February in the Midwest is always a great time to listen to lots of music, since it’s too cold to leave the house. This month’s playlist includes many new songs and some deep tracks from Joe Cocker and Oasis.
Here are my 20 songs for February 2015:
1. Pink Gloves – “80’s Girls”
2. Girlpool – “Chinatown”
3. Taylor Locke – “Running Away From Love”
4. Joe Cocker – “Space Captain”
5. Title Fight – “Your Pain Is Mine Now”
6. Father John Misty – “Holy Shit”
7. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – “No Action”
8. Quarterbacks – “Not In Luv”
9. Kendrick Lamar – “The Blacker The Berry”
10. Kevin Garrett – “Control”
11. Drake – “Energy”
12. Blur – “Go Out”
13. Oasis – “Songbird”
14. Passion Pit – “Where the Sky Hangs”
15. Stonefox – “This City”
16. Beach Slang – “Too Late to Die Young”
17. Open Mike Eagle – “Split Pants in Detroit (Or Hyrule)
18. Calexico – “Cumbia de Donde”
19. James Davis – “Better Than You Are”
20. Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers – “Captain America”
The best part about this new Open Mike Eagle song is that it samples Broken Social Scene’s “Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl”, even if it does sound like Voldemort.
I just did a list of my favorite Bob Dylan songs, now here are my favorite Dylan cover songs. If you cannot get over this guy’s voice – you know who you are – maybe you’ll appreciate his songwriting when someone else does his songs. Some of these covers are very familiar (I think we’ve all heard Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower” many times) while others are unexpectedly great (how about Dave Matthews doing “All Along The Watchtower”?). Most of these songs are from the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan movie I’m Not There, highly recommend for any Dylan fan and even for those unfamiliar with him. Hopefully these songs make you appreciate this man more before he bites the dust – he isn’t going to be around forever!
Jack Johnson/The Band – “I Shall Be Released”
Jimi Hendrix/Dave Matthews Band – “All Along The Watchtower”
Yo La Tengo – “Fourth Time Around”
Jeff Tweedy – “Simple Twist Of Fate”
Calexico and Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Just Like A Woman”
The Hold Steady – “Can I Please Crawl Out Your Window?”
The Black Keys – “The Wicked Messenger”
Jason Mraz – “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”
Calexico and Roger McGuinn – “One More Cup Of Coffee”
Mason Jennings – “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
