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.
So with the year end list out of the way I can finally make my one last announcement of the year in regards to Sam's Song of the Day people and that is that after 9 years of doing this on February 16th, 2019 I will officially be bringing Sam's Song of the Day to an end and to pay tribute to 9 year's of effort I'll be hosting a special end of day's show if you will at Minibar here in KCMO I'll be having a show to celebrate 9 years of Song of the Day with live performances from the bands Fiction Department, The Uk's, and Scruffy and the Janitors be sure to show up and prove to me that the efforts where all wort it people...
Also I'd like to take a second to thank none other than Kid Computers Very own George McMillian for designing this bad ass fucking poster for me
OH I'm guessing I should probably explain this decision a little bit better well....So let's back things up a bit Sam's SOTD started as a means of me kind of creatively expressing myself on the Smashing Pumpkins forums as a means of trying to give myself an identity because at the time I had finished up high school and was in an awkward transitional time of my life where I'd realized that talking about and discussing music with the world was a true passion of mine and after a couple of months of posting on that forum and my own personal facebook I remember this woman that for lack of a better way to describe her I'd describe as a creative source of inspiration for me complimented a post I'd made about the song, “Blow Up the Outside World,” and said for me to just start a blog already so kind of like the original post I'd decided to find the first blog hosting site that came up and then started the Sam's SOTD website you are reading today and throughout that time I've had a host of ups and down's that has lead me to cover a host of songs both cringy beyond belief to some of the best god damn pieces of music I'd ever heard in my life.
I've done interviews, reviews, and a host of one off dumb ass idea's that I wasn't sure if they'd stick or not and I did it all to very little response beyond the occasional compliments from various contemporaries and sometimes the occasional post like or comment and it was going good for quite a few years I look back on the effort really put in from 2012 to 2015 and I felt at one point in time that I really maybe finally had something to be proud of, but that wasn't really the case because of certain personal tragedies that had happened to me in 2014 I'd ended up going through some really heavy stuff and my personal love for life, and the things that interested me just kind of stopped and this blog suffered because of it.
I'd stopped posting so regularly and it became harder and harder to not only adequately word just what it was about the music I listened to but it was really hard for me to truly FEEL anything when I was listening to a lot of songs which is kind of funny to think about because 2015 and 2016 I really did kind of try and fail hard to really try and advertise Sam's SOTD as something and I guess near the end of that time frame I'd come to the sad realization that it wasn't and I'd just kind of been felt the fool to try and act as if I'm trying to be someone I never ended up achieving.
I wanted to be a Radio Dj and a music journalist, I wanted the world to hear my opinion on these songs and be like, “Yeah you're fucking right dude this does rule,” and sadly enough that never was to be I can only really blame myself for not putting the effort in to REALLY make this a thing and I guess taking 2018 off to reflect over that just brought it all into perspective I decided to just put more effort into the job I currently have and figured that ending this blog and trying to find my mojo or possibly make one last go at trying to make a piece of art that the world can look at and enjoy and show me that my efforts as a voice of unbridled passion was really wort it but as of today this website isn't it.
With that all said and an end on the horizon all that's really left to do until then is to just celebrate myself and look back at 9 years of music that made this thing what it is today so with that in mind until that show comes I'll be posting and undetermined number of songs from this playlist I worked on and started tearing up at that showcases the various songs that I've enjoyed over these years and a host of music that has a certain level of importance to me that I'll be telling you guy's with each post until the day of the show where I'll throw it and maybe make one last post comprised of pics as the last send off.
Now with that in mind starting January 1st I'll be starting out covering all of the songs that I personally considered the best of their respective years in question so stay tuned for that and be prepared to see this be the most active it's been in years.
So February 8th 2010 I posted on the Smashing Pumpkins
Forums my first ever song of the day and oddly enough it was about the song
Loves In A Dangerous time the Barenaked Ladies version which in all honesty is
an odd thought to really think about because I started it out with a band that
wasn’t The Smashing Pumpkins and on top of that it was a cover which is a thing
that I’ve actually written quite a bit about on here even so far as to
dedicating multiple Tuesdays to which is actually kind of funny when you think
about it.
Here I am at the 5 year mark I’ve been spending some time of
my day to just bullshit together about some random ass song that I have no clue
if anyone actually ever takes the time to really listen to and in all honesty
I’ve become increasingly terrible about consistently posting with absolutely no
signs of really improving that and in all honesty if it weren’t for random bits
of people just mentioning it or giving me small thumbs up I’d honestly of just
given things up a long time ago and no this post isn’t going to become a
cynical little rant about my disposition in life but in all honesty it’s also
not going to be making any promises of significant growth to come Nah I just
want to say that even though I’m a very cynical bastard and I have worlds of
improvement to really get to there’s at least 5 things I’d like to make note of
for you people.
1. Those who comment, share, or in general give me promotion
and feedback of my work are the best kind of people and in all honesty I truly
need you guy’s to continue to give me that motivation and promotion to really
spread the message because…
2. I’m only one guy in fact I’m a fairly normal guy that
just has a place to make for myself and this is just one of my favorite
outlets.
3. I love covers…it’s an odd fascination really and while I
will 95% of the time say the original to be better it doesn’t mean I don’t
enjoy giving them a listen.
4.I have no shame for any tune I’ve ever covered on here
even all the shitty country music and alternative music will always be my bread
and butter.
5. The Smashing Pumpkins are my band people and while I’ve
been pretty lacking in giving adequate feedback to one William Patrick Corgans
most recent contributions I will say that they are still the most important
band that ever came into my life and all the haters can suck my balls.
NOW with all that in mind here’s to another 5 years people also
here’ Set the Ray to Jerry the greatest mother fucking song of all time…
“I’d like to thank all of you for
reading these 500 post here’s to 500 more people.”
-Thursday,
April 26, 2012
So…it’s
been two years since that statement was made and I had my 500th post
spectacular people and now I’m on post number 1,000 and there are two things
that came to mind 1. I’m surprised I let my laziness make it take 2 years to
post 500 more times on this blog and 2. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
I know
that was rather inappropriate but you know life’s not really that appropriate
when you think about it and just like two years ago I kind of had this odd
realization of reaching a fairly large numerical milestone rather suddenly and
it’s honestly rather crazy to think of because that’s well over 1000 songs,
bands, and topics and since those initial post I’ve gone from just doing song’s
of the day’s 7 days a week to expanding to concert, album, and music video
reviews along with a myriad of best of list, holiday specials, and even reached
the point where I have a weekly schedule of articles which is freaking crazy to
think about people.
So here I
sit trying to come up with an article proper to kind of capture the craziness
of it all and in all honesty I kind of don’t really think there’s much that can
be done that hasn’t already been covered on here and I don’t see much a reason
to post a Throwback Thursday so I guess I can just thank all of you guy’s for
reading and post the song that’s gotten the most views out of any article I’ve
posted on this little blog of mine which oddly enough is from February of last
year and was the only post I can recall doing in the wee hours of the night
after just kind of stumbling upon Fitz and the Tantrums release of the official
audio clip for their tune Out of My League where I kind of most literally
posted my initial impressions and am amazed that it managed to get read so many
times and on a slightly lesser note actually brought this band out of one hit
wonderdom which is pretty fucking spectacular…
Also on a
lesser note they’ve decided most recently to release my favorite track from
that album as their newest radio single in the form of Fools Gold which I’m
just going to take credit for now even though I’ve never brought that up at any
point in this blog.
Thanks for
reading and here’s to 1,000 more people….maybe I can reach it before 5 years
from now…
So today's been rather difficult to come up with something to actually write about so I decided to go for a walk on some rather unkempt trails and in the process of driving up there and going for a very quiet walk I was thinking to myself about this CD I'd gotten back from a friend of mine that we'd put together god knows how long ago that we called our split 7 even though it's actually 20 songs long, but that's kind of irrelevant because while walking this thought came to mind that kind of inspired the title of this post which is why it's something as stupid as a mix of songs thrown together by two teenagers is something significant.
I was talking to the buddy that I'd made this very odd blend of shitty post grunge, hard rock, and alternative jam's of a CD not too long ago and he's going through some less then pleasant times at this time and in the process of giving him someone to talk to about these times this CD got brought up and I found myself going on this odd tangent because he tried to suggest that we somehow re-burn 2 new copies of this CD so we don't have to continue loaning it out to the other to hold onto for years at a time before eventually remembering to hand it to the other one because it's their turn and the reason I was telling him why we shouldn't do that is because there's this special thing about that CD and that it has to go on until it can't be played anymore and we can't have it any other way no matter how stupid it sounds.
It's this wild little tangent that kind of brings forth this idea that he mentioned where we all are aware that songs can take us to a time and a place in our lives that's a fairly common thing to accept that's why I write the throwback Thursday articles really, but there's something just oddly important about this in that when I'm skipping around trying to comprehend just what was going through my head in why I picked some truly shitty tunes I'm reminded of just how fucking fun it was to come up with this CD and what inspired a decent amount of the song choices and it's that overwhelming sense of nostalgia that makes it feel kind of important which makes me wonder why is that so important?
I can only really kick around an idea so much before I guess that this as cheesy as it sounds has become something more then a fairly amusing bunching of amusingly bad and great tunes from a time when making a mix CD was actually a thing as much as it is one of the remaining tokens of this odd little friendship between two individuals that have moved on to do things in our lives that lead us to really be kind of taken back by just how far apart we've had to grow to grow up and i guess we may have our times when we're annoyed by each other but this CD is just another example of two people that can be scratched up, overplayed, outdated, and likely to skip around but we're still rocking those teenage blues and these tunes are still as awesome as the two of us.
Man looking back can be so much fun but I guess if we do have to make a new split it'd be funny to see if we still like our choices as much almost 10 years later as we did at the time we where picking these tracks...also hopefully less shitty post grunge would be awesome, but even after all these years I'm still going to have to say while I won't post the tracks on the CD this one is still as awesome now as it was the first time Pigmy got me to get my groove on to it while we'd spend hours illegally downloading songs and talking about girls...
