#SVSongOfTheDay #95:
The Geraldine Fibbers - Marmalade
Dissonant, twangy country psychedelia that really captures the spirit of escapism that getting baked can provide...at least until the crash threatens to bring you back into the harsh of reality once again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKs...
#SVSongOfTheDay #94:
Imani Coppola - Lying To My Therapist
No better way to confront your demons, your fears (irrational or not), and your frustrations with societal expectations than by making a sarcastic bouncy rocker layin it all bare. This is what music is FOR!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e9...
#SVSongOfTheDay #93:
Sugarloaf - Bach Doors Man/Chest Fever
FACT: If your band has an organ player (and EVERY rock band from the 60s has one), you are REQUIRED to open at least one of your songs with Bach's "Toccata and Fugue" (or just any cool organ solo really).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKe...
#SVSongOfTheDay #92:
Thompson Twins - Flower Girl
Pulling from the best of highly danceable 80s alt-rock and 60s psychedelic love songs, this is perhaps a perfectly pristine piece of pop pleasure. It'd be great for karaoke night if it weren't quite so obscure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McWc...
#SVSongOfTheDay #91:
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - A Hymn To The Morning Star
One of the most beautifully ugly songs ever created, perfectly meshing crooning hymnals with pagan imagery and distorted bass twangs. Listen to the full album, it's deliciously unsettling!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iEf...
#SVSongOfTheDay #90:
The Erotics - She Loves Her Dynamite
It's somehow heartwarming to know that good old greasy rock and roll about badass villainous women is still alive and kicking. I dunno about you but I just can't say no to a good Mötley Crüe-esque riff!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpKU...
#SVSongOfTheDay #89:
Ali Project - Shoujo Kizoku
From the weird experimental badlands of the 00s, this song crosses electronic beats and mega-distorted instruments with weird, discordant goth/classical melodies to produce some ominously groovable tunes...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvx...
#SVSongOfTheDay #88:
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
Splintered and fragmented klezmer melodies flavor this odd little slice of 80s alt-rock. Whether it's about peeping on a stripper or a dominatrix is up to you, but either way, ya can't deny the way it bops!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGH_...
#SVSongOfTheDay #87:
Aretha Franklin & Whitney Houston - It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be
A catfight between two girls dating the same man slowly devolves into them becoming friends playfully riffing over their dilemma. The Korrasami of classic 80s R&B!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8N...
#SVSongOfTheDay #86:
Smash Mouth - The Fonz
A kinda whiny ska/punk song about feeling inferior to that one guy who's just plain better than you, but it takes a pretty dark turn in the final verse, double layered depending on whose point of view you read it from.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlc7...
#SVSongOfTheDay #85:
Roger Miller - Dang Me
Hard to explain why this folk song is so damn funny to me considering it's about a dumbass deadbeat trying to play off his iniquities as lovable quirks, but I think it's just the snarky silliness of that twangy scat lick.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j387...
#SVSongOfTheDay #84:
Genesis - It's Gonna Get Better
Call it a comfort song if you must, but even if you're tired of hearing Phil Collins' voice, can't NOBODY deny that dizzying bass line. No matter whether you count it in 4, 3 or 6, it's such a goddamn VIBE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgGI...
![Janelle Monáe - Paid In Pleasure [Official Audio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:asd26ssrj33o4dfobwriuwil/bafkreidgdmwyaoa2dklndcui4imxwtf3irgn33nrd2id3xuezt6rpb6o7i)
#SVSongOfTheDay #83:
Janelle Monáe - Paid In Pleasure
Short, simple, and sweet like strawberry syrup. It's got a nice laidback tropical afrobeat groove, but it's the message that really sells it here. Give and you shall receive. Keep it coming forever, indeed!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtOp...
#SVSongOfTheDay #82:
The Jazz Mandolin Project - Jungle Tango
Amazing how a bit of plucky electric mandolin and skittish accordion licks transform a simple jazz groove into what sounds like a soundtrack for a spy thriller set in some eastern European motel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C4...
#SVSongOfTheDay #81:
De La Soul - Eye Know
I can't think of a better term to describe this song than "hippie hop". A bright, sparkling sunshine-y tune with hip-bumping bass grooves over perhaps the most respectfully lustful propositions for sex I've ever heard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9T...
#SVSongOfTheDay #80:
Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair
The greasiest, slimiest doo-wop lounge ballad about getting your dick chopped off you'll ever hear. No, I'm serious. This song is MAGICAL in the nastiest, most earnest way. Required listening for weirdo genderfuckers!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6O...
#SVSongOfTheDay #79:
The B-52s - Deadbeat Club
"Get a job? What for!" This little piece of hippie pristine pop pleasure really makes me wish I could just stop going to work forever. Those gorgeous soaring vocals legit get me misty eyed just thinking about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXy0...
![Dream Theater - Another Day [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:asd26ssrj33o4dfobwriuwil/bafkreihre47z3cmm5yxmk4endr65fsplkg5qwktj37boejcqssy36diy5q)
#SVSongOfTheDay #78:
Dream Theater - Another Day
It's easy to get caught up in the rush of their famed 64th-note-fueled prog metal shreddery and forget that they are also big theater kids who can write saxy soulful power ballads about fighting terminal illness too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYti...
#SVSongOfTheDay #77:
Os Mutantes - Tempo e Espaço
The true secret sauce that makes psychedelic music work is sexy nasty blues licks played on acoustic guitars, which is why this song sounds exactly like what you'd hear at a Brazilian intergalactic truck stop cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5HH...
#SVSongOfTheDay #76:
Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over
A shockingly powerful sprechgesang diatribe about the hypocrisy of organized religion, relayed through the most ominous voice distortion 1981 had to offer, played atop sick bluesy psychedelia and wacky synth effects.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8TK...
#SVSongOfTheDay #75:
Cree Summer - Miss Moon
Bet you didn't expect to hear the voice of every cartoon from your childhood singing a folk rock song about menstrual cycles and moon phases, did you? This whole album is BADASS from start to finish, please pick it up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVt...
#SVSongOfTheDay #74:
Eels - Going To Your Funeral, Part 1
Ominous and fuzzed out, this subdued lament really captures the surreal, uneasy feeling of attending an unexpected funeral. That distorted-scream overlay vocal in the last verse just absolutely sells it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsX...
#SVSongOfTheDay #73:
Cycle Sluts From Hell - Conqueress
For being painted as a gimmicky grrrl rock group, these babes actually hit hard with the REAL definitive sound of the 80s: poetic fantasy metal. Love that phrygian riff and lilting bass work during the chorus!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lD...
#SVSongOfTheDay #72:
Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk
Listen to how this expertly crafted performance uses real-time looping effects to evolve from weird little chickenshit scratches to one of the funkiest, most off-kilter microtonal riff grooves you've ever heard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgH...
#SVSongOfTheDay #71:
David Bowie - Bring Me The Disco King
I have strongly complex feelings on Bowie as a person, but I'm somewhat taken aback by how sobered he feels in this track, despite its jazzy little groove. It feels like the fear of accepting growing older.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I3k...
#SVSongOfTheDay #70:
Al Di Meola - Paradisio
What you name a song vs what it sounds like can radically alter your perception of it. Dissonant bass chords and driving rhythm give this track an air of suspense and mystery, suggesting there may be TROUBLE in paradise!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOl...
#SVSongOfTheDay #69:
Living Colour - Go Away
A visceral rager about how our failed capitalist-driven society breeds alienation through making it feel like its our own fault. Mixing feels a bit odd, but that frantic bass work in the back half gets my booty GROOVIN!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjjP...
#SVSongOfTheDay #68:
Ex-Girl - New Pulse
I can't think of a better word to describe this song than "cyborg". Droning guitar tones, electronic vocal effects, and power-packed drums that beat like an organic heart, all played on physical instruments. Very ethereal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pI...
#SVSongOfTheDay #67:
Firewater - Bad, Bad World
Dig this sultry duet about casting aside your inhibitions and getting it on with that crush the world tells you is problematic, because the whole world is bad anyway. The gender trade-offs really MAKE this song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qr...
#SVSongOfTheDay #66:
Thomas Dolby - Simone
An exotic, mysterious bossa nova with an eerie undertone of uncertainty to it, this song paints a cryptic picture of a doomed romance or a spy thriller, right up until the part where you realize it's about a trans woman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZk...
