song obsession friday! (for the week ending May 29)
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.
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Adrian (me):
David Ruffin – Anything You Ask For (mp3) (buy)
Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost (mp3) (buy)
I had a funny week of music listening. Almost none for four days while helping a friend with preparations for his wedding and then a few days driving around alone with six CDs, including two past mixtapes each with one of these songs on it and two more random mixes, each with one of these on it. Beautiful, foggy vistas and these songs sort of went together for whatever reason and I found myself hitting repeat on these past song obsessions.
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Keith:
Margot & the Nuclear So Sos – Bookworm (mp3) (buy)
Ever come across a song you find obsesso-worthy, then find out it’s by an artist you had previously dismissed as dreck? That’s the case with this live track by Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s. It’s tough enough getting past the terrible name, but their studio albums seem to smother whatever flavor they might have under a whole bottle of caramel topping. After hearing this crisply engaging performance I even went back to sample the original and could find none its inherent charms. Hopefully they’ll ditch the desire to be the next Animal Collective and stop drowning their sound.
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Funny, all of the songs this week are repeats. How about that?
