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Hurricane Season

Trombone Shorty – Hurricane Season

I’ve been asked to get into work early for a while. I am not a morning person. I have a long commute so getting here early means waking up earlier than I’m really capable of on my own. However, I’ve found the solution. The radio station I have my alarm clock set to starts up its morning show at 6:05 by blaring this tune in the background of their intro. If I set my alarm for 5:55 so I get a little nudge and can hit the snooze button, then this comes blasting at me at 6:05 and after that, I’m up.

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Dry the Rain

The Beta Band – Dry the Rain

File this under stuff I thought was by Beck until recently. I finally got around to watching High Fidelity (I know, shocking I hadn’t seen it years earlier) and this song was featured in a scene. Even still, I didn’t really connect the dots. No, it was reading the latest posts from BrooklynVegan about the Django Django show this past weekend, then checking out Django Django online, reading the reviews where someone mentioned the comparison to the Beta Band, and then streaming the Best of the Beta Band at work. Click. Duh.

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2+2=5

Radiohead – 2+2=5

Got two tickets to Radiohead today. Phew! What a nerve-wracking experience that pre-sale is though. I almost think I’d rather go back to the days of sleeping out on the pavement at the Spectrum. I’m not even sure if my seats are together and will-call only which always makes me nervous.

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This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

This song always fills me with a sense of melancholy. It was released just when we moved from right outside NYC up to small town Maine. I was about to turn 16, the age at which my mother would allow you to go into the city with a friend (but without parents!), and suddenly that was gone.

I hated small town Maine. It felt so remote, so behind the times. No one listened to the same music, no one dressed like we did, our hair styles were different. This song, with the line, ”Home, it’s where I want to be but I guess I’m already there…” summed it up perfectly.

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