Continuing my week of songs recommended by Jack Antonoff, of fun. and Bleachers, we arrive at ‘Be a Body’ by Grimes.
I’m somewhat familiar with Grimes because she showed up on a bunch of top ten lists a year back, but I’ve never really paid her much attention. I’ve featured one of her tracks on the blog but wasn’t very impressed by it.
Every issue of Rolling Stone features a ‘Guest List’ column, wherein a popular artist names five songs that he or she loves and/or views as an influence. It’s a nice look at musicians as fans.
This week I’m going to feature the five songs named by Jack Antonoff, guitarist for fun. and leader of new band Bleachers (which landed a SOTD mention a few weeks back).
Well, I guess the Random iTunes Fairy is on a Smiths kick, or at least a Morrissey kick. ‘Papa Jack’ is a cut from the mopey crooner’s 1997 solo album Maladjusted.
This song appeared on only the early releases of that album, making it a bit of a collector’s item. Perhaps I’ll sell my copy one day and retire on the proceeds, as I might have done with my childhood Star Wars toys had my mother not given them away to a neighbor’s kid. (Just checking to see if you’re reading, mom!)
I know there aren’t a lot of Smiths fans in these parts (at least not among my frequent commenters) so I’m sure today’s Random Weekend selection will go unappreciated.
But I love it. ‘London’ is exactly the sort of track that makes this band, and the compilation album Louder Than Bombs in particular, a favorite of mine.
Right up until I was about to listen to this song for the first time, I had it in my head that it was by One Republic, not One Direction. I was thinking that they’d made quite a splash in recent months, with ‘Counting Stars’ still in the top ten and another track at #16.
But alas, ‘Story of My Life’ is by the British boy band, and is one of the first of their songs I’ve heard all the way through (knowingly, anyway).
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