Songs of the Day
Teenage Fanclub - It's All In My Mind
In honor of my near constant listening to Teenage Fanclub I give you... It's All In My Mind. I've been listening to the new Teenage Fanclub record quite a bit. Quite, quite a bit. It's helped me to rediscover their older material that had been completely neglected in my CD collection. There are so many pleasant memories I have with this band, it's hard to believe I had basically stopped listening to them entirely. "December" was the first song I learned how to play on the bass. In November 1993 (all of 16) I saw my first ever *perfect* club show... Teenage Fanclub and Yo La Tengo at Metro. It remains to this day one of the best gigs I have ever attended.
Josh Rouse - It Don't Matter To Me
That's right... a Bread cover (coming courtesy of NotLame). Actually... I've been listening over and over to Friends and Lovers: Songs of Bread released earlier this year on BadMan Recordings. It's chock full of indie gliteratti doing *fantastic* covers of 70's soft rock heroes (??) Bread. I don't recall either of my parents ever playing Bread but every single one of these tracks is instantly familiar. Highlights from this record include the above track from Josh Rouse, Call and Response's cover of "Baby I'm A Want You", "Friends and Lovers" played by Erlend Øye, "If" by Rachel Goswell and last (but not least ever) Bart Davenport's cover of "The Goodbye Girl" with Eric Shea. This record is sentimental, beautiful... and strangely not the least bit cheesy.