Merle Haggard, "Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)" Personally, I look to my country music artists for trenchant commentary on monetary policy. They Might Be Giants, "Bangs" The opening of Mink Car, the last...
Destroyer, "The Way of Perpetual Roads" This is from Thief, a pretty early album from Destroyer before they became really big. Well, by indie standards. But even from this relatively early date, the ambitious melodies and elaborate pop were certainly present. The most...
2Pac, "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" All Eyez On Me represented 2Pac's commercial peak, with the double-album selling tons of copies driven by "California Love". Of course, it would be the last album he would make while alive, so...
That's 11 month of perfect attendance. NOT BAD AT ALL. On the 29th, we'll celebrate a full year of Five Songs every day unless I totally biff it. Which I might! And we're getting pretty close to one thousand...
The Toasters, "New York Fever" I'd have to go back and listen to a bunch of early Toasters records to confirm this, but in my memory, New York Fever is the record where the Toasters' sound kind of accelerated. There&...
