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Five Songs, 9/13/2022

Slant 6, "Semi-Blue Tile" Why do we make songs longer than a minute? What's the point? Weezer, "Smile" OK, this track is from something called Blue / Green / Red, and I swear to you, I did not get this album from anywhere. I wouldn't do that...

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Five Songs, 11/9/2020

Squarepusher, "Come On My Selector" Early Squarepusher is very much drum 'n' bass, albeit pretty frantic even for a genre known for punishing tempos. Squarepusher is still primarily cutting up the Amen break for the drums, for instance. You can hear his bass playing front...

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Five Songs, 2/7/2018

Much better than yesterday. Clipse, "Chinese New Year" Backed by the Neptunes (Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo) doing all the production, Pusha T and Malice made gangsta rap that always sounded vicious and lean. Their first two records, fueled by those fantastic beats, are pretty...

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Five Songs, 4/28/2017

After I kept shuffle on yesterday, I got Silkworm, Mono Puff, The Roots - lots of bands I wanted to talk about. It can be agonizing letting stuff like that go away, but rules are rules. Without rules, this whole thing just becomes "Josh writes...

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Five Songs, 4/19/2017

I've updated the blogging software on this thing, and I'm even poking around with new themes. Look at me, I'm...well, not professional exactly. Wasting my time? Yeah, let's go with that. As is now traditional here at Five Songs Inc., you can listen along...