ThreeTuneTuesday: Tranquillity

ThreeTuneTuesday: Tranquillity | Ecency

Hello music lovers! 🎵 🎧 🎵

My new post for #threetunetuesday. As usual, something always prompts me to this post, whether it's a memory or a flash in my head, or some music I'm listening to at the moment.
I decided to write about these songs during the weekend when I was listening to some older music I have on my playlists.

I remember, I wonder if anyone remembers the audio cassettes? Even back then I was doing playlists or mixes from turntables to cassettes, and then from one cassette to another, so I bought a double cassette player and recorder, and then CDs came along, and we were burning our mixes to CDs, and then USB sticks, and now streaming services...

Well, at the moment I've got a phone full of music and some of my playlists that I've copied from USB sticks, but I'm getting ready for a change in the sense that I'm now making playlists on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Bandcamp and streaming them to my audio devices through the apps on my phone.

And what was I trying to say?
Yes, I realized that the vast majority of my older playlists have 3 songs, one after the other!
Let's say that in this sequence, they kind of calm me down, and then I realize my impermanence...

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Yo La Tengo - Be Thankful For What You Got

Yo La Tengo has been with me since sometime in the mid-1990s, has been around for almost 40 years, and has recently released a new album.
This song is a cover of a song by William DeVaughn, the R'n'B singer, which was a big hit in 1974. Their version was released in 1997 on the EP Little Honda.
I don't know what other people feel, but the melancholy I feel when I listen to it makes me look inside myself and think about my past life. (Of course, the song is not too long, because I'd fall into some kind of depression, haha)...

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The Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream

I wouldn't waste words on Stranglers, for me they are one of the best rock bands of all time. This song is from their 1982 album Feline when they started experimenting with electronica; some fans of their harder sound think it's too "pop", but I like it.
There's melancholy and transcendence in this song too, a kind of semi-wakeful state with a steady rhythm and bass, a synth-jazz melody in the background, and the hushed vocals of former singer and guitarist Hugh Cornwell. Sounds very European.

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Queens Of The Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu

I won't even introduce QOTSA because they are a very well-known band. This song was first played in the Desert Sessions, a collective formed by QOTSA frontman Josh Homme and his guests (some of the musicians I know were P.J. Harvey, Mark Lanegan - Screaming Trees, who has sadly passed away, and Nick Oliveri - Kyus). It was released on QOTSA's album "Era Vulgaris" in 2007.
A nostalgic reflection on an intimate relationship between a man and a woman that has come to an end, with the desire to keep going... a never-ending story.

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As I mentioned before, one after the other, I liked these three songs in a playlist. For those of you who don't know these songs, I hope you like them, and for those of you who do, also.

Well, if you're interested in other playlists, I can share you links to my Spotify #newtunes annual playlists - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

This was my post for the #threetunetuesday initiated by @ablaze.