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\u201cLovesick on a Hotel Wildfire\u201d – Korey Dane. This is a song Spotify sent my way, and I\u2019m glad it did. Apparently I\u2019ve heard a couple of Dane\u2019s songs before, although I did not recall his name. He\u2019s been called a \u201cstoner Springsteen,\u201d and this song certainly fits that vibe.<\/p>\n
\u201cName For You – Flipped\u201d – The Shins. A few weeks back Strand of Oaks released his Harder Love<\/em> album, which featured both different versions of songs from last year\u2019s Hard Love<\/em> and songs that had been recorded in its sessions but did not make the final album. The Shins have done something similar. They took last year\u2019s Heartworms<\/em> and revamped every song: slow songs get fast, fast songs get slow, genres get swapped, and so on. The result is The Worm\u2019s Heart<\/em>. This song, which was my favorite from the original album, translates quite well in its new form, too.<\/p>\n \u201cBaby I Love You\u201d – Ryan Adams. A single for Valentine\u2019s Day. From everything I\u2019ve read, this is a one-off single rather than a leftover from last year\u2019s Prisoner<\/em> or Prisoner B-Sides<\/em> albums. I want to be careful how I say this: Ryan Adams, for all his immense talent, is not Prince. But he has a very Prince-like ability to crank out a kick ass song at any time.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWeather With You\u201d – Crowded House. This popped up this morning, and it made me think of spring and warm days. We\u2019ve had a few such days this week, but this is Central Indiana: spring is still a long way away. From 1991\u2019s wonderful Woodface<\/em> album, when Tim Finn joined his brother Neil in CH and they created some of the greatest vocals of the decade.<\/p>\n \u201cSafe European Home\u201d – The Clash. I\u2019ve been trying to squeeze in a song each week that is x0 years old. So most week\u2019s we\u2019ve had a song from 2008, 1998, etc. This classic is from 1978\u2019s Give \u2018Em Enough Rope<\/em> album, often viewed as a weak point between The Clash\u2019s self-titled debut and the legendary London Calling<\/em>. But there was nothing weak about this song, which poked fun at the band\u2019s love of Jamaican culture and how their expectations of the country were shattered by their first visit to the island, during which the band just avoided being robbed for all their money and gear. BTW, The Clash have one of the great side-one, track-one runs of all time. Their first three albums began with \u201cJanie Jones,\u201d \u201cSafe European Home,\u201d and \u201cLondon Calling.\u201d A lot of bands would kill to make those three songs over a 20 year career. The Clash did it on the first song of their first three albums! Sandinista<\/em>\u2019s \u201cMagnificent Seven\u201d was pretty good, but not in the class of those three songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n