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Ginebras – Come aquí
¡Qué canción tan divertida! Se pone cada vez mejor a medida que avanza.
Rose Betts – Irish Eyes (Swan Dive Session)
Fucking incredible mic setup. That’s how you do it (if you have the money).
Lola Blue – Daisy
Not a real music video, but a sweet little song by a woman giving off strong Wednesday Addams vibes. I like it.
Song Times
Tonight, I was trying to think of which song I had listened to the most times in my life all the way through. And that’s difficult, as I listened to quite a few songs in high school over and over again in a way that I just do not tend to now.
A solid guess is “Bells Ring” by Mazzy Star. Damn, I must’ve queued that song up dozens of times in a row for a few years; it felt like its own tiny world to explore.
Incidentally, I saw that performance above the first and only time it aired. I even recorded it on VHS. Not sure why that version is cut off at the end, but that’s a great one despite the poor audio. In most ways, it betters the album version. I think Hope’s performance in particular is superior in the live edition. She sounds more pouty, somehow more depressedly impassioned, and more mysterious there. The album version is more sterile and more restrained despite using electric instruments.
The album version, though, does have a damn fine outro.
Bully – Where To Start
I like the aggressive energy of this song.
Why Bonnie – 90 In November
I typically do not like songs that are this chill. But this is a damn fine chill song.
Grilled Peaches – Bethlehem Shalom
A great take on early 1960s girl groups. This had a very good producer because this is a difficult sound to have come together so seamlessly like this.
Bambie Thug – REDRUM
One of the rare songs that grew on me the more I listened to it.
FORAGER – Fastest Alone [Live]
Not my usual style of music, but that performance is so great it doesn’t even matter. Love that.
Go Rocket! by Bethlehem Shalom
An artist who should be much better known.
YAGODY – Tsunamia (Live on KEXP)
That’s a lot of fun.
Dayana Yastremska vs. Alexandra Eala
This was such a great match. I watched the whole thing, but here’s the highlights. They both played so well that I had no idea who was going to win.
Björk : Hyperballad – Live 1995 (Later.. with Jools Holland)
One of the best live performances of all time.
What amazing phrasing. I can’t even imagine trying to cover that.
Charly Bliss – Ruby
My favorite Charly Bliss video. Eva as the smarmy public access host is great.
They are referencing a lost era (public access TV) that I think they were all too young to even directly experience.