SPEED WEEK part 4: my fave writers' fave fast songs
Beep beeeeeeep speed week continues at a blistering pace. Today we've got the favorite songs of some of my favorite writers (and one of my favorite graphic designers) about music! All of whom you can find on my blogroll...don't forget about the blogroll...
Molly Mary O’Brien
HURRY UP MOLLY ok let's get into it...
"Dragstrip Riot" - New Bomb Turks
from Michele of I Have That On Vinyl:
"When I have adrenaline to spare that I need to work off, I put this on and just go crazy in my living room."
"Got Beat Up" - Weston
from CJ Simonson, editor-in-chief of Merry-Go-Round Magazine
"Here's the thing: If you're gonna get beat up on Friday and Saturday, you may as well not wallow in it too much. At 36 seconds, Weston clearly aren't ones for lingering on High School bullies, and you shouldn't be either."
"A Life's a Life" - Disrupt
from Eli Enis of Chasing Sundays:
"A couple years ago a podcaster I like said, "If you don't like Disrupt then what the fuck is wrong with you?" So I listened to Disrupt, and now there's no longer anything wrong with me."
“Song for a Future Generation” - The B-52s
from Charlie Baker, half of We Take Manhattan:
"All You Need" - Sublime
from Jay Papandreas of A Collective Feeling:
"I listen to a lot of fast music. I gravitate toward quick albums with quicker songs, but almost to the point that "fast" isn't a defining dynamic of the music, it's just a given. And so I'm submitting a very fast Sublime song about a short tour the band took back in the day. Quiet as kept, I love this band and I love this ode to driving extremely fast across Texas, especially how it captures the frantic rush out the door of wherever they stayed the night before and the long, straight drives across the american southwest."
"Sue Me" - Audrey Hobert
from Karly Ramnani, founder of Playlists & Polaroids
"Wet Dream War Machine" - The Locust
from Luke Phillips, Merry-Go-Round Magazine contributor
“Scorched Earth Policy” - Total Con [Eleven-Song Cassette; 2024; Unlawful Assembly/Brainrotter]
from Evan Minsker, operator of see/saw:
"There are so many fast punk and hardcore songs I hold dear (subscribe to see-saw.fun and the Punk This Week podcast!), but among the best contemporary purveyors of intense, radical, relentless rippers is Bobby Cole of the UK band Total Con. Eleven-Song Cassette is only fast, but when “Scorched Earth Policy” starts, it reaches an emboldening new gear that pours gasoline on an already ungovernable grease fire."
Switchblade Alvarez
"everybodysgonnawannadance with me" - Valentino Khan
from Arielle Gordon (creator of Drug Music; reallygordon on Substack)
"Herz an Herz" - Blümchen
from Wagner Koop (musician / videographer / graphic designer who designed the I Enjoy Music feature image template!)
"いますぐ輪廻（Retry Now)" - NAKISO feat. Hatsune Miku
from Mick Reed of I Thought I Heard A Sound:
"This Nakiso track featuring the virtual idol Hatsune Miku really spoke to me when it dropped last year, not only because of the visceral nature of the production, with its bright yet slippery melodies, cortisol-pumping percussion and tortuously bendy bass, but also because of the narrative it casts: that of a dazzling nightmare where the listener is trapped in an endless loop of tenderness and violence by a magical digital antagonist, an adorable fiend who can't bear to let go of the object of her affection, or restrain herself from murdering them in a premeditated, jealous rage, all presented in the form of an infinitely looping dating sim- a portrayal of romance in the digital age that underscores both its limitless possibilities, as well as the scornful dependency that can materialize between humankind and machine."
"Breathless - Warren Club Remix" - The Corrs
from Nicole Tremaglio of Nicstalgia:
"In the movie of my life, this song would be playing as I rode off into the sunset."
Thank you speed freaks! Come back tomorrow for a beautiful and brisk playlist to call your own.
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