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DUM DUM GIRLS - “Rest of Our Lives” (3:02)

Dee Dee says, “There’s an overdramatic tone, much like a teenager’s world, but applied to the experience of getting older.”  No track better exemplifies that sentiment than the somnolent “Rest of Our Lives,” a lullaby about marriage that captures, she says, “that feeling when you’re 16 and you think you’re going to be with your boyfriend forever.  And that you’d just die if you weren’t.  Except it’s about my husband.”

this year’s reincarnation of the Ronettes

(Thank you, Perri!)

JOHN OSWALD/JAMES BROWN - “Brown” (3:57)

a presentation of James Brown’s punctuation, organized into the sentences of an alien tongue