Current Earworm

Chris Butler, The Devil Glitch

Because I like you, this is the short version, only five minutes long, not the full version, which goes for almost 70 minutes. And yes, I did listen to the long version tonight. Listen to this and you too will be making up verses in your head for the next couple of days, any of which could plausibly be in the song. If I recall correctly, Chris Butler had a contest when this came out that asked people to send in prospective verses, so there's probably a version of this song that runs for days. But hey, the guy wrote Christmas Wrapping; he can whatever the fuck he wants for the rest of his life, and he chose this. Respect.

Link to Chris Butler, The Devil Glitch

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2026

Sir Douglas Quintet, She's About A Mover

The organ in this song, a Vox, is amazing. The man behind it, Augie Myers, died, and since I read it that hook has been banging about in my head. R.I.P. Augie.

Link to Sir Douglas Quintet, She's About A Mover

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2026

Edwin Starr, War

Seems like a good song to be running through my head on a morning where the Orange Menace in the White House just started a war with Iran. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Link to Edwin Starr, War

Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2026

Amy Rigby, Hell-Oh Sixty

We saw Amy Rigby in New Orleans last week in an art gallery that was in a shotgun shack with about 25 people, and it was awesome. Everyone should get to see one of their favorite musicians in a setting like that. It was a combination music performance and reading from her new autobiography, Girl To Country (which covers stuff that happened after the events in her first autobiography, Girl To City). She opened the show with this song from her 2024 album Hang In There With Me. It's a song I loved from the first time I heard it, and it's been stuck in my brain ever since we saw her. As someone in his early sixties, it really resonated with me.

Link to Amy Rigby, Hell-Oh Sixty

Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Darwin Deez, The Bomb Song

I shot a roll of Lomography Lomochrome Turquoise in my Leica R4, which is a false color film that turns the blue sky orange. The shots looked apocalyptic. And they brought this song to mind. I mean, the sky is green in the song instead of orange, but you get the idea. It's been in and our of my ear ever since. It's a catchy little tune about unrequited love in the wake of nuclear war. It seems to fit the times. Sadly, he didn't do a video for this one. He did for several of the other tunes on this album; check out Radar Detector and Constellations.

Link to Darwin Deez, The Bomb Song

Posted on Monday, January 26, 2026