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Infatueighties #67: New Year’s Day by U2
From an instrumental standpoint, New Year’s Day is one of the best U2 singles in a career filled with great singles hell, and great abums too!). It’s insistent as all hell. Adam Clayton’s bass bears down on the track and The Edge’s piano gives the song an eerie feel. According to Wikipedia (man, this countdown would not exist if it weren’t for Wikipedia), the song was inspired by the Polish solidarity movement, although Bono initially […]
They Put Me In The Mix – JS5 (JSlow 5)
When I starting creating these slow jam tapes, really, they were to be about slow and inspiring music about love and relationships. I think I made a wrong turn at Albuquerque. This is the wackiest JSlow I’d ever done and probably will ever do. There are many songs that don’t make sense at all as to why they are on here. But away we go.
JS5 (circa 1999)
Could – Brian McKnight
Say It – Voices Of Theory
It […]
Friday Throwback – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
I had nothing today. I couldn’t think of anything for the Friday Throwback and all of a sudden, for some reason unbeknown to even me, the name Father MC just popped into my head. This is random y’all.
– Look at K-Ci and JoJo looking like a couple of young bucks.
– Damn, were they wearing those black Sox hats even back then?
– When you hear the song you think Sugar Hill Gang, but you should really […]