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Song of the Day: “Hummer” (1993) by Smashing Pumpkins
I don’t believe that I have anything particularly illuminating to write about this song but I’m not going to let that stop me from bathing it and its creators in my warmest affection. The Pumpkins were/are
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Song of the Day: “Pocketful of Rainbows” (1960) by Elvis Presley
Elvis’ film soundtracks are littered with some truly uninspired assembly line songwriting but there are some gems hidden amidst those high-piled garbage platters and this is one of them. I remember catching a snippet
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Song of the Day: “Niemand Versteht” (1972) by Cozmic Corridors
I have an insatiable appetite for psychedelic music and space jams like this are like multicolored manna from heaven falling onto my picnic plate. This “song” comes from an amazingly impressive compilation called Krautrock Archives
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Song of the Day: “Leftovers” (2009) by Jarvis Cocker
Whenever I find myself mentally listing the songsmiths that inspire me the most, along with the obvious bigwigs like Dylan and Cohen, the name Jarvis always pops up. It is because of songs like this
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Song of the Day: “(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six” (1996) by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Many moons ago, esteemed WTF contributor Nathan Stone sat me down and forced me to listen to this band of self-medicating rock n roll gurus and for doing so I owe him a fruit
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Song of the Day: “Girl from the North Country” (2006) by The Waterboys
Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” is a thing of rare beauty filled with such tenderness that even the biggest hack or no talent amateur would have to truly do their worst to
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Song of the Day: “Carried Away” (1978) by Television
Because Television’s 1977 debut Marquee Moon was such a towering achievement, their follow up LP Adventure tends to get lost in its shadow. While it is admittedly less attention-grabbing and unique than the debut
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Song of the Day: “Drawing Flies” (1991) by Soundgarden
Soundgarden’s breakthrough album, Badmotorfinger came out the same year as Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind. It came out the year that, for better or worse, grunge became the new punk rock. We did
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Song of the Day: “Hands All Over” (1989) by Soundgarden
Over the past few years, Seattle’s mighty Soundgarden have come roaring back to life with a tour, a ferocious live document called Live on I-5 and a suitably heavy collection of new material titled
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The Man Comes to Town: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Play the Paramount
…And on the seventh day of April, 2013, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performed at Seattle’s Paramount Theater like a gang of mad-dog Baptist preachers who decided to start a rock n roll
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