Believe (feat D’Angelo) – Q-Tip – Gets as close as anybody has to a hip hop/jazz meeting of sounds, sure closer than Branford Marsalis ever did, and Q-Tip has always been an entangling rapper. He flows but he flows away from us: it’s a disrant sound. And he doesn’t even begin to use D’Angelo properly. Still fucking awesome.
Between My Head And The Sky – Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono – completely addicted to this and I don’t know who is playing the guitar but its real good. Also, I keep on screwing up the quote so here it goes: “Water evaporates andcomes back as rain, you evaporate and I never see you again”!!! Thin ice indeed…
Vivrant Thing – Q-Tip
Hey, Soul Sister – Train – When I say sales make songs sound better I mean stuff like this; a pleasant but ordinary romp with (can it be?) banjo that sounds much better now it’s on the radio.
Lowlife (The Teenagers) – Scanners – Scanners are Helen Bach faves, the Teenagers are mine. French rockers the Teenagers are quirky dirty little boys on their own materials, but with limery electro lites Scanners they sweeten the original by looping the guitar riff rather than the drums. The song is three years old and if this didn’t break Scanners my bet is they have their work cut out for them.
Remembering Sunday – All Time Low
Love The Pain – Lady Antebellum – The drums don’t hit hard enough for my tastes but the song itself is excellent and is prolly top ten country as we speak.
Coffee Spoon – Cold War Kids – Have I mentioned how much I love this band? One of the gerat rock bands in the country, they sold out two nights at Terminal 5
Every Man I Fall For – Cold War Kids – “Every man I fall for drinks his coffee black—” In case you’re sick of coffee, “every man I fall for works the graveyard shift—” For free on daytrotter.com.