What's new
By:

Last good song you listened to?

I’m going to post a few but will do different posts. The first is from The Cure’s most recent album from November, which is over a decade coming. I thought it’d never get released. Anyway, it’s a phenomenal album and I’d be it up there side by side with Disintegration. To only put up two songs kinda does a disservice to the other songs. There’s some novelty with these two because some of the other songs on the album they’ve been playing live for a while.

Anyway, the whole album is worth a listen, but here are two:


View: https://youtu.be/85PeF_yBlt4?si=nasMrGCKDRlalHgW



View: https://youtu.be/W6gFQfYSopQ?si=dLvqjdno1WMK2A5D
 
Here are two good songs that happen to have the same name:


View: https://youtu.be/TzTv976ghws?si=8WOvoBphkZB-a_T4



View: https://youtu.be/SMsUWtg25x0?si=yL-XvbMYbpQynKPl


Interesting thing about Better than Ezra is that beyond their singles that are known (“Good” is really probably the only universally known one but they had others like “At the Stars”) their entire catalog is filled with really good songs. I’m amazed they hadn’t been more popular. In any case, Kevin Griffin, the singer and song writer, has been behind tons of songs and has written for tons of artists. In a way he kinda reminds me of Richard Marx where he himself is known (or in this case Better than Ezra is known) but what’s unknown is how much this guy (he and Marx) are behind so many songs in the industry.
 
Over the past numerous years, probably six or so years, I would ask Siri what songs were if I randomly hear something that typically I’m quite unfamiliar with and I screenshot it. I always intend to go back but I never had. So last fall I ended up coming through all my screenshots and added all those songs to a playlist. Some of them I really liked, others so so, and a couple I ended up removing after giving several chances to. Here are some lesser known ones (to me) that I really loved from the list that may or may not be a typical song I’d listen to.


View: https://youtu.be/1y6smkh6c-0?si=axJozP3nFSYXqSU3



View: https://youtu.be/dm5_81k5WWw?si=q_UhlxMRWdzkpBSE



View: https://youtu.be/qIz-9CHVQUc?si=tRqTWDbA3-MpT4al



View: https://youtu.be/o6D-v8QUoLw?si=Ntq-mD7WbU2wcCkC


These two came a while ago on random Spotify play with some kind of association with whatever I had listened to previously. I actually found a lot of good songs that way.


View: https://youtu.be/VrduWkSMPAg?si=1zXJJ0h3mtrqypuS


Obviously was familiar with Peter Murphy but did not know Kat Von D did music.

https://youtu.be/-qhZ4u27mMQ?si=7c4IVevvzgtyKq7d

^^^
This one is great. I assumed the randomly suggested artists would be bigger than they are. I understand they’d be smaller, but I was pretty shocked to see this on Spotify when I looked it up that it had <1,000 streams. The YouTube video has 103 views.

https://youtu.be/_TXDXG-IGP0?si=p7q-ITBPTCxmZ3-t
 
infection said:
I’m going to post a few but will do different posts. The first is from The Cure’s most recent album from November, which is over a decade coming. I thought it’d never get released. Anyway, it’s a phenomenal album and I’d be it up there side by side with Disintegration. To only put up two songs kinda does a disservice to the other songs. There’s some novelty with these two because some of the other songs on the album they’ve been playing live for a while.

Anyway, the whole album is worth a listen, but here are two:


View: https://youtu.be/85PeF_yBlt4?si=nasMrGCKDRlalHgW



View: https://youtu.be/W6gFQfYSopQ?si=dLvqjdno1WMK2A5D
Click to expand...

I love that album, but I compare it to the most recent Tears For Fears full album (The Tipping Point, from 2022) and find that I enjoy the TFF album more. To be clear, I like the Cure generally more as a band (I was kinda obsessed with them in my late teens) and the only TFF album before this one that I loved was The Hurting.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUp-ujO979U


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7VL-qEdpU
 
infection said:
Over the past numerous years, probably six or so years, I would ask Siri what songs were if I randomly hear something that typically I’m quite unfamiliar with and I screenshot it. I always intend to go back but I never had. So last fall I ended up coming through all my screenshots and added all those songs to a playlist. Some of them I really liked, others so so, and a couple I ended up removing after giving several chances to. Here are some lesser known ones (to me) that I really loved from the list that may or may not be a typical song I’d listen to.


View: https://youtu.be/qIz-9CHVQUc?si=tRqTWDbA3-MpT4al



View: https://youtu.be/o6D-v8QUoLw?si=Ntq-mD7WbU2wcCkC


These two came a while ago on random Spotify play with some kind of association with whatever I had listened to previously. I actually found a lot of good songs that way.


View: https://youtu.be/VrduWkSMPAg?si=1zXJJ0h3mtrqypuS
Click to expand...

I love The Midnight's cover of Because The Night, one of the greatest songs ever written.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEMmOd3Io4


Chris Harms, lead singer of the German metal band Lord of the Lost, has released his solo album, and it's all synthwave, but still with his really rough vocals. You wouldn't think it would work, but it really, really does.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfCS0_12Zg
 
infection said:
Here are two good songs that happen to have the same name:


View: https://youtu.be/TzTv976ghws?si=8WOvoBphkZB-a_T4



View: https://youtu.be/SMsUWtg25x0?si=yL-XvbMYbpQynKPl


Interesting thing about Better than Ezra is that beyond their singles that are known (“Good” is really probably the only universally known one but they had others like “At the Stars”) their entire catalog is filled with really good songs. I’m amazed they hadn’t been more popular. In any case, Kevin Griffin, the singer and song writer, has been behind tons of songs and has written for tons of artists. In a way he kinda reminds me of Richard Marx where he himself is known (or in this case Better than Ezra is known) but what’s unknown is how much this guy (he and Marx) are behind so many songs in the industry.
Click to expand...

You missed one. Tricky has an amazing catalog since his time with Massive Attack, but this is probably the best known.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViHiOopNTlc
 
gandalfe said:
I love that album, but I compare it to the most recent Tears For Fears full album (The Tipping Point, from 2022) and find that I enjoy the TFF album more. To be clear, I like the Cure generally more as a band (I was kinda obsessed with them in my late teens) and the only TFF album before this one that I loved was The Hurting.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUp-ujO979U


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7VL-qEdpU
Click to expand...

The album was solid. We caught them back in November during their Vegas residency and they played a good amount of new stuff. They’re newest song (since that album) is good, too:


View: https://youtu.be/cQ2P9r-jOwI?si=bxIgHUIF_QxINZH6


Woman in Chains is still probably my favorite:


View: https://youtu.be/QzkK3ZtI9SU?si=ErgCrBVWpoR5pbCZ


Roland still put out some good stuff when Curt was gone:


View: https://youtu.be/gY1WyUIabCc?si=ZAH9iJteVNBIgvXv


For all the massive hits on SFTBC that overshadow it, this is the most underrated song from that album:

https://youtu.be/YOY_aqkUTxY?si=JOfddxqFmnHUPAS1

I love the saxophone in it, which I’ll connect to a couple other things in the next post.
 
gandalfe said:
I love The Midnight's cover of Because The Night, one of the greatest songs ever written.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEMmOd3Io4


Chris Harms, lead singer of the German metal band Lord of the Lost, has released his solo album, and it's all synthwave, but still with his really rough vocals. You wouldn't think it would work, but it really, really does.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfCS0_12Zg
Click to expand...

I’m going to have to dig in a little more on The Midnight. I’ve had this other song on my list, which does get some occasional radio play.


View: https://youtu.be/b6D6iGeEl1o?si=cUAn510Ph4C0j1Ly


The saxophone part is incredible. Someone like 5-6 years ago in the Jazz world (Spencer Checketts? I dunno) had posted something on Twitter about comparing onion rings and fries and the debate in which to get. The idea was that fries are always solid and more predicable, whereas doing onion rings are really common to be so-so, but the ceiling on good onion rings far exceeds French fries, just that you don’t get them as often. Also related to Jazz world was one of our previous trib best writers. Forget his name but he was the guy that fashioned himself as a punk rocker. He’d always post about every saxophone song was bad. Anyhow, I’m not necessarily a lover of sax (not to imply I hate it at all), but sax for the sake of sax doesn’t necessarily do anything for me (this is actually true about any instrument) but when you get a good one, it’s amazing.

Anyway, I don’t necessarily think this is a great sax song, but I always found the ending commentary humorous after the sax, but otherwise great song:


View: https://youtu.be/U2jqP3RLmds?si=jyeX5Xn9Y-xdxrck


The following song in the album is arguably better:


View: https://youtu.be/CoFUc1LYCz4?si=Lad8SiFOqdFrrODJ


I remember seeing these guys live but I can’t remember when. I’m almost wanting to say they came with Deadsy but that doesn’t sound completely right. It was down at some club in SLC… can’t even remember what the hell it was called. Seems like it was south of the Salt Palace. If I’m remembering the right show (went to a few there)…

I just looked it up and it was DV8. Anyway, I remember before a show going to park and I was approached by a dude who I later came to realize was Brian David Mitchell. He creeped me out. When this happened was when he had Elizabeth Smart kidnapped.
 
I stumbled on this one (more) recently:


View: https://youtu.be/D-lx9h5xk4c?si=ETn2idTScS8CayH9


I had completely forgot this song ever existed. I remember it when it was out, but I don’t remember loving it as much as I do now. Their more well known song “High” I’ve had on a playlist for quite some time and that still, very, very occasionally gets a radio spin, but never this one. I’m certainly I haven’t heard it on the radio in over 20 years. “High” is good too and it was featured in Can’t Hardly Wait. Would probably get some nostalgia feels if I watched that again , just based on it being a reflection of that time period.

This one’s a banger:


View: https://youtu.be/T9-maO4hnhw?si=6RPglWEZw5mJOm6w


I remember when this came out. Most the stuff we had was on cassette tape. A few special things got bought on CD for the CD player behind a case in the family room. This song encapsulated so much good vibes as I was so into Ghostbusters at the time. We had moved to Utah from the Bay Area at the beginning of ‘89 and I remember Christmas that year I had gotten a Ghostbusters jump suit and proton pack. I wish I still had both of those.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top