Do I still remember how to do this? I guess I'll find out! I took a break from the grind of daily music blogging last October, because it was starting to wear me out. Needing to figure out something to say about these songs each...
I wanted to write about music, and thought about writing about some 2022 albums I liked. I started typing it up for a private Discord and then remembered, duh, I actually have a music blog. So let's blow the dust off this thing and post...
It's a big day here on Five Songs. Exactly two years ago, I started updating this thing every day. Through vacations, work getting busy, moving twice, dealing with the fallout of a pandemic, I kept hitting my updates. I'm not sure why exactly I decided...
The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There" This is such a majestic tune, absolutely irresistable. De La Soul, "Thru Ya City" I mostly think of the two AOI albums (this is from Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump) as kind of lost albums for De La,...
They Might Be Giants, "Can't Keep Jonny Down" John Linnell is probably my favorite songwriter ever, and so it means a lot when I say that "Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me"...