Steve Smith
Back in the day (2001), a British fellow named Steve Smith voiced parts of an album by a band named Dirty Vegas called Days Go By. This would be high school Alex listening to this, and he was proud to have liked it before the single became hugely popular when featured in a Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial. A few things about this. First, everyone knows that the second generation (95-99) Mitsubishi Eclipse with the lump in the hood for the turbocharger and just-short-of-ridiculous and therefore stupendously awesome hoop spoiler is the best Eclipse. The ones after are merely boring cars that happen to bear the name. Second, I asked for the Dirty Vegas album for Christmas from my then-girlfriend’s parents. In retrospect, this was a tremendously stupid idea because (1) it is very hard to describe your enjoyment of British house music to a family that primarily listens to country and (2) oh my god I swear it was at least 5 years later when I was cleaning out stuff and ran across this album again that I actually noticed the angle of the shirt on the cover:
Way to go, stupid past version of me! These esoteric interests — unusual music, coding, engineering, architecture (to name a few) — have long since been cast aside as topics of conversation and I have inverted to talking about things so vanilla and pedestrian that I think some may find it quite wearisome. Obviously, I’m still looking for that balance.
Anyhow, I heard that voice again in a wonderful song by Jaytech called Stranger (Kyau & Albert Remix). It features a face-meltingly great hook, good for that last ten percent of your workout where you’re just about out of energy, nearly out of sweat, and pressing to best your previous time.
Oh and P.S. if you are wondering what music I WOULD talk about with people, I definitely would start with “My Number” by Foals.