Metamusical – Two-n for the Show
What/Who/Why
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“The Hook” by Stephen Malkmus
Submitted by Dave
I periodically create playlists quickly on Spotify or Apple Music with very little deep thought. If anything about my random sampling of music hits me in a positive or magical way I add it to the playlist. I noted this song on several playlists which is unusual to accrue repeats as I try not to. I must like it.
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“Have a Cigar” by John Foxx and The Maths
Submitted by Paul
Not a really a Floyd fan, but captures the music industry rather well, no?
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“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by The Beatles
Submitted by Alan
Ok, super predictable for this round. While the standard version of this song boasts the famous Eric Clapton guitar solo, this is the version recorded pre-White Album which I think gets to the quiet soul of the song. Astute listeners will also note the alternate lyrics which were eventually scratched. After hearing this, you gotta think that John and Paul thought, “HELLO! Where have you been with the songs!” (Or maybe, “DAMN! We better get to writing…this guy is good!”
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“The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” by Tom Waits
Submitted by Ian
Probably my most listened to Artist along with Nick Cave. Why not.
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“Find A New Way” by Tune Yards
Submitted by Bill
Songs about the struggle to make music are an interesting subgenre. (Pete Townshend specialize, with three of the nine cuts on “Who Are You” alone!) I love Tune Yards’ collagey approach, Merrill Garbus’ vocals and the layering thereof and, in this song, the situating of the need to evolve one’s songmaking within a larger context of existential anxieties. “I only speak when I’m feeling sad and lonely.”
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“It Takes a Woman’s Love (To Make a Man)” by Kansas
Submitted by Ed
Masque is the proverbial “album before they were popular” and a pretty great one. I remember this track getting a little airplay on the album-oriented rock stations. It brings back fond memories of youth and still holds strong as roll-both-the-car-windows-and-blast-it kind of track.