Look at that sky

Today feels like spring. I had to run some errands this morning and this was the sky I was lucky enough to be under.

Isn't that amazing? After two day of horrible weather, for the most part, I forgot what the spring sky was supposed to look like.

While I was running errands, one of the greatest pop songs ever came up on shuffle.

Big Star's Don't Lie to Me



It was great. The deep blue sky and "Don't Lie to Me".

My mood is just getting better.

Thirteen

A couple of weeks ago, I posted the link to the Winterpills cover of this song (which was recorded in honor of Alex Chilton's passing) and last night, for some reason, I had it stuck in my head.

This song has been covered a lot (most famously by Elliot Smith about whose cover Josh Radnor called devastatingly sad...and even in the linked clip, Elliot asks the crowd, "Do you want me to do a happy song?" before he goes into Thirteen.) and a lot of people see it as a touch stone for pop music (and I will contend that this is the Ur song for fans of the Violent Femmes and without Big Star...they just don't happen.

Anyway...

There is no good reason why this song should be playing back and forth as if on a loop in my head, but it has and that is good enough for me to call it my earworm.

Winterpills & Big Star

I wrote about Winterpills earlier in the week.

A couple of days after that Alex Chilton passed away.

Now, in honor of Chilton, Winterpills has covered Big Star's Thirteen.

It is worth the listen and/or the download.

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