Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 76

-The Dixie Chicks played this last night as a tribute to Prince.  most elegant song in the last 25 years.




--I'd be down for the entire American Songbook covered by new wave bands.




---BANISHING SHAME IS THE #1 LIFE-HACK OF 2016.



----do you sometimes miss the smell of stale cigarette smoke?



-----If i had the power i would erase Hotel California from the cultural memory and replace it with this, it would be so.

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 75 and DON'T THINK TWICE (2016)

A damn fine film.




-oh the wave of Bob to come.  and he's the world's best harmonica player, care to dispute?



-- Mekons' Last Dance is just about perfect



---best tribute to a fallen friend.  Joyful and mournful in equal measure.



----like Ian Curtis and Arthur Russell and Stephen Merritt's son



-----indie tries for yearning and ends up with whiny 99% of the time but Mr. Maus knows what he's doing.  He yearns, Jerry!

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 74

-eyebrows don't lie.

BONUS



-Cascada covered it and it is somehow almost the same song as Everytime We Touch



--really nice density and propulsion to this song.  love the guitarists' sunglasses so much.



---man I wish that hair was back in style, I would be a young god.  that keyboard part is so good.



----i cannot defend this




-----debts are owed!

up to date:

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 73 and STRANGER THINGS (2016)

-Thus far my favorite new show of the year.

-HF is that smooth



--this goes out to Jolene



---I'll take this stuff over NiN all day everyday.



----I have much to learn



-----the butterfly

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 72

-best white lady voice of the twentieth century there I said it.

--we are a blessed people...how do you have pipes like that and still give the keys such lovely space to stretch out and set the table?  I love that restraint so much.  It's like when LeBron lets Kevin Love shoot the basketball.  

---i'm telling you, hamster balls.



----We need to vault this stuff like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault



-----I love when the horns come in at the end. it sounds like they're on the other side of the football field, raising a fanfare for a sunny afternoon