The mood and tone of this song are PEAK late-era Bowie, with what seem to me to be more than a few direct callbacks to Heathen's excellent "Slip Away". And the lyrics here hit particularly hard, given that Bowie wrote them when he knew he was at the very end of his life. I don't believe in an afterlife, but somehow I can imagine that if anyone were to live on in the fabric of the universe, it would be David Bowie.

It's hard to choose one track from this band, but as with the previous track I shared, I find myself drawn to this one because of its frightening appropriateness to our times.

I had this album on the B-side of a tape with Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell on the A-side and I listened to both of them a ton in the summer of 1991. It’s hard to pick a single track off this album because they’re all great, but this song seems appropriate to the current era.

I really liked this album when it came out earlier this year, and I still do, but weirdly, I keep forgetting about it. Like, I remember there is was this album I really liked and I can always picture the album cover, but I can't remember either the band or the album title and I end up having to go back through old posts and my listening history to remind myself what it was. Also strange is that I shouldn't like this album—it's exactly the sort of proggy, overly-fiddling kind of metal that normally turns me off. And yet, it is filled with really great tracks like this one. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

A friend of mine in college had the CD single of this song with all the remixes—that’s how I first heard this band. It’s a great cover, a solid slab of 80s synth-pop, and the band is even from Cleveland! And a bonus fun fact: Trent Reznor was in this band before he created Nine Inch Nails, although I’m pretty sure this album came out after he had departed.

My first real encounter with Duke Ellington was a Musical Heritage Society CD I pilfered from my moms' collection. It was a bunch of his stuff, but conducted by Mercer Ellington. I had just bought my first CD player, had three CDs to my name, and was not in a place to be picky, and so I listened to that CD a lot. Black & Tan was one of my favorites, and I was even more impressed years late when I finally heard this much better rendition.

I love the slow build in this song. Rest of the album is pretty great, too.

I was vaguely aware of this band but had never really listened to them, and had no idea that Edwyn Collins was in it. The overall album is okay, but this song rips.

Crack the Skye was—I think—the last great Mastodon record, and my favorite in their catalog. Their subsequent work has been fine, but for me, this album was where they really nailed it.

This track is the perfect example. It’s epic and crushing. The transition at ~3:40 mark really nails it.

Seems apropos right now on several different levels. It’s also one of my favorite tracks on one of my favorite albums.