(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn’t a Problem) by Car Seat Headrest.
Even if this song is somehow not relatable for you, it’s relatable. Of everything I like about Car Seat Headrest, my favorite thing is that this kid is literally from here, like, the next town over from where I live, and lived around here while my family lived around here, and like, maybe I know people that know his parents or whatever. And it’s fun to get a nice angsty view of the suburbs where you live and know that the kid who wrote this song was referring to a finite number of high schools and cops and characters, and it’s not hard to imagine them playing their roles in the continuing suburban melodrama, and even then, it’s a nice familiar story.
(And honestly after like 60 seconds of Googling, I really do probably know people who know his parents, and they seem like good folks and his biggest fans.)
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Sometimes, like last night, I really have to listen to the song before/during recording to get certain parts “right” enough to be happy with them, or to kinda fact check the melody, but most nights, as you may have noticed, I don’t even pretend to bother with it, and then it’s a fun surprise to see if I did certain parts more or less like the record.
A fresh set of acoustic strings arrived this evening, but not before I had begun work on this with multiple electric tracks, and hey, just a reminder, playing electric guitar is lots of fun.