The Emotions, "I Could Never Be Happy" Late period Stax single here, which you can hear in that much more 70s funk sound. And of course, the production at this point is much richer than some of the earlier stuff. The Slackers, "Feed My Girl...
The Flaming Lips, "Once Beyond Hopelessness" This is from the Lips' Christmas On Mars, the soundtrack to their movie project, and it's very much a soundtrack. As a result, it feels disconnected when you're just listening to it, and it doesn't really do a whole...
clipping., "Nothing Is Safe" There was probably a time in my life when I would have regarded clipping. askance. I've long been OK with noise in my music, having picked up an affection for industrial as a teenager that continued forward with noise rock, various...
Ice Cube, "No Vaseline" Ice Cube ended the explosive Death Certificate with a savage diss track on N.W.A, one that N.W.A wasn't able to remotely respond to. They kind of didn't really even try. While the homophobia in the song makes...
The Flaming Lips, "Assassination of the Sun" We here at Five Songs are big fans of EPs, when bands treat them seriously. You get a good chunk of new material, enough to be satisfying, but they often come out as a surprise. It's good stuff!...
