201cCowbella\u201d &#8211; bar italia I\u2019m not sure if they were going for this, but every time I hear this song I think of Elastica. Or maybe druggier Elastica? \u201cThe Scene\u201d &#8211; Hotline TNT Some poor DJing here. I\u2019ve only been sitting on it since the summer began. It deserved to be shared much sooner. \u201cAdored\u201d &#8211; Been Stellar Not quite as good as the songs they released a year ago. It\u2019s a little more contemplative and less straight rock. It reminds me a bit of Silversun Pickups. \u201cPaint By Number\u201d &#8211; Coral Grief I\u2019ve been kicking a few of this band\u2019s songs around for several weeks. I finally broke down and picked this one to share with you. I hope you like it. \u201cReticence\u201d &#8211; Girls Names This song is a decade old, so from before I started doing Friday playlists. I 1000% would have included it had FPL\u2019s existed then. I love this band\u2019s blend of dark post punk and jangly indie rock. \u201cLet It Happen\u201d &#8211; Tame Impala Currents was released 10 years ago last week. Its highlight is this stone-cold classic. Five stars all around. \u201cTwilight Zone\u201d &#8211; Golden Earring George Kooymans, guitarist and vocalist of Golden Earring, died this week. His passing got lost in the wave of other, more notable deaths this remarkable week. Shame. One of the obits I read suggested that if the term Two-Hit Wonder was a thing, Golden Earring might be the best example. \u201cRadar Love,\u201d from 1973, is a Classic Rock radio staple. This track went to #10 in 1982 and has never dropped out of rotation on Eighties stations. Eleven-year-old me thought it was the coolest song on the radio. \u201cWar Pigs\u201d &#8211; Black Sabbath You didn\u2019t have to be a fan of Ozzy Osbourne to know a shitload of his songs. That\u2019s certainly the case with me. I never owned one of his albums or singles, never taped a song of his off the radio, never downloaded any of his songs. I was never deep enough into metal to be interested in his music. But I can sing along to the choruses of at least half a dozen of them because Ozzy was always in the air. A few years ago I learned that Ozzy was actually a big hippie in the Sixties. That helps to explain this song, one of the most incandescent, ferocious anti-war songs ever made. It kicks all kinds of ass. He may have loved darkness and the occult, but deep down he just wanted everyone to love each other and have a good time. It\u2019s amazing he made it to 76. One obituary this week stated that researchers had studied him and determined that he was a genetic freak, able to tolerate drugs and alcohol in quantities far beyond the normal human being. That explains a lot. &#8220;Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie&#8221; &#8211; Nine Inch Nails and Various Artists I miss good mashups like this. I know things got a little out of hand in that moment, about 20 years ago, when mashups blew up. But when done well, how can you not like them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-16461","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\/16461","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=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16462,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions\/16462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}