17-year-old girl blogs about music. That's all.

My school day ended a bit early today because some dumb girl lit a soap dispenser in the third floor bathroom on fire.  This happened at around quarter to two, and the day ends at 2:10, so once the firemen saved the day we were free to go.  My friend Dan drove me home because he said had some music to play me.  He asked if I listened to Dr. Dog at all.  I have one Dr. Dog album, Fate, and a few extra songs from mixes and compilations, but aside from that, I haven’t heard any of their stuff (but I do really like Fate).  On the way home, Dan played some songs from their album Easy Beat.  As we pulled on to a main road and neared my house, he had me switch the song that was playing to a track called “Say Something.”  When he pulled onto my street, he reached a crawl so we could hear the end of the song.  So worth it.  The song’s a pretty slow builder, but it’s got a great guitar twang in between the “I gotta know” refrains.  But the part that really hits comes in a little after 4:00 when the band breaks into repeated yelps of “say something!”  It just punches so hard.  One of those refrains that hits in the gut.  Dan’s burning me the whole album, so til then I’ll just be listening to this track via a great fan-made music video.  Check it out here.