A belated return
Every week Apple Music makes a Friends Mix. I will make off the cuff “reviews” of the songs in this list. As Apple Music likes to put the same bands on the list often, so I will skip some of the tracks.
Rat Boys “Light Night Mountains All That” Spinanes or Julianna Hatfield like indie rock thats as boring as either of them. Listened to a minute and 23 seconds.
Mission of Burma “Progress” Uh oh is this going to be a week where I like more than I hate. Listened to all of it.
Come “In / Out” Another quality 90’s indie rock jam. Some nice guitar work here. Listened to all of it.
Grifters “Re-Entry Blues” Never cared for the sleepy bluesy indie rock of the Grifters. Listened 1 minute.
Heroic Doses “Crystals” Weird I don’t remember liking this. Some cool guitar bits. Probably, like most instrumental bands, could use a singer. Gets a bit repetitive as it goes along. Listened to it all.
Cows “A Gift Called Life” Chaotic noise rock. Leaves me wanting some kind of hook, Listened to 56 seconds.
Moving Targets “Faith” Husker Du, well Bob Mould at least, clone. I dig it. Listened to all of it.
Versus “8-9” “Blade of Grass” is their best song, go listen to that. Listened to 34 seconds.
The Replacements “Go” The first two Replacements releases are the best. Yeah, they are. Listened to all of it.
The Judybats “Saturday” Harmless indie pop. Boring. 30 seconds.
Smoking Popes “Just Broke Up” Top notch pop-punk, not your jock/frat boy pop-punk. Listened to it all.
Loop “Afterglow” Noisy, Shoegazey, Spacey genius. Listened to it all.
Abrasive Wheels “Danger, Danger” Luckily not about the shitty pop-metal band. Punk, its ok. Listened to all of it.
All Systems Go “Running Blind” Doughboys, Big Drill Car team up. It’s decent not close to either former bands best. Listened to it all.
SNFU “The Quest for Fun” While not their best its closest to top tier SNFU. Easily one of the greatest live bands. Listened to all of it.
Descendents “Hurtin’ Crue” An alright faux-metal song, they have much better. Listened it all.
Dag Nasty “One to Two” Essential melodic hardcore. Too much love flowing this week. Listened to it all.
All “Birds” If it’s not on Allroy Sez or Allroy for Prez… I don’t care. Listened to 54 seconds.
Alligator Gun “Evergreen Lawns” Milwaukee’s (Wisconsin’s) pop-punk kings. Do it. Listened to it all.
Spiritualized “Come Together” I really want to like them but it never clicks. The gospel-ish chorus, no thanks. Listened to a minute and 12 seconds.
XTC “Limelight” I should like them, they annoy the shit out of me. Listened to 27 seconds.
Bauhaus “Silent Hedges” Fucking great, the gloomy masters. Listened to it all.
Hum “Isle of the Cheetah” Yeah I call them metal but a mutation and combination that is dreamy and heavy. Deftones owe them some cash. Listened all of it.
Built to Spill “Happiness” This is way to hard when I like most of the songs. Not the best from this album, a bit too on the bluesy tip. Listened all of it.