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Certain Songs #2738: Tobin Sprout – “It’s Like Soul Man”

November 19, 2023 by Jim Connelly Leave a Comment

Album: Carnival Boy
Year: 1996

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I mean, imagine being the other songwriter in Guided by Voices.

While Tobin Sprout, who showed up full-time for 1992’s Propeller — perhaps not coincidentally their first great album — got some co-writing credits and even solo writing credits on albums like Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes he was always going to be overwhelmed by the insanely prolific Robert Pollard, who has written approximately 2,674,887 songs in the past 35 years or so.

Certain Songs #1303: Neko Case – “Man”

August 25, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Year: 2013

Over the years Neko Case has sung from the perspective of all sorts of exotic creatures: tornadoes, tigers, tides, but on 2013’s stellar The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, she personifies the most exotic creature of all: a man.

In what’s probably her most rocking song ever, Neko takes a look at gender stereotypes and with guitars blazing, is her typical unsparing self.