{"id":16769,"date":"2025-10-24T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16769"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:32:44","slug":"friday-playlist-371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/friday-playlist-371\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 10\/24\/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\/1gd7mG1FutjsBI1sl9CD44?si=f57a16357cfa4a36&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay In You Lane\u201d &#8211; Courtney Barnett<br \/>\nOur Aussie queen is back!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk To You\u201d &#8211; Sam Fender featuring Elton John<br \/>\nLast week Fender won the Mercury Prize for best album from the UK or Ireland. The next day he announced a deluxe version of <em>People Watching<\/em> that will come out in December. Good timing! This song features Elton John on piano. On the credits I can find, the rest of the backing band is listed as Sam\u2019s usual crew, but it sure sounds a lot like The War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack Of My Hand\u201d &#8211; The Belair Lip Bombs<br \/>\nLatest track from the Jack White-approved Aussies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly Roller\u201d &#8211; The Format<br \/>\nI can\u2019t figure out if I actually remember The Format from their early \u201800s run, or just recognize Nate Reuss\u2019 voice from his next band, fun. Weird because I remember the name The Format but can\u2019t place any of their songs, so probably the second? The band\u2019s first album in nearly 20 years was produced by Brendan O\u2019Brien, famous for his long work with Pearl Jam, and features O\u2019Brien on bass and brief Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeed\u201d &#8211; SPRINTS<br \/>\nTheir standard ass-kicker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Want You\u201d &#8211; Debbii Dawson<br \/>\nFrom need you to want you\u2026 I\u2019ve really enjoyed how each of Dawson\u2019s songs have quite different sounds. The rare straight pop artist I can get onboard with these days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal Hit\u201d &#8211; Yttling Hit<br \/>\nThis band is a project of Bj\u00f6rn Yttling, core member of Peter Bj\u00f6rn and John. YH\u2019s first album came out in 2007, this from their new, second album. That\u2019s quite a gap. And quite the stylistic swing from his other band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtlantic City (Electric Version)\u201d &#8211; Bruce Springsteen<br \/>\nThe fat, expanded edition of <em>Nebraska<\/em> is out today. \u201cAtlantic City\u201d is the only song from the original I ever liked very much, so it was the first song I went to check out this morning. A definite change in tone with the full band, taking a step towards the <em>Born in the USA<\/em> sound without getting all the way there. I still prefer the haunting spareness of the original, but nothing wrong with this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ofrqm6-LCqs?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>\u201cBlue Sky Mine\u201d &#8211; Midnight Oil<br \/>\nPerhaps the Springsteens of the Australian rock scene? Midnight Oil always sang about <em>something<\/em>, often about how the government and corporations were stomping on the rights of individuals, mostly the Aboriginal Australians and working class immigrants. Amazing that they had as much pop success as they did given the material they were covering.<\/p>\n<p>This, by one measure, was their biggest American hit. It topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts in 1990. Their next single, \u201cForgotten Years,\u201d also topped the Modern Rock chart. However, neither peaked as high as on the pop chart as the song that made their name in the States, 1987\u2019s #17 \u201cBeds Are Burning.\u201d I would put \u201cBeds\u201d as their fourth or fifth or even sixth best song, but that\u2019s the story of pop music, right? The best songs aren\u2019t always the biggest hits. Nothing\u2019s as precious as a hole in the ground\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Official Music Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZVpR3Pk-r8?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;Tainted Love&#8221; &#8211; Soft Cell<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS&#8230;moments after posting this I read the news that Dave Ball, the more musical half of the legendary band Soft Cell, passed away on Wednesday. &#8220;Tainted Love&#8221; deserves its own post at some point, so I won&#8217;t dive too deep into it now. Certainly one of the most timeless and recognizable tracks of its era, or any era really. This is the current official video for the song, but it bugs me a bit that it&#8217;s clearly been remastered and sounds a little too shiny for what started as an obscure, underground track from a niche group in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStay In You Lane\u201d &#8211; Courtney Barnett Our Aussie queen is back! \u201cTalk To You\u201d &#8211; Sam Fender featuring Elton John Last week Fender won the Mercury Prize for best album from the UK or Ireland. The next day he announced a deluxe version of People Watching that will come out in December. Good timing! This song features Elton John on piano. On the credits I can find, the rest of the backing band is listed as Sam\u2019s usual crew, but it sure sounds a lot like The War on Drugs. \u201cBack Of My Hand\u201d &#8211; The Belair Lip Bombs Latest track from the Jack White-approved Aussies. \u201cHoly Roller\u201d &#8211; The Format I can\u2019t figure out if I actually remember The Format from their early \u201800s run, or just recognize Nate Reuss\u2019 voice from his next band, fun. Weird because I remember the name The Format but can\u2019t place any of their songs, so probably the second? The band\u2019s first album in nearly 20 years was produced by Brendan O\u2019Brien, famous for his long work with Pearl Jam, and features O\u2019Brien on bass and brief Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain. \u201cNeed\u201d &#8211; SPRINTS Their standard ass-kicker. \u201cI Want You\u201d &#8211; Debbii Dawson From need you to want you\u2026 I\u2019ve really enjoyed how each of Dawson\u2019s songs have quite different sounds. The rare straight pop artist I can get onboard with these days. \u201cIllegal Hit\u201d &#8211; Yttling Hit This band is a project of Bj\u00f6rn Yttling, core member of Peter Bj\u00f6rn and John. YH\u2019s first album came out in 2007, this from their new, second album. That\u2019s quite a gap. And quite the stylistic swing from his other band. \u201cAtlantic City (Electric Version)\u201d &#8211; Bruce Springsteen The fat, expanded edition of Nebraska is out today. \u201cAtlantic City\u201d is the only song from the original I ever liked very much, so it was the first song I went to check out this morning. A definite change in tone with the full band, taking a step towards the Born in the USA sound without getting all the way there. I still prefer the haunting spareness of the original, but nothing wrong with this one. \u201cBlue Sky Mine\u201d &#8211; Midnight Oil Perhaps the Springsteens of the Australian rock scene? Midnight Oil always sang about something, often about how the government and corporations were stomping on the rights of individuals, mostly the Aboriginal Australians and working class immigrants. Amazing that they had as much pop success as they did given the material they were covering. This, by one measure, was their biggest American hit. It topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts in 1990. Their next single, \u201cForgotten Years,\u201d also topped the Modern Rock chart. However, neither peaked as high as on the pop chart as the song that made their name in the States, 1987\u2019s #17 \u201cBeds Are Burning.\u201d I would put \u201cBeds\u201d as their fourth or fifth or even sixth best song, but that\u2019s the story of pop music, right? The best songs aren\u2019t always the biggest hits. Nothing\u2019s as precious as a hole in the ground\u2026 &#8220;Tainted Love&#8221; &#8211; Soft Cell BREAKING NEWS&#8230;moments after posting this I read the news that Dave Ball, the more musical half of the legendary band Soft Cell, passed away on Wednesday. &#8220;Tainted Love&#8221; deserves its own post at some point, so I won&#8217;t dive too deep into it now. Certainly one of the most timeless and recognizable tracks of its era, or any era really. This is the current official video for the song, but it bugs me a bit that it&#8217;s clearly been remastered and sounds a little too shiny for what started as an obscure, underground track from a niche group in 1981.<\/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-16769","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\/16769","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=16769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16773,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}