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...
Fluf, "RK Wins" At some point, I stopped being able to keep track of which songs have already appeared in this thing. It's been five years? 6,000+ songs, anyway, and I've just lost the ability to be sure if we've heard something. Part of...
Matthew Sweet, "Divine Intervention" When someone says "power pop", this is the song that pops into my head. I know that there are plenty of other bands that really defined the genre, and that I should be thinking of them. But I don't. It's this...
Danny Brown, "Greatest Rapper Ever" I love the hubris in naming the first track on your debut album "Greatest Rapper Ever". It's a little like the now forgotten Cinder Block naming their first LP Greatest Hits, something I think about a lot even though I'm...
Five months in a row of a daily updates every single day. I can't keep this up forever, but I'm hoping the consistency is nice for folks out there. (looks at analytics) Well, a few of you, anyway. Gauche, "Pay Day" Gauche is a supergroup...
