My guest song-of-the-day picks for Genius And Soul
At first I though I'd have a hard time thinking of 7 songs... then I couldn't stop the ideas from coming.
I was recently asked by the show Genius And Soul to pick 7 songs for their #songoftheday series. This was so thoroughly gratifying โ even nourishing โ that I canโt wait to do it again for them. At first I though I'd have a hard time thinking of 7 tunes... then I couldn't stop the ideas from coming, so Iโm very excited to guest-DJ an episode of the show in the near future.
My picks, with commentary:
It's so magnificent how spare early four-piece Meters tunes were. This song had a HUGE impact on my sense of interplay, and i LOVE how bassist George Porter goes slightly counter-melodic/counter-rhytmic in the "chorus" hook.
I'm extremely lucky that I've woken up to this song playing on a clock radio twice in my life. Even thinking abt it gives me the chills. Louie Perez's drumbeat is of course an homage to The Meters' โLook-Ka Py Py.โ
Like floating on a soft cloud down a lazy river in a dream. The perfect musical expression of what the songtitle means (โNostalgiaโ). Fills me with a warm, beautiful feeling.
Pure elegance, almost unearthly in its grace, with a touch of mournfulness that's exquisite unto itself. Do yourself a favor and listen to her solo piano album Ethiopiques 21 in full. There's music and then there's... something even higher.
The Flamingos "I Only Have Eyes For You" The first song where I can remember feeling like I was having a transcendent experience as a kid watching the film The Right Stuff on HBO w/ my grandmother. That reverb is just divine. #songoftheday
This is the first song where I can remember feeling like I was having a transcendent experience as a kid watching the film The Right Stuff on HBO w/ my grandmother. That reverb is just divine. Not the earliest song I had a strong response to, but the first one I remember opening the door to music as a kind of altered state. It's great hearing this stuff so young you don't know what all the parts are. You just hear the music as a whole.
Cosmic wisdom- the ultimate universal feminine -pouring through your speakers via a sound I once described as "warm buttermilk" but it's so much more than that. Too sublime for words. I've put this song on more cd mixes and playlists than I can count, and I hope to BE READY when the 30th anniversary of this album rolls around in a year and a half. As far as I'm concerned, Ndegeocello is a towering figure in the last three decades of music.
Dutch alterna-rock/funk fusionists' love letter to the seminal days of NYC hip hop, but with their hearts open to channeling the pain and sorrow driving the music. Those Tres Manos' guitar leads always bring me to tears.
Iโll probably start a playlist myself, and I might keep my song picks going, but in the meantimeโฆ