{"id":6754,"date":"2018-01-15T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2024-08-31T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T02:04:29","slug":"monday-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2018\/01\/15\/monday-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of rocking on Friday. We got the call at 5:45 that the girls would be having their first snow day in nearly four years. I never really got back to sleep after that, which wasn\u2019t all bad as I had an eye exam at 9:00 and needed to get up anyway. The exam took entirely too long for some reason and I had to cancel another appointment I had lined up for after. When I got home, S, who also had a snow day at work, and the girls had every single Lego we own scattered on the living room floor for sorting purposes. So I helped with that, read some, and took a nice, long nap, which I don\u2019t do often. Never got around to building a playlist for ya\u2019ll.<\/p>\n<p>As today is a holiday, I guess it is appropriate to offer up some tunes today instead. I just had to completely take apart and reassemble a toilet with new parts, first. I\u2019m so handy!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/0Z90QzvYFhnm1JLxTHJHfn<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElizabeth\u201d &#8211; Long Neck. Those bright, open chords feel so springy on this cold, snowy day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStones\u201d &#8211; Alyeska. Don\u2019t recall if I\u2019ve listened to these guys before, but I\u2019m really enjoying this extra track that was left off their late \u201917 EP. There\u2019s a lot of Sonic Youth in their music, and some Karen O. in the vocals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNight Shift\u201d &#8211; Lucy Dacus. The first great song of 2018. This track is amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMLK\u201d &#8211; U2. They obviously have another more famous song that would work today. But I prefer the understatedness of this one. We\u2019ve come a long way, but still have a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lo Moon - This Is It (Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlGlPO0Zi2k?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>\u201cThis Is It\u201d &#8211; Lo Moon. This song had been popping up on SiriusXM late last year, but I didn\u2019t realize I would be seeing them open up for the War on Drugs so didn\u2019t really pay much attention to them. This isn\u2019t a bad song. I told my friend who was at the concert with me that Lo Moon sounds like if you crossed the War on Drugs and Mr. Mister. Which may be a little harsh on the later half of that comparison. But Mr. Mister did have a couple solid songs, so I offer it with love. Doing some reading this morning, a lot of folks are hearing Talk Talk and Peter Gabriel in this song, which also sound right to me.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of their appearance here last month came during TWOD\u2019s set. The four members of Lo Moon stood on the stairs opposite from us, and the lead singer was just a little too into things, jumping around, bouncing his head with the beat, etc. Not sure if he had just had a few, or he was trying too hard to impress the headliners with his fandom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of rocking on Friday. We got the call at 5:45 that the girls would be having their first snow day in nearly four years. I never really got back to sleep after that, which wasn\u2019t all bad as I had an eye exam at 9:00 and needed to get up anyway. The exam took entirely too long for some reason and I had to cancel another appointment I had lined up for after. When I got home, S, who also had a snow day at work, and the girls had every single Lego we own scattered on the living room floor for sorting purposes. So I helped with that, read some, and took a nice, long nap, which I don\u2019t do often. Never got around to building a playlist for ya\u2019ll. As today is a holiday, I guess it is appropriate to offer up some tunes today instead. I just had to completely take apart and reassemble a toilet with new parts, first. I\u2019m so handy! https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/0Z90QzvYFhnm1JLxTHJHfn \u201cElizabeth\u201d &#8211; Long Neck. Those bright, open chords feel so springy on this cold, snowy day. \u201cStones\u201d &#8211; Alyeska. Don\u2019t recall if I\u2019ve listened to these guys before, but I\u2019m really enjoying this extra track that was left off their late \u201917 EP. There\u2019s a lot of Sonic Youth in their music, and some Karen O. in the vocals. \u201cNight Shift\u201d &#8211; Lucy Dacus. The first great song of 2018. This track is amazing.\u00a0 \u201cMLK\u201d &#8211; U2. They obviously have another more famous song that would work today. But I prefer the understatedness of this one. We\u2019ve come a long way, but still have a long way to go. \u201cThis Is It\u201d &#8211; Lo Moon. This song had been popping up on SiriusXM late last year, but I didn\u2019t realize I would be seeing them open up for the War on Drugs so didn\u2019t really pay much attention to them. This isn\u2019t a bad song. I told my friend who was at the concert with me that Lo Moon sounds like if you crossed the War on Drugs and Mr. Mister. Which may be a little harsh on the later half of that comparison. But Mr. Mister did have a couple solid songs, so I offer it with love. Doing some reading this morning, a lot of folks are hearing Talk Talk and Peter Gabriel in this song, which also sound right to me. My favorite part of their appearance here last month came during TWOD\u2019s set. The four members of Lo Moon stood on the stairs opposite from us, and the lead singer was just a little too into things, jumping around, bouncing his head with the beat, etc. Not sure if he had just had a few, or he was trying too hard to impress the headliners with his fandom.<\/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-6754","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\/6754","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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13481,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}