Ever heard "Born in the USA", by Bruce Springsteen? "Semi-Charmed Life", by Third Eye Blind? Even nursery rhymes like "You Are My Sunshine" or "Ring Around the Rosie"?

This is what this B-Side is all about. The happiest sounding songs, that are deceptively sad, scary, and fearful at times. As we talked about Passion Pit in our A-Side, we saw just how powerful of a tool it is to combine happy chords with sorrowful lyrics.

Ever heard "Born in the USA", by Bruce Springsteen? "Semi-Charmed Life", by Third Eye Blind? Even nursery rhymes like "You Are My Sunshine" or "Ring Around the Rosie"? This is what this B-Side is all about. The happiest sounding songs, that are deceptively sad, scary, and fearful at times. As we talked about Passion Pit in our A-Side, we saw just how powerful of a tool it is to combine happy chords with sorrowful lyrics.

B-Side: Happy Sounding Sad Songs

Emir, Hannah, Grant and Tom are your Groupies. 

Each week, the crew talks music. New, old, underground, mainstream, we're the groupies in the back of the hippie van that are fans of all tunes.

A-Sides (album-based episodes) and B-Sides (discussion-based episodes) drop on Mondays.

Catch us and our hot fire opinions on Twitter, @welikemusicalot.

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Emir, Hannah, Grant and Tom are your Groupies. Each week, the crew talks music. New, old, underground, mainstream, we're the groupies in the back of the hippie van that are fans of all tunes. A-Sides (album-based episodes) and B-Sides (discussion-based episodes) drop on Mondays. Catch us and our hot fire opinions on Twitter, @welikemusicalot.

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