Artist: Tub Ring
Song: Cryonic Love Song
Album: Secret Handshakes
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Why this song is awesome:
Sleeping like a snowman / Solid as a block of ice / Will you still remember me / When we’re both five hundred and five?
Robot love song. ‘Nuff said.
Artist: Skrillex (feat. Foreign Beggars & Bare Noize)
Song: Scatta
Album: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
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Why this song is awesome:
Like most people, I often wondered what Transformers would sound like if they had sex. I no longer wonder that anymore.
Artist: TV On The Radio
Song: Will Do
Album: Nine Types of Light
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Why this song is awesome:
If you ever want to set the mood, put on this song.
If you ever want to ruin the mood, fart.
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P.S. This line is A+:
My love / What choice of words will take me back to you?
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 Strokes
Song: Fear of Sleep
Album: First Impressions of Earth
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Why this song is awesome:
Who can sing like he’s falling asleep and still make your mind shoot sparks? Julian Casablancas, that’s who. And sharp lines like this are exactly why:
I guess everybody’s week must have been pretty rough / Cause everybody is drunk, loud, and pissed off / I know you hate to be impressed with someone else (other than yourself) / But you know, trying to hold back on being an asshole helps
Artist: Metric
Song: Hustle Rose
Album: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
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Why this song is awesome:
Emily Haines always sounds like she’s whispering right in your ear. The way she sings this, I get shivers:
If you’re looking for something life-like / Hit a sardine nightclub / If every surface you touch is cold / Never go home / He says, “I can’t feel a thing, my dreams are so tight / Why wouldn’t I stand in line tonight?”
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.
Artist: Them Crooked Vultures
Song: Gunman
Album: Them Crooked Vultures
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Why this song is awesome:
This lyric is just dripping with attitude:
It don’t matter / Don’t try to explain / You’re just another dog to be trained / Choke chained
Josh Homme could look you straight in the eye and tell you he’d just eaten everything in your fridge and taken a dump in all your shoes and you’d still think he was the coolest motherfucker alive.
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: Foxy Shazam
Song: I Like It
Album: tbc
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Why this song is awesome:
For days, Foxy Shazam had been posting random pictures on Facebook of black women with enormous asses, and I was very confused. Then they released this song and laughed my head off. Listen to these lyrics:
That’s the biggest black ass I’ve ever seen / And I like it! I like it!
Who else but Eric Sean Nally could get away with singing that? I’m in love with this band.
