BrightestYoungThings: BYT Favorite Song of the Day

So my mom got an ipod a couple months back. She used to have no taste in music, seemingly oblivious to all pop culture in the past 60 years, until one day she discovered top 40 country and hasn't looked back since. I've slowly been able to bring her back from the dark side with some carefully selected mix tapes and she's now a bonafide Joe Jackson and Vampire Weekend fan. I've decided this Christmas was the time to completely take over her iTunes with a massive infusion of Cale. I picked up an external hard drive and got to work, and well, got a little carried away 4,083 songs later. I came across the The Cars self titled debut album from 1978 and had forgotten how truly great an album it is, NY Times critic Robert Palmer summed it up well: "they have taken some important but disparate contemporary trends—punk minimalism, the labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend." I doubt she's ever even heard a song from it, and probably won't like it, but it's going on there.

And then I went outside and shoveled snow off mine and my girls car for 5 hours and died. Here's Just What I Needed.

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Also how great is this Garmin commercial!