My Music Journal 2025: December 2, 2025

 

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Time: 7:37 AM
Song: Tonight, Tonight
Artist: Stephen Wilson, Jr.
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the radio on the way to work.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/130TbbLfE1ffUMkvvF1nWJ?si=eb4cc2fdabd144dd

Jodi took my Jeep today to get the oil change, so I am driving her truck as I back out of the garage. I’ve picked up a few CDS, because our Ford actually has a CD player. I selected a few of my all-time favorites.

1. Bringing Down the Horse by the Wallflowers – Easily the most played CD in my collection. I wore the thing out in the mid-to-late 90s and continued playing into the 2000s until the MP3s world phased CD play in many vehicles.
2. Plans by Death Cab for Cutie – I bought this CD after college, and I remember playing it a ton in my black Grand-Am back and forth to Dixon for my first job as a teaching assistant at Dixon High School.
3. The Rising by Bruce Springsteen – An album that came out in college, and I think a turning point for me in how I considered the Boss. He was no longer a past artist whose old tunes I enjoyed. He was still relevant, releasing rock music with a message.

Before I could put any in, this cover the Smashing Pumpkins song was playing and I spent a few minutes trying to figure out if I could recognize the vocalist. I couldn’t, and I had to look it up on Spotify when I got to work.

I prefer the original, but the vocals were interesting enough to keep me from my comfort CDs.