{"id":17306,"date":"2026-05-22T07:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:37:33","slug":"friday-playlist-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/friday-playlist-397\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can guess by the lack of activity on this website, it was a busy week for me. In strange ways, which we may or may not get to next week. Because of that, my working playlist for today was half-formed, at best. Good thing it is Memorial Day weekend, though. That unlocks multiple fun tracks for us.<\/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 5\/22\/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\/2cr7kkygbqwDEN78Z4s9cG?si=8103dce8ce38414d&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-5-22-26\/pl.u-jqkjHqPdBxD\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConstructive Summer\u201d &#8211; The Hold Steady<br>\nRaise a toast to Saint Joe Strummer, I\u2019m seeing THS live in three weeks! I\u2019m also going to build something this summer. Not sure what, but something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOther Side\u201d &#8211; Rosali<br>\nSongs about reuniting with your dead homies shouldn\u2019t sound this fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn The Stars\u201d &#8211; The Rolling Stones<br>\nNot nearly as good as \u201cAngry,\u201d their out-of-nowhere rocker from 2023. This is a pleasing enough track, but very little about it feels like the Stones. Not even like a Stones knock-off band. It\u2019s too clean and shiny for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere Have All The Good Men Gone?\u201d &#8211; Debbii Dawson<br>\nDD sounding like Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBoat Garage\u201d &#8211; hey, nothing<br>\nMemorial Day weekend might be the only time I miss having a boat, more for the ritual of taking the first group of friends of the season out for a ride while we listened to the Indy 500 on the radio. I don\u2019t think this song is about that. It is a banger, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLong Weekend\u201d &#8211; Cut Worms<br>\nI\u2019ve been sitting on this track for nearly a month waiting for this weekend. You don\u2019t have to try too hard to hear some Marshall Crenshaw in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSnack City\u201d &#8211; Le S\u00e9curit\u00e9<br>\nLots of early New Wave in this one, and it seems like the perfect setup track for one of our Memorial Day weekend traditions\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy Friend Dario\u201d &#8211; Vitalic<br>\nThe Indy 500 sold out early enough that us locals will get to watch it live on TV for the second-straight year. Dario Franchitti did some TV commentary during practice last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"DJ Jazzy Jeff &amp; The Fresh Prince - Summertime (Official Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kr0tTbTbmVA?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSummertime\u201d &#8211; DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince<br>\nDRUMS PLEASE!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy beginning of summer to everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can guess by the lack of activity on this website, it was a busy week for me. In strange ways, which we may or may not get to next week. Because of that, my working playlist for today was half-formed, at best. Good thing it is Memorial Day weekend, though. That unlocks multiple fun tracks for us. \u201cConstructive Summer\u201d &#8211; The Hold Steady Raise a toast to Saint Joe Strummer, I\u2019m seeing THS live in three weeks! I\u2019m also going to build something this summer. Not sure what, but something. \u201cOther Side\u201d &#8211; Rosali Songs about reuniting with your dead homies shouldn\u2019t sound this fun. \u201cIn The Stars\u201d &#8211; The Rolling Stones Not nearly as good as \u201cAngry,\u201d their out-of-nowhere rocker from 2023. This is a pleasing enough track, but very little about it feels like the Stones. Not even like a Stones knock-off band. It\u2019s too clean and shiny for that. \u201cWhere Have All The Good Men Gone?\u201d &#8211; Debbii Dawson DD sounding like Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches here. \u201cBoat Garage\u201d &#8211; hey, nothing Memorial Day weekend might be the only time I miss having a boat, more for the ritual of taking the first group of friends of the season out for a ride while we listened to the Indy 500 on the radio. I don\u2019t think this song is about that. It is a banger, though. \u201cLong Weekend\u201d &#8211; Cut Worms I\u2019ve been sitting on this track for nearly a month waiting for this weekend. You don\u2019t have to try too hard to hear some Marshall Crenshaw in it. \u201cSnack City\u201d &#8211; Le S\u00e9curit\u00e9 Lots of early New Wave in this one, and it seems like the perfect setup track for one of our Memorial Day weekend traditions\u2026 \u201cMy Friend Dario\u201d &#8211; Vitalic The Indy 500 sold out early enough that us locals will get to watch it live on TV for the second-straight year. Dario Franchitti did some TV commentary during practice last week. \u201cSummertime\u201d &#8211; DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince DRUMS PLEASE!!!! Happy beginning of summer to everyone!<\/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-17306","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\/17306","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=17306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17309,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions\/17309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}