Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.

This is “Stoned and Starving” by Parquet Courts:

Parquet Courts — “Stoned and Starving”

As we all know, the laziest kind of music journalism is to compare a band to another band.  Parquet Courts reminds me a little bit of the Feelies.

A while back Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom tweeted a link to a Feelies bootleg from 1977.  The bootleg is outstanding; they play pretty much all of their 1980 album Crazy Rhythms during the set, so it’s kind of sort of like time traveling not just once, back to 1977, but to the past’s future, 1980. Robert Zemeckis, are you reading this?! I’ve got a great idea!

I passed the link to my old high school classmate Brendan, because the last time I saw Brendan we were talking about the Feelies, who we’d both seen (without seeing each other) in that fancy amphitheater in Millennium Park in Chicago (side note: amphitheater and millennium are both very hard to spell; that’s a top tip for you spelling beers out there) a few nights before.  Last week Brendan returned the favor by telling me about Parquet Courts. Nice things happen when people share!

You can listen to and watch the full performance from which this version of “Stoned and Starving” is taken by clicking here.