Love this bop from Taylor, especially that break down/synth drop.
Something about that tempo that just makes me want to move.
Hope you have a bunch of songs like that! They are pure dopamine!
Be good, do good!
As I mentioned before, I was very, very, woefully, embarrassingly late to Pearl Jam’s greatness. “Black” is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. I vaguely remember hearing this on 95-TripleX, our local pop/alt-lite radio station. But then 30 years passed and I actually sat down and listened. I’ve always been drawn to Eddie Vedder’s voice. I walking out of a movie Nicolette and I saw and stopped dead hearing him sing “Hard Sun” during the trailer for the film Into the Wild and had to walk in and see what I was hearing. I’ll link that one below!
I hope you’ve been enjoying our unseasonably warm fall if you’re anywhere around my neck of the woods.
If you aren’t, I hope the sun shines on you as you read this.
Be good, do good.
This song absolutely sounds like a throwback to me. It’s giving a bit of The Cure maybe? Top to bottom, a beautiful song.
Just like you!
“Do you think I have forgotten?, do you think I have forgotten?, do you think I have forgotten, about you?
Never. Love ya!
Be good, do good.
There isn’t a movie that I watch her in that I don’t seem to be transfixed into believing her performance so deeply. She’s incredibly talented, and as we’ve heard before and will again today, has a fantastic voice.
I very much enjoyed “A Good Person”, directed by Zach Braff. If you enjoy you some Florence Pugh, I’d recommend her turns in it, Oppenheimer, and honestly, Black Widow where her deadpan wit is on full display.
Be good, do good!
“Hey, I got real low on serotonin, (everything was thrown into shadow), wait, I got real low on serotonin, (everything was thrown in), painted pictures through the wonkiest feelings, traded smoking for a yoga routine, and things were changing like I hoped they would, changing like I hoped they would change, and then my clothes got too small for my emotions, too small I had to change”
We’ve all been there. Check on the people that matter to you!
A love the journey that Angie takes us on in this song. The album it’s on, Light, Dark, Light Again, is like coming out of the darkness. This was the first song I heard from it and instantly fell in love with it.
“I will run to lift the levels, I will dance at the same time as breakfast, I will schedule my friends in, and I’ll eat more Tryptophan, oh, I will work on moving through it, and how I communicate it”
A good friend recently told me, “when you’re in between a rock and a hard place, become water”. I feel like this song is very relatable to that sentiment. Sometimes you just gotta be water.
Love you, mean it. Be good, do good.
I’d heard this song before, but I do enjoy a good remix just as much as anyone.
“‘Cause I got issues, but you got ’em too, so give ’em all to me and I’ll give mine to you, bask in the glory of all our problems, ’cause we got the kind of love it takes to solve ’em, yeah, I got issues, and one of them is how bad I need you”
We all have our issues, of course, and I do think part of life is finding the people you can safely share them with…because, we need to talk about that shit!
Be good, do good.
Poetic little ditty here.
“Your dreams are incredibly loud tonight, you’re creating forest fires, you can’t even change your sight, it’s stuck in you like a virus, I can’t change your thoughts, my dear, I can’t change your fears, but if you want, I’ll travel near, to make it disappear”
Guess we’re on a help someone kick today. What better way to pay for our rent for our room here on Earth; right, Champ?
Be good, do good.
I’ve been kind-of curating all the songs after the 100th in this series, but I’ve intentionally tried to avoid a ton of the songs that I have by artists who’ve kind of exploded, like Noah. When I listened to this song in July ’23, Noah’s career was in a much different place than it is as you read this. Dude played Fenway live this year. A lot happened for him.
So I obviously have like 12 songs by Noah on this playlist. You’ve also heard them all by now, presumably, but some are still worth a mention.
Call Your Mom, is absolutely in that category.
Reach out to your friends and check on ’em.
This is me reaching out to you. Here if you need me. Love you, mean it.
Be good, do good.
P.S. He later released this song with Lizzy McAlpine and it is wonderful.
Love how Tom goes from what almost seems like a defiant delivery and drifts down into a tender one in this song and back and forth again throughout. The tempo shift makes the song hit harder.
“And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight, but my hands been broken, one too many times, so I’ll use my voice, I’ll be so fucking rude, words, they always win, but I know I’ll lose, and I’d sing a song, that’d be just ours, but I sang ’em all to another heart, and I wanna cry I wanna learn to love, but all my tears have been used up, on another love, another love”
The background…”choral wailing” for lack of a better description in the latter minute or so is also a fantastic choice.
Be good, do good!
Really enjoy that driving guitar that’s present throughout this song. Noah’s belting adds another fiery layer to it that really ramps up the intensity. Great, great song IMO.
Hope you enjoy! Can’t believe we’ve got fewer than 80 more posts left on this project! Thanks for spending any time here!
Be good, do good.
everything, etc. 