Life is complicated and busy. Did you notice? Keeping up with the music, movies and books that fed your youthful imagination and conversations is harder than ever, but even more important. Here's the good news: there's never been more great new stuff. The challenge is to find it.

So here are my highly opinionated views on sounds, sights and words that will help you keep it fresh and real, and links to the veins where the richest motherlodes can be found.

Feed your head.
- JumpingFlashJack

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Favorite Songs of 2019

Here are the ones that were on repeat in my house, car and headphones this crazy year. Surprise! This works as a playlist, too.

Tame Impala, Borderline
Kevin Parker getting quietly jiggy with it.



Brittany Howard, Stay High
Lordy, can this woman sing.


Toro y Moi,  Ordinary Pleasure
He tore up this song and its deathless hook at Brooklyn Steel.



Faye Webster, Come to Atlanta
Doing that funky, jazzy thing.




H.E.R., Hard Place 
Sweet heartbreak for the slow dance or the last call.



Jai Paul, He
He released a bunch of tracks he called "unfinished."  Not this one.


Solange, Stay Flo
Just a groove but what a groove.



Billie Ellish, Bad Guy
This year's 17 year-old prodigy.  Scary.



Kaytranda & Van Jess, Dysfunctional 
Sometimes a simple ambition is all you need: make 'em dance.



Haim, Summer Girl
A top down song that opens with a drum riff from G. Love and then sneaks in a Lou Reed sample? Sign me up for that.



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