Listed: See Jazz
See Jazz, the recording project of Brooklyn-based songwriter Aaron Pfannebecker, uses drum machines and synthesizers to construct warped bedroom collage pop guitars and earworm vocals. Jennifer Kelly liked the single “1982” from Pfannebecker’s Is This Anything? a whole lot, noting its “vertiginous balance between tremulous, astral ideality and wounded, grounded vulnerability, the same contrast between ragged doubt and heavenly solace.”
Some songs that stick to me lately
Cyndi Lauper — The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough
I’ve always loved this song and I recently rediscovered it on a dive into Lauper’s music again and it always puts me in a great mood. It just makes me happy like a lot of Motown does especially The Jackson 5. It bops.
The The — This Is the Day
This is a top 3 song of the 1980s and probably was the biggest influence on this record I just made whether I knew it or not. I could listen to this on repeat forever and never give sick of it.
The Osmonds — Denim
No one’s written a better song about a decade.
Minnie Ripperton — Les Fleurs
One of my favorite songs. It has the biggest chorus that hits like 20 “Smells Like Teen Spirit’s.“ It’s epic. It’s holy. Minnie Ripperton’s voice is one the most beautiful I’ve ever heard. Maya Rudolph is her daughter and Ripperton died way too young.
Jeff the Brotherhood — Camel Swallowed Whole
Jake and Jamin have always made great music, but this is by far my favorite thing they’ve ever done. It’s great. Everyone should hear it. Kunal Prakash also plays on this I think, and you couldn’t ask for more awesome people to be making great art together.
Bob Dylan — Precious Angel (Live at the Warfield Theatre)
One of the things I think we all take for credit is Bob Dylan’s ability to always evolve and change a song. People use to slam him for not being able to recognize classic songs they wanted to hear because he plays them entirely differently than their record versions. I think people are coming around now and we all should. Its’s rare and it’s brave and no one owes anyone anything especially in art. This take isn’t too different than the recorded version except for one thing. It’s got 100x more soul.
New Order — Regret
This is probably my favorite song by New Order. Although that could change. It’s got everything I love about them. Incredible drums over great drum programming. Peter Hook’s the best melodic bass player from the UK. He shines here. The tones of the keyboards fit perfectly and Bernard Sumner’s guitar is perfect. His direct lyrics are perfect.
Haruomi Hosono — Sports Men
Philharmony is a record I keep coming back to. It’s dense and still open and very much a vision of one person. YMO is great but this one hits me harder and “Sports Men” is the poppiest song on the record. It’s straight ahead in an unusual way or unusual in a straightforward way. Whatever you want it to be, it is.
Discovery Zone — Dance II
This is the last new song I’ve heard that’s still my favorite new song I’ve heard. It’s been a couple years and it’s still my favorite new song. It’s the perfect pop song. Discovery Zone is the recording project of JJ Weihl. She’s brilliant.
R.L. Burnside — Let My Baby Ride
This is a great genre collision. 1 + 1 = 3. It’s still new and it’s evolution. It’s got a very early Beck feel. I love everything about it.
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JJ Weihl is a criminally underrated artist. Her new song released today is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and the first song in a long time to make me tear up. An instant favorite.
(and listen to her album remote control too!)
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Had another TF2 dream the other night where they made a map based on an indoor playground like Discovery Zone (DZ: Discovery Zone Commerical - YouTube). I can't stop imagining a giant battle raging through DZ occasionally interspersed by one of them going "wheeeee!" and sliding into the ball pit or something.
I told my brother and he joked that it would be like, "'Wait, why are we fighting over an indoor playground?' 'I don't know, why were we fighting over a gravel pit?'"
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Volume 253
Listen to Different Head, Vol. 253: "Heartbeat" (May 17, 2023) byDifferent Head on hearthis.at
Download
0:00:00 — "Some Place You Can Leave" by Bodywash (2016)
0:03:30 — "Hypnotist" by Lightheaded (2019)
0:05:59 — DJ
0:09:16 — "Microbe" by Snooper (2020)
0:10:37 — "Burst the Shell" by Chronophage (2022)
0:12:54 — "New York" by Soft Yes (2022)
0:15:55 — "18 Cigarettes" by Ducks Ltd. (2021)
0:19:05 — DJ
0:22:44 — "Heartbeat" by Nuovo Testamento (2023)
0:26:43 — "Tru Nature" by Discovery Zone (2020)
0:30:44 — "Asleep" by Sofie Royer (2020)
0:33:34 — DJ
0:38:39 — "Face Down" by Gunther Schuller & Joe Lovano (1997)
0:44:46 — "Wreckage" by Qasim Naqvi (2017)
0:49:29 — "Sketches of Lines in Spiral" by Lori Scacco (2004)
0:51:11 — DJ
0:55:16 — "Time Alone" by Fetch Tiger (2022)
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