Music Thread (post a song)

Singles just aren't supposed to go straight in at No. 1 on the U.S. charts. That is the purview of the album charts and UK singles charts.

Songs are supposed to work their way up the charts every week with Casey Kasem spinning them every Saturday morning.

 

This is the smoking area at Austin City Limits. Lee Sklar photograph.

 

My Facebook feed has been showing various Billboard charts from selected weeks in the 70s and 80s. The other day I see "How Do You Do" at No. 8 in 1972. It kinda rang a bell, though I had no recollection of the performers. So I thought I'd look for it. Yep, it was that catchy song I barely remembered. Only now I CANNOT get it out of my head. Going on five days now.

 

If you're a Deadhead, or even adjacent, this is a whale of a piece.

The Long Goodbye

 

Notice how they never cite Spotify streams, only iTunes sales.

I’ve bought a record and a CD more recently than a song on iTunes.

 

Weirdly, this is kind of where I am at the moment with college football, the love of my life.

 

There are some wonderful passages in that piece. Good writing. It helps that I know the culture and the history he's discussing, even if I was nowhere near California for any of it.

 

Me if forced to be at a stop on the final Grateful Dead tour:

 

Trying to figure out Snow Patrol's second-best song.

 

Been listening to a lot of Lee Hazlewood lately. This song is great:

 

I'm posting two, because I had never heard the song that is heavily sampled in Beastie Boys' Johnny Ryall until it came up on my Spotify discover weekly playlist this week and it honestly blew my mind.