“Me & Magdalena” is a song from The Monkees 50th-anniversary LP Good Times! released in 2016. The Monkees turned creative control over to lifelong fans of the group, like producer Adam Schlesinger and songwriters like Rivers Cuomo, Paul Weller, and Noel Gallagher. The result is, improbably enough, the greatest album of the 2010s by a Sixties band, highlighted by the achingly gorgeous love ballad “Me & Magdalena,” by Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. The voices of Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz blend together as perfectly as they did in the Sixties. And now with decades of wisdom and tough loss underneath their glossy exterior (beloved members Peter Tork and Davy Jones are no longer with us), they somehow mean more than ever.
“I Can’t Give Everything Away” is a song by English musician David Bowie. It is the seventh and final track on his twenty-sixth studio album, Blackstar (2016), and was released posthumously as the album’s third and final single in April 2016. The track was written by David Bowie and was produced by both him and Tony Visconti. Prior to issue as a posthumous single, “I Can’t Give Everything Away” peaked at number 45 on the Swiss Hitparade chart; number 141 in the UK; and number 142 in the France. The song contains a similar harmonica part to that of “A New Career in a New Town”, an instrumental from Bowie’s 1977 album Low.
“The Wire” is the fourth single from American rock band Haim’s debut studio album, Days Are Gone (2013), released in the United Kingdom in September 2013. The song had previously been released on US radio. The song peaked at number 16 in the UK, and at number 25 on the Billboard. It also went platinum in Australia.. The song ranked highly at number 6 on Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks of 2013 list. It was number 16 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Best Songs of 2013 list.[5] A music video to accompany the release of “The Wire” was first released onto YouTube in August 2013. The video features an appearance from comedian Jorma Taccone. The song features a significant sample from Heartache Tonight by The Eagles.
“Avant Gardener” is a song by Australian singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett taken frist her first recording The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas released in 2013. On the 100-degree day she looked out her window in Melbourne, Australia, and decided to clean up her backyard before the neighbours concluded she and her girlfriend were running a meth lab, Barnett was running her own label out of her bedroom and working as a bartender. The indie-rock talking blues she wrote about it would change all that. Her account of an ordinary day where first it’s a struggle to get out of bed and then a struggle to keep breathing is juiced by one bit of fiction — her asthma attack wasn’t solved by a Pulp Fiction-like adrenaline shot to the heart — as well as her extraordinary outside-the-lines guitar noise. More than a million YouTube views later, she’d booked a spot on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and a Coachella gig.
“Mariners Apartment Complex” is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey, released in September 2018, through Polydor Records, as the first single from her sixth studio album (2019). The song was written and produced by Del Rey and musician Jack Antonoff, with whom Del Rey would later go on to frequently collaborate. The song received acclaim from music critics. Billboard’s Starr Bowenbank wrote that the song “features Del Rey’s lush vocals against a beautiful backdrop of country-influenced guitar work, with her singing in wondrous whispers and dreamy layered harmonies about a beautiful, yet tumultuous, romance.” It was a minor hit around Europe and in the US, peaking at No. 79 in the UK.
