At least for my mom’s group of boomer friends, “Our Song” is a really big one.

they killed MTV it only exists now in the Grammy telecast commercial breaks

Major doofus energy coming off this Alex Warren guy

Can't think of any that have really struck me from 2020 onward. Most recent really excellent ones I can think of would be Ana Gasteyer's "Sugar and Booze" from 2019 and Kacey Musgraves' "Ribbons and Bows" from 2016.

At the moment it’s Detroiters

wait are they just one guy???

Every morning I wake up and wonder the all-important question: Will Beulah’s Yoko ever be issued on vinyl in my lifetime?

it's a crispy 62 degrees this morning, so i put the first widowspeak record on the turntable. happy to report that it holds up really quite well.

i am really hooked on that cory hanson record. liking it even more than i expected to.

HELL YES

Sunshine Pop Til You Drop by Matthew Edwards on Apple Music Playlist · 42 Songs

In honor of the first truly sweltering day of Summer, here’s a playlist I made of some of greatest, gently psychedelic, harmony-laden slices of sunshine pop to complement the unbearable heatwave settling upon us! It’s not on Spotify, sorry. 🤷‍♀️

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A few of my very favorite deep cut heaters lurking in here. Looking to improve your day immediately? Throw this on.

it's an absolute certainty

One of my very favorite Brian moments occurs on the 1968 Beach Boys masterpiece Friends, where he spends a majority of the 3:04 runtime of "Busy Doin' Nothin'" giving you directions to his house should you maybe want to come hang out with him.

• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31] • The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291 • Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32] • Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded "I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]

RIP big dog

Brian was an absolute giant with regards to songwriting and production, but also a figure of such palpable earnestness and goodness that has resonated with me for much of my own life.

man. losing sly and brian in one week is soul crushing.

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert “Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” is a sonic kick to the soul.

RIP to Sly Stone. Calling someone a genius has mostly lost meaning, except when you apply it to Sly.

I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

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on paper these are very much my thing, so it brings me no joy to report that they were quite disappointing.

new stereolab single is wonderful, but the AI slop music video??? why?

Ours was a month old yesterday! Gonna need her to continue being a good luck charm come march 27th.

i don't have a spotify wrapped, because i switched to apple music in august, but if there was one it would probably be 200 thousand plays of the stellar magdalena bay lp, a bunch of mid-60s soul/r&b, and the byrds.

Some favorites

Every time I look up an album cover that struck me lately there's a 98% chance it's Loring Eutemey

DEL VETTS - I Want A Boy For Christmas - END 1106 - 1961 YouTube video by 4JUKEBOXSATURDAYNITE

Treating myself to going extra hard on Christmas music this year. This Del Vetts tune from 1961 is new to me, but I’m gonna wring the life out of this one.

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unfortunately impossible to not picture Robbie Rotten whenever Gaetz is mentioned

BREAKING: Richard Kind is PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive 2024!

Still can’t believe I’ll be seeing velocity girl in less than two months

The new Carly B-sides situation has a pretty good amount of pretty great songs on it.