| Author | Message | ||
     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2474 Registered: 03-2006 |
Now that all of the boxers have had a chance to go back to their separate corners, get their cuts sewn up, take out their mouthpieces and gulp down a swallow of metallic-tasting water, it's time to consider the best songs of the year. My choices for best song would be: Loudon Wainwright III - Grey in L.A. The National - Apartment Story The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running Wilco - Impossible Germany Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now it's Don't Fight It - The Panics | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 827 Registered: 09-2006 |
Of ze top of my 'ead... Apples in Stereo - Sunndal Song Smilo Smiley - Silver Lining A Better Man - Nick Lowe My Body is a Cage - Arcade Fire More to come, I'm sure... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1891 Registered: 05-2005 |
Turin Brakes - Brave new world Wilco - Impossible Gremany (has to be LK!) The National - Fake empire The Winnebago Orchestra - What does your heart say Beachfield - Surburban Life Kevin Ayers - Wide Awake Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes (reminds me ok Ian McNabb, is a great song "FAT Rockin in the US!") | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1893 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fall - Coach and Horses | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Many more to come, but right at this minute Augie March - One Crowded Hour Arcade Fire - Keep the car running Wilco - Impossible Germany The Panics - Don't Fight it The Panics - Cruel Guards (Dare I say it!) Broooce - Girls in their summer clothes Early contender for worst of the millenium? That woman with her umberella ella ella.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 554 Registered: 04-2006 |
Public Enemy - Harder than you think definitely! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1915 Registered: 05-2005 |
Burial - Archangel Disrupt - Foundation Bit The Fall - Fall Sound Pinch - One Blood One Source Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think Wilco - Side With The Seeds Caribou - Melody Day Robert Wyatt - You You | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2477 Registered: 03-2006 |
Enough people have big-upped that Public Enemy to where I guess I'm gonna have to check it out. Sigh...a music geek's work is never done... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 819 Registered: 10-2004 |
High Llamas - The Old Spring Town Louis Philippe - The Hill and the Valley Wilco - Impossible Germany | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Impossible Germany Wilco - You Are My Face Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Your Long Journey Crowded House - Pour Le Monde Grinderman - Depth Charge Ethel Kings of Leon - Knocked Up Ryan Adams - Oh My God, Whatever, Etc | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 16 Registered: 10-2007 |
Okkervil River - The Plus Ones Wilco - Hate It Here Arcade Fire - No Cars Go The Shins - Phantom Limb Spoon - Finer Feelings and, of course, Britney's latest single.  | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 276 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crowded House - People are like suns Machine Translations - Love won't wait | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1617 Registered: 04-2005 |
A mix of the obvious and not-so-obvious: Richard Thompson - Guns Are the Tongues & Dad's Gonna Kill Me Amy Winehouse - Rehab (sorry, but it's this year's "Crazy") LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past & The End of the End Nina Nastasia/Jim White - In the Evening PJ Harvey - When Under Ether The National - Squalor Victoria Bruce Springsteen - Girls in Their Summer Clothes Okkervil River - John Allyn Smith Sails | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 894 Registered: 01-2005 |
Crowded House - Pour LeMonde Fiest - 1,2,3,4 Tracey Thorn - Here It Comes Again St. Vincent - Marry Me Augie March - One Crowded Hour | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2482 Registered: 03-2006 |
Good call on "Rehab", Kurt. That was some tasty, greasy slab of old school R&B, and ole Amy may look like she's been rode hard and put up wet, but she sure can sing! I should have mentioned Okkervil River, too, so I am now. Their "Our Life Is Not a Movie, or Maybe" is definitely one of my fav-o-rites of the year. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1620 Registered: 04-2005 |
I could have put almost any track from the Okkervil River album on that list. Such vivid worlds each song creates! I'm surprised they haven't gotten more attention on this board, honestly. Yeah, Winehouse may be kind of a gross, obnoxious celebrity (aren't they all, though?) but her album's success on the U.S. charts is gratifying, just to have some old-school R&B sounds to mix it up with the usual dance and hip-hop pablum that usually dominates. Maybe we should be praising Mark Ronson more than her, but the song is cool too. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1052 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think one of my favorite songs this year was "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem. But the version I liked the best was by John Cale. It didn't radically alter the LCD version, which was great, but it roughed it up nicely, and Cale's vocals kind of imbue the tune with a melancholy that's there in the lyrics but isn't so evident in J. Murphy's somewhat dispassionate lyrics. I've played it maybe two dozen times and I'll play it a lot more. It's kind of a theme song for folks our age. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1903 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, sounds good must invest, how many albums have LCD released, saw thm on Jools holland show, mightily impressed. Much like The Fall, even the way they looked (the bin man look). | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1054 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hmm, in my post above, "dispassionate lyrics" should read "dispassionate vocals." But yeah, Spence, the new LCD is pretty good. A lot of people think it's great. It definitely has a handful of really good tunes on it. Worth checking out, I think. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 51 Registered: 06-2005 |
Savannah Smailes - Okkervil River, he has the Bruce Knack of creating a whole movie in his songs. |