HiT Picks #7: Music is Candy Listener’s Choice II

by Elisa Zuckerberg, Founder of HearItThere.com

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The “HiT Picks: Music is Candy” blog series began with a basic concept. There are songs that we can listen to over and over to and every time we hear them, elicit strong emotions or make us feel pure joy. It could be as simple as a catchy melody or some element that grabs us that is intangible and indescribable. I think of those songs as “candy” for the ears and soul.

In HiT Picks #4 Music is Candy Part I I share my personal selections and in the second installation, HiT Picks Listeners Choice, HearItThere contributors Tom Heany, Erik Rabasca, George Mallas, and Jacque Roche give us their song choices.

HiT Picks #7 Music is Candy Listener’s Choice II brings us selections from artists and creators. Great choices all around! HAVE A LISTEN AND ENJOY!

Jules Zuckerberg is a cartoonist & illustrator and is proud to call HearItThere founder Elisa Zuckerberg their mom.

• Hedwig & the Angry Inch – Wig in a Box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5yGSQE_koQ
• Bomb the Music Industry – Future 86: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_HDT-w5kms
• Brian Eno – King’s Lead Hat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PRnZZaY0I
• The Olivia Tremor Control – Marking Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th0XCFPHrM0
• Sparks – Forever Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V07aNPZfPeU
• Lyn Inaizumi/Persona 5 – Rivers in the Desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD-OFP-0H5g
• My Chemical Romance – Dead!:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-eSP0aEj-Q
• The Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbAab1hTxN4
• New Order – Temptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDv_RTdLQo (Thanks Mom for sharing and singing along with this song with me at a young impressionable age and indoctrinating me into the joy of flamboyant synthy tunes!)

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Brian Larney is a singer-songwriter from CT. 

• Split Enz – Message To My Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxeQoT77so
  Neil Finn! What’s to say? Just incredible.
• Nathaniel Rateliff – All Or Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p7-PVSHwt8
• Gregory Alan Isakov – Southern Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeMrXxIud44
  Two minutes and 39 seconds of sheer sonic bliss.
• Aimee Mann – Save Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0V8CpT0Iow
  This could easily have been one of a dozen other great songs by her. So good!
• ABC – Be Near Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhAgQMqVxiE
  5 minute mark. Just beautiful.
• Michael Penn – Try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox7UOaQffI
  One of the most underrated singer-songwiter of the 80s and 90s.
• The Shins – Simple Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoLTPcD1S4Q
  I’m just a sucker for this song. Totally uplifting and the video is a blast too!
• The Nerves – When You Find Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agB5eYp198o
  These guys were light years ahead of their time. Hard to believe this came out in 1976. They also wrote and performed the first version of “Hanging on the Telephone,” which of course was a big hit for Blondie.
• Partridge Family – Morning Rider on The Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gpxAdYgKI
  Like many of their songs, this is just incredibly well sung, produced and expertly written by Tony Romeo.
• Joni Mitchell – Free Man In Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQj6h8Kpki From the first time I heard this song I was hooked. What great chord changes and melodies, not to mention the clever, autobiographical lyrics. She is a master.

Kristina Koller is an evolving jazz-centric artist songwriter, vocalist and founder of the Feel Good Music Series in Peekskill, New York. Koller’s forthcoming album will be released on Friday, March 18!

• Yebba – How Many Years on Spotify
• Childish Gambino – Redbone on Spotify
• Jordan Rakei – Mind’s Eye on Spotify
• The Jacksons – Blame it on the Boogie on Spotify
• Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver – Exile on Spotify

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