Restoration: The Songs of Elton John. This is a tribute album of a bunch of Elton John songs, recreated by country and western artists. Most of it sucks on toast. The Miley Cyrus one is horrible. The Little Big Town one is pretty weak. However, a few tunes, like Lee Ann Womack's cajun-tinged "Honky Cat" and Chris Stapleton's "I Want Love" are great. The Dierks Bentley version of "Sad Songs" is actually pretty OK too. The Willie tune on the end is fine, but its pretty basic. The Stapleton track is the top streamer by far (for good reason) at 3.3 million, but I'm going to give you second place instead. This is "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" by Maren Morris (the singer to that ubiquitous "why don't you just meet me in tha middle?" song from this summer). 1.4 million streams.
Its fine. Not my favorite Elton song anyway, and so hearing her blare it over a plain country shuffle is pretty uninteresting. Glad I gave this a shot and all, but I'll let it go. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface. Holy crap this album is great. I liked these guys, leading up to Austin City Limits this year, but after seeing them throw down on stage and now re-listening to this album, I'm deeply digging it. Got some gentle Lord Huron/Iron & Wine vibes at times, got some rock and roll shred senses at other times, and I'm all in for the combination. Also a good Band of Horses vibe at times, another band I like. On stage, they were surprisingly shoved over on the grungy riffage side of the equation, but this album is generally pretty relaxed and lovely. "The Gold" is the hit, with just under 10 million streams, but I've played that one a ton. So I'm going to give you "The Alien," which has 5.2 million streams.
Great song. Powerful, emotive stuff. And if you go read the lyrics, it sure sounds like it is about a guy who had his ears cut off by his drunken dad and then later tried to commit suicide by ramming his car into a bunch of people. WTF, man. Whatever, very good album. 2017 album though, so it can't compete for my albums of the year. T.I. - DIME TRAP. Paper Trail is an excellent rap album. Other bits and pieces of T.I.'s catalog are also good, but this album is pretty up and down. The best stuff T.I. does is his confessional raps where he uses his deeply rough voice to explain his life in stark terms - all those tunes when he was going back to jail on gun charges, those were the good stuff. But this album opens up with a gospel-tinged groaner that lasts too long and employs too much singing. And only then does he kick in with the dope beat and a power rush flow. Stuff like "More & More," "Jefe," "Laugh At 'Em," and "Wraith" are prime T.I. nuggets. But some of the others like "Seasons," "Pray for Me," and "You" are dreary sing-song things that suck the life right out of the album. And then the cooler than cool beat kicks in for "Looking Back" and TIP's slurring, deeply Southern vocals sink their way right down into the crevices of that laconic groove, and everything is right again. Shockingly, I think I figured it out - if the song is just straight rap, then I dig it; but if the song is half R&B, then it can bugger off. Unfortunately, the album is about half and half. The top track is "Jefe," which features Meek Mill and has 10.5 million streams.
I've never been able to get behind Meek's high pitched yelling of a flow, but I actually like that tune. The trumpets are cool, a different sound for a rap track, and while neither of them is saying anything of value, I like the flow and some of their jokes. I'll just save a few individual tracks from this one. Random aside here, the beat underneath G-Eazy and YG's "Endless Summer Freestyle" makes me want to bounce right off the surface of the planet.
Don't get me wrong, G-Eazy still sucks, but just play that and bounce around your room. Sheck Wes - MUDBOY. I saw someone on Twitter talking about this one and thought I'd check it out, which was oddly fortuitous, since it allowed me to look highly cool to high school kids soon thereafter. I was driving a group of 9th grader boys around town for church, and told one of them that he could DJ our ride if he would pick clean songs. He hits the search button on my Spotify, which brings up the last searches I've done on Spotify, and he pipes up from the back seat - "you listen to Sheck Wes? Really?" WHATS UP, PUNK ASS KIDZ, I'M SUPER LIT, YO! Anyway, he then proceeded to go into some deep well of scary rappers on Soundcloud who said the N and F words every other word, and I'm probably both going to hell and the Principal's office. Anyhoo - popcorn rap here, but insanely catchy stuff. The beats are those currently hot, trap-ish and very minimal, heavy on the bass, clicks, and atmospherics. And he does a lot of those yelled asides like a Travis Scott or Migos. So you would think that I should hate him - I've talked 9 levels of shit about those other two artists, but something about this one scratches an itch for me. His big hit is called "Mo Bamba," after the Texas basketball star, and he also has another basketball star song called "Kyrie." "Live Sheck Wes" and "Gmail" are my favorites, and while I like "Mo Bamba" well enough, I wish that it kicked in a little harder. The flat-toned sing rapping at the beginning sets the song up perfectly to have a super-hard drop when the beat hits, but instead the bass just kind of sneaks in. Still, I like the ominous feel of the track. 148.3 million streams.
The dudes in that video appear to think that the bass hits a lot harder than me, so maybe I just need to crank this on louder speakers? Also, that video is like a parody, and I like it. I'm gonna give you my other favorite too, this is "Live Sheck Wes." Only 1.8 million streams.
Give me all of that bass. All your bass are belong to us. Again, lyrically? Nope. Feel though? Hot.
Superorganism - Superorganism. This weird ass album is amazing. I don't know how this wasn't a band on the ACL lineup, because they would have been perfect. Trippy, weird, random, and psychedelic, and yet also catchy and groovy and poppy. Spiked with unexpected sounds like the crunch of an apple, the ribbit of a frog, the honk of car horns, the screech of car tires, a whistle, a splash, birds tweeting, etc. It smells like the freaky stuff of The Flaming Lips, but its a little more funky, like hip hop inspired. Like M.I.A. joined the Flaming Lips and they all ate a bunch of drugs and made beautiful love. The deeply squelchy voice that says "prawwwwwwwwn" over and over again on "The Prawn Song" will both haunt me in my nightmares and also jump start my next dance move. The top two streaming tracks are "Everybody Wants to be Famous" (11.9 million ) and "Something for Your M.I.N.D." (13.5 million).
AND THEN, holy shit, please take ten minutes and watch this Tiny Desk concert, and please revel in the oddity that is this band:
The extra sound making, with hands in buckets and blowing in straws and cranking on toys and whatnot, is amazing. So deliciously strange. And the lead singer, sitting there singing as though she gives no craps. This is all a wonderful spectacle. I'm in. That redhead bit two apples at once. She is an apple eating marvel. And even without the live spectacle, know that the album itself is also very groovy and good. It speaks to my theater and band background, and my love for the absurd, and tickles my fancy. Go give it a spin. Drake - Scorpion. Drake, man. Dude is honestly unbelievable. Over a billion streams for "God's Plan." B-B-B-BILLION. 537 million for "Nice for What." 629 million for "In My Feelings." The RIAA requires 1,500 streams to be counted the same as an album sale, so based solely on the streams of two of those three songs, this album went platinum. That is INSANE. His raps are absolutely mediocre. His singing is significantly worse than that. Some of the beats are dope and his flow over them sounds good, but this is just fascinating to me, that he crushes all other artists without any originality or even flair. He just sings the hooks written for him, raps the tender bars written for him, and blows everyone else out of the water. It's amazing. I previously dissected "God's Plan" somewhat, and I'll just reproduce that here: "Drake - God's Plan. As usual with Drake, I generally enjoy the beat and the flow. I catch myself grooving to the track. But once he's past the telling the girl not to roll up and cuddle with him at 6am, the lyrics drop into a boring hole. Here is the chorus:
God's plan, God's plan I hold back, sometimes I won't, yuh I feel good, sometimes I don't, ayy, don't I finessed down Weston Road, ayy, 'nessed Might go down a G.O.D., yeah, wait I go hard on Southside G, yuh, wait I make sure that north-side eat
Errr, OK. I feel like I missed the part of that which could be seen as God's plan? Is God planning for you to become him? Was it God's plan for you to "go hard" on a particular direction of the compass? Oh, or was the loaves and fishes miracle where God's son fed the multitudes done on the north-side of Bethsaida? GOOD REFERENCE!!! Also, I cannot permit someone to get away with saying "'nessed" as a shortened form of "finessed." GTFOH. Scary thing - that throwaway track just broke records for streaming numbers, and it isn't even special. Drake is truly baffling to me." So, many of these songs are completely forgettable and totally uninteresting. "Is There More," "I'm Upset," "Peak," "Summer Games," (STOP saying 'breaking my heart!'), "Jaded," and many others that make up the majority of the album - have terrible beats and zero charisma at all. And the album is 25 songs, a full hour and a half. Like, feature movies aren't this freaking long. And although those songs are boring, at least they aren't as wretchedly horrible as "Ratchet Happy Birthday," which is bad AND super annoying. Horrible song. "I'm Upset" is also even more horrible than Drake's usual badness. But then he's got tracks like "Nice for What," which samples Miss Lauryn Hill, is fun, and is different from other stuff on the radio. Good track, not great, but I like the woman-empowering message as well.
Get it! But as soon as that party is over, the album just goes right back to the lifeless slog through some more dead on arrival tunes. I know people love "In My Feelings," but its not good. The Michael Jackson collaboration, which must have cost him a damn mint to buy, is also not good. Could have been cool to bring MJ back from the dead, and instead its on a lifeless ballad with a dead beat. "March 14" is interesting just because he is talking about his disappointment at not being there for his son after wishing for a two parent family of his own, which is a cool thing for him to dissect. I'll admit that I also like "Nonstop," and "Talk Up" had me bobbing my head. Overall, this album is bad. Panic! at the Disco - Pray for the Wicked. So, neat thing to realize by the checkmarks next to each song that your ten year old daughter has downloaded this whole album for repeat listening on her personal device. Which means that she's jamming the opening track repeatedly, which is entitled "(Fuck A) Silver Lining," and repeats that lovely language about 30 times during the track. Ugh. Modern parenting blows, man. This band has always been a second place to me in the race for top pop punk emo band, just because I always thought Fall Out Boy was quite a bit more fun. And who puts a damn piece of punctuation in the middle of their band name? Second place guys, that's who. Anyway, they've grown on me over time, and now they are actually getting some radio play with one of these songs, which is interesting. I thought that the emo pop punk was dead, but apparently not. My guess is that "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" might end up being the bigger song because some college football producer is going to put it into heavy rotation for the college games of the week or something, but for now, the biggest track and radio hit is "High Hopes." 179.1 million streams. Which is a boatload for someone who is not Drake.
Obviously heavy on the lead singer's falsetto, but the drum machine-style beat in the back is what powers the whole tune, as well as the horns. Good message, pretty fun song. I also like the breakneck speed of "The Overpass," as well as the other two tunes I've already mentioned. Fun album overall. Nothing amazing, but enjoyable. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch. Trent should have given up while he was ahead. To me, the best part of old Nine Inch Nails was that it was imminently danceable, while still making you want to fight people. Songs like "Head Like a Hole" and "Closer" and "The Hand that Feeds" were tailor made for angry dancing. Or moody aggro-teen driving when I was 18. This stuff has some anger, has a lot of dissonance, gives a feeling of dread and unhappiness, but its not danceable or fun or accessible. Its like avant-garde jazz for the electronic generation. The top track is the first song on the album (which is never a good sign) at 1.5 million streams. "Shit Mirror."
I just aw a banner ad selling tickets for next year's Shaky Knees Festival (pretty freaking tight, by the way, with Tame Impala, Beck, and Cage the Elephant on the top line. I'd pay to see each of those bands), and it dawned on me that I've been decadently delinquent in getting started on my predictions for 2019. By this time last year I probably had 20 prediction posts already up! [Note, I did no such thing, I didn't even start until December]. ANNNNNNNND I JUST BOUGHT MY TICKETS FOR NEXT YEAR! So, without actually doing any homework (except for what I happen to have seen on Twitter or whatever) or digging into who is going to put out new music or who will tour or what the other fests are doing, here are some wild ass guesses. As usual with my post that happens before the new year has even passed, I know this is ridiculous. Making guesses this early and without any research. But I have thoughts. They are based on nothing at all. This is pure conjecture. But I feel like I have solid guesses and I need to share them. Here are the top 6 headliners. [If you are keeping score at home, I always get these hilariously wrong. For 2017, I guessed one right (the Chilis) and six wrong (Green Day, Metallica, Steve Aoki, Paul Simon, and Daft Punk). For 2018, I got a big fat zero (no Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Arcade Fire, Kanye, Daft Punk, or U2) So read this for what it is worth.]
Dead & Company. This is purely for my own pleasure. Please, C3 Gods, bring John Mayer and the remainder of the Dead to Austin and let me bask in the glory of hearing an eighteen minute version of "Sugar Magnolia" live. These guys could bring a huge crowd, they would match the Austin aesthetic, and I would enjoy it. Win Win Win.
Other major nostalgia act things: Fleetwood Mac? Elton John is on tour, right? I still want to guess Paul Simon, but I think his final tour will be done by then.
The Cure. I kind of hope this isn't true, but I saw something on Twitter the other day saying that they were going to tour a bunch of Fests next year. I saw them a few years ago at ACL, and they were excellent. I very much enjoyed that show. But I feel like I've done it - I don't need a further nostalgia trip from them already. Put out a few good new albums and maybe. or not.
Muse. They haven't headlined in a few years, but are putting out a new album and heading out on tour. I bet they get a few big headliner slots.
I had originally stuck to my guns here and said Beck.Dammit. I'm still mad that he didn't show up last year, and now I want to double down on this based on him being on the Shaky Knees lineup. His last album is kick ass, fun, and exciting - crosses over into dance and rock at the same time. He hasn't been to ACL in a few years. He belongs here.
If we got Tame Impala in this slot instead, I'd be ecstatic. Their show a few years ago was absolutely amazing to me.
Other rock guesses for this slot - 21 Pilots? Florence and the Machine?
I need at least two EDM headliners. They'll likely bring Daft Punk once I stop including them in my guesses, but I think those dudes just don't do this stuff anymore. I saw that Swedish House Mafia was getting back together, and that seemed to have people excited online. And my kids love that terrible Marshmallo song with Bastille that is all over the radio, so let's go with those two.
Gotta stick a rapper in here as well. My logic last year lead me to Kanye, but his new music is awful and he's just acting so weird, I don't see how he is the guy they choose. I feel like they've recently done all of the big rappers - Jay-Z, Drake, Kendrick, Chance, RTJ, Cube, Outkast, Eminem, Travis Scott, Lil Wayne - so maybe its going to be one of the garbage new breed like Future or Migos. Or maybe Cardi B? Logic? More likely its someone I don't even know because now I'm old and still think Ice Cube rules, so we'll get D1cEshootuhh69 on the top line of the poster and I'll just be confused. But none of those people are headliner-grade, right? I guess I'll guess Cardi B out of the people I've named? She doesn't feel big enough, but people were PUMPED about Travis Scott and I wouldn't have picked that either.
That is a wack lineup. Almost certainly entirely wrong. Not nearly enough star power. Especially now that ACL opened the door to pop acts like Shawn Mendes - lord knows what we are going to start getting now. If I were actually choosing for myself, it would be something more like Dead & Company, Chris Stapleton, Beck, Tame Impala, Springsteen, and Kendrick Lamar.
The Moondoggies - A Love Runs Deep. Seattle band, and their bio says that they have one foot in grunge and one in a Pink Floyd/Crazy Horse Americana thang, but what I kept hearing during my listens was Heartbreakers. The vocals aren't as strong as Petty, but the tunes kind of sound like a mellow Tom Petty jam. I guess I do hear Floyd in some of these tunes as well, but I wouldn't give them the grunge label based on this album. I think my favorite tune might be the 8-plus minute album closer "Underground ( A Love Sleeps Deep)," which is more jammy and meandering, but the top track (at only 44k streams) is "Cinders."
Live version, but you'll get the gist. Also includes the next song on the album, "Match," which is also a good one. I have no recollection of where I found this album or heard of these guys, but I really like this disc. Its short, at only 8 songs and 44 minutes, but the jammy taste of classic Tom Petty b-sides is too much for me to ignore. Moondoggies. Brent Cobb - Providence Canyon. I thought this guy was the same dude that does production for Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson, but it ends up that is this guy's cousin, Dave. This guy came out of Georgia, but ended up in Nashville writing hits for other people (Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert), and now has created a damn good country sound of his own. I say country, and this definitely has all of the trappings of country music, but it also leans pretty heavy on Americana and southern rock. Got some tender tunes that evoke good memories ("Providence Canyon" or "Lorene" or "Come Home Soon," a lovely, soft-picked lament of being on the road) but then he goes rockin' on stuff like "Mornin's Gonna Come" and "If I Don't See Ya." "King of Alabama" is the most streamed tune, by just 10k or so streams (over the album closer, "Ain't a Road Too Long," with 772k streams). This one was the first single and I've been jamming it for a while. 782k streams.
Kinda funky, soul-flavored, southern rock stuff. "High in the Country" is a nice tune as well, that evokes a memory of "Sweet Home Alabama" in the chorus each time. And then the guitar at the start of "If I Don't See Ya" likewise sounds like a riff from an old Skynyrd song. I enjoy it all. Leon Bridges - Good Thing. I love me some Leon Bridges. The stone cold smoove groove of "Bad Bad News" is the soundtrack of the chillest me I can be. Just try this on for size.
That snaking little bass line, those whispered hi hats, that sly little guitar lick: the intro to this song is super dope. His vocals are silky, and then that guitar solo about a minute or so in - I know this is well trod stuff, a classic throwback to an old style of soul and R&B, but damn it sounds good. Although that video was stressing me out... His fly ass grooves like this one are what I want more of. "If It Feels Good," the Anderson Paak-esque "You Don't Know," or even the slower groove of "Beyond" are where I want to be. The slower ones are still beautiful, but I want that higher energy stuff. That said, "Forgive You" is beautiful and longing. His voice is so damn good. Keep this one. Middle Kids - Lost Friends. I saw this band at SXSW a few years ago, and they're great. Kind of an 80's vibe to the guitar-work, but then kind of a Florence & the Machine vibe to the vocals. "Edge of Town" is a great song, and for sure their most popular at 18.4 million streams.
Kind of a Wolf Alice sound (and I freaking love Wolf Alice), got a deep groove and strong vocals to go along with some new wave guitar tones. And the last bit, with the driving rave up, is also cool. "Never Start" is also a great song. Always kind of amazing to me, how one band toils away in anonymity while another breaks it big - without any good reason as to why one or the other appears to end up where it does.
Flatbush Zombies - Vacation in Hell. This one has been in my queue for a long time now, and I've run through it many times by now, without anything ever really sticking. In current rap fashion, the album is long as hell, with 19 tracks and an hour and sixteen minutes of music. It just feels like it goes on forever. And while I generally like the vibe and the flow and all of that, nothing in here really makes me look up from my work to notice something special, except for one tune that finally combines a good beat with a good flow and a catchy chorus - "Headstone."
Its actually pretty amazing. Stop and listen to the lyrics and see how many references you can count to other rappers? Its like a roll call of everyone from NWA to DMX to DMC to B.I.G. That is actually very cool. Not only to call out all of those different artists, but to make them rhyme and sound good over a tight beat. Its too bad the rest of the album is forgettable, because that song is sweet. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness. Prine has never gotten his just due as a stud songwriter. Like Townes Van Zandt before him, none of his music has ever been pop enough to gather anything more than insider/industry love for him. He came to town a few months ago for an ACL taping and I wanted desperately to get the tickets to go, but missed out. The night before the taping, I took some friends to the Paul Simon show at the Erwin Center, and they told me that they were going to the taping the next night, but had no clue who John Prine was. Ugh. You may think you've never heard his music, but you likely have, just not by Prine himself. Bonnie Raitt's "Angel from Montgomery" is his. John Denver or Pat Green's "Paradise" are his (both are very good). A bunch of people's versions of "Souvenirs" are him too. "Hello in There" is covered by lots of people too. Nanci Griffith's "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is amazing. George Strait did "I Just Want to Dance With You." He also got half of the writing credits for "You Never Call Me By My Name," which was a college staple for me. Anyway, he kind of rules. I've made a Pandora station seeded with him, Van Zandt, and Guy Clark, and its fabulous. This album sticks with the same kind of style - his voice has never been his strong suit - but even as he ages he's been able to write good lyrics. I think the coolest thing about his lyrics are their low-keyness, and wry sense of humor. Old tracks like "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" or "That's the Way The World Goes Round" are echoed here on tracks like "When I Get To Heaven." "Summer's End" is the top song from the album, with 1.1 million streams.
Man, he looks old. I love that plucked little tune - super simple and like so many others he's done before, but it works. Stupid videos want to make me cry. Anyway, nice little album. His old stuff is better, more insightful, better stories, but this one is still good. King Tuff - The Other. Psych rock weirdness on this one. I've listened to it for a while over the year, and still can't quite decide whether I like it. Sometimes it will pop back up in my queue and I'll be like "who is that, I like it!" and then other times it will come up and I'm ready to skip the song. I like the G-Funk synthesizer riff on "Neverending Sunshine." The top track on the album is "Psycho Star," with 1.4 million streams.
Woah, bro. Trippy vid. These tunes are pretty good. I don't know that I need to keep the album around, but they're enjoyably distracting. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant. More plodding cock rock that mainly just makes me sad that Tool isn't still making music anymore. A Perfect Circle has had a few good songs over time, but none of them live on this album. Dark and gloomy, dull and plodding, this one just bores. Or is awful, like "Hourglass," which sounds like this band trying to cover a 21 Pilots song. And the cover art, of a scary guy who appears to have been interrupted in the midst of eating a nuclear American octopus, is unpleasant. I'll give you a tune, but really, none of this is worth you spending time on. "The Doomed," which still, somehow, has 15.4 million streams.
I feel like I'm the one who is doomed, to listen to this dime store preaching over dollar store riffs while staring at their stupid faces for 4 minutes.
Willie Nelson - Last Man Standing. It does my soul good to hear Willie still making good music. I don't recall loving his last album, but this one is legitimately good. You've got clever lyrics - "Last Man Standing" about being the last of his peers to survive to now, "Bad Breath" about halitosis (caused by weed?), and the current political landscape ("Me and You") - and the tunes are still his good picking and harmonica boogies and ballads. I thought for sure that "Me and You" would be the top song on the album, but I was incorrect. Instead, it is "Something to Get Through," with 814k streams.
Nice little love song. My goodness he looks old in that video. I need to get off my tail and go see this man one more time in concert before there aren't anymore shows. Wild that his voice still sounds damn fine. I like this album. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse. I like the grungy rock of these songs, but there is something offkey about them all, like the guitars have been tuned down just an inch to be slightly bummed and flat. Her vocals remind me of classic Liz Phair, but her lyrics are very good. I remember enjoying an older Speedy Ortiz album, but although I want to be the type of cool kid who digs this music, if I'm being honest, this just kind of vaguely grooves me for 30 minutes and then I forget what I just heard. There isn't much of a hook on here, just a bunch of same-ish sounding songs with good guitar riffs and clever lines. The top streamer is "Lucky 88," with just over 500k streams. Most of the songs have less than 100k.
In a weird, completely unrelated story, I ended up having to survive through the hell of Main Event for four hours last Saturday, and they have a handful of screens in their bowling/bar area that are continuously playing music videos. And not like, good classic ones or brand new ones. Instead, it was like a strange selection of mid-oughts pop punk videos, things like Fall Out Boy and All American Rejects and, even more strange, Ashleee Simpson doing some sort of sk8ter boy anthem. Anyway, the lady in this video who ends up covered in Jolly Green giant jizz looks like Simpson to me (who I hadn't thought about in at least a decade). I'm OK without this album. 1000mods - Vultures. Stoner rock from Greece. Where the hell did this album come from to get into my list of new music to listen to? No clue, but I'm grooving to it anyway. Reminds me very much of Red Fang (who freaking rule). Thick, sludgy, chunky grooves and riffs. I love the fact that even some Greek dudes (who I'm picturing all as the lead singer for System of a Down, who is likely not even Greek) can swallow all the Sabbath they need to create these tunes. Album opener "Claws" has the most streams, at 527k.
Comes at you like its about to be a remake of Pearl Jam's "Rearviewmirror," then the waves crash in and the sludgy surfer rock fires up. The album closer, "Reverb of the New World" also has everything you need to jam out. Give it all to me. SYML - In My Body. The wife, who is not normally a reliable source of new music discovery, pinged me about this group a while back after hearing on of the songs from this album on the radio or Pandora or something. I don't say this to be mean, its just that the wife is more than happy to just keep listening to the same four CDs she had when I met her (Sarah McLaughlin, Counting Crows, Top Gun Soundtrack, and Dawson's Creek Soundtrack, with maybe a few extra CDs in there I'm conveniently forgetting about). Anyhoo, I was pumped to have her suggest new music to me for once. "Where's My Love" was that song, and it is the hit from this EP, with 42.0 million streams.
Freaking beautiful. I can see why it caught her attention. Although that video made me frown like a dad for a few minutes. That girl needs to get her shit together. Swimming without clothing on in a retention pond that is so close to a large road could lead to serious infection. Serious. Also on this EP is a cool cover, kinda electronic, kinda simple piano, of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon." I'll likely just save that one song and let the rest of this move along.
