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