Welcome to the Weekly Fiver, where I’ll pick five recently released songs of varying degrees of quality and thoroughly break them down for you. No two songs will be on the same tier, and they’ll be listed from best to worst. The top song will be an excellent must-hear tune, while the bottom song will be one you ought to stay away from or else you will make your ears sad. It’s all very scientific.
Top Five Side Projects You’ve Definitely Forgotten About
Sometimes one band isn’t enough for someone, so they go off and do another music thing.
Sometimes the other music thing is good.
Sometimes it’s bad.
Sometimes it’s just like… what.
Here are a bunch side projects from big names in music that made an impact on radio, then promptly vanished and are almost never spoken of anymore. The radio made a big huge deal out of them and then they went FWOOOSH and were gone, even though most of them were kind of okay, if incredibly inessential.
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Product Review: Hawaiian Tropics Sunblock
This stuff is great! It protects you from getting crispy skin when you’re working in the sun all day and it smells nice and reminds you of the old times too. Definitely use it and then drive with your arm out the window under a clear blue sky with a warm breeze all the way to the beach.
I hope everyone has a great Saturday! Here is a song that is good for today.
Millennial Masterpieces #3: Snow Patrol – [Eyes Open]
Welcome to Millennial Masterpieces, where I’ll look back at a great album released within the past 17 years and see what its legacy is. Third in the series is the chart-topping and quietly brilliant breakthrough album from UK balladeers Snow Patrol, Eyes Open.
Released: May 9th, 2006
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Graphic Novel Review: Mid-Life by Joe Ollmann
Ollmann‘s (almost totally) unfiltered comic autobiography is incredibly candid, to the point where applying a little gloss may have been helpful. Everything from the dialogue to the story to the art itself is unabashedly uncensored; it’s self-awareness taken to the max.
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