{"id":6926,"date":"2018-04-20T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2024-08-31T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:26:11","slug":"friday-playlist-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2018\/04\/20\/friday-playlist-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week away means there\u2019s a glut of music to share, so I\u2019ll expand this a little bit this week. Oh, and there\u2019s an absolute monster track that appeared last night that will wrap this up.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/2fMqF1CWCqraUmf6l5uwjQ?si=0zdwfflKQ5mYnhby9WXgUg<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCali\u201d &#8211; Ride. Ride\u2019s comeback album, <em>Weather Diaries<\/em>, was released nearly a year ago now. At the time I was a little more enamored with Slowdive\u2019s comeback disk. This song popped up in my Discover playlist recently and I\u2019ve fallen in love with it. A great spring song, now that spring may finally be coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure\u201d &#8211; Hatchie. Another track I missed when it was first released last fall. And another most excellent track from an Australian artist. Seriously, the Aussies are coming at us hard these days. There\u2019s a lot of Cocteau Twins in this song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlastic Soul\u201d &#8211; Mondo Cozmo. Mondo\u2019s songs have been bouncing around on Sirius for awhile. I gave his album a listen last week and ended up really liking a few of the songs. This one has a trippy, mid-90s feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve\u201d &#8211; Amen Dunes. I\u2019ve really been digging AD\u2019s new album, <em>Freedom<\/em>. It\u2019s got a good, mellow, contemplative vibe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest Friends\u201d &#8211; Little Dragon. They rarely go wrong. This one is another absolute treat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPynk\u201d &#8211; Janelle Mon\u00e1e featuring Grimes. About a year ago, after HAIM released their first couple singles for the new album, I suggested the summer of \u201917 would be the summer of HAIM. That ended up being a dud, as the album did not live up to expectations. I\u2019ll try again: the summer of 2018 will be Ms. Mon\u00e1e\u2019s. Another utterly perfect track. One more week until we get to hear the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U (Official Music Video)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cpGA0azFdCs?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>\u201cNothing Compares 2 U\u201d &#8211; Prince. HOLY SHIT!!!! There have been live versions of this song out forever; Prince even included one on his mid-90s greatest hits collection. But Michael Howe, who has been tasked with going through Prince\u2019s mythical vault of unreleased recordings, recently found this, Prince\u2019s only studio recording of the song he wrote, passed onto his protege group The Family, and was eventually made legendary by Sinead O\u2019Connor. The story behind the song is Prince went into a studio with a notebook, started writing and recording, and an hour later most of the song as we hear it here was complete. Speaking of legendary\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Prince\u2019s death and this is a fine way to honor his legacy and memory. And this video! Even if the song sucked I could be mesmerized by the footage of Prince and his band rehearsing their moves for literally days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week away means there\u2019s a glut of music to share, so I\u2019ll expand this a little bit this week. Oh, and there\u2019s an absolute monster track that appeared last night that will wrap this up. https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/2fMqF1CWCqraUmf6l5uwjQ?si=0zdwfflKQ5mYnhby9WXgUg \u201cCali\u201d &#8211; Ride. Ride\u2019s comeback album, Weather Diaries, was released nearly a year ago now. At the time I was a little more enamored with Slowdive\u2019s comeback disk. This song popped up in my Discover playlist recently and I\u2019ve fallen in love with it. A great spring song, now that spring may finally be coming. \u201cSure\u201d &#8211; Hatchie. Another track I missed when it was first released last fall. And another most excellent track from an Australian artist. Seriously, the Aussies are coming at us hard these days. There\u2019s a lot of Cocteau Twins in this song. \u201cPlastic Soul\u201d &#8211; Mondo Cozmo. Mondo\u2019s songs have been bouncing around on Sirius for awhile. I gave his album a listen last week and ended up really liking a few of the songs. This one has a trippy, mid-90s feel to it. \u201cBelieve\u201d &#8211; Amen Dunes. I\u2019ve really been digging AD\u2019s new album, Freedom. It\u2019s got a good, mellow, contemplative vibe. \u201cBest Friends\u201d &#8211; Little Dragon. They rarely go wrong. This one is another absolute treat. \u201cPynk\u201d &#8211; Janelle Mon\u00e1e featuring Grimes. About a year ago, after HAIM released their first couple singles for the new album, I suggested the summer of \u201917 would be the summer of HAIM. That ended up being a dud, as the album did not live up to expectations. I\u2019ll try again: the summer of 2018 will be Ms. Mon\u00e1e\u2019s. Another utterly perfect track. One more week until we get to hear the whole thing. \u201cNothing Compares 2 U\u201d &#8211; Prince. HOLY SHIT!!!! There have been live versions of this song out forever; Prince even included one on his mid-90s greatest hits collection. But Michael Howe, who has been tasked with going through Prince\u2019s mythical vault of unreleased recordings, recently found this, Prince\u2019s only studio recording of the song he wrote, passed onto his protege group The Family, and was eventually made legendary by Sinead O\u2019Connor. The story behind the song is Prince went into a studio with a notebook, started writing and recording, and an hour later most of the song as we hear it here was complete. Speaking of legendary\u2026 Tomorrow is the second anniversary of Prince\u2019s death and this is a fine way to honor his legacy and memory. And this video! Even if the song sucked I could be mesmerized by the footage of Prince and his band rehearsing their moves for literally days. \u00a0<\/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-6926","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\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13418,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/13418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}