Wednesday, May 14, 2025

You Wednesday Moment of Why Didn't I Get the Memo?

From 2003, and the soundtrack to Not Another Teen Comedy, please enjoy power-popsters Phantom Planet -- featuring Wes Anderson rep company actor Jason Schwarzman on drums -- and the cover of Jackson Browne's "Sombody's Baby" I always heard in my head.

Seriously, I've loved that song since it first appeared (ironically enough on the 1982 soundtrack to Fast Times at Ridgemont High) but I always thought Jackson's version could have rocked a little harder. In any case, somehow I managed to completely miss the above (which is transplendent) until I stumbled on it last weekend, and I would just like to thank all you bastids for not hipping me to it earlier.

Ingrates!!! 😎

7 comments:

Sal Nunziato said...

Wow. That was excellent.

MJConroy said...

Big improvement over the original!

Cleveland Jeff said...

Good song. Great cover. It's rare that a cover is that much better than the original.

steve simels said...

Yep.

Rob said...

Schwarzman got himself a good band doing a great cover.
Rushmore hard to believe it was his first movie -going head to head with Bill Murray 🥁
rob


Anonymous said...

Boy!! That’s SO good!
Jai Guru Dave

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

2 words - hendrix - watchtower