Gomez

Album: In Our Gun
Year: 2002

Normally, I start thinking about the songs I’m going to write about a few weeks before I actually write about them. I’ve got a Google doc entitled “Certain Songs,” which is a list of potential candidates and often during my morning workout, I use it to go down a YouTube rabbit hole with those candidates.

So, for example, when I got to Gomez a few weeks ago, I was absolutely sure I was going to write about a few of their songs: things like “Revolutionary Kind,” “Get Miles,” “Drench,” “Silence” and “Nothing is Wrong” were all considered for inclusion.

But when it actually became time to write about Gomez, I really didn’t have much to say about them.

The Hold Steady, Wiltern, Los Angeles, Nov. 25, 2008

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done one of these, but I’m back!! In black. (Which is a terrible choice, because it’s, like, 150 degrees today.)

This time, on Musical Moments to Die For, we have two of the greatest cover versions of two of the greatest songs ever recorded; druggy people writing songs about their drug problems, and casual rockstar sexism.

We also have the usual 80’s indie obscurity, and run the gamut from catchy artsy sophistication to catchy dumb-ass stomping crapola.

This is the eighth in a series: The first one had 25, the second one had 24, the third one had 23, the fourth one had 22, the fifth one had 21, and the sixth had 20, and the seventh had 19.

Certain Songs #510: Gomez – “Detroit Swing 66”

18 Musical Moments to Die For