Prince, "All The Critics Love U In New York" Somehow, 23 years before their first record, Prince laid a pretty savage burn on LCD Soundsystem. Jawbox, "Meathook" Jawbox put together a comp, My Scrapbook Of Fatal Accidents, which gathered together most...
Autoclave, "Bulls Eye" Before Mary Timony formed the brilliant Helium (and Wild Flag and Ex Hex!), she was in Autoclave, who put out a couple of EPs for Dischord Records which were later collected on a single comp. It's an interesting...
Clinic, "Voodoo Wop" Imagine having the confidence to open an album this way. A distant, chilly vibe, acutal ocean noises, a complete change a minute in in both mood and sound, no vocals until the last five seconds. Just bonkers. It was a...
New year, same old flaky schedule! My apologies, we here at Five Songs were on the road intending on keeping the rock going, even lugging our laptop all over the place. But, alas, Plexasaurus Rex back home decided to die, and needed a reboot, and...
The Presidents of the United States of America, "We Are Not Going To Make It" The Presidents were viewed as a novelty act, which is kind of inescapable when your hits are things like "Lump" and "Peaches". And, yeah,...
