This week’s recommendation is "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Ramones, the punk rock band that influenced the genre. This song featured on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, one of my favourite games as a teenager. The week also marks the return of videos with just the album art, but its worth listening to anyway. ...
This week’s recommendation is another oldie, "Gigantic", by Pixies. Originally released in 1988, I think it holds up pretty well even today. In 2014, Apple, released an ad spot to promote the iPhone 5s. It happens to be my favourite Apple ad to date. Pixies' live performance: Apple's "Powerful" ad for the iPhone 5S: ...
This week’s recommendation is a bit of an odd ball. It is the rendition of Oh! Susanna, a minstrel song, by the band, The Byrds. We learnt this song as a part of of some events around the festive Christmas season in my junior school, Holy Cross School, in a small town named Agartala, in the north-eastern part of India. I was involved in water-cooler discussion about banjos with a few colleagues recently and for the rest of the day, this song was stuck in my head, bringing back some warm pleasant memories of my time there. ...
This week’s recommendation is “Snow (Hey Oh)” by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This song was released in 2006, which right in the middle of my teenage years. It really took off in my friend circle, and was "our jam" for a few months. ...
This week’s recommendation is “Bohemian Like You” by The Dandy Warhols. I had heard this song a few times as a teenager, but I “noticed” it only after it was featured in an episode of the erstwhile TV Show, “Chuck”. Now, it's one of the most played songs in my iTunes library. ...