…and in this case, it all started with a friend of mine spotting Soul Asylum’s “Misery” on one of my never-ending series of iPod shuffles on MySpace, then asking, “Isn’t ‘The Best of Soul Asylum’ an oxymoron?” As a fan of the band since the first time I heard “Cartoon” and “Sometime to Return” from back in their stint on A&M Records, I immediately provided her with links to the videos for both those songs – which you can find here and here, respectively – and threw in the video for 1990’s “Easy Street” as well.
I also stood up for “Somebody to Shove,” which was the single that preceded the dead-to-me-now “Runaway Train,” but in the process of scouring YouTube to find all of these clips, I happened upon a live performance from a band called Traphiq doing a version of “Shove” which absolutely blew me away. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did…and since I enjoyed it enough to immediately head over to their MySpace page and send them a friend request, I’m sure they hope the same thing.
