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Subtle lift / dust and glowPlaylist noteApr 26, 20263:08 PM

Tones Of Home is the thesis, and Shake Your Groove Thing is the answer waiting on deck.

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. Shake Your Groove Thing is already changing how the current record reads.

Record in focus
Tones Of Home
Blind Melon
Blind Melon · 1992 · Alternative Rock
Lineup note
Tones Of Home into Shake Your Groove Thing

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context
Blind Melon · 1992

Hearing it against Blind Melon matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Tones Of Home by Blind Melon off Blind Melon (1992) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Blind Melon, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for
What to catch in the arrangement

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) instead of crowding the next move.

Blind MelonPeaches And HerbDonna SummerAlternative RockRockClassic Rocksubtle lift / dust and glowgolden afternoondust and glowAlternative Rock
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3 stored song notes
01now
Tones Of Home
Blind Melon
Why it fits

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Blind Melon matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Tones Of Home by Blind Melon off Blind Melon (1992) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Blind Melon, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) instead of crowding the next move.

02next
Shake Your Groove Thing
Peaches And Herb
Why it fits

Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) stays related to Tones Of Home by Blind Melon off Blind Melon (1992) through rock, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves Bad Girls by Donna Summer off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Peaches And Herb, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to Bad Girls by Donna Summer off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) instead of crowding the next move.

03later
Bad Girls
Donna Summer
Why it fits

Bad Girls by Donna Summer off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) stays related to Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) through classic rock, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars.

Track context

Hearing it against Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Bad Girls by Donna Summer off Sounds of the Seventies - '70s Gold (1998) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Donna Summer, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead.

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Mr Rassy is lining up Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991). Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches And Herb off Sounds Of The Seventies - 1979: Take Two (1991) stays related to Tones Of Home by Blind Melon off Blind Melon (1992) through rock, but changes the pocket enough to matter. The transition is earning its place instead of skating by on vibe.