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Song of the Day #5,269: ‘Seven Nation Army’ – Device Orchestra

Today’s song comes courtesy of one of those viral video projects that make the internet so fun. If you navigate past all the online hate speech and misinformation, you might be lucky enough to land on an electric toothbrush performing White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army.’

To be more precise, it’s “two electric toothbrushes, two credit card machines, two typewriters, and one steam iron,” according to the Finnish YouTuber who came up with Device Orchestra, a channel dedicated to music covers performed on household items.

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Song of the Day #5,268: ‘Songbird (Live)’ – Harry Styles

Apparently Harry Styles also felt that ‘Songbird’ was a fitting tribute for the late Christine McVie, because he performed the song during a concert in Chile last week.

Styles has been a vocal fan of Fleetwood Mac for awhile, and a collaborator and friend to McVie’s bandmate Stevie Nicks, so it’s no surprise he felt the need to honor her at his first live performance following the announcement of her death.

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Song of the Day #5,267: ‘Songbird’ – Fleetwood Mac

Last week, Fleetwood Mac’s most prolific member, Christine McVie, passed away at age 79 following a long bout of poor health.

McVie wrote or co-wrote the lion’s share of the band’s songs, including some of their most enduring classics — ‘Say You Love Me,’ ‘Over My Head,’ ‘You Make Loving Fun,’ ‘Everywhere,’ and ‘Don’t Stop,’ to name just a few.

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Song of the Day #5,266: ‘That’s Love’ – Brad Paisley

Since his 1999 debut, Brad Paisley has been reliably releasing albums every year or two. Today’s SOTD comes from his third studio album, 2003’s Mud on the Tires, one of my favorites.

I haven’t thought about Paisley in awhile, and it just occurred to me that it’s been five years since his last release. 2017’s Love and War was decent but unspectacular, and just the sort of record I’d like to see topped with a return-to-form collection of bangers.

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Song of the Day #5,265: ‘The Invisible Man’ – Elvis Costello

‘The Invisible Man’ is a track from Elvis Costello’s 1983 release Punch the Clock, his eighth studio album. Costello teamed up with pop producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley to deliver his most commercial album, hoping for chart success that had largely eluded him to that point.

It worked, to a degree. Punch the Clock was his best-selling album in several years and produced a modest international hit in ‘Everyday I Write the Book.’ That song became his first Top 40 single in the U.S., and one of only two in his entire career (bonus points to commenters who can name the second).

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