One song you're currently obsessed with?

Simple Sister




Procol Harum

 

Taxi - Harry Chapin

 

Still one of my favorites all these years later...

 

Cristo Redemtor - Charlie Musselwhite.

 

From Canada: The Blue Shadows: "Let The Cowboys Ride"

Lifts my spirits every time I listen to it.

Only 'discovered' this band a few weeks ago but criminally undervalued, including by Sony who for some reason failed to release their first album in the US.



Best Wishes,
David

 

Dan Auerbach: King of a One Horse Town

 

I had this LP on headphones and amazingly tripped over your post here, kudos

 

Lately it's been the Dream Syndicate "Out of My Head"

 

Starship Trooper - Yes

 

indeed. : )

 

Smoke Get's In Your Eyes...The Platters

 

Courtney Barnett ~ Dead Fox. The lyrics to this are the most brilliant thing that's happened this century. They'll be studying this in schools before the end of the next decade.

 

"Darkness Keeps Chasing Me" by the ridiculously talented Grace VanderWaal. She's 13 years old and is already writing profoundly moving songs like this.

 

Cookie and the Cupcakes, "Mathilda." Peter Guralnick described it in a book I was reading and I can't get enough of it.

 

I can hit play anytime, sad, drunk, whatever mood I am in ...


funny thing is, as I am not a native english speaker, I thought he sings "eat" lots of girls" instead of "meet"

 

Hall & Oates - The Girl Who Used to Be:

 

At the moment it is Alessia Cara’s “Here.”

 

Metallica - Orion

 

Untrue! Lol

I am a true die-hard Yesfan and adore this tune. Although it wasn't always that way. When it came out, not so much. Tormato as a whole is a strange slice, even for Yes. It took seeing the band in 2002 at Jones Beach, Long Island, New York on a hot August evening to bring the song home to me. What a great show. They played Don't Kill The Whale early-ish in the first set of two they were to play that night. Overall a three hour show with songs from all across their career (to that point), a ten minute break between sets. The song smoked unexpectedly and incredibly hard. Steve Howe, as you perceptively mentioned was shredding it. All three vocalists, Chris Squire (RIP, one of the greatest ever on bass), Steve and Jon Anderson, lead vocals were "leaning into" it, as though they could feel that they were slaying this song. Alan White on drums must've asked or signalled lighting to shut down because he played most of it in the dark, still early evening "outside", still hot! - and I remember him being lit up the rest of the night. He was thumping extremely hard, perhaps the catalyst behind the band leaning on this song so hard. Alan, so often and so highly underrated as Yes drummer since 1972, has always seemed to bring the band the harder edge it needed in the live setting, as on this night.

When it was over, my sister and I looked at one another like "What the Hell was THAT?!"
She described the whole show as being like getting hit upside the head with a great big Yes stick. Great, great set list that night. But Don't Kill The Whale was an unexpected highlight. It was as though an incredible heavy metal band had snuck in to sub for Yes for one song. I never listened to it the same way again. It was like they were explaining it to us, once and for all.

"This is what we meant."

My current song obsession, although so often Awaken from Yes, is currently Discipline by King Crimson.

 

Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going To Rain Today". Still not sure what it means, which is probably why I'm obsessed with it.

 

Fight Fire With Fire

 

Not sure obsessed it the word for it but I can't get Hero's out of my head... lol

 

I’ve been obsessed with Curtis Mayfield’s “(Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Gonna Go” and Lafayette Gilchrist’s “Assume The Position” since “The Deuce” ended.

 

The new band Greta Van Fleet's song Flower Power