One of my new ways to waste time is to search for new music. At least new music to me. So I google 100 best songs and you get a lot of different people’s list of favorite songs, then I pick songs that appeal to me and listen. Lately I have been focusing on outliers, songs that aren’t on everyone’s list as opposed to the ones that are on everyone’s list (think Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen).

This is how I found Paul Weller’s “You Do Something to Me.” His name wasn’t familiar to me and so I looked him and found out he had played in the band the Jam which I was vaguely familiar with. Given I liked “A Town Called Malice,” the one song I knew by the Jam, I decided to see why someone would put it on their top 100 list.

Despite finding the lyrics kind of sappy and confusing, it is a doomed love song — she does something for him but it just isn’t working for her. His voice is soulful and sad and somehow you want to hear his silly story even though you know it isn’t going to end well. Weller transform the song by giving it an emotional wallop it doesn’t quite deserve.

Oddly enough, I read that “You Do Something to Me” is a popular song at weddings. This may be the wrong point in the marriage to play it. A far better time would be the day the divorce papers were signed and you are sitting alone with a glass of wine looking at the photo album of better times. Regardless of your timing, you might enjoy a listen. I did.