Quick Hits, Vol. 250 (another pile o' singles)

Do you ever just love to accomplish something?  For the most part, I am not especially anal - my wife would roll her eyes at even the slight suggestion that I am anal, at all, but there are certain things I like to have cleaned up and buttoned down and whatnot.  So it feels magical to finally empty out my entire queue of new songs and start fresh.  Part of that means that I need to find some new music, but it also means that I've finally beaten back the monster and can put 2019 behind me.

Here are all the straggler singles:

• Best Coast - For the First Time.  An absolute gem of a song.  I've always liked Best Coast, and when this song came on the first few times, I thought it was the New Pornographers, but it really is a perfect pop rock song.  Love everything about it.
• Weezer - The End of the Game.  I've talked many a time about really liking Weezer, but I've grown tired of the schtick a little bit by now.  Lots of KISS flourishes in here, as well as a very classic Weezer sound of those conjoined instruments chugging along together to make both the verse and chorus into something you can stomp along to after the Fall Out Boy show is over.  Probably being too harsh, but I don't care much for this one.
• Gucci Mane, DaBaby, and Young Boy Never Broke Again - Richer Than Errybody.  The beat on this one is a perfect little slice of trap brawn.  The lyrics are forgettable, except that the chorus is very catchy.
• Big Boi, Sleepy Brown, CeeLo Green - Intentions.  This is some of that smooth ass Speakerboxxx stuff.  Funky bass slaps, bouncing synth bops, and some sweet, sweet harmonies.  It's fine.
• John Mayer - Carry Me Away.  I'm a sucker for this guy - definite guilty pleasure - but this one isn't very memorable or special.  I want more guitar action, less of the weird glockenspiel thing that plays in Big when they find Zoltar.
• Mumford & Sons - Blind Leading the Blind.  Pretty solid.  We're still in their arena rock phase, and this isn't as good as Guiding Light, but still a good driving, urgent rocker.
• I'm not gonna talk about the Tame Impala loosies, but I'll just say they have me excited about the album later this week!
• Sheck Wes - YKTS.  Making it very obvious that this guy had one hit in him, and that one has been spent.  Uninspiring rap, forgettable beat, nothing here.
• HAIM - Summer Girl.  Their first single sounded like it bit Fleetwood Mac, this one absolutely chomps "Walk on the Wild Side," but it sure is pretty!  Especially the chorus, with its horns and soft drums.  I like this one.  Catchy.  Like, I just bopped down the hallway to the bathroom still humming it catchy.
• Billie Eilish - everything i wanted.  Mopey, uninteresting.  You can barely even hear the lyrics.  I used to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I've turned against her now.
• Modest Mouse - Ice Cream Party.  Nice little ditty, but it sounds very much like many of their songs.  Kind of a downer, kind of flat - even when its singing about how you should come to the ice cream party at his house!  It's also 6 minutes long.
• Marshmallo and Roddy Ricch - Project Dreams.  Very uninteresting.  Boring lyrics about how he's super rich and cool, over a trappy little beat that goes nowhere.
• Crudo Means Raw - La Mitad de la Mitad.  Eh, OK?  No clue what anyone is saying on here, Rolling Stone told me to look out for this guy, but nothing seems all that exciting here.
• Khruangabin and Leon Bridges - Texas Sun.  Lather me up in some silky sunscreen and roll me around in this one.  This collaboration is as smooth as shit gets.  Love it.
• Nathaniel Rateliff with John Prine - Sam Stone.  Such a great song.  "There's a hole in daddy's arm, where all the money goes.  And Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose."  Rateliff sings a verse, but this remains a classic Prine tune.  Love it.
• Noah Cyrus - July.  Who knew that Miley Cyrus had a little sister with a boy's name?  Lovely, poignant tune - her voice is very good, and the sad lyrics in here grab you and hold on with those harmonies in the chorus.  She can be rough and spritely and soulful, all in one line.  Nice one.
• Megan Thee Stallion - B.I.T.C.H.  An homage to the classic Tupac song, even using part of the same beat (or at least that clarinet (?) piece) and the cadence of the chorus.  I guess it's cool to bite Tupac songs?  Another catchy track from her, but again, I could do without so many instances of that sound she makes when she opens her mouth and says ahhhhh.
• Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants.  NEW PEARL JAM!?!?!  NEW PEARL JAM!!!  I have to admit, that when I first turned this on, I was like "oh shit, drum machines?  They've ruined Pearl Jam!"  But after a bunch of listens, I'm in on this one.  The bass line, and Eddie's urgent yelping on the verses has me hooked.
• Khalid and Disclosure - Know Your Worth.  Has that bounce that makes Disclosure awesome, and Khalid's voice is tight as usual.  Like it.
• Billie Eilish - No Time to Die.  I mean, I know they always put people on the Bond theme songs who are hot at the time - but come on man.  I can't even tell what she says in the first verse.  Her little whispery warble is just annoying me now.  I do like when the violins make it clear that this is actually a bond theme.  But otherwise?  Not the right thing.  This one will go down like the Limp Bizkit Mission Impossible Theme.
• Sam Smith - To Die For.  Sam!  Using autotune on that gorgeous voice?  C'mon man, don't do it, buddy!  Nothing exciting here.
• Migos, Travis Scott, Young Thug - Give No Fxk.  These morons.  I can't stand Migos.  This track literally has one of them saying after he hits a hoe she is going to need a walker.  It probably is trying to denote his sexual prowess, instead of actually being about violence against women, but it just stays in line with their image as misogynistic and homophobic pricks.  Nope.

Ah, the clean new music folder.  Now, time to fill it up with new Tame Impala, Green Day, and Lil Wayne!