missed music Monday / Monday 02-24-25

(Missed Music Monday opener)

Couple months ago, I realized that I had missed on a song released from British rocker Sam Fender and his – at that point in time – upcoming new album called: People Watching.

(“People Watching”)

This all means that I should have known that this past Friday the whole album was dropping

(“People Watching”)

This is Sam Fender’s third studio album, a collection of songs that locks in on the daily grind, the everyday dramas, and the oddball characteristics of the people he knows.

I’ve spun it now like 3 or 4x – The song “People Watching” is still one of my favorites – sorta reminds me of a Gaslight Anthem song, but I’m also enjoying “Arm’s Length” and “Remember My Name”.

Go check out the People Watching album from Sam Fender

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Tune in tomorrow for: Quote of the Day!

5K EVERY DAY – Day #55

(“My Name Is”)

Yesterday back in 1999, Eminem dropped his first major-label album, The Slim Shady LP.

Things just haven’t been the same since.

(clip)

I ran.

(Day #55)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.” – by Eminem

5K EVERY DAY – Day #54

(“Another Saturday Night”)

It’s Sunday which I consider the end of the week. Monday’s the kick-off. Anyway, this past week, I did NOT do a good job of “Enjoying the Now”

(“Sugar Dumpling”)

“Sugar Dumpling”? How can you not smile when you hear that? I turned to my Sam Cooke vinyl yesterday and today to help pull me along.

(song or Day?)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.” – by Mel Robbins

5K EVERY DAY – Day #53

(“Little Lion Man”)

Running outside!

(Day #53)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Goal without deadline = fantasy.” – by Jim Rohn

new music friday / Friday 02-21-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

Who’s coming up – little heavy on the alt rock – Mumford & Sons, Noshows, The Wombats, and The Tings Tings

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• End of last year, I talked about the Indie-Hop sounding band: Noshows (“Portrait”) I also mentioned how the band isn’t just putting out good music , they’re also helping people navigate anxiety through music and pop-up events – the community is called: Magnify the Mind. I’ll provide a link (clip) “Used To It” was the first release off the new EP called Tightrope which is all hanging out today. Song being pushed on Spotify is “Pieces” (clip)

• I talked about this duo just a couple weeks ago (“Tell ‘Em”) – I really like that song. I apologize for playing it too much. The band is Sleigh Bells and they went on to release their first new music in basically 3 years (clip) New song is called “Wanna Start A Band?” They have since announced their sixth album – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy – will be shared to us all on Friday, April 11th. But today – we do get another song from that upcoming record called “Bunky Pop” (clip)

• Remember that band Mumford & Sons (“Little Lion Man”). They’ve actually done several albums since this first glorious one. One of my first vinyl albums to get me back into vinyl. (“The Cave”) If you watched the SNL 50th Anniversary Concert, you got to see the guys performed their hit song from 2012 – “I Will Wait” (“I Will Wait”) Fast Forward to January 17th – yes, last month and we received our first taste of the upcoming album – Rushmere – with the title track song – “Rushmere” (“Rushmere”) And now today – we get our 2nd helping called “Malibu” – ooo, Rushmere – their 5th studio album fully drops on March 28th. (“Malibu”)

• Several quick hits of new music: This would have been a good one for Missed Music Monday – didn’t realize that The Wombats released a full album last week. They did. It’s called “Oh! The Ocean” – you should go listen to it as well. // Fontaines D.C. had one of the best albums of the year for 2024 with the release of Romance. And the Dublin band is already back with a new song: “It’s Amazing To Be Young”. Video arrives over the weekend. // Yet again another band that fell off my radar (“That’s Not My Name”) Well, their name is The Ting Tings and they have a new album coming out next Friday. I missed this song release from last October. A little chill sounding – “Danced on the Wire” (clip)

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.

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! 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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5K EVERY DAY – Day #52

(Chappell Roan “Coffee”)

I worship the java bean but come the 3rd day of any 3-Day Fast – coffee just begins to taste horrible to me. I was having serious issues at the end there just everything was tasting bad in my mouth like coffee, water and water.

(Tom Hanks clip)

After this recent fast, I’ve already noticed some better constraint on my part like I saw a jar of peanut butter this morning and I thought nope I should not have 9 spoonfuls. By the way, 5K Every Day continues on – a little rough today, but I did it.

(Day #52)

“Quote of the Day”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” – (“That’s What She Said” clip) – Tom Hanks

5K EVERY DAY – Day #51

(song)

Sorry. They probably shouldn’t leave me home alone. I ran.

(#52)

It was an angry music day – needed all the help that I could get since it’s Day 3 of my 3-Day Fast. I can eat tonight. Sadly

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I prefer a real villain to a false hero.” – by Killer Mike

5K EVERY DAY – Day #50

(“That’s How I’m Feeling”)

Jack White was inspired by a book authored by Upton Sinclair from 1911 called “The Fasting Cure.” This book led him to explore the effects of fasting on his creative process.

(“What’s the Rumpus”)

With fasting, the brain fog lifts and the mental clarity helps bring about new ideas – that’s certainly what I have felt before. Currently, I’m in Day #2 of my 3-Day Fast.

And yes – I did my 50th 5K run of the year, too.

(Day #50)

“Quote of the Day”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album.” – by Jack White

5K EVERY DAY – Day #49

(“I Want Candy”)

Maybe not yet, but I’m going to want something soon. Day 1 of my 3-Day Fast is underway.

I started it really late last night – gonna be a long Thursday.

And yes – I’m running all along the way.

(Day #49)

Oooooo #49. Tomorrow is the big 5-0.

I’m happy this fast is happening. Trying to have some self-control again.

The other night, my daughter gave me some candy that she got from her cast party of Les Mis (“Look Down”) Still have that music in my head. Anyway – she handed it to me and then it was like empty wrapper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Starve your distractions, feed your focus!” – by Tony Robbins / Anonymous

5K EVERY DAY – Day #48

(“Look Down” song)

My daughter performed in her school’s musical of Les Mis. Which means – I got to see it 3x this past weekend. Just an FYI – that’s 9 total hours of Les Mis.

(“Master of the House”)

I’m working on a new 2025 angry run playlist – hopefully, it will help eliminate all these songs that keep dancing through my head. I ran.

(Run #48)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.” – by Hugh Jackman