Japanese home furnishings/clothing/general-stuff chain Muji has for the last 25 years commissioned a series of mostly instrumental folk music albums from around the world to play as BGM (background music) in their stores. Continue reading The 03/21 Day Thread Plays In The Background While You Buy Some Storage Bins
Nothing, Gladys Knight. Sorry! Continue reading The 03/19 Day Thread Apologizes to Gladys Knight
Fun fact: Not every song by 1960’s girl group The Shangri-Las is about tragic motorcycle death! This is one of those songs! Continue reading The 03/14 Night Thread Is Good Bad, But It’s Not Evil
Seven weeks ago I began a header series on the 21st Century Pearl Jam albums, and we’ve finally made it to the band’s twelfth studio release, 2024’s Dark Matter. Continue reading The 03/12 Day Thread Hears Its Own Voice Rising
If I had a nickel for every time a hit musical had a song about ditching New York and running away to Santa Fe, well, I’d have two nickels, but still it’s weird that it happened twice. Continue reading We’ll Open Up A Restaurant In The 03/08 Day Thread And Also Hide From Pulitzer’s Goons There I Guess
This song is “The Infanta” by The Decemberists from their 2005 album Picaresque. I would say more, but “The Infanta” by The Decemberists has already used up all of the words. Just, like, in the English language. There are none … Continue reading From All Atop The Parapets Blow A Multitude Of Coronets, 03/07 Night Threads Rhapsodical And Fair
After a seven-year gap from 2013’s Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam released its 11th studio album, Gigaton, in 2020. Continue reading I’m In Love With The 03/05 Day Thread Cause It’s Out Of This World
Today’s Night Thread header song is “Barracuda” from Heart’s 1977 album Little Queen. Continue reading You’re Gonna Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn To The 03/03 Night Thread
Released between 2009’s Backspacer and 2020’s Gigaton, Pearl Jam’s sole studio album in the 2010s is 2013’s Lightning Bolt. Continue reading The 02/26 Day Puts All Its Faith In No Faith
We haven’t done the ’80s in a while, have we? Feels like it’s been a while. Let’s do some ’80s. Continue reading The 02/21 Day Thread Can’t Control Itself Any Longer
Hey! We made it to Backspacer! The “fun” one! Continue reading Turn It Up, Set It Off Before It’s The 2/19 Day Thread
Last week I blabbered on about 2002’s Riot Act and this week I shall blabber on about 2006’s Pearl Jam. Continue reading The 02/12 Day Thread Can See It Coming
You kids like Lord of the Rings, right?
It’s pretty good. Continue reading The 02/07 Day Thread Is Lord of the Rings
If I’m, say, on the cusp of middle age and trying to figure out how to continue to exist in a cold, unfeeling universe, I can listen to Riot Act. Continue reading Hold Me And Make It The 02/05 Day Thread
Tonight’s song is “Stuck Between Stations” from The Hold Steady’s 2006 album Boys and Girls In America. They do a cute bit in the video, I like it. Happy Night Threading! Continue reading There Are 02/03 Night Threads When I Think That Sal Paradise Was Right – Boys And Girls In America, They Have Such A Sad Time Together
Hello, welcome to Day Thread. Today we have the first OP to the 2006 anime NANA, “rose” by Anna Tsuchiya. Continue reading When I Was Darkness At That 02/03 Day Thread, 震えてる唇
It’s “Dream A Little Dream,” the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong version. So that’s pretty great. (This is what happens when it’s 10am and no one has signed up for Day Thread yet I did my best). Happy Day Threading! Continue reading 02/01 Day Thread Of The Song Currently Playing In The Cafe Where I Am
That’s all. If you want, you can read this article that ranks Wawa hoagies too I guess. It’s where I got this picture from. Happy Day Threading! Continue reading The 01/31 Day Thread of Just Wawa Hoagies Are Great
In the comments section for The Avocado Pearl Jam song tournament, there arose the not uncommon Avocado song tournament wish that more of the band’s later catalogue had made the cut past nominations. And, what the heck, I need header topics, so I’m going to do a header a week highlighting a song from each of the band’s seven 21st century albums. Continue reading A Whisper Through A 01/29 Day Thread
Today we have ::checks notes:: “Baobabs,” a bonus track from Regina Spektor’s 2006 album Begin to Hope. The song incorporates imagery from The Little Prince, a book that I have somehow never read despite taking eight years of French class. … Continue reading And I Wouldn’t Raise My Child Inside The 01/10 Day Thread Anyway
