I like to bring this re-occuring post back from time to time just to see what everyone else is currently enjoying in the turntable of their brains. It’s the tried-and-true “What’s Stuck in Your Head?” musical question. This time around I’ve decided to share a brief collection of songs that I’ve recently discovered or can’t get enough of. I’ll begin with this one:
- Bon Iver–”Skinny Love” from For Emma, Forever Ago.
[This one is brand new in the mental playlist. My girlfriend came home from work just yesterday and I asked if I had heard it. I had not. I’ve heard it 6 or 8 times since then. The album is Iver’s solo debut. FYI: last name pronounced “eevair”]
For the rest of the songs currently stuck in my head….
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Helio Sequence–”Keep Your Eyes Ahead” (title track)
[This is the fourth album from this Portland, Oregon band and their second release on Sub Pop. Another brand new one to my ears. Sounds like a road trip song to me. I’ll be interested to see what it sounds like over time.]
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The Avett Brothers–”Murdered In the City” (live)–unreleased
[Avett Brothers fans are anxiously counting down the weeks until the release of their lastest album The Second Gleam EP. It hits stores on July 22. The Avetts have been playing a host of new tunes lately so it’s hard to say what their new album might include but I’m holding out hope that this older tune is on it. My brother and I were just talking about this one the other night. I’ll send this one out to my brother.]
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Jim White–”Jailbird” from Transnormal Skiperoo
[I’ve been a Jim White fan for years. This song is from his latest release. I recently saw him Jim @ Gravity Lounge. An amazing show! If you’d like to know more about Mr. White check out my recent post Jim White: A Southern Cowboy in Search of God. BTW–the video is from the film Spirit of the Bee Hive.]
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The Heartless Bastards–”All This Time” (title track)
[A trio from Cinncinnati that I’ve been in love with since I saw them open for Wilco last year. This one is from their second album back in 2006. Does anyone else think that lead singer Erika Wennerstrom looks a lot like Cheri Oteri from Saturday Night Live?. I think these guys rock!]
So there’s my list of stuck in the head tunes. What’s the DJ spinning in your mind? Feel free to share.
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I’ve had Summer’s End by the Foo Fighters stuck in my head for about a week.
luckily summer is just beginning!
I know. It’s confusing, but it’s a great song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9FtLQJoGM
always a classic newman! i featured that one on a past song of the day back in march. never gets old and will stay in your head for days!
The Devil Makes Three’s “Old Number 7″ has been stuck in my head for days.
Charlie Daniels Band’s The Devil Went Down to Georgia is perpetually stuck in my head. That’s what happens when you’re raised in the South. It would be awesome if I saw one of the street performers on the mall playing that on the fiddle.
Loituma. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgrGRcjyzVw )
Good god, once its in, it stays in.
I’ve had Taylor Dane’s “Tell it to my Heart” stuck in my head for like a month. No idea why. I don’t even like that song. But it just pops out. I think I’m possessed.
@9 Whoa, I haven’t heard the name Taylor Dane in forever!
@7 Funny Charlie Daniels should come up. I’m reading a great book called Dixie Lullaby written by Mark Kemp (former music editor for Rolling Stone). The book is about the rise of southern rock beginning with the Allmans and extending through the Drive By Truckers. He makes the case for how southern rock gave a voice to a whole generation of young people growing up in the South in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Kemp’s interview with Charlie Daniels is quite interesting.
@6 very nice. BTW–Avetts on the coming horizon?!?
Joan Osbourne
St. Theresa
a week from today shaun. and again 3 times in august.
@Shaun: the heartless bastards are great. i like that song a lot, too.
i’ve got “alien shore” by rush in my head, for better or for worse, because i got that album (counterparts, 1993) on cassette tape and have left it in my car’s tapedeck because it’s so ridiculous (and so produced by phil collins). also i’ve been getting “limelight” stuck in my head because of rock band and my roommate’s obsession with said video game.
@13: Peter Collins actually….but still not a good album.
@14: hey brian, if it’s such a lousy album, how do you know so much about it?
oh, i was a huge Rush fan. i never got that album, which came out when i was in college i think, but my friends did and i definitely heard it. they lost me after the 80s. yeah, i liked the 80s stuff though! sue me!
Prince has totally clobbered everything out of my brain and fully occupied it with Crying Doves and Purple Rain.
/Problem!!! I can’t find any Prince video. Someone know why?
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