The ongoing rants of one man out to introduce the world to the tunes that inhabit the space inside of that region known as his mind a collection of the songs that have shaped his day, his Song of the Day.
Due to a racist ass fascist fucking moron leading our nation and being irresponsible in the face of a global pandemic we are now in a situation where people are sick, out of work, blindly hoping a rushed vaccine does the job, and in a scenario where the mental state of the collective couldn't be at any more of a low.
There's a culture war of people wanting people to give a shit about people vs people who don't give no fucks and think the mass genocidal idea of herd immunity is how we get through a virus that could have been prevented if the leadership in question cared more about actually being an adequate leader rather than a racist narcissist's who only care's about whatever numbers the less than 1 percenters are pulling off of the slave labor of a society of people who really want the freedom to live their life and be comfortable where they are but instead we've had it drilled into us that we need to ride or die and live that grind to get that bread but really you never will get that bread because you'll be dead or destroyed before you even get to mix the flour and water together to form a dough for fuck fucking sake.
I tried to bring this back out of sheer frustration towards my associates inability to listen to or form decently constructed opinions on anything due to either sheer ignorance or the inability to deal with criticism it's fucking infuriatingly annoying to not be able to express your own thoughts and opinions without everyone around you being a giant fucking pussy about you not being one hundred percent in agreement with everything they also like, and yes while the opposite is also annoying I'm tired of this both sides narrative that we seemingly have to keep doing because yeah some people are bad but at the very least they aren't justifying terrible things to happen.
Yes that statement is political I have my own collective set of beliefs and opinions that are the foundation of what I consider right or wrong in this world and those things lead me to try and change and fix systems to prevent them from happening like voting against a cock sucking mother fucker that wants to call nazis marching down the streets yelling "Jews will not replace us" very fine people or who thinks that it's fine to send the military to attack people protesting a broken criminal justice system that let's racist get away scot free for killing people of color at a higher rate than their Caucasian counterparts I'm just saying people that's fucked up and you honestly can't expect people to idly sit by and let that shit happen to them Martin thought that was a good idea and he got shot so fuck it those monuments to capitalism can eat shit and fuck off when people are dying the thing we shouldn't be concerned with is buildings but rather then establishment that's letting those brick shit houses be more important than the society that built them.
This is why it's hard to want to just sit by and be like, "hey everyone I know the world around you is burning but hey this new song is SUUUUUPER CATCHY ignore the fascist regime around you and instead placate yourself with this catchy ass jam yo," just doesn't really seem like something that we all need because I get the feeling living in some weird idealized world of hey everything is fine meme isn't what we all need to do.
(Ya'll)
No we all gotta realize that shit's not very good and we have a host of improvements that need to be made in order to really get there as a society and yes music, movies, games, and what have you are our mental escape from what's a draining point in our cultural zeitgeist I really do truly feel that and I really REALLY just have wanted to say since before covid happened that this is the best song of the year...
The irony not withstanding this year didn't honestly get any better but that song for me was kind of an amalgamation of anticipation I had because I saw those guy's play that song at their fist show around 4 years ago and when they finally released it I was legit hyped and happy and while there's other songs that triggered a sense of joy and elation for me this year they where predominantly older tracks that I was very much late to the party in getting to finally listening to and everything going on with the whole concert industry basically going under and around 90% of music venues getting ready to belly up and go away make this influx of awesome that was forming seem like a fever dream of sorts.
People are trying one Ben Wendt of The Way Way Back has a pretty bitching podcast called Ope! radio where he does his best every week to inform everyone about the fantastic Kansas City collective of musicians making great stuff in the wake of the corporatized killing of 96.5 The Buzz which if I'm a be real was a death that didn't hit so hard considering I was honestly feeling a detachment from the station over the past year or 2 due to the realization that I'm not the audience they want and I kind of in some regards am regressing in taste because the new crop of shenanigans they wanna push out isn't my cup of tea.
This longwinded series of words vomited on this screen are one last throwback to the format that birthed this site a collective of random thoughts and emotions I feel in regards to the world around me, I don't honestly feel 2021 is gonna have any more #SamSOTD because if I'm going to be real in 10 years I think I've just become my joked title of being a professional nobody to which I mean that I've accomplished a few cool fringe things for myself but not actually gotten any more ahead in regards to my prospective writing aspirations than when I was fresh out of high school and suffering terrible anxiety ridden bouts of depression that I tried to hide through telling people these things are cool and while depressive episodes come in waves I think the only thing 10 years of this brought is the realization that this antiquated format isn't what people wanna do anymore instead they need a more interactive and vocal method that's attached to social media and I don't think I can do that by myself so I guess as it stands the attempted comeback was real and I wanted to try but fucking a was this not ment to be.
So as I sign off I guess I'll go out with one thing that most truly rang true and it was this line,
"I'm so angry, I’m gonna get a tattoo
That says fuck Jeremy Clarkson and fuck you too
While you're sitting there living out your last years
You'll wonder why you gave into right winged fears,"
courtesy of this truly feminist masterpiece of punk:
This year I'm pretty sure I lost a close associate of mine due to my rant post George Floyd protest in regards to Mr. Donald J. Trumps declaration of sending the national guard to try and silence the protest to which I said then and I stand by now if you support that man FUCK YOU! That was close to 15 years and associate and being declaired the god father of his children and a potential best man to his second marriage all thrown away with one unfriending on Facebook to which I'm best off quoting my own mother in saying, "good riddance."
2020 is the end of a lot of things and a time frame we all need to begin to really change things aren't ever going to be the same and to try and keep em that way is stupid and selfish grow up, move on, and improve things to come for those in the future because when you've passed on there's no afterlife just and end of one so be something worth a fuck now.
Twas fuck while it lasted but all things need to come to an end so thank you and have a wonderful day please for all that is good and progressive stop supporting terrible ideas and start telling people to fuck off.
I started this shit 10 fucking years ago today that's crazy as hell folks in 10 years I....wrote a bunch of post, tried a host of different post types, threw myself 3 shows, and kind of don't really feel like I did the most I could have done with this little pet project but at the same time I kind of did more than I could have imagined a shitty thread nobody read 10 years ago could go so thanks for sticking through this project as a whole ain't gonna be a blog forever but I guess I've engraved the concept into my very being so whenever passion comes back to start something with a group of like minded individuals really pushing me I'll have a decades worth of shenanigans to be proud of but even with all my failures in this venture I can at the very least say that it lasted longer than anyone ever could have guessed.
I don't have it bad anymore but I can't come up with much else more appropriate to say...
You know I got a big ass Spotify list of tracks to cover on here and I still find myself at a loss of what to say about them and you know what I guess I may as well take some time to sit down and highlight a few particularly great one's and just work my way out from there.
I am a cheap son of a bitch that has gone for years not wanting to pay for Spotify Premium and because of that I get forced to hear everything on random shuffle all with a host of suggested artist and tracks getting played and in the process of not writing for this blog I found a host of absolutely spectacular tracks on there that I'd completely missed because of one reason or another and a lot of the tracks in question are years old so I am extra not the cool hip guy at the party in the know of what's going on but then again considering the free formed nature of this all I guess it don't matter so here's what may be one of the greatest songs of the 2010's....
Take my Head- Turnover
This bit of shoe gaze indie rock is one of the most beautifully atmospheric pieces of music I've heard in a long time and that mixed with some of the most painfully personal lyrics imaginable you're left with a track that just sonically from the beginning is on a whole other level and maybe my favorite cut from their 2015 effort Peripheral Vision which in and of itself is an absolutely fantastic album just filled with the type of music that reminds you why you love that kind of moody echoing sung in an empty room kind of rock and roll that has more to say once you start to look into it after just being utterly absorbed by it's outstanding instrumentals.
Danny Dempsey Bassist for turnover-
“Take My Head” is about how it could be the best day and you’re surrounded by happy things, but you still want to be pissed off and sit by yourself.
That feeling rings true for us all and you should give this song, band, and album a real listen because it all fucking rules.
So this is a leftover from my year end list that I couldn't really put onto the list proper due to the whole 5 songs working with the week strategy the best and the song coming out in 2018 but I don't know when exactly but regardless the tone of this was it suppose to be on the list proper but it wasn't so I guess you could say it's a spot number 6 also I got distracted with the holiday's which is why this is such a late post and I'm also not likely to be doing any posting on here until sometime around mid January or late February or whenever things calm down and I can get a back catalog of tunes to say something about.
So with that Happy New year and here's to new beginnings and not making resolutions because fuck that always look to improve your dumb ass so see ya...
Hershey Kess – Group X-Arabian Rap Sensation
I never talk about this because it's beyond subjective but I really have this weird fascination with this comedy rap group that hadn't put out an album in 18 years that I'd discovered in my shitty teenage pirating day's of flash videos and questionable downloading sites and if there was a group that has stuck through with me more than any group ever should it'd be these bunch of knuckleheads.
These guy's are the most bare bone rap act you'd ever listened to they use unapologetic-ally minimal bass and drum instrumentals that recycle the same melody every single song, their flows are kind of sloppily done but stick very tried and true to the joke they are making, and while their return of peppermint joe album actually has some legitimately impressively improved flows from one Hashmeer Shashmeer this isn't music you take seriously in the slightest and in all honesty their joke was worn thin back in 2000 but even with that in mind I just after all these years find this stuff to be just absolutely fantastically stupid the one minute segments in this album “Poisoned my poodle,” and “It iz poodle,” are some impressively catchy bits of sound but the track that took me by the most surprise this whole year was probably the topic of this article, “Hershey Kess.”
This is Shashmeer's best flow ever this song is an awkwardly confidently delivered bit of stupid that is held up by an infectiously simple and catchy bass line and some drum work that feels like this band forgot to be a joke for all of 2 minutes and actually deliver something that in all honesty is about as juvenile as some more legitimate acts have made but rather than the joke being just how bad those acts are you're instead chuckling at how well these guy's are delivering a tune about what I'd presume is analangus.
This song and group aren't for anyone beyond those with some warped sense of humor that see this as less a racist stereotype and more a kind of wonderfully absurdest take on hip hop from a group of individuals taking the joke and running as far with it as they physically can.
If you have the time and ability to listen to something dumb for more than an hour I'd actually advise you go stream this record sometime it's the best thing they ever put out in terms of finally having some musical talent.
Also while this album came out in 2018 these guy's really didn't do much promotion until this year and since I'm running this site fuck ya'll i'm a talk about one of my favorite terrible bands.
For the record I don't think the phrase OPE! hasn't really been an actual thing until the last few years people just act as if they've done it forever like Elf on a shelf or gender reveal parties there's some weird group think mentality that is forcing a fake sense of nostalgia on something that never really was a thing and it's especially a thing here in the Midwest considering we don't have much to get hype about when the thing most often coming from here are basic white folk and racist pieces of shit which I know someone out there is asking what's the difference to which i respond....uh....
SO one year ago today I announced the end of Song of the Day and in one years time things honestly didn't change in terms of the worlds impact at the leaving of my blog life went on and a lot of local acts I covered broke up, went into hiding, or just kind of been stalled out with a couple deciding to really hit the grind and as for the national music scene....it's a thing but this isn't really about all of that instead we have a case of what am I gonna do with this project.
I am starting to think that the hosting site for this has deleted some of the post I've made on here without warning due to something likely covered in the fine print that I didn't notice which is kind of shitty but when you don't post on here for around a year you kind of can't complain too much but with that in mind I'm just posting on here to say that while I'm here and I've made a post I can't one hundred percent say that Song of the Day is completely back because I still need to redefine what I am writing about and I'd kind of prefer this thing move onto a more creator controlled medium with possibly a group of people to help with the load which would mean leaving this medium and moving onto another platform but that's kind of dependent on a host of factors that need an effort to be made to actually do something.
Those things are irrelevant right now because it's Christmas eve and I got shit to do so I just wanted all of you to know there's gonna be one kind of lost in the shuffle post I was going to put on the year end list but it couldn't be included because a top 5 made more logistical sense in the week structure I use on here and the song covered came out in some mystery point in 2018 so yeah that's a thing but with that in mind happy holiday's, stay tuned for that post a little later today, and see ya'll next year when I try to go through a back catalog of cool songs you need to hear.
I literally knew from the first chord of this song that it was going to be a phenomenal piece of art that would blow my fucking mind and Jesus fucking Christ did it ever.
I'm not fucking joking I literally heard that bass line and a shiver went down my fucking spine and I said holy shit this is gonna blow my fucking mind and yes it did.
This is the best song of 2019.
I could end it there I really could but these guy's deserve to have way more said about them that what is out there because they are without a doubt one of the best groups out there and ever since they decided to regroup, sober up, and refocus their lives and career they've managed to pump out the best album of the year and one of the best songs of the 2010's.
This song like all of the songs I've mentioned on this list is fairly simple and straightforward lyrical tale of the struggles of getting over seeing something you loved get over you but still being stuck in this fantasy that you're still together and if I'd not of been dating someone this year then this album as a whole would have hit me extra hard because this song just kind of encapsulates that weird awkward feeling of isolated loneliness and escapism that I'd gone through in the process of dealing with depression, sobriety, and anxiety alone you just kind of want to curl away and live in a fantasy of what could have been but never will be.
I never can truly tell these guy's in person just how important they have been in those awkward transitional phases to me weather it's going through a break up with a former lover or drinking they've managed to make the last few years a little less painful and reaffirm my adoration for punk and music as a whole and after getting to tell them an idea of just how fantastic this song is to me I kind of had to say something.
Thank you this song made me make this series of post and write something again they are truly the best and deserve to be told such.
“I'm a Scrawny mother fucker with a cool hairstyle.”
You know it takes a certain level of UN-ironic confidence to do a line like that and not sound like a try-hard fuck face and these guy's managed to do that and be one of the few new bands I've heard about that people actually listen to and while their album kind of has a bit too many songs that sound the exact same this song is a fucking exceptional cut that brings a certain energy that I often feel is lacking in a lot of the more electronic heavy down tuned offerings I hear blaring out of most alternative stations I find myself listening to for more than 10 minutes at a time these day's and considering I like my rock to be a more guitar driven affair with a lot of punch to hear a newer act make a tune that is both of those things of course I'm going to be pretty happy.
These guy's aren't reinventing the wheel and if I were to be honest with you this is essentially a vampire weekend tune if vampire weekend didn't suck ass and the fact that it's not in every teenage coming of age movie trailer from here to infinity is nice because this song is one of the few bits of spontaneously energetic Indy rock that's managed to not make me roll my eyes.
These guy's are cool and I hope they don't have the same scenario as the 1975 where teenagers make a bigger deal of them than they need and turn their shows into a hodgepodge of annoying ass screaming fan girls reminding me that I'm too fucking old for this shit.
