Song of the Day: Faces on Film - Waiting for Ga. A friend recommended this band, and this song has slowly grown on me. I can’t find much info on the band though - they don’t even seem to have a Wikipedia page. Is that possible?
RIYL Milo Greene, The Head and the Heart, The Lumineers
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Song of the Day: X - Beyond and Back. Another reason Ray Manzarek is awesome - he produced the first four X albums, including my favorite, Wild Gift.
RIYL The Gun Club, The Stooges, The Wipers
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Song of the Day: The Doors - I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind. I have a Doors box set from the late ’90s in which one of the discs has each of the surviving members picking their five favorite songs. This was one of Ray Manzarek’s, and it’s also one of mine. RIP Ray.
RIYL The Velvet Underground, Mark Lanegan, Joy Division
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Song of the Day: Frank Zappa - Willie the Pimp. I took last week off, and I come back to find that Zappa is finally on Spotify. I’m not an crazy devotee, but I’ve bought a couple of used Zappa records over the last few years, and good lord the guy could play. The guitar-playing on this song is insane.
RIYL Ween, Captain Beefheart, Phish
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Song of the Day: The Verve - Make It Till Monday [acoustic]. The Verve were one of my favorite bands - all their records were stellar (though admittedly I didn’t get the last one, Forth, but that doesn’t count) and even their B-sides were great. This is an acoustic version of a song from their debut LP, A Storm in Heaven.
RIYL Spiritualized, Blur, Ride
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Song of the Day: Gang of Four - Return the Gift. I’m currently reading Simon Reynolds’ Retromania, in which he notes that the album Return the Gift is Gang of Four covering their own songs. I need to check it out, but for now I’m blasting Entertainment! as loudly as possible.
RIYL XTC, Wire, Fugazi, The Futureheads
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Song of the Day: Liz Phair - Ant in Alaska. The reissue of Exile in Guyville from a few years ago included this song, which for me ranks as one of Phair’s best. I don’t know if it’s the bridge or the chorus or both, but the last half of this song is just so fucking good.
RIYL Cat Power, Beat Happening, Red Red Meat
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Song of the Day: Cream - Badge. I was obsessed with Cream during my “classic rock” phase, and while I don’t listen to them that often any more, every now and again I’m reminded that they have some killer songs (and some quite terrible ones). This one was co-written by George Harrison.
RIYL The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton
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Song of the Day: Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don’t Freeze! I’m working with some ladies in their 20s who love Portlandia but didn’t know who Sleater-Kinney was. This is for them.
RIYL The Slits, The Ramones, The Corin Tucker Band / Wild Flag / Quasi
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Song of the Day: !!! - Except Death. From their new album Thr!!!er, this one will get your Friday office dance party started right.
RIYL LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Hot Chip
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