I caught a bit of Kid Rock's performance on television during the nationally televised Green Bay Packers home-opener pre-game festivities at Lambeau Field last week and had to give another listen to his latest single "Care." Every AC station in the country is probably playing the ballad right now and I came close to recommending it this week. It's a solid song, especially the version with Martina McBride, but after a couple weeks I found myself already skipping past it whenever it pops up on the Pod. It became a quick burn-out for me... but check it out for yourself. See if you Care.
But moving on... there were two stand-out tracks that I've been giving quite a bit of repeated play lately. Oh, by-the-way, this week's picks are brought to you by the letter "W."
"I MIGHT"-WILCO
"I MIGHT"-WILCO
The new Wilco album The Whole Love is supposed to be available toward the end of this month but the band advance-released the track "I Might" which I've already listened to well over 30-times. Partly because it's so catchy-cool and partly because I've been (unsuccessfully) trying to decipher the lyrics that lead-vocalist Jeff Tweedy is singing. ("Slim Jim..." what?) But what makes the song extra special are the xylophone accents throughout the tune and a very catchy keyboard riff à la ? and the Mysterians.
"HANG ON"-WEEZER
The second single from the latest Weezer album Hurley (yeah, that's that "Lost" dude on the cover) is finally getting some notice. Check out "Hang On" which is so hooky I'm sure that when the band performs the tune live, the title will easily become an audience-participatory fist-pumping chant. Here's something curious about the track: "Hang On" features actor Michael Cera ("Superbad," "Juno") on backing vocals, mandolin and hurdy gurdy.
That's it for now. More to come! Right now I'm heading to Google to find out what the hell a hurdy gurdy is.
