![]() ![]() “Maggot Brain” begins with a disarming spoken word introduction followed by ten minutes of the most soulful guitar work I had ever heard.or have ever heard. I’d barely dipped my toe in the water of psychedelia, and even less in instrumental music… which explains why this song felt so revelatory when I’d first experienced it. ![]() ![]() I first heard “ Maggot Brain” in middle school knowing nothing of George Clinton, Parlament-Funkadelic, or even rock as a whole for that matter. To this day, “Sunday Candy” still has the power to make my day a little bit better merely by its presence. My first listen of the song left me breathless, tearful, and overjoyed. These expressions of love are all wrapped around a sunny, infectious chorus courtesy of Jamila Woods that radiates with happiness and a vibrant zeal for life. As my first listen came to a close, the record began to wrap up with the penultimate “ Sunday Candy,” a bright and loving gospel track that finds Chance reminiscing about his grandmother’s role in his life. The record is a joyous, warm, and creative outpouring that’s filled to the brim with collaborative spirit. Surf wasn’t quite the Acid-Rap follow-up I was expecting, but it ended up being a release I enjoyed nonetheless. I downloaded the album, grabbed a couple of hard ciders, and spent the evening in my backyard listening to Surf on a night that was just warm enough to enjoy without a jacket. Making sure to savor every ounce of this new release, I wanted to ensure my first listen was special. Released under the name “Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment,” Surf was a collaborative project that combined the artistic powers of Chance The Rapper, trumpeter Nico Segal, and a host of other Chicago musicians. Suddenly on a late May evening in 2015, an album called Surf was uploaded to iTunes for free. Two years after Acid Rap had cemented itself in my life, I was eagerly waiting to see what Chance the Rapper would do next. While that playlist still receives some regular updates, the top 15 or so haven’t changed in a number of years, so I figured why not highlight all of these tracks in one place to celebrate the site’s recent milestone? Without further adieu, I’m excited to share my 15 favorite songs of all time. My desktop has a 100+ song playlist of my favorite songs all meticulously organized, ordered, and ranked. Instead, I’ve decided I’m going to do a write-up on something straightforward but important: my favorite songs of all time. This January I celebrated all of the site’s recent achievements, and of course, the Favorites page has an ongoing list of our best articles, so I didn’t really want to focus on the blog from either of those perspectives. I’ve got dozens of different ideas for articles jotted down in digital notes across various devices, but it felt ingenuine to put up “just another” write-up as my one-hundredth post. It has just the right mix of clutter and harmony and escapism.With this post, Swim Into The Sound has officially reached 100 articles! I’ll admit between the dreary weather and burnout at work I’ve felt less than inspired to post here regularly this year, however 100 blog posts is a big deal, and I wanted to make sure that I did it justice. Well, heck, “Bad Days” is pretty much a song you will love. But if you have an open mind, if you like stomping beats, ringing chimes, splashy drums, bouncy bass parts, fuzzy guitars, choruses you can sing along with, lyrics that are easy to remember. It’s like the ultimate in lazy, grumpy teenaged yelping. Coyne’s (purposefully) awkward vocal approach. Our bad days go away, our concerns evaporate.Īnd the sound! The sound, my friends. We can travel planets, we can do anything. “You have to sleep late when you can, and all your bad days will end.” Dreams, the escape from what we have to the fantasy world where we can not only be what we want to be, but where we don’t even have to be limited to that. “You’re sorta stuck where you are / but in your dreams, you can buy expensive cars or live on Mars / and have it your way.” Who among us doesn’t dream of having it our way, every once in a while? It’s quirky and universal at the same time. And “Bad Days” is such a happy, upbeat, celebratory song of sleeping, breaking out of the grind and doing what you want to do within the safety of dreams. ![]() We all have those “take this job and shove it” moments. I think that describes Emily’s and my antics fairly well! It is daffy, it is hilarious, it is human. And sometimes this song almost feels like a soundtrack to that. Sometimes Emily and I can get a bit goofy, we’ll babble to ourselves or at each other. These are the discussions Emily and I have had.īut put on “Bad Days,” and all is forgiven. ![]()
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