{"id":16574,"date":"2025-08-15T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:13:54","slug":"friday-playlist-361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/friday-playlist-361\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A funny thing happened as I began putting this week\u2019s list together. I noticed a common thread through many of the songs in my working pile of music. So that led me in a slightly different direction than I had planned. See if you can figure out what these songs all share. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 8\/15\/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\/2dQT3Sx3Oma0FXQsOQtWIT?si=4087503f5e464da0&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagic\u201d &#8211; The Cars<br \/>\nA song better suited for early summer, but I hadn\u2019t gotten to it yet this year and this seemed like the perfect week to squeeze it in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDreams\u201d &#8211; Jade Bird<br \/>\nThe slightest hint of country in her voice, also bumping up against Brandie Carlisle territory. Nothing wrong about any of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDissolve\u201d &#8211; Glimmer<br \/>\nAt Stereogum, Tom Breihan described this band as having a \u201cfuzzed out take on early Foo Fighters.\u201d You can hear a bit of \u201cEverlong\u201d in this track, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirls\u201d &#8211; King Princess<br \/>\nAt first listen, this song is sexy as hell. Once you pay attention to the lyrics, though, you realize there is a lot more going on, and none of it very comfortable. Certainly not sexy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawbacks\u201d &#8211; dust<br \/>\nProper post-punk from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFloat\u201d &#8211; Jay Som &amp; Jim Adkins<br \/>\nOn their first new album in six years, Jay Som brought in several collaborators. Here Jimmy Eat World\u2019s Adkins is the guest. The video for \u201cFloat\u201d has some callbacks to JEW\u2019s classic \u201cThe Middle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMind\u201d &#8211; Golden Apples<br \/>\nGolden Apples are generally thrown into the shoegaze revival camp. This song? It sounds way more like it drew inspiration from Lou Reed and Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeg\u201d &#8211; SPRINTS<br \/>\nSPRINTS making SPRINTS music. <\/p>\n<p>\u201caugust\u201d &#8211; Taylor Swift<br \/>\nT-Swift has been awfully quiet for quite some time. Which is weird for someone who loves the public eye. Maybe she\u2019s decided to let other artists suck up all the attention she used to demand and is living a life of peace and solitude.<\/p>\n<p>I kid, of course.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Oceans (Live) - MTV Unplugged - Pearl Jam\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0csYYDUVnR8?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>\u201cOceans\u201d &#8211; Pearl Jam<br \/>\nMy little twist on this week\u2019s playlist wasn\u2019t that clever. At some point I noticed I had four or five tracks with single-word titles in the queue, so I decided to stick with that theme for the rest of the list. Which, naturally, made me think of Pearl Jam and how they were famous for doing that across most of their early albums. They made fun of themselves for this by naming a song \u201cElderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This stunning performance kicked off their MTV Unplugged episode. If you weren\u2019t sure about the band\u2019s chops based on the early singles in 1992, this song had to win you over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funny thing happened as I began putting this week\u2019s list together. I noticed a common thread through many of the songs in my working pile of music. So that led me in a slightly different direction than I had planned. See if you can figure out what these songs all share. \u201cMagic\u201d &#8211; The Cars A song better suited for early summer, but I hadn\u2019t gotten to it yet this year and this seemed like the perfect week to squeeze it in. \u201cDreams\u201d &#8211; Jade Bird The slightest hint of country in her voice, also bumping up against Brandie Carlisle territory. Nothing wrong about any of this. \u201cDissolve\u201d &#8211; Glimmer At Stereogum, Tom Breihan described this band as having a \u201cfuzzed out take on early Foo Fighters.\u201d You can hear a bit of \u201cEverlong\u201d in this track, for sure. \u201cGirls\u201d &#8211; King Princess At first listen, this song is sexy as hell. Once you pay attention to the lyrics, though, you realize there is a lot more going on, and none of it very comfortable. Certainly not sexy. \u201cDrawbacks\u201d &#8211; dust Proper post-punk from Australia. \u201cFloat\u201d &#8211; Jay Som &amp; Jim Adkins On their first new album in six years, Jay Som brought in several collaborators. Here Jimmy Eat World\u2019s Adkins is the guest. The video for \u201cFloat\u201d has some callbacks to JEW\u2019s classic \u201cThe Middle.\u201d \u201cMind\u201d &#8211; Golden Apples Golden Apples are generally thrown into the shoegaze revival camp. This song? It sounds way more like it drew inspiration from Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. \u201cBeg\u201d &#8211; SPRINTS SPRINTS making SPRINTS music. \u201caugust\u201d &#8211; Taylor Swift T-Swift has been awfully quiet for quite some time. Which is weird for someone who loves the public eye. Maybe she\u2019s decided to let other artists suck up all the attention she used to demand and is living a life of peace and solitude. I kid, of course. \u201cOceans\u201d &#8211; Pearl Jam My little twist on this week\u2019s playlist wasn\u2019t that clever. At some point I noticed I had four or five tracks with single-word titles in the queue, so I decided to stick with that theme for the rest of the list. Which, naturally, made me think of Pearl Jam and how they were famous for doing that across most of their early albums. They made fun of themselves for this by naming a song \u201cElderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town.\u201d This stunning performance kicked off their MTV Unplugged episode. If you weren\u2019t sure about the band\u2019s chops based on the early singles in 1992, this song had to win you over.<\/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-16574","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\/16574","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=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16575,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions\/16575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}