Song Boom! It’s Spring
posted by on March 20 at 14:02 PM
There are women in Ballard handing out dandelions to everyone passing by. The sun and raindrops are trading places in the sky what seems like every 10 minutes. It’s cold when the wind blows, but comfortable enough for just a light sweatshirt. There’s more color on the trees and the ground than there is at any other point in the year. It’s spring. Officially.
And it’s time to retire the sad, self-defeating tracks that got me through the winter.
So today, I’m listening to a lot of Anathallo, some bright pop punk (I’ll spare you the details of which bands), Radiohead’s more optimistic tracks (the new album especially), a little dance music a la Erasure, any Velvet Teen songs that don’t make me want to die… basically, anything that will chase away what remains of the cold, grey, winter.
A current favorite, “Hanasakajiijii (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash)” by Anathallo.
Wanting more, I asked friends what their favorite “Welcome Spring” track is.
A few answers:
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by the Beach Boys
“A Song About Driving” by Racetrack
“Anything from Sigur Ros’ Takk—it sounds as if the clouds are parting.”
“Sweet Sugar Blues” by Ella Fitzgerald
And… Skrewdriver
Some of my friends are werid…
Anyway, speaking of Racetrack, that makes me think of the song “The War At Home,” from their last EP, which features Sean Nelson on vocals. Another great bright song to welcome the sun…
“The War At Home”
Around this time of year I start bringing out my Billy Bragg- the less sparse mid-period sort. Like Accident Waiting to Happen or Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards. Something like that.
Well, the Field's From Here We Go Sublime is a great thawing-out record, and not just for track names like "Sun & Ice."
But the Field's kind of a new jack. Superchunk's Here's Where the Strings Come In has always served me well this time of year (or maybe a few weeks from this time of year, like the first really sunny day of spring).
— Is that damn Chris Cab listening to Skrewdriver again?!?!
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Places And Spaces, Donald Byrd
i stole superchunk's incidental music from the library when i was much younger and stole things
that release put me on to superchunk, and also contained 100k fireflies
100,000 fireflies changed my life, and i didn't realize it was a magnetic fields song until very recently. superchunk's version blows the OG away imhhhhhho
tropical hot dog night by captain beefheart
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