Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
I've finally joined the modern world of streaming. It makes me a feel a little icky, but man, do I love it. One of the things I love most about it, is that I can listen to basically anything. It's great. One of the things I hate about it is that they pay the artists jack squat.
One of the things I love about it is finding new music
One of the things I hate about it is Donald Trump
One of the things I love about it is the new song I found from a band called The Marias.
You'll be surprised to find out that the new song I found is called "I don't know you"
You'll be even more surprised to find out that the thing I like about this song is the drums and the bass!
Donald Trump is the worst.
Here's the song by The Marias called "I don't know you" From what I've understood is The Marias have self-published their music from the beginning of time. It's a new era of music. I'm just gonna roll with it and keep on bloggin!
Alt-J is one of the most interesting bands I've heard in some time. I've had one album "An Awesome Wave" (2012) as part of my collection for several years and recently I've been listening to it more and more. Then the other day, my 12-year-old daughter was singing the lyric "Please don't go, I love you so, I love you so" and I think both of us where shocked; me because my daughter was familiar with a song by Alt-J and she because I know who Alt-J is!
That night we went out for a soda run and put on the track she had been singing "Breezeblocks" and rocked out to such a good song.
It found its way into my head the Sunday morning and now it's being blogged about! This is how my blog works you guys!
Anyway, this song is great. This album is great. Having kids with cool music taste is great.
Looking a little closer, this song is actually really popular, and has gained traction. Maybe because of Tik-Tok or some kind of app that I'm too old to use/understand. The kids like this song you guys! So do I!
Here's Alt-J's awesome song "Breezeblocks" with its music video which I am now watching for the first time and maybe you are too.
I've really been enjoying Spotify. I guess it took my a while to accept the streaming world of music and I've found lots of cool music thanks to the easy access that Spotify provides. I would probably pay more monthly if I knew that the artists I love would get paid more for each stream, but this is the world we live in.
Soooo... I've been extremely random in what I'm listening to these days, which makes it fun and unusual, and although I've been told for years to listen, I'm just now delving into St. Vincent's music.
Today was the opening track of her 2011 album (St Vincent is in fact Annie Clark, a gifted musician and songwriter) "Strange Mercy" It's called Chloe in the Afternoon. It's different, but I hope you like it:
It's not very often that I get obsessed with a new song, but this one has been going around through my brain for the last couple of weeks since I first heard it and fell in love with it.
Here's "Nameless, Faceless" from singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. My 17 year old nephew told me to check it out and it instantly stuck with me.
I now have completed a new compilation of Rock/Pop songs that you can stream on Spotify by following this link:
If you see me, let me know what you think. These are songs that I've blogged about here. This playlist is extremely 80's-heavy, and that's just fine by me.
In the early 1980's, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson collaborated on a couple of projects. Most people who didn't live in a cave at the time know all about it.
Of course, there was "The Girl is Mine" on Jackson's masterpiece, "Thriller" even though it is the worst track on the album, in my opinion.
But don't worry, this isn't the song stuck in my head. "Say Say Say" was the collaboration that fell onto McCartney's (much) less successful album (than Thriller) 1983's "Pipes of Peace"
Say Say Say is the better song of the two, trust me.
Here's the song and its accompanying video. I love it.
I learned last week that singer-songwriter and artist, Daniel Johnston, passed away.
I first heard of Johnston when my cousin loaned me a copy of a DVD called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston." If you are a music lover, and like hearing stories about fascinating people, this documentary is worth checking out.
Daniel Johnston is an oddity. His singing voice is barely listenable at times, but his songs are sincere and sometimes littered with subtle brilliance. He was brilliant, and he had a lot of troubles. I'm not surprised to hear he's passed away.
I've always loved his hopeful song "True Love Will Find You in the End" although hearing it breaks my heart every time. I wasn't too surprised to find it playing in my head on this morning.
Here's the song:
And if you're more interested in hearing the song with a more commercialized-sounding voice, here's Beck's lovely cover of the song:
I had a really strange dream last night. In it, I was responsible for several monkeys. Maybe 50 or so. They were everywhere and impossible to manage. I don't know how it happened, but in the dream I somehow accidentally shrunk all of the monkeys to about the size of an ant. After they shrunk, they scattered everywhere, all over the floor and I did my best to not step on them. I remember looking on the ground and seeing chaos, as bug-sized monkeys scattered everywhere. How did this happen!?!? I panicked and looked around and realized that I had accidentally stepped on a few. I remember seeing a monkey through a magnifying glass as it agonized over a broken leg that I had caused by stepping on him. I saw a mother monkey weeping over her crushed baby. It was all so vivid.
Who knows why, probably because they saw me as a threat, but a few of the mini-monkeys started to climb up my legs, I could feel it as they used my leg hairs like tree limbs and climbed up, sometimes randomly biting me, or scratching me until they found their way up to my chest. It was an awful feeling and everything felt so real!
I did my best to gather the monkeys and eventually created a jungle-like environment with small bugs and foliage in an empty aquarium. It felt like the best thing I could do for them considering what I had done to the poor little apes. Then I started to think about how amazing it was that I had somehow created a new species and imagined what it would be like to actually set them loose in the wild! Would the mini-monkeys survive in a miniature world?! I'd never know because I woke up!
What a weird dream. One I'll never forget because everything about it was so vivid.
OK, and consequently, I got a song about monkeys by They Might Be Giants stuck in my head that morning.
Here's "One Dozen Monkeys" from TMBG's fantastic kids album "Here come the 123's"
If any of you haven't listened to TMBG's kids albums (they have four!) and you have children, take some time for both yours and your kids benefit to check them out. Here come the ABC's and Here come the 123's are both my favorites.
You can either blame another post here about Meghan Trainor on my wife and daughters, or you can blame it on me because she's a guilty pleasure for me. Or you can blame it on both, either way.
Regardless, Meghan Trainor writes catchy music and I believe this is the 3rd or 4th time one of her songs has been featured here at thesongsstuckinmyhead.blogspot.com!
This is from her 2017 Album "Thank You" which has gotten repeated spins at the Cash house in the last few years. The song is called "Friends" and it's about Friends. Seriously.
Here's what it sounds like:
I hope and pray your week is really, really, extremely neat.
I went to see a production of 'My Fair Lady' at the local community theater. Our friend was playing the lead male, Professor Henry Higgins, who is one of the most horrible, chauvinistic, and deplorable character in stage history.
I don't have the patience to say much more. Form your own opinions about this show.
Here's the song "The Rain in Spain" from MY FAIR LADY. This is the moment where Eliza Doolittle learns how to talk. Most people are familiar with this scene and song. So was my subconscious on Sunday morning.
Glen Campbell made "Wichita Lineman" a song about the solidarity of working power lines alone, into a hit back in 1968. It's Jimmy Webb's song- and he finally recorded it himself in 1996.
Here's Jimmy Webb doing it:
And here's the one you may have heard that Campbell immortalized. Its's a goodun'
Finishing off the month of June is one of my favorite singer-songwriters: Rufus Wainwright.
This one is from his 2004 album Want 2. It's the fourth track. It's called Little Sister.
It seems like when I saw Rufus Wainwright it concert, right around the time this album had been released, that he said this particular song was dedicated to all women, not just his own little sister.
This song demonstrated Wainwright's nearly perfect ability to combine pop music with classical. He's a master at the merging of the two genres.
As a kid we had a record called "Mini Pops" which essentially was a recording of children singing many of the current chart-topping hits. We loved the record. I bet I can find a picture of the record with the girl I had a crush on on the cover by way of the internet. Please hold......
Dear internet, thank you for being so reliable. 9 to 5 girl, 8 year old Brady says hello.
Anyway, see that picture bottom right? It's actually the song that got stuck in my head, Madness' 1981 classic "Baggy Trousers" Such a great song!
We used to turn this record on and lip sync a concert. It was tons of fun and had a lot of great songs on it. Interwebs, find me a list of the songs on this record.... please hold.....
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