Dead Kennedys, "Soup Is Good Food" This is the song that let me finally crack the Dead Kennedys. I think there's an adjustment, for me at least, as music gets faster and more challenging to find something you can pick out that lets you understand...
Earl Sweatshirt, "Grief" Odd Future was a whole thing that is one of the earliest pop culture things that I might have liked but that I feel totally missed me. I know some vague things about it, that Tyler, the Creator was kind of the...
The Fearless Flyers, "Under the Sea / Flyers Drive" A lot of covers like this one are basically just to generate the Leo DeCaprio pointing meme - excitement at recognizing a thing and little else. The Fearless Flyers (Cory Wong and Joe Dart of Vulfpeck, Mark...
Dead Kennedys, "Moon over Marin" The closer to the second Kennedys album, Plastic Surgery Disasters, it's one of those anthemic songs that the Kennedys would occasionally turn out. This is actually about as accessible as they ever got, although there's still Biafra's strange warble to...
The Police, "King of Pain" "King of Pain" is the first song I can recall reading the lyrics sheet for in order to try and figure out what was going on in it (the lyrics sheet didn't help much). While I'm fully on board with...
