The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There" This is such a majestic tune, absolutely irresistable. De La Soul, "Thru Ya City" I mostly think of the two AOI albums (this is from Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump) as kind of lost albums for De La,...
Mogwai, "Remurdered" I dunno about this, man. I want some fury with my Mogwai, some big dynamics, something should howl. This is pretty cerebral and isn't what I'm generally looking for from them. Jean Knight, "Mr. Big Stuff" A repeat of an all-time jam. American...
Calexico, "Heart of Downtown" This comes from Calexico's Christmas album, Seasonal Shift. The major concession here is that the guitar line is a little more filled out, and there's a little bit fuller chorus. It's a Calexico song otherwise, which is a perfectly good thing....
Versus, "Shower Song" Nice drums on this tune! This is from the second Versus record, and it's a more muscular tune than I remember them putting out. I'll be honest, I haven't listened to Versus in decades (outside of the tracks that show up here)...
And now, happy birthday to me! This concludes birthday week here at Five Songs. Seam, "Sweet Pea" I think this 1993 EP, Kernel, is actually my favorite Seam release, pound-for-pound. I'm not really sure why that is, exactly. It's not necessarily super differentiated from their...
