{"id":17122,"date":"2026-03-06T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:54:27","slug":"friday-playlist-388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/friday-playlist-388\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been going through an especially persistent bout with my periodic insomnia this week. I have no idea how I couldn\u2019t sleep last night but here we are, me bleary-eyed after hours of tossing and turning, getting up to read and reset my brain, then more tossing and turning. We\u2019ll see how that affects the songs I put together for you today, and what I write about them. If this turns to gibberish by the end, you know the reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Friday Playlist 3\/6\/26\" 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\/1rcilkZ2UEkMdyvr8SxRqA?si=7493cd381ad348f1&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/playlist\/friday-playlist-3-6-26\/pl.u-Nj6gupJmyo4\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCoast To Coast\u201d &#8211; Elliott Smith<br>Funny how songs get lost to time and the glut of other music. Elliott Smith\u2019s posthumous album <em>From A Basement On the Hill<\/em> was one of the first full albums I ever bought on the iTunes Music Store back in early 2005. I listened to it often for a month or so and really enjoyed it, but over the years only the album\u2019s best song, \u201cPretty (Ugly Before)\u201d stayed in my catalog. I was looking at something from that time period this week and was reminded of the album, and this, its excellent opening track. It is now back in my catalog and seemed like a perfect way to begin this week\u2019s PL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s Heroes\u201d &#8211; The Menzingers<br>\u201cBorn To Kill\u201d &#8211; Social Distortion<br>Two brand new and perfectly fine tracks from two bands that have been around a while, Social D the longest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMantis\u201d &#8211; Courtney Barnett<br>Two-for-two on high quality tracks from her upcoming album. This one is a little more in line with her traditional narrative style than the first single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s My Phone?\u201d &#8211; Mitski<br>I would make fun of the younger generation and say this song sums them up but let\u2019s be honest: we\u2019d all be lost if you took away our phones. I also told S this should be her theme song since she\u2019s infamous for leaving her phone behind when she runs errands or, several times a year, when she goes to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNever The Same\u201d &#8211; The Cribs<br>This is a new song, but sounds like something that would have dropped in the early 2000s, when everyone was trying to sound like The Strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe Makes Me Real\u201d &#8211; Cardinals<br>Continuing a couple trends for this week: a stellar opening track to an album, and another artist that we are hearing multiple times from a current release. There haven\u2019t been many notable albums so far this year, but the Cardinals\u2019 is one of the two best I\u2019ve heard so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLonely Boy\u201d &#8211; Lucia &amp; The Best Boys featuring Lauren Mayberry<br>This autobiographical track by Lucia Fairfull about wanting to get out of her rural Scottish childhood was good enough on its own. Mayberry\u2019s presence takes it up a notch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSecond Sleep\u201d &#8211; Magdalena Bay<br>One of my girls asked me recently if I ever listened to Magdalena Bay. I said that indeed I had listened to some of their music. A day later this popped up. Music Gods were listening. The intro has an Imperial Era Stevie Wonder vibe to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5AVYDHTOixU?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>De La Soul Tiny Desk Concert<br>This felt like the perfect time to do something unusual for our video selection. The world is such a fucked up place right now, and it feels like, at best, we can just tread water and hope that things will get better in three years. Then this set dropped, and for 23 minutes I was utterly entranced and delighted. There is so much joy here that it made me forget all the bullshit for a spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been going through an especially persistent bout with my periodic insomnia this week. I have no idea how I couldn\u2019t sleep last night but here we are, me bleary-eyed after hours of tossing and turning, getting up to read and reset my brain, then more tossing and turning. We\u2019ll see how that affects the songs I put together for you today, and what I write about them. If this turns to gibberish by the end, you know the reason. \u201cCoast To Coast\u201d &#8211; Elliott SmithFunny how songs get lost to time and the glut of other music. Elliott Smith\u2019s posthumous album From A Basement On the Hill was one of the first full albums I ever bought on the iTunes Music Store back in early 2005. I listened to it often for a month or so and really enjoyed it, but over the years only the album\u2019s best song, \u201cPretty (Ugly Before)\u201d stayed in my catalog. I was looking at something from that time period this week and was reminded of the album, and this, its excellent opening track. It is now back in my catalog and seemed like a perfect way to begin this week\u2019s PL. \u201cNobody\u2019s Heroes\u201d &#8211; The Menzingers\u201cBorn To Kill\u201d &#8211; Social DistortionTwo brand new and perfectly fine tracks from two bands that have been around a while, Social D the longest. \u201cMantis\u201d &#8211; Courtney BarnettTwo-for-two on high quality tracks from her upcoming album. This one is a little more in line with her traditional narrative style than the first single. \u201cWhere\u2019s My Phone?\u201d &#8211; MitskiI would make fun of the younger generation and say this song sums them up but let\u2019s be honest: we\u2019d all be lost if you took away our phones. I also told S this should be her theme song since she\u2019s infamous for leaving her phone behind when she runs errands or, several times a year, when she goes to work. \u201cNever The Same\u201d &#8211; The CribsThis is a new song, but sounds like something that would have dropped in the early 2000s, when everyone was trying to sound like The Strokes. \u201cShe Makes Me Real\u201d &#8211; CardinalsContinuing a couple trends for this week: a stellar opening track to an album, and another artist that we are hearing multiple times from a current release. There haven\u2019t been many notable albums so far this year, but the Cardinals\u2019 is one of the two best I\u2019ve heard so far. \u201cLonely Boy\u201d &#8211; Lucia &amp; The Best Boys featuring Lauren MayberryThis autobiographical track by Lucia Fairfull about wanting to get out of her rural Scottish childhood was good enough on its own. Mayberry\u2019s presence takes it up a notch. \u201cSecond Sleep\u201d &#8211; Magdalena BayOne of my girls asked me recently if I ever listened to Magdalena Bay. I said that indeed I had listened to some of their music. A day later this popped up. Music Gods were listening. The intro has an Imperial Era Stevie Wonder vibe to it. De La Soul Tiny Desk ConcertThis felt like the perfect time to do something unusual for our video selection. The world is such a fucked up place right now, and it feels like, at best, we can just tread water and hope that things will get better in three years. Then this set dropped, and for 23 minutes I was utterly entranced and delighted. There is so much joy here that it made me forget all the bullshit for a spell.<\/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-17122","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\/17122","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=17122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17124,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions\/17124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}