March, by all accounts, should have been a month in which I listened a lot to music. After all, I had my prostate cancer surgery on the 6th and, for the most part, have been taking it easy at home recovering from it. But it's not as simple as it used to be when I was younger and we had a number of radio stations to easily tune in to for the current hits. Let's see, back in 1973 my songs of the month for January, February and March were You're So Vain (by Carly Simon), Love and Happiness (by Al Green) and Hummingbird (by Seals and Crofts). In this digital information era it should be easier to find good rotations of current hits...but other than Gainesville's local pop music station WYKS ("Kiss 105"), which plays a lot of (in my opinion) insipid, uninteresting music, there is no alternative rock station playing today's songs...and I'm just not attuned to country or hip-hop...although I kind of dig songs that fuse them with rock. True, 100.5 WHHZ plays alternative rock, but they're focused more on past hits, as are other local classic rock and oldies stations. Instead, I have been relying on channels on my Amazon Music account. Here's my list of favorites for March '25, overlapping quite a lot with the ones from the previous two months:
1 UNDER THE RUG by Arcy Drive
2 STARBURSTER by Fontaines DC
3 ZERO SUM by the Smile
4 BESTIES by Black Country, New Road
5 EVERYONE OUT by Diiv
Under the Rug has a magnetic, old-time rock sound to it...nice to hear that hasn't completely fallen by the wayside. But if I were to pick a "song of the year" for 2025 so far, it would have to be Starburster...
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