Matthew Sweet, "Divine Intervention" When someone says "power pop", this is the song that pops into my head. I know that there are plenty of other bands that really defined the genre, and that I should be thinking of them. But...
Pond, "Filler" As always: not the Australian band, but the grunge-adjacent band from Portland. And also, as always, I'll recommend all three Pond records as being some of the finest from the grunge scene, peripheral as they were. This tune is...
Think Tree, "Everything Is Equal" This is extremely college radio circa 1991. If you wanted to know what that sounded like. (Nobody should.) Portishead, "The Rip" Portishead put out an absolute stone-cold classic in Dummy and a fine follow-up, Portishead, before...
Neat! Lookit all the twos! The Supremes, "Baby Love" I don't usually have a ton to say about these iconic Motown hits, based on my assumption that people have all heard them a thousand times and are intimately familiar with them....
Monobody, "Curry Courier Career" Is there such a thing as a math jam band? I think there might be. Trigger Cut, "Fireworks" This is just pure throwback to mid-90s Amphetamine Reptile stuff. It makes the Pavement band name a little off,...
