Captain — Jason LeVasseur

SONG OF THE DAY “Cap­tain” by Jason LeV­asseur (Watch­ing The Girls Go By, Authen­tic Records, 2001). Writ­ten by Jason LeV­asseur. LYRICS Cap­tain oh, cap­tain I, fear that where sink­ing and none of us know how to swim. Cap­tain oh, cap­tain I, fear that where sink­ing and we don’t know where to begin. When you whis­per life’s …

One — Aimee Mann

SONG OF THE DAY “One” by Aimee Mann (For the Love of Harry: Every­body Sings Nils­son, Music­Mas­ters Records, 1995). Writ­ten by Harry Nils­son. Also released on Warner Brother’s 1999 sound­track to Mag­no­lia. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — The Mag­no­lia sound­track is largely culled from the work of Aimee Mann, enough so that she gets title …

I’M BACK! New Soul by Yael Naim

SONG OF THE DAY “New Soul” by Yael Naïm (Yael Naïm, Tôt ou tard Records, France, and Atlantic Records, USA, 2007). Writ­ten by Yael Naïm. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — She is a Franco-Israeli singer-songwriter of Tunisian Jew­ish par­ents. — She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit sin­gle “New Soul” was …

Week Hiatus — I AM MOVING!!

I am mov­ing across the coun­try this week, and will be on hia­tus from today until next Tues­day. I will prob­a­bly back­blog* those dates in on Tues­day, because god knows on a road­trip across the country/ an epic unpack­ing, I will be lis­ten­ing to music THE ENTIRE TIME, and will cer­tainly have a explo­sion of …

Don’t Look Back In Anger — Oasis

SONG OF THE DAY “Don’t Look Back In Anger” by Oasis ( (What’s The Story) Morn­ing Glory?, Cre­ation Records, 1995). Writ­ten by Noel Gal­lagher. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — The song was writ­ten by the band’s gui­tarist and main song­writer, Noel Gal­lagher. Noel was so excited of the poten­tial of the song when he first …

Soul Meets Body — Death Cab For Cutie

SONG OF THE DAY “Soul Meets Body” by Death Cab For Cutie (Plans, Atlantic Records, 2005). Writ­ten by Ben Gib­bard. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — Death Cab for Cutie, a Washington-based indie rock band, released the 2005 album Plans, as their first col­lab­o­ra­tion with Atlantic Records. — It is the group’s high­est chart­ing sin­gle in …

Strange Love (Don’t Be Lazy) — Brent Randall & His Pinecones

SONG OF THE DAY “Strange Love (Don’t Be Lazy)” by Brent Ran­dall & His Pinecones (We Were Strangers in Padding­ton Green, 2008). INTERESTING FACTS (a la google) — From Hal­i­fax, Novia Sco­tia [the #2 des­ti­na­tion on my “To Visit” list, behind my  Euro­pean hon­ey­moon] — From the blog Obscure Sound: “While their sound cer­tainly shows that …

Someday, Someway — Marshall Crenshaw

SONG OF THE DAY “Some­day, Some­way” by Mar­shall Cren­shaw (Mar­shall Cren­shaw, Warner Broth­ers Records, 1982). Writ­ten by Mar­shall Cren­shaw. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — The song reached #36 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the sum­mer of 1982, as well as #31 on the Cash Box Sin­gles chart. The album spent over six months on the …

Glory Box — Portishead

SONG OF THE DAY “Glory Box” by Por­tishead (Dummy, Go! Discs, 1995). Writ­ten by Geoff Bar­row, Beth Gib­bons, and Adrian Utley. The song sam­ples “Ike’s Rap II” by Isaac Hayes. MY TAKE This song reminds me of my col­lege days and fre­quent lis­ten­ings to the Supreme Beings of Leisure (a.k.a. “the good ol’ days”). I like Portishead, …

Wonderwall — (Oasis)

SONG OF THE DAY “Won­der­wall” by Oasis ((What’s The Story) Morn­ing Glory?, Cre­ation Records, 1995). Writ­ten by Noel Gal­lagher. INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia) — “Won­der­wall” was a ‘60s film & sound­track writ­ten by George Har­ri­son, and the title of his first solo album. — Released as the third sin­gle from (What’s the Story) Morn­ing Glory?, “Wonderwall” …