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.
You know of all the times I've ever had an excuse for the absence my computer deciding to die on me was probably the best I was ever going to have so yeah that happened and now here's a Meg Myers Song...
A Bolt From the Blue-Meg Myers
SO Meg Myers recently released her official Studio album Sorry and I've been giving it a listen and while it's pretty much everything you could possibly expect in the form of a solid collection of songs that don't really exceed many song topics with a few cuts here and there from her Make A Shadow EP it's a good effort that I couldn't really review but there's one song that I'd like to highlight and that's today's cut.
This song straight up is like a Kate Bush tune with the heaviest use of synthesized vocals on the whole album and the most straight forward 80's new-wavey dance pop sound that I honestly thought it was an awkward Spotify Commercial I was hearing up until Meg started singing and actually delivered one surprisingly BAD ASS song that's just the most awesomely groovy cut that feels a lot more natural then a lot of the other synthesizer heavy tracks on that album.
Pardon my not posting yesterday I kind of zoned out and had a shit load of other things to get to so I didn't really get to posting a proper song of the day.
The Ground Walks with time in a box-Modest Mouse
You know ever since Float On I’ve been very indifferent with
this band because while I’m aware of just how much people adore this group I
just can’t really get into them but even on that album they still did Ocean
Breaths Salty which is a very unorthodox rocker that I really still enjoy to
this day and here they are 11 years later and they’ve finally managed to make a
song that’s equally as good as that tune in this single from their newest
release.
This song is just a very bouncy number that kind of makes me
think a tiny bit of a group like They Might Be Giants with it’s very kind of
frantic jumpy sound and its layered vocals and instrumentals along with it’s
kind of light hearted tone and almost polka sound….I know I suck at really
explaining it sometimes but this song is just fun and kind of doesn’t really
feel like them making boring kind of pretentious music and the fact that I’ve
yet to get sick of it should really show something…
So here we have a very old school sounding rocker that’s
kind of a bit of an early 80’s sounding punkish number that kind of pounds along
at an amusingly aggressive pace with a chorus that’s kind of undersang and
reminiscent of a lot of older acts which is a common thread I’ve noticed more
and more these day’s especially since Jack White made it cool to sound old
school and play your guitar again….
So I've been doing my best to cover as many things as I can and there's a band from Missouri that I've wanted to cover for a minute now but it took until them releasing their debut album to finally get some official audio up on Youtube and with that I'd like to present to thee Radkey.
So this band sounds like what would happen if Danzig and The Misfits kind of decided to just play each other at the same time and kick even more ass because it's this kind of broody gothic sound with some deep menacing vocals and a real do it yourself punk ethic that you can't help but find to be so awesome and if you get a chance I'd advise giving their Dark Black Makeup album a listen it's a pretty choice album that's only real flaw is that some of the recordings are a bit slowed down and not every song is a pure thrash em and leave em banger but minor complaints aside this band is like what Glenn Danzig wishes he could have been...
So contrary to what you read on here I’ve been giving a fair
amount of newer music a listen and my Girlfriend introduced me to this group
and I actually got her their chart topping album Blurryface when it came out
and over time I’ve come to the realization that for whatever reason when I hear
this song I keep wanting to replace all the rap parts with lyrics from various
Scatman John songs….which is very odd to say the least because this is one of
the few REALLY good cuts from that album because it has a really good habit of
switching between very rapid and frantic verses into a very smooth and pounding
chorus that is really a delight in and of itself and it’s a song that really
makes me want to move around and just kind of song along in the most
spastically well delivered kind of way.
AHHHH you have to love long lazy weekends people and while I've been enjoying the perks of spending too much money on yourself throughout a weekend while also spending some quality time with my copy of Final Fantasy 7 I'm here kind of listening around and thinking to myself Sam you need to post about a song but then I'm stuck not sure just what song to cover so I sit there running around in fields doing random encounter after random encounter before I realize that I should give some local slightly smaller artist a listen and with that mind I found myself giving this local act a listen and figuring I could give them another mention on here.
New Oasis-Hembree
Hembree are an alternative rock act from Kansas City that I've seen twice before at two different Buzz shows and they kind of pride themselves in doing this kind of dreamy groove heavy brand of alternative rock that really knows how to get bodies moving and the past year or so of constant touring has managed to really solidify their sound and improves show to show so if they're in your neighborhood you should give them a listen because they're groovy and their cover of Gorillaz Dare is a treat in and of itself.
You know people it’s my birthday and with that in mind I
think I’m a post a god damn Smashing Pumpkins Song and for the only reason
needed because they’re my favorite band ever!
Now with that in mind I would like to make note of today’s
cut which is the Rick Ruben produced and recently unearthed version of Let Me
Give the World To You and of course I’ve posted it before and my mind was
fucking blown away because it was an almost mythic piece of music that I’ve
read about for years but wasn’t even sure if it’d ever be released and one day
about a year ago or so one William Patrick Corgan decided to finally give this
version a release in the Adore deluxe reissue and the world was blessed with
this gem of a tune and now a year later I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on
it’s significance.
So when I saw the Smashing Pumpkins this most recent time
they were doing a series of songs from Adore and when they said they’d be
playing a couple of songs from Adore I yelled this songs name immedietly to
which Billy Corgan just kind of stopped for a second and gave this kind of
“every Fucking time,” look that was both amusing and obviously aware of the
joke before other people started yelling more amusing track suggestions and
sadly he didn’t play it but that’s the thing listening to this particular
recording in comparison to the one released for MACHINA 2 there’s a different
tone in the song because while that version is very struck in the sound of
later day Pumpkins tracks and a quality one at that this version has an almost
timeless quality to it that’s kind of perplexing because it’s overly acoustic
arrangement along with Corgans more subdued vocals give the track a kind of
magical feeling that’s very immediately present in the more dirty sounding
electronic version on MACHINA but it’s even more real and while I love the song
irregardless it’s kind of crazy that it never got a release upon its initial
recording because it’s a real game changer of a tune that while I’m not sure if
it’d of ever reached the heights of 1979 in terms of chart positions I’m pretty
sure it’d of at least gotten them a bit of a prolonged commercial grace period,
but even saying that I almost could figure that the song would almost of ended
up like the MACHINA version even on Adore but that’s a topic for a different
time.
So I gave this album a review and it was a very poorly
worded expressing of saying that this album has some damn great songs but it’s
subject matter get’s too much in the way of the songs and kind of weighs things
down to a point of sounding downright overly repetitive but even if I do have
that complaint there’s certain instances where re-listening to the album as a
whole and taking time to really digest things kind of leads you to an
interesting point where you find odd charms in tunes and that’s really
prevalent in this overly romantic tinged but predictably obscenely worded tune
that has this delightfully romantic delivery of, “I love everything you do,
when you call me fucking dumb for the stupid shit I do,” which just may be the
best chorus I’ve heard all year if not at the very least the most amusing, but
all that aside it’s an oddly charming tune that almost changes my opinions on
the album as it grows on me….
OK so I’ve been saying for years that this band is a modern
day Rush and for whatever reason people don’t want to believe me but finally
whenever they decide to not make a concept album but rather just pump out ass
kicking non pretentious 70’s sounding rock and roll they finally have made a
tune that’s so undeniably Rush that even the most diehard of fans are finally seeing
a point to my statements.
Now with that in mind this song is just FUCKING AWESOME it’s
a super angrily worded rocker with a fairly reasonable run time and the
strongest vocal performance I’ve ever heard Claudio Sanchez do and it’s
instrumentals are just pure 70’s awesome people.
So this song is a lot like why I enjoyed a cut like Demon
Dance by Surfer Blood in that it’s a very old school sounding alternative rock
number with a distinct early 90’s shoe-gaze sound that’s reminiscent of the
pixies, lemonheads, and sonic youth in the like with its minimalist productions
and very rock oriented grooves that help give it a cooler then you sound that
is just improved greatly by vocals that don’t try to be too impressive and fit
the word fuck in its chorus.
This song just unquestionably kicks so much ass for me
because unlike the vast majority of alternative radio trying to blur the line
between pop and rock with their infectiously catchy and danceable beats and
overblairing synthesizers or the Jack White impersonating acts that are trying
to sound so old school it hurts it’s refreshing to find a song that kind of
expresses those same grooves of the old school but don’t come off as a tune
trying to be from that time and actually just being a damn good rock and roll
number.
