Five Songs, 3/30/2021

YACHT, “I Love A Computer”

Aww, the computer loves you too, YACHT.

The Band, “I Shall Be Released”

The Band’s Music From The Big Pink seems like a super impressive debut album, but of course, they had been Dylan’s backing band, so they were not rookies. There’s been far too much written on the music of the 60s, and I was nowhere near existing, so I have nothing fresh to say. Good record, though.

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Five Songs, 1/22/2019

Here’s today!

Nickel Creek, “You Don’t Know What’s Going On”

This project has now gone on long enough that I can’t really remember which bands I’ve introduced and which ones I have not. And, honestly, it’s not reasonable to assume everybody has read/listened to every one of these. So, if I happen to repeat myself on anything, I apologize, but let’s just pretend that it’s because I felt like enough time had passed and not because I have a tenuous grasp on my marbles.

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Five Songs, 5/23/2017

We have another Bandcamp embed here, so the YouTube playlist only has four songs instead of the usual five. I assume you’ll all survive.

YACHT, “The Denver Nuggets”

Whimsical electronic music, sounding here like nothing so much as a video game song. I used to keep a list of albums to check out in a document that I carried around in various electronic devices (Palm OS represent!), and sometimes albums would make their way onto it and stay for a really long time until I found them. This was before most everything was instantly available digitally. I remember Y.A.C.H.T. getting on that list and staying there for so long that I couldn’t remember why they were on there or what they purportedly sounded like. I was somewhat nonplussed upon finally finding the record at the old Easy Street Records in lower Queen Anne.

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