Wussy has been slowly releasing songs ahead of the release of their first new album in 6 years.
Sure as the Sun has caught my ear. I’ve listened to it more than a few times since discovering it yesterday.
On my downtime today…. I drew a few sketches for it. Nothing big or time consuming, I’m just tired and lack energy for much else so a few sketches eat up the time.
On several occasions in my life I have randomly held onto a cd that I really had no interest in listening to. I think the best case for this was from my youth, when randomly the BMG CD Club sent me Pablo Honey by Radiohead. When someone visiting the house said they were I put it in the cd player and never looked back.
So yesterday driving home I was tired and looking for something to keep me awake. I grabbed the cd’s in the door of my car and came upon Oh My Me. I had picked up the cd with Wussy and Sundresses from a Kickstarter campaign last year. I love Wussy (they are amazing, check them out) and the Sundresses impressed the hell out of me as well. But Oh My Me, I had no clue who they were, and their cd was in a plastic sleeve looking a little underwhelming.
But wanting something new to keep me up I threw the cd in the car. The first song was blew me away. Sounding both old jazz/bluesy and yet something altogether different at the same time. I was awake and involved in the music for the next 20 minutes til I arrived at home. A quick search and purchase later and I had a live album to along with the cd I already had.
Life is good. I’ve got new music to listen to. And that’s always a good thing.
The right music to wake up to is important.
Nothing crazy is my motto. Smooth into melody.
I think I’ve hit the nail on the head with this one. Maybe a little too good. I’ve got the perfect morning song that ends up stuck in my head for at least an hour each morning after I wake up. And as Sam can attest, if more than one second of the alarm plays before my lightening quick morning reflexes shut off the alarm, it has been a bad morning.
I once almost punched a girlfriend when she accidentally played the same song I used for an alarm late at night while I was sleeping. She was awake in bed and was trying to put a show or movie on the laptop (I can sleep through that and just about anything else) and played the song instead. I sat up immediately and snatched my arm out to shut off the alarm and almost gave her a black eye.
Anyways. Stories aside, this one song has been what I wake up to on workdays for the last year or so.
I’ve had this Wussy song stuck in my head all day.
Its called Blood and Guts, and is from an album called Rigor Mortis a few years old.
(Verse)
If someday you’ll land somewhere safely
Send me back a mal
The flights have all been grounded lately
Landing in my lap
(Chorus)
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
(Verse)
Time’s up, party is over
Guess the filing passed
All laid out beneath the clover
Happiness at last
(Chorus)
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
(Verse)
If someday you’ll land somewhere safely
Send me back a mal
The flights have all been grounded lately
Landing in my lap
(Chorus x2)
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
Blood and guts, blood and guts
Blood and guts, let’s go waiting
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Save someone, save someone
Blood and guts
Its way better than you think. The lyrics don’t do the song justice, although, like most songs it is better once you know the lyrics.
Anyways, do yourself a favor, and go listen to the song here. You can download a whole album of rarities called Berneice Huff and Son, Bill Sings Popular Favorites.
Weird title, awesome album.
Unsurprisingly I am pretty tired this morning.
Yesterday was the first day of work since December 20th. I still have trouble falling asleep before midnight. If you don’t count twenty minute naps on the couch at 7:45. That was pretty unavoidable. I laid down holding my iPad above me reading the news and woke up twenty minutes later with the iPad on my chest having passed out.
Not that I was upset, but I spent the rest of the night in a haze waiting to sleep, crawled into bed just before 11 and then BAM… wide awake. Or mostly awake. Around one am I feel asleep.
This morning I even got to sleep in some (woke up at 6:30) and was dragging pretty good.
Tomorrow is going to be busy too. Ikea trip with Sam’s parents tomorrow morning and afternoon (and probably evening) and then a Wussy concert in the even. Sunday though…. Sunday I can pass out and sleep forever.
Wussy.
Saturday night.
Beachland Ballroom.
I’ll be there.
You should be too.
