Brainwaves – October 4, 2022 – A million ways to be lonely
Written by Brian Blum on 04/10/2022
Let Brainwaves take the edge off with four songs about loneliness from Andrew Gold, the Police, Yael Naim and the Magnetic Fields, plus five songs about a million little things (Nash the Slash, the Plimsouls, Robyn Hitchcock, the Grass Roots, the Eames Era). It’s all coming up on this week’s Brainwaves.
| Band | Song |
| Jenny Lewis | Head Underwater |
| Jenny Lewis | You Can’t Outrun ‘Em |
| Rilo Kiley | It’s a Hit |
| Vampire Weekend | Holiday |
| The Police | So Lonely |
| Andrew Gold | Lonely Boy |
| The Magnetic Fields | Walk a Lonely Road |
| Yael Naim | Lonely |
| Michelle Branch | Are You Happy Now? |
| Hoku | Oxygen |
| Avril Lavigne | Anything But Ordinary |
| Erez Lev Ari | Ana Efneh |
| Neil Halstead | A Gentle Heart |
| The National | Start a War |
| Mojave 3 | To Whom Should I Write? |
| The Wallflowers | Three Marlenas |
| The Monkees | (I’d Go the) Whole Wide World (cover: Wreckless Eric) |
| The Grass Roots | I’d Wait a Million Years |
| The Eames Era | When You Were a Millionaire |
| Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 | Ordinary Millionaire |
| The Plimsouls | A Million Miles Away |
| Nash the Slash | The Million Year Picnic |
| FM | Phasors on Stun |
| Starcastle | Could This Be Love? |
| Genesis | Land of Confusion |
| The Idan Raichel Project | Come Back to my Home |
| Towncrier | The End |
| Trevor Price | Learn |
| Gin Blossoms | Found Out About You |
| Phantom Planet | Somebody’s Baby (cover: Jackson Browne) |
| The Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Around the Bend |
| Veruca Salt | Seether |
| Hole | Heaven Tonight |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
