Colorado – This is one of the best songs I’ve heard in years. Is it the “ooh ooh oohs” after the title? Is it the way it exists in real time? The yi-yi-yims”? The drumbreak? A perfect rock song.
Headaches – So I got the album for free, downloaded it, stuck it on my shuffle, and was stuck on this song for a week. I can’t count how many people I’ve recomended it to. The bloke has lost a girl, he is at home with the blinds down, lost all sense of time time and place and is watching TV and he aches from the sound of trucks and from thoughts of her.If you don’t love this song try harder.
Fenway Lights – No, sorry, not that Fenway Helen. It took Titus, another NJ band, to set me straight. Best opening verse ever written.
The Last Word – Love as a sickness, which makes perfect sense coming from one of the great heartbreak bands of all time.
Nothing Constant – I promise you, if Buddy Holly was singing it you’d think Buddy Holly had written. it Or Marshall Crenshall. Perfection
In The Movies – A paean to Scarlett O’Hara? About something you can’t touch.
Shut Up Cindy – 47 seconds of greatness. “OK, I get it, I give up”. The Inbetweeners in seven words.
Soledad – A High School rock song junior high romp. Off the EP which I bought today bc I’m impatient and got sick of waiting for Joe to send it. If I coulda downloaded his demos I woulda paid to hear them as well.
leeloo – Now here is a real compliment: sounds like Jonathan Richman!! Did you read that quote in VV? “Don’t talk about wine, drink it”?
East Of E – Great movie, better book, and an acoustic lost story: a diary entry… “every night I turn off my light and hope you’re alright. Nice piano as well.
Heavy Blue – If and when I hear Joe’s demos I bet this is the blueprint.