Heavy Rotation: Heroin, the Duke Spirit, Cher and More!

It's like Entertainment Day at nogoodforme.com, but don't worry -- we'll have more pretty pictures of what's coming out of Milan later tonight. Until then, skew yourself solid with a whiplash mix that veers from pure noise to sweetest 60s-flavored pop to a honey-voiced indie ballad. It's at the usual place, right there at the top right of our homepage. Enjoy!

Heroin, "In General"
Someday, someone will write an big important book on the importance of mid-90s Gravity Records bands within some slipstream yet oddly influential strand of cultural history. Till then, why not experience one of the great post-hardcore bands on that label? Crash and burn, stasis, crash and burn, stasis, repeat with even more inexpressible angst...somewhere out there, some boy in tight pants and a hoodie is weeping furiously. (Kat)

Cher, "I Go To Sleep"
We all know about disco-era Cher, winning an Oscar for Moonstruck- era Cher, G-string bodysuit on a Navy ship-era Cher, etc. But what about pre-Sonny & Cher-era Cher? Well, first there was "Ringo, I Love You", released under the name Bonnie Jo Mason, her cashing-in-on-Beatlemania Ringo-worship cantata- a fun novelty, though severely lacking in the, um, goodness department. Then came a series of solo records (All I Really Want to Do, Cher, The Sonny Side of Cher) that are alternately rollicking, sulky and angelic-- this song is all three. Utterly perfect. (Laura)

The Duke Spirit, "Wooden Heart"
I have really fond memories of driving around to the acoustic demo of this song while out on a coffee run one sweltry morning two summers ago in Florida. Now this version's on The Duke Spirit's new record, Neptune, and it's not as dreamy as the demo but I still love it just fine. Leila Moss is a honey-limbed lovely, as Natalie Portman would say in Beautiful Girls. (Liz)

The La's, "I Can't Sleep"
Riffy, hooky, and as absolutely Brit as a glass of blackcurrant Ribena on a rainy afternoon. In a perfect world, this song would have been the theme song to Friends, or at least Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane. Instead the way inferior "There She Goes" has been plaguing the world via Verizon Wireless commercials and Movie of the Weeks since I was born. (Laura)

Opus III, "It's a Fine Day"
I just realized that for the past 15 or so years I've been picturing the vocalist on "It's a Fine Day" to look exactly like the shiny, bug-eyed witch woman from the second half of the video for "Stay" by Shakespeare's Sister. My only explanation is that both songs came out in '92, and both were discovered by me via the once-legendary Providence radio station WBRU. Also: WHAT IS WITH THE "STAY" VIDEO? Nothing is ever that weird these days. Nostalgia consumes me yet again. (Liz)

Madonna, "I Deserve It"
I think this is one of the sweetest Madonna songs ever. For such a starry-eyed lyric, it is also inexplicably melancholy and modest, which imbues the whole thing with a quality not often found in the icon's oeuvre: a sort of twilight-hour mystery and prettiness. Dean and Britta did a limp cover of this on some record or another and almost ruined the song for me, but I'll never let those hussies take Madonna from me. Plus it's easy to play on guitar! (Kat)

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