Superchunk "Girl U Want"

Here's another Weekend Post:

This early 90s cover of a Devo songs always satisfied my jones for feedback-y guitar wallop . . .


Hear the song on Youtube.


Hear the Devo original on Youtube.

Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.

Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show.  They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are fun to revisit.

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Superchunk "Cruel Summer"

When it comes to records and record promotion, for the most part, the people I speak to week in and week out are not in a tourist town.

While some of them are in New York and LA, because Record Promotion can be done from anywhere, I speak to folks who are working major records from suburbs far outside Seattle and Detroit and Atlanta and Portland.

And not that they are without empathy (in fact, a great awareness of each station's unique circumstance makes for a great promo person), I think it's hard for them, sometimes, to fathom what the rhythms are for a station like ours.

While so many people that they talk to live in towns that have quieted down for the summer---people are on vacation, college kids have left town, the pace has eased---our lives on the Cape and Islands have sped up.

And while the personal lives of many programmers have slowed a bit---kids are on break, vacations happen---we're shifting into high gear, working like all the local businesses to have a great 10 weeks, so we can survive another year.

All this to say, I'm drowning in a pile of new music that I haven't properly digested, because I'm running full-tilt, toward next week's "Busiest Week Of The Year, 4th Of July Edition."

Usually on Tuesdays, I post about a new song that I'm considering.  But truthfully, I haven't considered a damn thing.

It's a cruel, cruel summer.

Superchunk to the rescue!  I think it's cool that even in the digital age, bands are releasing B-sides. 

So here's a tune I've barely considered, for your blog-enjoyment!


Hear the song on Youtube.

Superchunk "Hyper Enough"

I had the rare (since the arrival of small kids in my life) chance to listen to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" this weekend, and who should be the guest but Mac McCaughan of Superchunk.

When I heard him introduced, I thought to myself, "Huh, I haven't thought much about them in the last decade."

Turns out, they haven't put a record in nearly a decade. Guess who had kids, too?

It made me remember how much fun young, single me had, jumping around to tunes like "Hyper Enough."