SONG OF THE DAY

[neumunki]

This song is important to me. It recalls a time (1997)when my friend Dave and I would sit around in my bedroom tirelessly recording covers and 2 minute impromptu pop songs on my old tape recorder. Piles and piles of audio cassettes. We must have covered this song a million times because we loved it so much. My friend Sam had just left for school in... Boston? The plan was to record a version of this song every week and mail it to him. We did ended up only sending him two. It was a weird beautiful sweet time and this is, to me, one of the more beautiful and sweet songs of that era of 90's indie pop. The album version was a more overtly produced affair with drums and a full band sound and it is the one I am more familiar to this. I found this on a music blog recently, this 7" version which is decidedly more lo-fi with just the singer and a guitar and some backing vocals. The way it sounds and the song itself make it one of the most transcendentally nostalgic things I've heard in a long time. A person in their bedroom recording intimate and important music for themselves. And the song is still beautiful. So here's the 7" version. Enjoy.
"Spying On the Spys (7" version)" by Portastic