How Apollo Sunshine's "Singing To the Earth" Can Make Your Day

Sweet Talk

From the brain flow of Paste's Editor At Large:

Some nefarious music hounds from Decatur twisted my outsized ego into creating a dialogue littered with opinionated recommendations and myopic rants. Therefore, to put a smidgen of decency back into nepotism, I have stolen the title "Sweet Talk" in homage of my father who had a weekly sports and leisure column of the same in the early 70's that was syndicated in several small town newspapers in the land the gods made great, New England (sans Connecticut of course). Luckily this space will focus more on sporting leisure, my favorite kind.

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As most know, I'm a pure Masshole and thus take great pride in our homestate musical bretheren. Heck, my first concert was J. Geils Band at the Worcester Centrum. It does not get much more MA-centric than that does it? While "Whammer Jammer" always puts a smile on my face, it's another Boston band which always pulls me out of a truly sour mood, Apollo Sunshine. Their musical soma first hit me on a particularly decripd day a few years back. The song was "Today is the Day," major chord calamity with just enough Violent Femmes chutzpa to knead out any of the nasty. It's still atop my "F#$% Smile" playlist. Having survived another trainwreck of a day yesterday, I discovered, "Singing To the Earth (To Thank Her For You)." So this is me thanking Apollo Sunshine for thanking the Earth on my behalf, and this is me offering you a way out of a crappy day. Watch this: