Calexico, "Heart of Downtown" This comes from Calexico's Christmas album, Seasonal Shift. The major concession here is that the guitar line is a little more filled out, and there's a little bit fuller chorus. It's a Calexico...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Purple Haze" 'Scuse me while I fuck this blog! Steady Ernest, "Roll On" Didn't we just have Steady Ernest? I wonder what the most frequent ska band we've had show up here...
The Miracles, "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" 1962, baby! McKinley Dixon, "Chain Sooo Heavy" I really enjoy the sax blowing while he's rhyming, it really sets things off, and makes my ears kind of ping...
Logic, "YSIV" There are a bunch of long songs on YSIV (Young Sinatra 4), but I'm not sure that it totally works for me. Goodness knows I don't have a problem with long songs in general, but I really...
Kowloon Walled City, "Diabetic Feet" This is from the first Kowloon Walled City record, Gambling on the Richter Scale, where they are bringing back that Unsane sound. There's something about that vocal style in particular that really reminds me of that...