Saturday, January 15, 2022

Seventeen Songs

There’s some writing I need to finish up today, so naturally I spent some time coming up with this totally unrelated list of seventeen favorite new or new-to-me songs I heard this past year: 

YONAKA – Lose Our Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPVsA6Y2-c 

SAM FENDER – Seventeen Going Under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAifgn2Cvo8 

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – The Walls Are Way Too Thin (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_lX5bGssY 

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – Scarlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982QP-10GcE 
(great growling guitar bit)

BELLY – Human Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9u4rp4afQ
(nostalgia factor 11)

GREEN DAY – Dreaming (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32az2CLr6bo 
(Blondie song cover; he does one of “I Think We’re Alone Now” with his two sons, too) 

BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG – Manic Monday (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5qPCKxlw2M 
(with Susannah Hoffs bouncing around like a teenager, and we all know damn well she’s no teenager)

AC/DC – Through The Mists Of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-bIFDMSFA 

HAZEL ENGLISH – Never Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgN_OFosKzY 
(also check out "I'm fine" and "Waiting", among others)

SUNFLOWER BEAN – Moment in the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3FfnVQsWw 

ALVVAYS – Hey 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMMc_8xaXI 
(also check out "Plimsoll Punks" and "Lollipop" from the same album)

WOLF ALICE – How Can I Make It OK? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_TsuBIcGY 
(love the slow build on this one)

TAYLOR SWIFT – All Too Well (10-minute version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxrwjOtIag&t=214s 
(it’s weirdly good)

ADELE – Easy on Me 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY
(it’s just... well damn if it isn't just really easy on the ears)

MINT JULEP – Some Feel Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcjPAoPwWQ 

LORD HURON – Long Lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2JmQ-j0jlc 

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – Steamroller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgpbiXMfrM 
(“you’re the feeling I get when I’m feeling fine”)


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