Category Archives: song of the day

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Song of the Day #1,854: ‘Baby I’ – Ariana Grande

ariana_grandeLately I’ve read a lot of praise of Ariana Grande’s new music, including frequent comparisons to her idol Mariah Carey. I get the sense that Grande, whom I know from her acting work on the Nickelodeon show Victorious, is on the verge of musical stardom.

I’m happy for her. She has great comic timing and delivery on the show, and has made enough of an impression to earn her own spin-off show, Sam & Cat, pairing her with iCarly alum Jennette McCurdy.

I have 7- and 11-year-old daughters, in case you’re wondering why I know any of this.

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Song of the Day #1,853: ‘Pink Moon’ – Nick Drake

drakeI was wondering how far into my Song of the Day series I could find an artist who I haven’t featured again until this day, so of course I had to investigate.

Turns out it was Nick Drake, whose ‘Things Behind the Sun’ was the eighth Song of the Day on Meet Me In Montauk, posted on August 1, 2008, just over five years ago today.

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Song of the Day #1,852: ‘Hopeless Wanderer’ – Mumford & Sons

mumford_babelI don’t know if it’s cool to like Mumford & Sons now, or if they’ve already moved on to overplayed and overrated.

I remember when Coldplay was the hippest band around and then a year or too later they were the punchline of a “You know how I know you’re gay?” joke in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I have the feeling that Mumford & Sons is on the brink of that conversion.

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Song of the Day #1,851: ‘You Still Believe In Me (Vocal Track)’ – The Beach Boys

pet_soundsHere’s a nice marriage of art and science. Alexander Chen, of the Google Creative Lab, programmed this visualization of an isolated Beach Boys vocal track based on the aural dynamics of church bells.

In his words, “Using a mathematical relationship between the circumference of a circular surface and pitch, I wrote code that draws a circle for each note of the song.”

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Song of the Day #1,850: ‘Nice’ – Thisway

thiswayI’ve been writing this blog long enough now (more than 5 years without missing a day!) that sometimes previous posts are completely new to me.

When Thisway popped up as today’s Random Weekend selection, I started writing about how I have no recollection of how I discovered this band and their one album in the late 90s. But the sentiment felt vaguely familiar, so I search the Meet Me In Montauk archive and, sure enough, I’d written just that already.

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