2023 Diary in Song

 

An experiment to name a song every day that made me feel. Something, anything. Some new, some old. All beloved for either a moment or a lifetime.

January 2023

1. My Morning Jacket, One Big Holiday - Waking up feeling good and limber. I'd venture 365 days from now there will be no songs with a greater number of guitars.
2. The Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Burrito #1 - On days when the sun never quite came up, the gilded palace of sin isn't a terrible place to live.
3. Lady Lamb, Bird Balloons - I swear there are 7 different songs in 6 minutes, ending with a cackle and speed to burn.
4. Built to Spill, Car - The best singalong an aging VW station wagon shall ever know.
5. Black Thought & Danger Mouse, Belize (ft. MF Doom) - the shock and joy of Doom coming back for one last verse was a 2021 high. BT's precision fades into a lazy Doom haze.
6. Willie Nelson, Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Like a recipe where every ingredient adds to the mix. Dylan needed Wille. Willie needed Calexico. Then Salvador Duran sends it all to the heavens.
7. El-P, Deep Space 9MM - That beat. The fear what's to come. For the love of God, run.
8. Magnetic Fields, Papa Was a Rodeo - Proof that Nashville doesn't produce the best country songs.
9. D'Angelo, The Charade - The almost twenty year wait was fully worth this.
10. Vivian Girls, Never See Me Again - What if the Mamas and Papas hit hard?
11. Will Oldham, New Partner - Every version is beautiful, but this one from "Songs of Love and Horror" is exquisite. 
12. (tie) Neneh Cherry, Buffalo Stance and LCD Soundsystem, Losing my Edge - A banner morning on KEXP punctuated by a song reminding me of Babe Ruth League baseball and one reminding me of how long ago and iterations of cool that was.
13. Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters, Black Panta - Feels like spring all around.
14. Uncle Tupelo, Sauget Wind - windows down when it kicks in.
15. SZA, Nobody Gets Me - only like 50% of these songs are about psyches on a knife's edge, but SZA is doing it best right now.
16. Erykah Badu, The Healer/Hip Hop - this was the future then. This is still the future. It will always be.
17. TV on the Radio, Wolf Like Me - all coiled-up energy just waiting to go. 
18. The Kinks, This Time Tomorrow - sad it tool me so long to come to such a perfect song. From takeoff to landing, perfect.
19. Little Simz, Gorilla - For ten years, just about the best in the game. Never misses. 
20. Gang of Four, Damaged Goods - All angles and sweet kisses and sour sweat. Thank god we didn't know about umami yet.
21. Thin Lizzy, Dancing in the Moonlight - scary as a kid, but this just swings. Even the dogs can dance to that groove.
22. Flaming Lips, Fight Test - I have a dog named for this album and this mission statement is brilliant.
23. Blood Orange, Time Will Tell - absolutely slept on R&B. 
24. Amy Winehouse, Love is a Losing Game (Live at the Mercury MusiSeldac Awards) - a performance that stops time dead in its tracks.
25. Bright Eyes, Land Locked Blues - I've lived with this album for 18 years today. As always, everything is made better with Emmylou.
26. Phosphorescent, At Death, A Proclamation - as Jason Isbell sang about Centro-Matic, "and somehow you put down my fears on a page / when I still had nothing to say"
27. Public Enemy, Rebel Without a Pause - still sounds as fresh and insistent today as ever. The first hip-hop album I ever bought and first my mom ever took away.
28. The Clash, Rudie Can't Fail - for those who like their punk with a horn section
29. The Gaslight Anthem, Miles Davis & the Cool - this song rattled through my bones through all of 2022. On how one desperate move can change the present and the future.
30. Silver Jews, Punks in the Beerlight - two burnouts in love. Berman was the best we had.
31. Clipse, Grindin' - Best beat ever, but is it the best beat from Virginia?

February 2023

1. Antony & the Johnsons, Fistfull of Love - Lou Reed banging on a guitar while an angel sings over a full horn section. Some real reese's peanut butter cup shit.
2. The Felice Brothers, Don't Wake the Scarecrow - for my money the best song about running away and starting a new life with a hooker.
3. Girls, Jamie Marie - good, old-fashioned indie soul all leading to a devastating "whatever" and then ascending from there.
4. Bill Callahan, Too Many Birds - that climbing verse, "if/if you/if you could/if you could only/if you could only stop/if you could only stop your/if you could only stop your heart/if you could only stop your heart beat/if you could only stop your heart beat for one heart/if you could only stop your heart beat for one heart beat". Colossal.
5. Deltron 3030, 3030 - other planets deserve hip-hop too.
6. Selda Bacan, Ince Ince - I knew those samples were from a 1970s Turkish psych-folk song.
7. Baby Huey, Hard Times - another one introduced via sample
8. Tricky, Hell is Round the Corner (2009 Remix) - It was a rough week. Welcome home, Tricky Kid
9. Big Star, The Ballad of El Goodo - Perfect power pop. Just perfect.
10. Dijon, Many Times - my favorite discovery of the past few years. Frantic, joyful, fun R&B with just a little bite.
11. Beastie Boys, Egg Man - For that day when its suddenly 60 degrees in mid-February and you can roll down the windows again.
12. De La Soul, Eye Know - RIP Plug 2. The joy of hip-hop is across their catalog, but particularly here.
13. Joy Division, Transmission - Something that sounds this dark shouldn't be this easy to dance to. If what that was was, in fact, dance.
14. Josh Ritter, Thin Blue Flame - it takes a storyteller to foresee where the world was going - both good and bad - and to lay it out so beautifully over ten minutes. Fear and joy in equal measure.
15. Wilco, Jesus, Etc. - from the first time I heard it on a ripped CD in the front seat of Eddie Davila's car driving weird loops around Phoenix to get the whole album in - wow, that chorus.
16. The Modern Lovers, Girlfriend - this whole album is a revelation and Jonathan Richman is a silly genius.
17. Magnetic Fields, Papa was a Rodeo - the best country song of my lifetime is not, in fact, a country song.
18. William Onyeabor, Fantastic Man - likely my favorite funk song by a Nigerian businessman with little interest in his music.
19. John Moreland, Break My Heart Sweetly - good love is hard to kill and sometimes it needs to be.
20. Eels, Things the Grandchildren Should Know - from the first time I heard it, this felt like me. It only becomes realer and truer as time passes.
21. Craig Finn, Western Pier - wandering the beach, searching for redemption.
22. Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee - the first of the couples saving country from the outside.
23. Kasey Chambers, Abraham - fathers and daughters saving country.
24. How to Dress Well, Cold Nites - as the tech steps up, his beats become even more insane.
25. The Hold Steady, Stevie Nix - probably the song I have heard the most times as an adult. The bar-riest of the bar tunes.
26. Royal Headache, Down the Lane - Australian punk via 1968 California.
27. Sleater-Kinney, Night Light - S-K at their heaviest. Corin at her howliest.
28. Shabazz Palaces, 32 Leaves Dipped In Blackness Making Clouds Forming Altered Carbon - Ish Butler came to us bringing the 50's back and somehow ended up in the 3000s

March

1. Okkervil River, The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion - OR questioning their faith, soaring through a chorus and resolving in a singalong.
2. Old 97's, Doreen -the third verse is everything they ever did right distilled into a few lines "Well, I'm pulling into Cleveland in a 7-seater tour van/There's eight of us, so I'm sleeping on the floor/The guy the plays the banjo keeps on handing me the Old Crow/Which multiplies my sorrows, I can't take it anymore"
3. De La Soul, Keeping' the Faith - celebrating De La finally streaming.
4. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Airplane Over the Sea - Heavenly lyrics, singing saws and a sing-along, This is how it should be done.
5. Pinegrove, Aphasia - Sadder than yesterday, but still ends in a sing-along.
6. Bubba Sparxx, Ugly - that Timbaland beat will likely re-appear sometime, but the playfulness and confidence is full on display.
7. Bully, I Remember - just a ripshit remembrance of the early 90s.
8. Japandroids, Fire's Highway - One night to have and to hold. To let live and never let go.
9. Bruce Springsteen, For You (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon) - Bruce stripped all the way back to piano musically and to the studs emotionally.
10. Cornershop, Good to be on the Road Back Home Again - another wonderful country song by a decidedly un-country artist.
11. The Lemonheads, Rudderless - peak 90s grunge-pop with a sweet, Juliana kiss.
12. Pavement, Summer Babe (Winter Version)- Lyrically inscrutable. Musically, a hammer. Pavement at its best.
13. The Kinks, This Time Tomorrow - I remember hearing this two days after surgery and realized that if nothing else, I would live so I could hear this over and over.
14. Iron & Wine, Resurrection Fern - All of the beauty and difficuklties of America in the form of a southerner's prayer.
15. George Michael, Waiting (Reprise) - most-loved as a pop star, he was his best stripped back and yearning.
16. Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel #2 - I don't feel like saying more adds anything.
17. Cat Power, I Don't Blame You - Chan knows the pain and empathizes all the way.
18. John Moreland, Break My Heart Sweetly - the front porch of the album cover sprung to life.
19. John Prine, Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) - it ain't such a long drop, don't stammer, don't stutter / from the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter.
20. PJ Harvey, Long Snake Moan - an absolute hammer and wail.
21. The Roots, You Got Me - if just for that drum break, that would be enough.
22. Bruce Springsteen, Lost in the Flood (Live @ Hammersmith Odeon) - on the drum break theme, the way Bruce says "everything stops, you hear 5 quick shots" and Max Weinberg fires them from his snare.
23. Townes Van Zandt, Two Girls (Live at Old Quarter) - maybe his best, but I'll say that five more times.
24. Waxahatchee, Half Moon - again, country coming from all corners.
25. FKA Twigs, Two Weeks - in a headphone age, this is the closest you get to ascension between your ears.
26. Koffee, Shine - a reminder that the power of reggae lives on and to shine through
27. Richard and Linda Thompson, Walking on a Wire - as fine a breakup song as ever made and unquestionably that from two perspectives
28. Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Shirk -Me'Shell at her very best which is a high bar
29. Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Watching the Detectives (Live at Hollywood High) - Elvis is many things, but rarely this skanky. 
30. Beastie Boys, So Wat'cha Want - sunroof open. Volume up.
31. Terius Nash, Wedding Crasher - the rare wedding anthem starring an ex, a bottle of tequila and a whole heap of regret.

April

1. Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel #2 - That I waited until April to get to Cohen, a man who embodies the winter ethos is my bad. 
2. Peter Laughner, Amphetamine - a Clevelander with a guitar and a tambourine and not much else. It took some time to recognize the lo-fi genius on display.
3. Fatlip, What's Up Fatlip - Can 90s slacker energy peak? Trough? I say coolin'.
4. Tom Tom Club, Genius of Love - that beat.They saw something coming that the rest of the world missed.
5. Le Tigre, Eau De Bedroom Dancing - Much like genius of love, the infectiousness is real.
6. Afghan Whigs, Faded - yes, one of my top ten songs of all time is a straight ripoff of Purple Rain, another top 10.
7. Skeeter Davis, The End of the World - I feel like my grandparents probably had this on a cheap transistor radio at some point. If they didn't, they should have.
8. Best Coast, Storms - no one was more purpose built to cover Fleetwood Mac
9. The Bottle Rockets, Smokin' 100s Alone - typical bottle rocket trailer park songs of woe
10. Tim Hardin, Black Sheep Boy - it came to me via Okkervil River, but this is 70s songwriting simplicity
11. Belle & Sebastian, Fox in the Snow - twee in not an insult when it is this delightful
12. D'Angelo & the Vanguard, Really Love - picking a D single is impossible. Is this an album? Just a vibe? Just stretch out and let it wash over.
13. Smog, I Break Horses - this is one I deeply feel in my bones. Tonight I'm swimming to my favorite island.
14. Randy Newman, Feels Like Home - He can be funny and silly, but he can also write about love in the most thoughtful terms possible
15. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Have You Ever Seen the Rain? - didn't know it at the time, but maybe the most influential song and band on what would hit me 25 years down the road.
16. Phosphorescent, Song for Zula - he appears a lot here. He's earned it with imagery than no one else quite hits.
17. The Clash, Rudie Can't Fail - The horns. The call and response. This certainly can't be punk.
18. Titus Andronicus, A Pot in which to Piss - 10 minutes. Like 6 movements. Again, this can't be punk.
19. Method Man, Release Yo Delf - Another windows down banger
20. Bad Brains, Banned in D.C. - as hard and as fast as it gets. Music as a dead sprint.
21. The Antlers, Two - Harrowing story of conflicted emotions where every word counts.
22. Mulatu Astatke, Tezeta (Nostalgia) - even though this wakes me way too early 5 days a week, its a the calm and warmth just envelopes you.
23. Jason Isbell, Cover Me Up - it could be anything he's written. They just keep coming, but this is him at his sharpest.
24. The Paragons, The Tide is High - oh, that's where that came from...
25. Vivian Girls, The End - Cali punk, surf rock or beach music? Who cares, more like this.
26. Sunset Rubdown, Silver Moons - just a lovely album that jumps from gentle to bombast with every movement.
27. Run the Jewels, a few words for the firing squad - felt like a documentary in the summer of 2020, but it was written prior. Hate is predictable.
28. The Distillers, I am a Revenant - I think this is the date 8 years ago that I had surgery on my lungs. This reminds me that I am, in fact, back to reclaim my stolen breath.
29. Natalie Maines, Lover, You Should Have Come Over -Jeff Buckley deserves all of the credit for writing a song infused with so much longing, but this interpretation really reminds you of the soulhe put into this.
30. Jackson C. Frank, Blues Run the Game - late night Sunday radio sending you sprinting to Shazam. How is this new to me? What if John Denver walked me through his pain?

May

1. Prince, Nothing Compares 2U - that this was hidden from the light for so long makes it so more special that it finally found its way
2. Songs : Ohia, Just Be Simple - I just didn't get busted.
3. Talking Heads, Psycho Killer - psycho bass line. 
4. Billy Bragg, Waiting for the Great Leap Forward - we're still waiting for that leap, re-hashing the same things he's said ever since.
5. Wednesday, Bull Believer - eight minutes of breathlessness that releases into an acoustic guitar letting some light back in
6. The National, Once Upon a Poolside - everything good about The National. Darkness. Light. The hope that we all find our way.
7. Son Volt, Windfall - its gotta be in my top 10. That verse - "Catching an all-night station / somewhere in Louisiana / it sounds like 1963 / but for now it sounds like heaven"
8. Jackson Browne, These Days - so many to chose from, but this is tip-top. Don't confront me with my failures. I had not forgotten them.
9. Evan Dando, The Ballad of El Goodo - The best power pop song gets the full power pop slacks treatment.
10. Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Day - more power poppiness as the sun rises over the mountains. The day didn't turn out all that pretty, but KV did his damndest.
11. Sons of Kemet, My Queen is Albertina Sisulu - the way that tuba on the bottom shakes everything around me makes the time pass quicker
12. Toots & the Maytals, Pomps and Pride - unbridled joy .
13. Benjamin Booker, Violent Shiver - the title fulfills its promise. 3 furious minutes of pleasure.
14. Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm, Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers) - a constant reminder that we're all in this together
15. The Flying Burrito Brothers, Wild Horses - I'll die undecided on which version is better. They're both perfect.
16. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Flavor Pt.2 - Things Gen-Z won't understand: Beck was a rapper. Recording said raps to answering machine tapes. Gutbuckets.
17. The Grateful Dead, Box of Rain - this shaped what I would listen to for the next 35 years and going. The Dead not being Dead-y. 
18. Hey Marseilles, Rio - Handclaps. Horns.The promise there is more to see
19. Creeper, Crickets - so, yeah I'm emo if this is emo. And this is very emo.
20. Cat Power, Dark End of the Street - Again, versions can be argued, but Chan at like 3bpm is honey on a hot summer night.
21. The Menzingers, Sun Hotel - emo punk by way of Leonard Cohen.
22. The Pogues, A Rainy Night in Soho - Still there's a light before me, you're the measure of my dreams. Their reputation and that tenderness don't line up.
23. Centro-Matic, Flashes & Cables - this is country power pop
24. Drive-By Truckers, Women Without Whiskey - Starting with Cooley's best. Dry and furious at once.
25. Drive-By Truckers, Danko/Manuel - On to Isbell, you can feel the heat and the heartache from beginning to end.
26. Drive-By Truckers, Tornados - Patterson's day. The attention to detail puts you on the scene. At one point, you feel the wind.
27. Jason Molina, North Star - another of his greats. No matter the name.
28. Neil Young, Cowgirl in the Sand - another walking at sunrise banger.
29. Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day - should have planned better, but only one song fits the holiday.
30. Strand of Oaks, JM - back to Molina, a full-throated tribute to him and the impact of music on Midwestern kids - "Now it's hard to hear you sing/the crow has lost its wings/I got your sweet tunes to play/I'm getting older every day/Still making the same mistakes/I got your sweet tunes to play"
31. Teenage Fanclub, The Concept - the concept is that power pop is this fu.

June

1. John Prine, Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) - a constant reminder to shake it off for years before someone said to shake it off more emphatically
2. MJ Lenderman, TLC Cagematch  - a tender ode to professional wraasling and doing what it takes to survive
3. The Monklees, Daydream Believer - just dang bliss
4. Old 97's, Won't Be Home- the relationship was doomed from the very start in the backseat of a Mustang on a cold night in a hard rain
5. Deer Tick, Ashamed - Another race to the finish line. A broken man in love, just hanging on.
6. Low Cut Connie, Diane (Don't Point That Thing at Me) - Another ripper with a little more 60s sprinkled in for joy.
7. Dirty Beaches, True Blue - more 60s nostalgia filtered through a dark, rainy night and walls of static
8. Big Red Machine, Latter Days - Even when he's barely there, a Justin Vernon production is deniably him.
9. Bon Iver, 715-Creeks - the triumph of latter-day Bon Iver - so human even when run through 1,000 machines
10. Big Thief, Not  - probably the best song of the 2020s. 
11. Burial, Come Down to Us - my airplane song for a decade. Burial, but with hope for brighter days ahead. There's soul samples, then Indian percussion, then a shot at redemption.
12. At the Drive-In, Lopsided - everything ATDI does is great, but this adds an insane cowbell
13. The Twilight Singers, The Lure Would Prove Too Much - Dulli turning on the charm but knowing he's doomed to repeat every old mistake
14. Frank Ocean, Bad Religion - fighting demons the only place safe from the world, the backseat of a cab
15. MJ Lenderman, Under Control - even Lenderman song can be summed up by ending with "ain't that a bitch?"
16. The Strokes, Under Control - had to do it. A Strokes song that just crosses 3:00 which costs it a little love.
17. Nick Cave, People They Ain't No Good - sometimes he's right
18. Japandroids, Continuous Thunder - making a strong case that all rock songs should be only guitar, drums and fireworks
19. Titus Andronicus, The Battle of Hampton Roads - 15 full minutes of frustration getting funnier and funnier
20. Brian Eno, 1/1 (from Music for Airports) - pure relaxation, maybe not enough to want to wait for a flight, but he tried very hard
21. Leonard Cohen, The Partisan - name a more haunting verse than "there were three of us this morning/I'm the only one this evening/but I must go on/the frontiers are my prison"
22. Makaya McCraven, In These Times- is it improvised or is it sliced and sampled? whatever it is, it works.
23. Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind - his snarling best
24. Craig Finn, Jeremiah's Blues - he comes to California with a proposition, to live with Jeremiah's girl until he gets out of prison
25. Bloc Party, This Modern Love - updating Joy Division for the 2010s was exactly what the world needed
26. Outkast, Aquemini - I have no idea what the best song on this album is or what Anne's best verse on this album is, but this competes (exception: SpottieOttie horns rule all)
27. Pusha T, The Story of Adidon - Push in kill mode is at his best when he laughs at how good his own bars are
28. Neil Finn, Don't Dream Its Over (Live) - stripping away the (for its time, pretty good) 80s production and focusing on the song is a revelation
29. Jason Isbell, To a  Band That I Loved - a whole list of songs about loving someone else's music could be made (see: Strand of Oaks, JM), but Jason extolling Centro-Matic is gold
30. Centro-Matic, Flashes & Cables - its a perfect country pop song and then just goes into "da da di do" mode and its even betterJuly

July

1. Billy Bragg, Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards - his opus, if you've got a blacklist, I wanna be on it.
2. Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Not Fade Away - the simplicity of its brilliance - the birth of so many things to come
3. Arcade Fire, Wake Up - they went on to great things but never reached this level of chant-along brilliance again
4. Cher, Just Like Jesse James - only Cher could take production this cheesy and make it such an anthem
5. Sleater-Kiney, One Beat - Corin wails, Carrie chants, Janet pounds. The perfect S-K song.
6. Damien Jurado, Everything Trying - more like everything crying
7. Danny Brown, XXX - when Danny Brown was on top, this was a peak
8. Aaliyah, Are You That Somebody - Timbo's beats are fantastic, but Aaliyah's cool just oozes everywhere.
9. Fleet Foxes, Mykonos - At their most Steely Dan, its like if Insta was a music site
10. Blitzen Trapper, Furr - I think this came before Fleet Foxes or birthed Fleet Foxes or maybe that was Midlake - the mid-2000s are a blur
11. The Monkees, Daydream Believer - the world has been trying to make something this catchy, this ear worm-y ever since
12. The Beta Band, Dry the Rain - High Fidelity hasn't aged great, but this song remains as catchy as when Rob sold albums
13. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - we all cement in our ways as we get older, but we can still bring it when we need to
14. Fiona Apple, Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) - there is nothing going on here that isn't profoundly weird, but Fiona can turn anything to gold
15. Iron & Wine, The Trapeze Swinger - nine minutes and thirty seconds of loosely connected expressionism that comes together exceptionally
16. Silver Jews, New Orleans - Berman at his cheekiest, "there is a house in New Orleans, not the one you've heard about, I'm talking about another house.
17. Sturgill Simpson, Turtles All the Way Down - another who came out of the gate absolutely swinging
18. R.E.M., Find the River - the perfect outro to Automatic - you see the fields and the river as you drive down the back roads
19. Tyler Childers, Feathered Indians - that first verse is impossibly great, "my buckle makes impressions on the inside of her thigh/there are little feathered indians where we tussled through the night/if I'd known she was religious, then I wouldn't have come stoned/to the house of such an angel too fucked up to get back home"
20. Wednesday, Quarry - specificity (and guitars) are the soul of narrative
21. Matthew Sweet, The Devil with the Green Eyes - time should remember Matthew Sweet as someone who who brought power pop into the 90s and never missed
22. Shannon & the Clams, Sleep Talk - I loved that period in the 2010s that was all references to the 1950s
23. Prince, Starfish & Coffee - to celebrate the 18th anniversary of meeting Cynthia Rose, there is only one song
24. Jerry Jeff Walker, Mr. Bojangles - as a good a song as there is about a dancing man and his dog
25. Frank Ocean, White Ferrari - none of the structure that makes up a song, but a glorious trip through the Ocean-verse.
26. The Stone Roses, I Wanna Be Adored - sometimes rock should be screamed from the rooftops
27. Beastie Boys, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - all of Paul's Boutique bangs, but this is a special level of raucous fun
28. Foo Fighters, Hey, Johnny Park! - the Foos also did power pop, Big Star would be proud
29. Japandroids, Fire's Highway - this makes four straight days of shout-alongs. Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh.
30. Best Coast, Storms - The Fleetwood Mac cover they were put on this earth to do
31. Damien Rice, 9 Crimes - the peak of the bleak Hanigan-Rice songs

August

1. Guided By Voices, Echos Myron - when GBV sounds like The Kinks, GBV is at its perfect game-hurling tops
2. Madvillain, Great Day Today - the man behind the mask just enjoying himself at the mic
3. Stevie Wonder, Sir Duke - every Stevie incarnation is great, but this is him at his most joyous, celebrating the very existence of songs like this
4. George Harrison, All Things Must Pass - George's sweet reminder that it gets better, sometimes not fast or how you want, but eventually...
5. The Paragons, The Tide is High - that someone else had to help get this noticed is a stain on history - just try not to dance.
6. Bobby Womack, Across 110th Street - the cinematic sweep of storytelling with the Wrecking Crew holding this down - another shame that it went largely unheard until Jackie Brown