WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: If you haven't experienced the music of Died Pretty before, you've really missed out. Sweetheart comes from their 1991 album Doughboy Hollow: … [Read more...]
Louis The Child – It’s Strange feat. K.Flay
WEDNESDAY's WHATEVER: The description for Louis The Child's website sums it all up really: "We are a Duo featuring Freddy Kennett and Robby Hauldren. We want to make people happy with music." And happy is definitely a term applicable to this song, released at the start of this year: … [Read more...]
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now?
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: This 2009 song from the album The House That Dirt Built is one of those songs that'll bounce around your brain for hours after you first hear it. It's as much funk as rock and it's all the better for it: Now excuse me while I go and buy everything they've ever released. … [Read more...]
Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: England-based Ben Howard released this song in late 2014 and I'm sorry I missed both it and the accompanying clip until now: You can find out more about Ben Howard here. … [Read more...]
BØRNS – Electric Love
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: US artist BØRNS has one hell of a voice. Combine that with some great music(love that guitar riff) and you have a deserved long-stayer like Electric Love. The song comes from the 2015 album release Dopamine. Check out more of BØRNS here … [Read more...]
R.E.M. – Hope
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: Trying to pick a favourite R.E.M. song from their enormous body of work is impossible, so instead I've picked what I consider to be one of their most interesting / esoteric / deep songs. Hope for me definitely fits that bill. The song comes from the band's 1998 album Up. Leonard Cohen gets a songwriting credit due to the similarity of the song to … [Read more...]
Pete Townshend – Give Blood
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: This 1986 song from Pete Townshend's fourth solo album White City: A Novel features Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino and David Gilmour and it rocks like hell. Here's a video showing it being performed live: … [Read more...]
Glenn Skulthorpe – No More Whispering
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: A huge thanks to reader Glen for suggesting this song. Glenn Skuthorpe is an Australian singer-songwriter, and this song was featured in the John Pilger documentary Utopia. Enjoy this powerful song from a passionate artist: … [Read more...]
Good Shoes – The Photos On My Wall
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: This song from 2007 is a short and punchy one from UK indie outfit Good Shoes. … [Read more...]
‘Til Tuesday – Coming Up Close
WEDNESDAY'S WHATEVER: Here's an outfit that deserved a much longer career than they had. Three albums were released, with their single Voices Carry the best known. Their follow-up album, 1986's Welcome Home contains some of the band's best work, not least of which is this song: … [Read more...]