{"id":17339,"date":"2026-06-05T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=17339"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:58:51","slug":"friday-playlist-399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/friday-playlist-399\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at the calendar, we\u2019ve reached Silly Season for my Friday music posts. This week L and I have to be out of the house at 7:00 AM for an all-day basketball tournament. In the next month or so I will be leaving the house early on a Friday for a weekend in Chicago, spending a long weekend in Colorado for a wedding, and another week I will be in Ireland on music day. Oh, and July 4 hits on a weekend this year. Never fear; for the most part I\u2019ll still be able to post something on Fridays over that stretch. A few of the playlists might be lighter than usual as I complete them earlier in the week and schedule them to drop on Friday.<\/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 6\/5\/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\/4XrlOrpsD0aiw5qw6lY1ao?si=87796b1ed7894d1a&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-6-4-26\/pl.u-2NzyFLjN26G\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCross My Heart\u201d &#8211; Lime Garden<br>\nSome fun, sunny, summer pop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFreaking Out\u201d &#8211; Michigander<br>\nOne lyric required me to slot this in as song #2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHeart Has To Work So Hard\u201d &#8211; Blondshell<br>\nShe\u2019s not really breaking any new ground here, but I continue to be a fan of most of what Sabrina Teitelbaum releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLook For Your Mind\u201d &#8211; The Lemon Twigs<br>\nPaul McCartney\u2019s new album is certainly a throwback to the early Beatles sound. This sounds straight off an early Fab Four disk. Wait, this isn\u2019t McCartney or the Beatles? Uncanny audio resemblance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat We Got\u201d &#8211; Mike D<br>\nThe surviving Beastie Boys have long said they will not make music again. That was limited to proper Beasties music, apparently, as Mike D has dropped a couple solo singles. This is the most Beasties of the two. I\u2019m not complaining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReal Here Now\u201d &#8211; Nick Hakim<br>\nI don\u2019t know a thing about Hakim but must admit I was surprised that it is him actually singing here, not just a track he produced with a guest vocalist. Yes, I thought it was a lady singing. Mesmerizing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSimple Creed\u201d &#8211; Live<br>\nThis week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2500172\/the-alternative-number-ones-lives-lakinis-juice\/columns\/the-alternative-number-ones\">Alternative Number Ones column<\/a> covered Live\u2019s ridiculous 1997 track \u201cLakini\u2019s Juice.\u201d That might be the moment the Alt Rock Revolution of the Nineties died. As usual with a band\u2019s final chart topper, Tom Breihan laid out the rest of Live\u2019s career and I had totally forgotten this track from 2001, which I actually liked quite a bit. Like so much of what I was listening to at that time, as alt rock radio was dying away, I discovered it on the MusicMatch cable TV music channels, then found a copy on Napster and burned it onto CD-R\u2019s that I listened to at work. Holy time machine! I still think this track is solid, although several of Ed K\u2019s lyrics make me laugh out loud. He should never have tried to act tough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJunebug\u201d &#8211; Kevin Morby<br>\nMorby\u2019s new album, <em>Little Wide Open<\/em>, is amazing. It is a gentle, comforting celebration of life in the Midwest. It is a perfect Sunday morning listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHead On\u201d &#8211; Ducks Ltd. featuring illuminati hotties covering the Jesus And Mary Chain<br>\nA delightful cover to wrap up this week.<\/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=\"Seals and Crofts   Summer Breeze\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KnK3z6DKaI?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\"><br> \u201cSummer Breeze\u201d &#8211; Seals &amp; Crofts<br> I promised you last week you wouldn\u2019t have to wait long for S&amp;C\u2019s version of this. You know I appreciate the random bits of trivia shared in the middle of this performance. Also I really wanted to hear what the host was about to say when this cuts off. I bet it was interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the calendar, we\u2019ve reached Silly Season for my Friday music posts. This week L and I have to be out of the house at 7:00 AM for an all-day basketball tournament. In the next month or so I will be leaving the house early on a Friday for a weekend in Chicago, spending a long weekend in Colorado for a wedding, and another week I will be in Ireland on music day. Oh, and July 4 hits on a weekend this year. Never fear; for the most part I\u2019ll still be able to post something on Fridays over that stretch. A few of the playlists might be lighter than usual as I complete them earlier in the week and schedule them to drop on Friday. \u201cCross My Heart\u201d &#8211; Lime Garden Some fun, sunny, summer pop. \u201cFreaking Out\u201d &#8211; Michigander One lyric required me to slot this in as song #2. \u201cHeart Has To Work So Hard\u201d &#8211; Blondshell She\u2019s not really breaking any new ground here, but I continue to be a fan of most of what Sabrina Teitelbaum releases. \u201cLook For Your Mind\u201d &#8211; The Lemon Twigs Paul McCartney\u2019s new album is certainly a throwback to the early Beatles sound. This sounds straight off an early Fab Four disk. Wait, this isn\u2019t McCartney or the Beatles? Uncanny audio resemblance. \u201cWhat We Got\u201d &#8211; Mike D The surviving Beastie Boys have long said they will not make music again. That was limited to proper Beasties music, apparently, as Mike D has dropped a couple solo singles. This is the most Beasties of the two. I\u2019m not complaining. \u201cReal Here Now\u201d &#8211; Nick Hakim I don\u2019t know a thing about Hakim but must admit I was surprised that it is him actually singing here, not just a track he produced with a guest vocalist. Yes, I thought it was a lady singing. Mesmerizing. \u201cSimple Creed\u201d &#8211; Live This week\u2019s Alternative Number Ones column covered Live\u2019s ridiculous 1997 track \u201cLakini\u2019s Juice.\u201d That might be the moment the Alt Rock Revolution of the Nineties died. As usual with a band\u2019s final chart topper, Tom Breihan laid out the rest of Live\u2019s career and I had totally forgotten this track from 2001, which I actually liked quite a bit. Like so much of what I was listening to at that time, as alt rock radio was dying away, I discovered it on the MusicMatch cable TV music channels, then found a copy on Napster and burned it onto CD-R\u2019s that I listened to at work. Holy time machine! I still think this track is solid, although several of Ed K\u2019s lyrics make me laugh out loud. He should never have tried to act tough. \u201cJunebug\u201d &#8211; Kevin Morby Morby\u2019s new album, Little Wide Open, is amazing. It is a gentle, comforting celebration of life in the Midwest. It is a perfect Sunday morning listen. \u201cHead On\u201d &#8211; Ducks Ltd. featuring illuminati hotties covering the Jesus And Mary Chain A delightful cover to wrap up this week. \u201cSummer Breeze\u201d &#8211; Seals &amp; Crofts I promised you last week you wouldn\u2019t have to wait long for S&amp;C\u2019s version of this. You know I appreciate the random bits of trivia shared in the middle of this performance. Also I really wanted to hear what the host was about to say when this cuts off. I bet it was interesting!<\/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-17339","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\/17339","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=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}