morning babble / Friday 08-16-24
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(“Guns in the Sky” song)
I think I’ve warned you that I’d play INXS whenever given the chance.
Well, August 16th is National INXS day.
(“Guns in the Sky” song)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy mid-August! We are there. Summer is almost gone. Pumpkin Spice Latte is rumored to be making its return to Starbucks on Thursday. And after that – well the Christmas tree goes up (elf clip)
#INXSDay!
Also, Happy INXS Day Weekend – 47 years ago – that’s 1977. INXS was born – the band formed on August 16th. That song “Guns in the Sky” that I played clips of in the beginning. It was recently redone back in June (clip) They call it the Kookaburra remix – almost as much fun as saying Beabadoobee or as Elf experienced Francisco. (clip)
Too soon with all the Christmas clips? I’ll tell you what’s not too soon.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!
- Remember when Post Malone was considered hip-hop? Doing songs with Quavo? (“Congratulations” clip) That was 2016 – like 8 years ago. A year later, I remember my son loving that song “Sunflower” like way too much. #5 Spotify played song with 3.455 billion streams (“Sunflower”) Just last year, Post went more pop. This song “Chemical” really made me stop. (“Chemical” clip) To think that this is the dude that sung “White Iverson” and now, Post Malone has gone all out country and today that album is all out in its glory. There’s 18 songs, nearly hour of new music – album is called F-1 Trillion. Meanwhile, one of the songs Spotify is pushing includes Chris Stapleton on the vocals along with Post Malone – “California Sober” (clip)
- Jake Bugg is set to release his 6th album – A Modern Day Distraction – which he states as being Green Day inspired (Green Day clip) – that was Green Day by the way. Early last month, Jake Bugg released “All Kinds of People” (clip) I really like that guitar (play clip). The whole album comes out October 4th, but today we have the 3rd release called “Keep On Moving” (clip)
- About a month ago, Japandroids released this song “Chicago”(“Chicago” clip) That’s the first release off of their upcoming album called Fate & Alcohol due out this Autumn (I’m putting a push on saying Autumn) on October 18th to be exact. As announced during the release of the “Chicago” song along with the album announcement was the fact that this will be the last album from the band. Like that’s going to be it. Today though, we do have the 2nd release off the Canadian rock duo’s final album, so let’s embrace that – apparently this song was inspired in Philly when they wrapped up their las tour – here’s “D&T” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: It’s been 7 years since their last album – but they are officially back. Foster the People have released: Paradise State of Mind // Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga have teamed up for the new single “Die With a Smile” which will also appear on Lady Gaga’s upcoming album which apparently is almost finished. // If you hit up this guy’s Instagram account and listed in the bio is “South Jersey Music.” His name is Henrik. One of his past songs is “Go Birds” and I fully agree. Today though, he gave us the song “Wishing Well” (clip)
I really like the artwork on the cover for that single. That’s what he’s done for the past several singles. Henrik – South Jersy kid.
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
Be sure to check out the playlist on Spotify. As I mentioned in the beginning, it’s a playlist of songs that I’ve talked about and thought about: so, you’ll see some new music there from Grace VanderWaal, Hippo Campus, and anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You just go with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.” – by Post Malone