I’m three for three this week on bands I’ve surprisingly never featured before. I would have sworn that I’d at least blogged about Modest Mouse’s 2004 hit ‘Float On,’ but alas, I have not.
Like Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse hails from Washington state. I guess something about those Pacific Northwest bands really struck a nerve in the year 2000.
Like Sleater-Kinney, Yo La Tengo is a band I would have sworn I’d featured on the blog before. I’ve certainly heard the band name enough to have thrown a post their way out of curiosity sometime in the last ten years.
But no, this is the first Yo La Tengo song on Meet Me In Montauk. It comes from the 2000 album And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, the band’s ninth studio release and one of their best received.
My exploration of the year 2000 in music continues with two weeks of songs from some of the year’s most celebrated albums. To come up with this list, I cross-referenced a bunch of year-end top ten lists and looked for titles that popped up multiple times.
While I’m focusing on the year’s most critically-acclaimed albums, not necessarily the most popular, I will throw a bone next week to one of the best sellers of 2000.
Today’s post sets a record for the longest period of time between songs from the same album. I first posted a track from Talking Heads’ 1979 Fear of Music on July 27, 2008, nearly 10 years ago. It was song number three in my Song of the Day series.
It took me 277 days to revisit Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker, the album on which Song of the Day #2 appeared. And 365 days between tracks from The Smiths’ Strangeways, Here We Come, home of Song of the Day #1.
When today’s Random Weekend song popped up on iTunes, my first thought was that I would at long last get to hear something other than ‘Stay (I Missed You)’ from Lisa Loeb’s 1995 album Tails.
But a few bars into ‘Taffy’ I realized that I know this song pretty well. And a quick sample of some other Tails tracks revealed the same. So I guess I gave this album enough of a listen back in the day to stick deep in my subconscious 23 years later.
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