‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: September 2025
A pleasingly-eclectic month. (Pleasing and eclectic to me. YMMV. Let me know.)
Proof that their last one wasn’t a fluke:
A Rorschach Test Song For You: What do you think?:
Best Band In America? Suitably strange as well:
For those of you new to Georgia Maq and perhaps the musical DNA of this blog, this song from her band Camp Cope remains my favorite primal scream I’ve heard from long-ignored female artists. ‘It’s another man telling us we can’t fill up the room , it’s another man telling us to book a smaller venue’:
Jeff Tweedy salutes Syracuse University’s coolest alum:
‘Elderberry Wine’ is a great song. This one reassures us that the entire album is likely to be great (it is):
1. Liam Kazar – I like this best of the folkish tunes and a nice discovery. Thanks.
2. Jeff Tweedy – A pleasant surprise from a band I had gotten a little tired of.
3. Belair Lip Bombs – But I like the other song a little better.
Also:
Best artist name – Algernon Cadwallader.
Best use of pinball machines – Ramona and the Holy Smokes. Catchy song, too.
Best band with a name like a band I like better – Geese (not jam band Goose).
Best response to the Rorschach test – Mine, of course. Or maybe it’s the worst response. Anyway, I find Hannah Frances and the song kind of boring.
Best hat – Belair Lip Bombs
Most reliable veteran band – Whitney..
Worst teeth – The guy at the beginning of the KeyiaA video. I like the song except for the spoken word part at the end. For me, spoken word in a song breaks the mood.
One of my college roommates was a music major for a spell. For one of his compositions he wrote a song, cut it into individual bars and reassembled them at random by throwing the I Ching. It sounded a lot like the Hannah Frances song – a conventional melody interrupted at odd points by dissonance.
I don’t remember what grade he got.
I liked THIS Belair Lip Bombs song better.
Because I think that a Keith Richards guitar riff(-off) makes any song better.
As to KeyiaA, I’ve become much more receptive to spoken word raps.
Thanks, as always, for your feedback.
I think in an actual rap song the words don’t interrupt anything. They’re kind of the point. But for me spoken word in a regular song stops the flow. The words often seem pretentious to me as well, or just not very interesting. The same words as lyrics connected to a song don’t feel like that so much. Besides, it’s easy to ignore them and just focus on the music.
I strongly agree that a Keith Richards guitar riff is always a good thing.
I’m still listening. I think I underrated the Geese song and the one by Wednesday. I’m liking Ramona and the Holy Smokes more and more.
Once you get drawn in, there’s no escape–until next month’s list.