Listen To These Songs Now!

By: Wilson Henry Gooden

Great Songs is one of the coolest music blogs around. Unlike most music blogs this isn't a site to tell you want new indie band to like. It's a blog about celebrating great tunes. It's about music appreciation at it's most pure. When you read someone's perspective on a song often you can hear that song in a whole new beautiful way. I hope that's the case with these three songs.

Whale - "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" - This is one of the coolest one hit wonder songs of the 1990s. It's right up there with EMF's "Unbelievable" and Cyprus Hill's "Insane in the Brain." This song is from 1995 and the band's name is Whale. It's an interesting variation on noise rock that is palatable to the ears of Pop music fans, and perfectly weird enough to play alongside Beck's "Loser" on either college or mainstream radio. "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" tells the tale of a strange woman with a penchant for violating homeless men? The humor is dark and bizarre, and quite obviously, very befitting of the Kurt Cobain era. The greatest sell factor for this novelty tune is the comical music video that was in regular rotation on both Beavis and Butt-head and Alternative Nation with Kennedy, each program geared to MTV's Rock audience of the time period.

Beck - "Loser" - Beck's first hit released back in 1993 this song has become a classic of the era. This is a song that still sounds fresh to my ears all of these years later. Certainly when comparing "Loser" to the so called grunge music of the era it is not hard to tell which one has aged better. As would become Beck's MO "Loser" contains many layers of sound and a fantastic combination of different styles with lyrics weird and fantastical enough to keep you interested on multiple listens.

The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" - Certainly this song has already established itself as one of the classics of the new century. The song has gained great popularity both for it's original version and for a cover by Iron & Wine which has been featured both in a hit movie and in a candy commercial. For it's all of it's ubiquitousness you would think that the song would have worn out it's welcome. But it has not. It's just a great song that is catchy and palatable for the masses but also smart enough for the music freaks. A wonderful song that works both as a techno pop workout and as a gentle acoustic ballad. It's also far better than anything I've ever heard by Death Cab For Cutie.

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The author downloads all of his music from Feed My iPods because he's a pirate! Argh Matey! He also contributes to www.MusicByDay.com

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