Brandon's Buzz

If you missed any of last week’s tunes, below is a quick recap:

MONDAY: Everything But the Girl — “Apron Strings [live]”
(from Acoustic) —

TUESDAY: Taylor Swift — “Back to December” (from Speak Now) —

WEDNESDAY: Taylor Swift — “Long Live” (from Speak Now) —

THURSDAY: Roxette — “The Look” (from Look Sharp!) —

FRIDAY: Ben Folds Five — “Brick”
(from Whatever and Ever Amen) —

SATURDAY: Bruno Mars — “Talking to the Moon”
(from Doo-Wops & Hooligans) —

SUNDAY: Richard Marx — “Hazard” (from Greatest Hits) —

Richard Marx — “Hazard” (from Greatest Hits) —

In a spellbinding, ominously seductive departure from the achingly tender ballads for which he had primarily come to be known, Marx wandered into Ode to Billie Joe territory in 1991 with this stunning story song about a troubled boy, an innocent girl, and a raging river, all three of whom are — in their own trembling, terrified ways — fleeing a suffocatingly small Nebraska burg, and one or more of whom may or may not have served as unbiased accomplices in her untimely death.