Artist: Awolnation
Song: Sail
Album: Megalithic Symphony
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Why this song is awesome:
The way Chad Kroeger screams his way through every Nickelback song makes me want to floss my ears with razorwire. But the way Awolnation does it makes me want to just put on my headphones, lie in the dark and smile. How often can you say someone screams beautifully?
Artist: Feist
Song: The Bad In Each Other
Album: Metals
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Why this song is awesome:
This song is like heroin! Feist really raised the bar for herself with this one, especially this:
We had the same feelings / At opposite times.
When a good man and a good woman / Can’t find the good in each other / Then a good man and a good woman / Will bring out the worst in the other / The bad in each other
Isn’t that just bloody heartbreaking?
Artist: The Living End
Song: Fly Away
Album: The Living End
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Why this song is awesome:
If I could play guitar solos as amazing as Chris Cheney, I’d finally be able to seduce Martha Stewart.
Song: Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
Artist: Frankie Valli
Album: Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You
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Why this song is awesome:
Does this song make you want to go back to 60s Jersey or what?
Artist: Gogol Bordello
Song: Ultimate
Album: Super Taranta!
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Why this song is awesome:
I laughed out loud the first time I heard this:
If we are here not to do / What you and I wanna do / And go forever crazy with it / Why the hell we are even here?
And the award for Most Grammatically Incorrect Song Intro goes to…
I’ll give him a break though, ‘cause I absolutely love how he sounds: like a crazy, drunk Ukranian pirate celebrating all the booty he just pillaged across town.
That, and all the gold.
Artist: Kings of Leon
Song: Slow Night, So Long
Album: Aha Shake Heartbreak
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Why this song is awesome:
Before Kings of Leon had polished their sound enough to be played at Wal-Mart, they were a rough, drunken bunch of Southern womanizers. And they sounded so unlike anything out there.
Not to say they’re not still great, but there’s something special about this record. Caleb sounds like he just gargled with scotch and cigarettes, slurring barely intelligible words, voice cracking all over the place, singing fantastic lines like this:
She’s opened up just like she really knows me / I hate her face, but enjoy the company
I doubt that even Caleb himself could sing like this ever again. It’s the once in a lifetime sound of youth, booze, sex, and recklessness, wrapped up in one hell of a song.
Artist: The Black Keys
Song: Howlin’ For You
Album: Brothers
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Why this song is awesome:
“Baby, I’m howlin’ for you”
Great hook. Terrible pick up line. That’s all I’m willing to say about that.
Artist: Sikth
Song: Pussyfoot
Album: The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
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Why this song is awesome:
This song makes me feel like there are two massive monsters who have kidnapped me and tied me to a chair in some decrepit, leaky basement.
They blast brutally heavy riffs through speakers the size of tanks and violently scream the bridge directly into my ears:
“LIVE LIFE NOW!!!”
They’re so loud that the next 6 generations of my family will probably be deaf.
When it’s all over, and my body’s been blown half to pieces by this bazooka of a song, I look up at the two monsters, begin nodding slowly and scream over the insane ringing in what’s left of my ears:
“OKAY I WILL!!!”
Artist: Adele
Song: Rumor Has It
Album: 21
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Why this song is awesome:
This might as well be the official Home-wrecker’s Anthem. Just listen to this:
She, she ain’t real / She ain’t gon’ be able to love you like I will / She is a stranger / You and I have history or don’t you remember? / Sure, she’s got it all but baby is that really what you want?
Bless your soul, you got your head in the clouds / She made a fool out of you and, boy, she’s bringing you down / You made my heart melt yet I’m cold to the core / But rumor has it I’m the one you’re leaving her for
I’m positive we’ve all known someone like this at one point or another. Adele absolutely nails the vengeful cattiness and devious sensuality of a jealous, man-stealing bitch. Except this time, we’re on her side.
Damn, what a song.
