They Might Be Giants, "I Love You For Psychological Reasons" Another tune from the big Dial-a-Song year of 2015, when they revived the old service and kept it going every week. Most of those songs got retooled a bit and re-recorded for a later record,...
Richie Hawtin, "Aliens Don't Boogie" I'm never really sure how to credit this record. It's Richie Hawtin putting together a mix record, so do I credit him? Or the artist that did the original track? I choose the former on purely utilitarian grounds, which is...
Today! Clem Snide, "Donna" Long time reader/listeners (both of you!) know that I'm a huge Uncle Tupelo stan, but my favorite alt-country album isn't one of theirs. It's probably Your Favorite Music, Clem Snide's second album. Thanks to their willingness to stretch out and...
Here are today's tunes. Richie Hawtin, "Call of the Wild" Last time this album came up, in one of the cutting bits of analysis that Five Songs is known for, I mostly bitched about the ID3 tags on this album. TRENCHANT! Anyway, I managed to...
Something special for today! Our first Reader/Listener Q&A! All of the questions here are actual questions from reader/listeners of Five Songs! Let's get started! Q: OK, that was great! If you've got a question for me, eh, that seems unlikely. Here's some...
