John Mayer Band • Page 10

I’ve been wondering when he might put together an actual cohesive record again. Hopefully sometime soon.

 

This is exciting to me. I love his full-blown studio work (and of course his electric guitar), but I've felt a few times lately like he kind of buried a great lyric under a little too much other stuff. For instance, I really think I prefer the live acoustic take of "I Guess I Just Feel Like" to the studio version.

 

So at least a decade late to this observation, but Heavier Things is excellent. It's funny, when this came out, I'd have said the production kinda sounds like a lot of other stuff. But hearing it for the first time now, I actually get a huge nostalgia trigger from something that sounds like this. I knew the hits but the one that really jumps at me is "New Deep"

 

What is the song he sings at the end of this? Sounds gorgeous.

 

He played this when I saw him in 2017.

 

It's the "Minivan Rock" production style! The 50 Greatest Minivan Rock Songs

 

I refused to get all the way through that list because “minivan rock” seemed too derogatory to me and it kept pissing me off. lol

Maybe I should revisit

 

Haha, yeah, I remember tweeting something like "Not sure whether to feel seen or attacked by this list," and the guy who organized it messaged back and assured me the "minivan rock" name was tongue-in-cheek and the entire list was compiled with genuine love for these songs/artists.

 

Haha the info you can get when you're a celebrated critic.

 

Room For Squares turns 20 today

 

Wrote about "Wheel" for the fourth entry in the "My Life In 35 Songs" series.

My Life In 35 Songs, Track 4: “Wheel” by John Mayer

 

13 years since born and raised today.
(Sometimes I think it’s his best.)

 

walt grace's submarine test is one of my all time fave JM songs. album rocks.

 

Man, I have such fond memories of when that album came out. Summer rolling in and those tunes. Great, great album. Continuum is my clear number 1, but Born and Raised is a strong second.

 

You know what records have some great songs? The Search for Everything and Paradise Valley. I know we downgrade them because they’re not cohesive statements but I had a ball today running through different tracks.

Rosie
Roll It On Home
Dear Marie
Paper Doll
In The Blood
Moving On And Getting Over
Badge and Gun
You’re No One Till Someone Lets You Down
Still Feel Like Your Man
Wildfire
Helpless
On The Way Home

 

Yeah, there's a bunch of good stuff on both of those records. I wish they held together better as albums. I re-sequenced Search and felt like that mostly saved it for me. Paradise Valley is a little closer, but makes a few weird choices that take away from it feeling like the cohesive summertime album that it deserves to be with those bookends.

 

Very strong remember that summer vibes for me too. Especially how it opens.

 

Heavier things is my number 1 for sure, then born and raised and try!

 

Time to rewatch this bad boy

 

Disney California Adventure plays “Queen of California” in rotation during their CA Food & Wine Festival and it always reminds me to spin that record when I get home from the park.