SONG THREAD: A THREAD OF SONGS

I feel like this is a song that characters in Steely Dan songs listen to.

This song's great parts cram through the door like the doctor's visualization of "Three Stooges Syndrome" on The Simpsons

iTunes (RIP, soon) tells me I have listened to this 23 times, which seems light

Much-sampled ("Thuggish Ruggish Bone," for example) and just so fun

Jazz flute, especially as practiced by Bobbi Humphrey, is extremely good

I loved this song BEFORE I just read on Wikipedia that The City was a short-lived Carole-King-in-Laurel-Canyon project

(also apparently Dusty Springfield recorded it which, I gotta hear that)

I listened to this song back to back with "Til I Hear It From You" tonight and a flannel shirt tied by its arms appeared around my waist.

To celebrate their new album, here's the song that got me into The New Pornographers. Have never gotten more immediate chills from a song than this, a superdense star of hookiness. Was also my first time hearing Neko Case. What a morning!

I have a lot of residual hipster-y hang-ups about recommending music I think many people might already know about, but everything's always new to someone.

@willhines was just talking to me about meeting younger indie-music fans who hadn't heard In The Aeroplane Over The Sea...

and how we both never think to recommend album to anyone because, in our peer group in the mid-2000s, you kind of assumed everybody knew about it and you didn't want to seem lame, you wanted to recommend the thing NOBODY had heard of...

...and how that's silly and it's important not to react with record-store-guy disdain, which is really just you trying to ward away your feelings of impending irrelevance, cultural non-centrality, and death. Which, good luck with that!

Some part of me is still trying to gain the approval of, like, a cartoon version of a Pitchfork critic that exists only in my head. Just for liking things and telling other people about how I like them!

"But enough of my yakkin'. Let's boogie!"

"...the coolest sounds of KONK!"

The crown jewel of every grocery store's playlist.

Can't get over this Dear Nora album "Skulls Example." Some of it is jewel-perfect folk songs and LA travelogues, some of it is what if the B-52s did the soundtrack to DUNE

Another one

ME: "I wonder if this song has ever been in a movie. Feels like it'd be perfect for a scene where a lady in sunglasses is driving a car."

*searches IMDB*

The lesson here is: break up with your music supervisor, I'm bored

Imagistic lyrics over a beat like a department store hold-music tape, I'm sold

Appropriately, Vince Guaraldi saved his vibiest vibes for Peppermint Patty. This rules, Sir.

Every song on this album is this good. @pulomabasu taught me!

FOR FANS OF: THE KINKS, GREAT SONGS

Also if there's not a twee jangle-pop band called Stephanie City, what are we even doing

Apparently Garrie hated the elaborate production his French label threw on his songs. Nick: I gotta disagree, dude. Here's another one:

Giving @benmekler a Song Thread cameo to confirm: one of the coolest songs ever https://twitter.com/benmekler/status/1227008151041409025

Mad at myself for being from AZ and only recently getting into Meat Puppets. There are better songs on this album but the essential good-naturedness of this one is doin' it for me right now. Pulls off that risky musical coloration, JAUNTINESS.

Also anyone know how I can still use this thread without tagging people I've mentioned earlier until the end of time? Seems like you can't remove people from a "thread" as easily as you can from replies

Don't wanna tell the MINDHUNTER music supervisor how to do their job but jeepers creepers would this ever make a good MINDHUNTER closing-credits song

Rarely had a stronger "Where has THIS song been all my life" reaction than when I heard this in January

Love to encounter an Avalanches sample in the wild

For reference, the Avalanches song it was used in. If you've never heard this album, lucky you!

I remember an old @mountain_goats blog post where he trumpeted the greatness of Dionne Warwick. I was like, "The Psychic Friends Network lady?"

So dumb. Years later, @HaleyHepworth put me right.

Reading "Never Break The Chain," Cath Carroll's history of the making of RUMOURS, and really, any excuse to post this song.

Had never seen the video before! Charming!

Have also been on a pre-RUMOURS deep dive and when Christine joins the lineup it's like that first satisfying moment in an "assembling the team" montage.

Her solo stuff (as Christine Perfect) is great

Huge missed opportunity if this perfect song did not feature heavily in and inform the overall aesthetic of AQUAMAN (2018)

Perfect album.

Watched @TheChillsFilm the other night and really enjoyed it.

Have made a bajillion playlists and mixes over the years. "Heavenly Pop Hit" has been on 80% of them.

Thanks to @brianraftery for turning me on to it in an old Idolator post. Blogs!

FRIDAY VIBES LET'S GOOOOO

Realized tonight this is top five songs for me

Phone randomly started playing this. They might be a band you had to be there for, but they were really good at making teens in the year 2001 feel like teens in the year 2001

Also I feel like this was driving music for early 00s teens the way, like, Link Wray's "Rumble" was for early 60s teens. For me it automatically conjures the smell of the air freshener in a car somebody borrowed from their mom

Like, are you kidding? Put this on and you immediately get pulled over for speeding by your former DARE officer

This song won't make you dinner but it will make making dinner a whole lot better. Or any activity I'd imagine, that's just the one I have direct experience with.

Also how has this not been sampled a thousand times

Not a lot of CSN songs I would describe as vibe-y. This one is vibe-y. I would like to play it at a party at like 2:15 in the morning, when there are such things again.