I hate music blogs, but not as much as I hate self-important playlists on music blogs so here we go:
"Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim
The song and album that launched bossa nova in 1967 sounds like a glass of wine colored by a Brazilian summer-breeze. When I bought the album the (surprisingly knowledgeable) cashier remarked, "Wow good choice, this album sounds like what the cover looks like [pictured above]." He was right. Play this song if you are ever trying to fuck French supermodels in the 60's.
"Three Places in New England: III from 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge'" By Charles Ives, performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
This dreadfully sad classical piece has no place on anyone's playlist but oh well. Inspired by an unremarkable river in western Massachusetts, I imagine this aching song would more appropriately narrate a more cataclysmic natural phenomenon like the eventual heat death of the universe. At times anarchic and elegiac the piece swoons with decaying nobility before eventually succumbing absolutely into typical Ives-ian atonal chaos, at which point it's not really listen-to-able, like most experimental turn-of-the-century classical music.
"Since You Were Gone" by Chromeo
Here's a song you actually will like. It's a distillation of the current ironic fascination with the 80s and accomplishes as much to hilarious effect. As a badass synthesizer double-billing, listen to the track "The Game Begins" from the soundtrack to the movie Wargames starring the eternally boyish Matthew Broderick.
"Love is Love" by the Blackbyrds
This is the dumbest, tackiest song I've ever heard. Skip it.
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