Who - The Seeker
One of my favourite Who singles. I remember buying it in the Mare St Woolworths in Hackney when it came out in 1970. I bought it on a Saturday morning and spent most of the day playing it over and over again, until my Mum got sick of hearing it and made me stop. It was on 6Music the other day and lodged itself in my head again. – Carole
Headlights - Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple Remix)
This could have gone either way – I love the track in it’s original form but polyvinyl had a $10 sale (t-shirt plus CD) the headlights rain cloud tee fitted my mood, so I picked the remix album to go with it. They are very good thankfully and Tulips brings a bright shaft of spring sunlight into the gloom. - shane
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home
After a dark couple of weeks, this song provides the appropriate release. Whistle intro, anthemic, a couple in love on vocals, welcome home… – eJay
Local Natives – World News
Gorilla Manor is among the most infectuous ‘quality’ albums of the year. The North Carolina band certainly sounds like they had a blast making it. A bit modern Beach Boys, it could be the best debut by a band fronted by a guy who plays keyboards with one hand, drums with the other and sings) – tin
Radio Futura – Escuela de Calor
Easy and obvious coming-into-the-summer Maki earworm. Radio Futura were an ace band and this is one of my favourite tracks by them. Nothing too profound here – just great guitar pop. I hope you like it as much as I do. – Maki
Brad - The Day Brings
Further to my recent election mood, all of the subsequent shenanigans seem to have left too many of us rather on tenterhooks, imo. Chill out everyone: for good or bad, we now cannot do anything about what happens next. Here’s my current musical philosophy … - DsD
Quick note: Songs related to the RR topic or Spill posts will only be chosen for Earworms if there is no waiting list; the priority here is homeless songs begging to be heard.
For my taste this is one of the best ‘Earworms’ we’ve had, every cut a winner! The only one I knew was the Who, the rest were all very pleasant surprises, thanks to all.
Thanks for the Local Natives tin. Sounds Brooklynesque. Is it ?
They are a new band from North Carolina. This is from their first album, released earlier this year.
Lovely – just lovely! I’ve had a pig of a day, starting with Miss Ellie’s deciding to see just how far she could spread the contents of one packet of Irish brown bread mix (you’d be surprised, it actually looked like it had been snowing indoors) and the vac then packed up to prevent me spoiling her fun…
So this was JUST what I needed to cheer me up again. Am now totally in love with ejd’s choice!
Nice music.
Don’t know where you get them from, tin, but another winner! I have liked all of this week’s choices.
It’s a right pleasant spring day here. These songs fit in perfectly. Maki has added another for my WTF collection & I can’t resist a song with a good whistle in it. Really they’re all good.
Too late to listen tonight, but I just wanted to say that my comment sounded an awful lot more relevant at the point when I emailed it to tinny!
Well they do say a week is a long time in politics …
We should have depressing general elections more often if it inspires everyone to dig out such uplifting music.
eJay’s choice raised the biggest smile, “Cherry Tulips” was just gorgeous, Local Natives lovely too, though they do remind me just how much I’m looking forward to some new Fleet Foxes material.
Blimey, not sure I can choose between this lot – they’re all wonderful. And perfect for this almost-summer we’ve finally been blessed with. Long may it last…
donds for all of the above comments and EJD’s wonderful tune just edged it for me…great stuff
This is the first Earworm list when I actually know more than half of the songs previously. EJay’s is a lready a new favourite.
Radio Futura were unlucky, in a way. 80′s musical landscape was pre Internet, and it was a lot harder for a non AngloSaxon act to make it big. It’s a shame, because they really had the tunes. De Un País En LLamas, or La Ley del Desierto, La Ley del Mar would have been / should have been crossovers.
Special nostalgic props for Brad, though. This was a huge Earworm for me back in the day (96, DsD?)… I love that song!
Brad’s Interiors album is ©1997, according to the CD sleeve. But I seem to remember The Day Brings was a single, so ’96 is definitely possible.
A nice summery list, although summer’s already over here, I should have listened yesterday. Agree that Local Natives remind me of Fleet Foxes, only more plugged in.
Nice list. Liked them all. High point probably the whistling in Ejay’s pick. Why is that song so familiar? Could it have been in a movie?
I thinked I nommed it on RR before, can’t remember when and for what though.
Home, maybe?
It’s a good one, anyway. The song seemed like it would fit in a movie, and I read that they’re making a film, in song-length segments. What a good idea!
Judging from wikipedia, though (and, you know, not to judge), somebody needs to buy that boy a pair of barber scissors. Not that there’s anything wrong with hirsuteatuity.
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