Five Songs, 9/17/2021
Rockabye Baby!, "I Shot The Sheriff" Oh god. Mary Wells, "Bye Bye Baby" MUCH BETTER The Frames, "Headlong" This is the only record I have from The Frames, and I have zero recollection of this band ever existing. I...
Rockabye Baby!, "I Shot The Sheriff" Oh god. Mary Wells, "Bye Bye Baby" MUCH BETTER The Frames, "Headlong" This is the only record I have from The Frames, and I have zero recollection of this band ever existing. I...
The Miracles, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" The vocal R&B band the Miracles are mostly known for launching the career of Smokey Robinson, but they had a long string of hits in their own right as well....
fIREHOSE, "Sometimes" I know I bang on the drum every time fIREHOSE comes up, but I don't care: it's such a shame that people didn't seem to give them a fair shake after the Minutemen. This is...
Clipse, "Virginia" As always, the real attraction of the first Clipse record isn't so much their rhymes, which are fine, but that lovely "produced by the Neptunes" label. And, yeah, this is great. The Mortals, "Everything But Time&...
Pardoner, "Silly String" There's something extremely early 90s about Pardoner's sound on this track. It sounds like a lost track from a C/Z Records band, or maybe like some old Dinosaur Jr. track from the vault. That, of...