Tom Waits, “Take It With Me” (1999)
Every great Tom Waits song (of which this is one) will still repulse anyone who doesn’t love Tom Waits.
Johnny Boy, “You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve” (2004)
21 years later and this song still 100% does it for me.
Peach Pit, “Did You Love Somebody” (2024)
This is the kind of melody that absolutely does it for me. 100% completely.
CHVRCHES, “Down Side of Me” (2015)
I had not listened to this in a long while, and that was a big mistake.
Hole, “Boys On The Radio” (1998)
It was really only Rob Harvilla’s repeated championing of this song that ever got me to listen. Thank God. Goddamn perfection right here.