Insult to Injury: Week Ending 12/20 with Denny's Diner

Every week, the Noisey editors get together and compile everything they've been listening to over the last week. This week, we've been super busy exchanging Secret Santa gifts and forcing holiday cheer upon each other. (We all got each other coupons for $1 off at the Under Armour store.) Anyway, we've also been trading a few Twitter ribbings with our new favorite Twitter account, Denny's Diner. We've exchanged @ replies about everything from crustpunk to pancakes to #emorevival. So we were super curious to see what a chain of reasonably priced diners was listening to this week…

The Squids - “You b/w Me”
Denny’s is all about bringing people together and music plays a huge role in that. We’re just as big of fans of music as we are of crafting dank breakfast entrees and often the two intersect at Denny’s with a late-night, post-show feast. Lately, we haven’t stopped listening to this Wizard of Loneliness EP from L.A.’s The Squids. When most reverb-harkening, 50s/60s-influenced bands pop up they tend to lean on the fashion of the era and cash in on kitsch factor. But The Squids come earnest and clean. It’s reminiscent of a simpler time, echoing sound and sentiment of classic power pop—from Big Star sincerity to the punchy spunk of Wreckless Eric. “You b/w Me” is a California-winter-in-a-dance-hall shuffle that comes easy and leaves you twisting. The kind of track that takes you to the diner where everyone is already hanging out, trading secrets over milkshakes, guzzling coffee (unless you’re straight edge), and you’ve got nothing to do but not go home.

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Rich Kidz - "Westside Love"

Leave it to a bunch of hyperactive rapkids from the A that you probably wrote off after "My Patna Dem" to connect the dots between G-Funk, trap, ratchet, and whatever world yelping is still really cool in. You should really listen to the entirety of their tape A West Side Story, but if you're lazy just listen to "Westside Love" I guess.

Drew Millard, Features Editor
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Sicko Mobb - "NoNo"

When I was a kid, my dickless kale-nibbling liberal parents wouldn't let me have video games or water guns. One year my friend had a Super Soaker-themed birthday party and the only weapon they let me bring was an empty shampoo bottle, which squirted soapy water like, two feet. The other kids cornered me with their dual-barrel pump-action soakers and liquidated my self-esteem. Afterwards we went back to my friend's house and played Sonic, which I also sucked at. This song sounds like a video game and is about guns, so listening to it is my futile attempt to reclaim the youth I never had.

Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
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Cayetana - "Hot Dad Calendar"

You ever hear a song and then immediately restart it once it’s ended? I do this all the time. And I feel bad about it every time. Why? Why am I so judgemental of myself? Why am I so concerned with my own self-opinion that I need to deprive myself of things I enjoy? I hate myself, is what I’m basically saying. But Philly’s Cayetana

dropped a new song with us this week

that makes hating myself sound really good. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna re-listen to this. Dammit, me, you asshole!

Dan Ozzi, Contributing Editor
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Tink - "Bars"

Tink released the video for "Bars" earlier this week. The video is nothing special, but it doesn't need to be: it's two and a half minute of bars, no pun intended. She amps herself up for almost a minute, and then just lets loose. Tink's cadence is captivating, and there's no facade with her, which you'll hear with lines like "Came with my crew but I left with a dude/Then I came in his mouth like the dentist approved." And the best part is, she's about to release an R&B tape next year because she can really fucking sing, too.

Lauren Nostro, Guest editor
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Warpaint – “Love Is To Die”

In truth the only thing I’ve been listening to this week is “Symptomatic” by Skaters, from their LP, Manhattan, (out in February). My iTunes says I’ve listened to it 25 times in two days. Loser! Unfortunately, it’s not online anywhere, so my second most played is off Warpaint's forthcoming record. This song is really just an endless groove that never climaxes. But sometimes getting blue balls is just as fun as actually getting off.

Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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Thee Oh Sees - "The Dream"

Seriously? That's it guys? WTF

Fred Pessaro, Noisey, Editor-in-Chief
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Kanye West - "Never See Me Again"
I fucking love Kanye West. And this morning, Noisey contributor Ernest Baker tweeted this amazing eight and a half minute recording of Kanye's "Never See Me Again" from a few years ago. Apparently, this song is straight up dedicated Taylor Swift, in regards to you know what. And like all great Kanye "rants," parts are poignant, others are incoherent, but all of it is brilliant. Spitting through autotune, he sings, "Don't worry bout me / just worry bout you / And what'chya gon' do? / It'll be a long time, before you ever see me again." Indeed. Happy holidays, everyone.

Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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