A new Taylor Swift album is always cause for rejoicing, meme-ifying and hot takes from every corner of the internet. Her latest, Lover, released last Friday, will certainly be no exception.
I haven’t spent enough time with the album yet to offer my own in-depth assessment, but after a listen and a half I can make a few early observations.
This is my sixth track from Tim McGraw’s 2002 album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors. Three of them appeared on Random Weekends while the rest were planned.
This very solid album is my favorite record by a male country music artist who isn’t Brad Paisley or Jason Isbell. I think that’s enough qualifiers, though I might be forgetting somebody.
This is a timely Random Weekend selection, as 2019 marks the 10-year anniversary of the debut album by power-pop supergroup Tinted Windows.
Made up of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha and Cheap Trick’s Bun E. Carlos, the band put out a decent collection in 2009 before apparently disbanding.
The final inductee in the 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class is the English prog rock band The Moody Blues. They were first eligible in 1989 but went un-nominated until last year’s successful bid.
I know next to nothing about The Moody Blues, which is why today’s SOTD is the first song of theirs I’ve posted after more than 4,000 Songs of the Day. This song, ‘Nights in White Satin,’ is their biggest hit and the only one I recall ever hearing.
The Cars became eligible for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration in 2003 but weren’t nominated until 2016. They missed the cut that year, as well as the following year, before being inducted in 2018.
Like most of that year’s entrants, The Cars are another act that really should have made it in sooner. The Boston-based quintet was a pioneering New Wave band that blended power pop and guitar rock into irrististible radio hits, helping pave the way for a slew of New Wave acts in both American and the UK.
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