At Billboard’s #3 this week is ‘Stressed Out’ by twenty one pilots. This band is completely new to me, so I’m not sure what to expect from the song.
I like these lyrics, and the clever, non-rhyming line about wishing he didn’t have to rhyme when he sings seems familiar to me. So maybe I have heard this song through one of my daughters.
The Justin Bieber comeback is in full swing, the Canadian pop star having weathered his rough patch to once again dominate the charts. He sits at #2 with today’s SOTD, ‘Love Yourself,’ and will show up again before the week is out.
‘Love Yourself’ is seemingly a kiss-off track aimed at Bieber’s former flame, Selena Gomez, who has a tattoo reading “love yourself first.”
After nearly three weeks of somber Lucinda Williams songs, I owe my readers something more mainstream. So for the next two weeks I’ll present my first 2016 installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ my quarterly rundown of Billboard’s Hot 100.
It’s been long enough since my last dive into the charts that almost every song in the Top Ten this week is new to the blog.
This is the third song from The Afghan Whigs’ album 1965 to appear on the blog, and the second on a Random Weekend.
1985, released in 1998, is the only Afghan Whigs album I own, and it’s a very good one. In both of those previous SOTD posts I called it out as one of the sexiest records I own and I stand by that assessment.
I’m not sure how I’ve posted seven and a half years worth of Songs of the Day and managed to never feature a track from Prince’s 1987 masterpiece Sign O’ the Times. Today’s Random iTunes Selection remedies that oversight.
I admire Prince’s talent but I’m a casual fan, if that. I own only a few of his albums and rarely listen to them. But Sign O’ the Times is a straight-up classic, with every track across its two discs scoring in its own unique way.
