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...
Mary Wells, "My Guy" We've had this one before. The Magnetic Fields, "I'm Sorry I Love You" One of the more memorable tunes from 69 Love Songs, probably due to the vocals, but I do like the guitar part on it as well. Mammoth Weed...
Vaselines, "Bitch" Eh. New Bomb Turks, "Professional Againster" The New Bomb Turks arrived on Epitaph with Scared Straight, and immediately things got more professional. And that's not a good thing when you're dealing with this sort of thing. Listen to this - it's certainly not...
Public Enemy, "LSD" Flavor Flav belting out "cancer!" in the first verse always kills me. Also, I always appreciate it when rappers Remember A Guy, with Nick Van Exel getting name checked here. The Grifters, "Spaced Out" I'm pretty sure that I've lamented this before,...
Mary Wells, "Bye Bye Baby" A real rager here from the early Motown days from Mary Wells. It's certainly easy to see how this did so well for them. Labradford, "Disremembering" Here's a track from the first drone record by Labradford, the record that found...
