2020.11.02
| Ultra Black (feat. Hit-Boy) Nas |
Great steady Black pride hiphop. Random youtube recommendation. |
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| Play That Country Tuba, Cowboy The Vandals |
Cornball novelty. Who knows. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Grace Kelly MIKA |
Strong Freddy Mercury energy. (Called out in the song, actually.) Some random tumblr post "do kids these days know about grace kelly by mika" |
| The Suburbs Arcade Fire |
The (Spike Jonze) video is kind of haunting juxtaposition with a middle class American suburb turning into a war zone. The reprise of this REALLY hit me one morning on the Jersey Shore. |
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| On the Dummy Line Wayne Erbsen |
Old-time novelty song. Almost as good as my family's version! |
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| Blue Song Mint Royale |
Rocking club-y song with a inspiring video. (A Cracked article mentioned this video was kind of a test run for the famous opening scene from "Baby Driver") |
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| Funny Song Bensound |
Playful Royal Free backing track music... like the nice beat and array of instruments - from banjo to kid's chimes. Background to a video ad. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan |
Rollicking Bob Dylan. Ken Jennings' book on humor pointed to this as a rare example of humor in non-novelty music. |
| ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | What Makes A Good Man? (Radio Edit) The Heavy |
First 5 star for me in a bit. Just has the percussion on soul choir effect and general great feel. At work we put together a joint Spotify "music to put on to get heads down at work" playlist. |
| Can't Put It In The Hands Of Fate (feat. Rapsody, Cordae, Chika & Busta Rhymes) Stevie Wonder |
Protest song w/ great hiphop guests in on it. I think the beat is DC-area Go Go? Some news article mentioned Stevie Wonder was coming out of retirement, this was one of the 2 songs he was releasing. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Intergalactic But It's Ghostbusters Beastie Boys / Ray Parker Jr. / William Maranci |
Brilliant mashup of two great songs! At around 3:15 it shifts gears tho, REALLY focusing on the one time the Beastie Boys make a pun on "Uranus"- I tell iTunes to cut it off at that point... Posted to the School of Honk group ("Ghostbusters" is one of SoH's staples.) |
| Can't Get You off My Mind Sister Sparrow |
Soul/R+B feel. From the shared work spotify playlist. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Hello Hello Hello Remi Wolf |
Nice Tik-Tok era melange. Soundtrack to some snapchat post or ad Melissa was looking at. |
| Hello Good Morning (Remix) [feat. Nicki Minaj & Rick Ross] Diddy - Dirty Money |
I really do like Nicki Minaj's flow - other rappers on it are good too. Found while trying to find "Hello Hello Hello" on iTunes music. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Moliendo Café Fanfare Ciocărlia |
Added this at the end of the month, so the 4 star is a little conditional... still catchy as hell Balkan brass music. This group saw a lot of play in the Borat films, and I hear about them in HONK adjacent stuff. |
| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) LITTLE BIG |
euro club cover of the 1991 hit... Ending credits to the new Borat movie. |
Oh good. Just like every month that starts on a Sunday we get a nice Friday the 13th this month.
I like what some folks added to my more or less vanilla Chameleon bassline:
(I just wish people would tell me when my bell cover is crooked)