THE ANTI-SNEAKERS LEAGUE

With all the crap that's been happening recently, it's easy to get bummed out. Yesterday, something occurred to me that helped put things in perspective. When I'm outside around the hood, there's a shitload of birds, particularly parrots, seagulls, crows, doves, finches, sparrows, humming birds, an occasional hawk of some sort and every once in a while a bluebird. Oh, and a little after the sun goes down three white owls go out on their sorties. With the lack of air traffic (I live in a flight path), the abundance of birds is easier to notice. They tweet, they chirp, and they squawk. They don't know anything about Covid, Trump, or that Little Richard, Tony Allen and Florian Schneider all died this week. Snails still crawl, trees still grow. It's not all about us humans. The rest of the living world is still cruising along. We're just fucking ants.

I decided a good ol' fashioned pick me up was in order and I chose the first song that came to mind, "Nice Day" by Persephone's Bees. Man, I totally forgot what a great song it is. It really hit the spot. It's epic well crafted pop.

It also occurred to me that today is Mother's Day. Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy" is the last song I saw my Mom get lost in, so it's down there too. It too puts things in perspective. Totally different types of music but both songs push the same buttons, for me anyway.

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Listen:
Persephone's Bees - Nice Day mp3 at Audio Drums
Nat King Cole - Nature Boy mp3 at Tumblr

WELL, THEY DO HAVE BOOTS

I really wanted to dislike Persephone's Bees. They were just too smartly dressed, a little smooth around the edges. Well thought out, their music too, they just seemed kind of calculated. I gave up on that shit, because when all is said and done, some of their stuff is catchy. "Nice Day" is the one that caught me. I may be partial to it because the pace of it hits me the same way seventies reggae does, and it's not at all reggae. It's poppy, breezy vocals and all of that. But there's do denying it sucked me in.

Persephone's Bees were still on one song probation when I bought the LP. It ended up being another song altogether that really gave them the pass, a cover of Status Quo's "Paper Plane". Think of the Sweet's Desolation Blvd, with a with a woman singer, a singer with a Russian accent. It's good, real good if you like basic inoffensive rockers. But part of it is the source material, Status Quo's original. It was on their Piledriver LP, one that I haven't heard in years. I know I've heard it, many times. My younger brother had it, and it was the only Status Quo album in the house, so it had to have been played a decent amount. Regardless, add another to the revisit list.

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Listen:
Persephone's Bees - Nice Day mp3 at Faux (?)
Video:
Persephone's Bees - Paper Plane at YouTube
Status Quo - Paper Plane at YouTube
Persephone's Bees - City of Love at YouTube

WELCOME HATERS

Above: April March

I'm not a pop nut. One per mix, tops. Feels a little wussy a lot of the time. I'm talking classic pop, too. Spector, Bacharach, Abba, the Rasberries, the whole lot of them. It wears on my sourpuss side. But, when you're in a sourpuss mood, things are getting you down, the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and the fucking Yankees have just won the World Series, just remember, it's all just bullshit. All of it. Even your sacred serious music.

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These suckers sound like Fresca tastes:

The Bees - Chicken Payback mp3

April March - Chick Habit mp3

Persephone's Bees - Nice Day mp3