SIX SONGS WOOOO
The Temptations, "Hey Girl"
Goddamn, listen to those strings! With Cloud Nine, the Temptations laid down some of the building blocks of funk, as they departed from the traditional Motown sound and pointed the way to the 70s.
The xx, "Heart Skipped...
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J Church, "Bomb"
Camels, Spilled Corona, and the Sound of Mariachi Bands is a great name for an album, in this case the first of multiple singles comps that J Church put together. As befits a band as prolific as they were, J Church...
I've legitimately missed this. It was a bit of a grind at times, and I'll have to find the right pace, but it's nice to be back in the saddle. And it's nice to explore the dusty corners of my music again. Here is today's...
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Buck-O-Nine, "Voice In My Head"
We like to mock the third wave of ska here at Funf Songs, because it's eminently mockable. But, there's a reason why we have so much of the damn stuff, and that's that when it's done well, it's sprightly...
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Daft Punk, "Give Life Back To Music"
As a teenager, I took it for granted that disco sucked. Everybody knew it sucked, right? It was shiny and for dancing! I didn't really interrogate the reasons why there was a cultural backlash against disco, it...