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Certain Songs #2319: Snail Mail – “Valentine”

March 18, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Valentine
Year: 2021

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A couple of years ago, a Twitter reply guy messaged me and asked me if he was correct in assuming that I stopped listening to new music in the 2000s. Because all he knew about me was Certain Songs, and Certain Songs is heavily weighted towards music of the last century. Of couurse, there were more decades in the 1900s than there have been in the 2000s, so that’s part of it, but honestly, it’s mostly music from the 70s-90s that I focus on. You know, music that came out while I was young.

That said, I’ve written about more post-1999 songs than I’ve written about pre-1970 songs, and anybody who knows me knows that i’ve probably listened to more music – a wider variety of artists and genres — in the past two decades than I ever did when I was young. Which might be part of the reason that Certain Songs skews older: the more songs that are in my life — and my curated iTunes library shows 41,000 at this point — the harder it is for a new song to make an impression.

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Certain Songs #1888: The Replacements – “Valentine”

August 10, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Pleased to Meet Me
Year: 1987

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Well you wish upon a star that turns into a plane

The song that Skyway founder Matt Tomich still emails to us every year almost didn’t make it on Pleased to Meet Me. It seems insane now, but according to Bob Mehr’s Trouble Boys, “Valentine” was only added because the original version of the album was barely 28 minutes.

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Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2395: Soundgarden – “A Thousand Days Ago”
  • Certain Songs #2394: Soundgarden – “No Attention”
  • Certain Songs #2393: Soundgarden – “Burden in My Hand”
  • Certain Songs #2392: Soundgarden – “Blow Up The Outside World”
  • Certain Songs #2391: Soundgarden – “Ty Cobb”

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