Destroyer, "Painter in Your Pocket" It's too facile by half to just talk about Bowie when you talk about Destroyer, but for real: that's the reference point here. Obviously, it's not just replication or anything, but there's really so much Bowie in Destroyer that it's...
Hot Snakes, "Plenty For All" Hot Snakes! Hot Snakes! Hot Snakes! The Wedding Present, "Flying Saucer" Compare this tune with the Cinerama song from yesterday. It's a simpler arrangement, but fundamentally the same type of song. But this feels so much better because the focus...
Destroyer, "Every Christmas" This is the earliest Destroyer record that I've heard, I haven't gone any earlier than this one. This album is very much a Destroyer record, full of Dan Bejar's elaborate melodic pop and winding lyrics. I think he'd largely keep getting better,...
Germs, "Shut Down (Annihilation Man)" An outlier on the one and only Germs LP, (GI), this is a live track that is triple the length of anything else on the record. A loose wander of a song, it's all sneer and skronk, without a whole...
This is almost the full Five Songs experience today, we're just missing some incomprehensible metal. Edna's Goldfish, "World Over" Ahh, 1998. With The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the peak of their popularity, with "The Impression That I Get" as a pretty big hit, it's not...
