While probably the bulk of the Bar-Kays output is more like the Minneapolis and Rick James kind of synth-heavy sound, Holy Ghost is one of those older-style funk jams that makes you understand why everyone says a song “goes hard”. The thumping is incredible.
Came upon it while letting youtube feed me stuff seeded by Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome, which remains my canonical alternative soundtrack to grinding out Eggmanland in Sonic Unleashed.
“Stupid (Can’t run from the urge” - underscores
cannae believe this didn’t make it onto the main album bc it’s probably the best pop song i’ve ever heard
Been listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Opus the last few days. Definitely not tearing up in the office listening to this.
pardon the double post but this is stuck in my head
recommend headphones as the baseline is so good
I LOVE LOUIS COLE SO MUCH !!!
also… here’s my song of the day:
OH HELL YEAH love some nick lutsko, “sometimes” off that same album got me through a real hard time in my life.
“Vampire Disco” - Friday Pilots Club
i’m seeing them live in october!! 
From earlier this month but near constant rotation for me:
ok listen this has been stuck in my head for days
There is apparently a studio version of this in the works which is one of the reasons it’s hanging on my mind lately but there’s something weirdly compelling about it. Occasionally burst into random bits of singing “roooOOOOOYP VAAAAH stellUB / stellUB RAfas”
YOOOOOO i was at a tmbg concert last year where they did that too, it BANGED!!!
and to stay on topic, “Got The Autism” by Mattstagraham
“muteKi you can’t just say everything reminds you of otherside picnic. you can’t say a fuckin book about soccer is like otherside picnic”
oh yeah? you don’t understand how easy this is. just watch me
calls up 844-387-6962
(to be clear – that is the current dial-a-song service number, and this is the song that you get by calling the number today)
BANG DREAM MENTIONED
they might be two for two but that’s not what I’m here to post
Off the Mike’s Murder soundtrack, new-waver Joe Jackson writers a song that interpolates Knucklehead by the Bar-Kays (who I didn’t make the focus of this post so as to not post the same band almost twice in a row) by way of the more modern stylings of the Spencer Davis Group