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Five Songs, 2/24/2022

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Joshua Buergel on February 24th, 2022

Pond, "Filler" As always: not the Australian band, but the grunge-adjacent band from Portland. And also, as always, I'll recommend all three Pond records as being some of the finest from the grunge scene, peripheral as they were. This tune is off their worst album,...

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Five Songs, 1/20/2019

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Joshua Buergel on January 20th, 2019

Short and Sweet today. Because it has Matthew Sweet! HAHA! (it's not very sweet) Matthew Sweet, "Smog Moon" Sweet, during his peak period, was a reliably great power pop songwriter. But there were times when he'd kind of tip over into a cheesier territory, and...