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: 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.
Artist: Weezer
Song: The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Album: The Red Album
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Why this song is awesome:
This is Weezer’s Bohemian Rhapsody. ‘Nuff said.
Artist: Mr. Bungle
Song: Sweet Charity
Album: California
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Why this song is awesome:
I always picture this song playing in the hallways of some tropical insane asylum to mellow out the patients.
And this slight lyrical shift is a really clever way of showing how the line between religious and crazy is often paper thin:
Save me / The heavens have opened / I’m coming home / Sweet charity
Save me / The asylums have opened / I’m coming home / Sweet charity
I’m home free…
Artist: Mother Mother
Song: Hay Loft
Album: O My Heart
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Why this song is awesome:
This song is bloody weird.
Not bad weird, like the feeling you get when a clown with fangs smiles at you from outside your 3rd story window at midnight.
Good weird, like the feeling you get when you lean up against hot tub jets at the right angle.
If Billy Talent and The B-52’s had a musical baby, it would definitely be this song.
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: Band of Horses
Song: Evening Kitchen
Album: Infinite Arms
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Why this song is awesome:
Listen to this:
Got lost in the places I’ve been / I should go out with my friends / I’d go tonight but I know you’ll be there too
For me, this bottle of wine / Is to slow down my mind / And forget the things that I knew
Who hasn’t been there? Feeling lost and bummed, thinking about how plans and loves can slip through your hands like water.
But it’s amazing how a song this sad can also be so soothing. The sweet melody is like a lullabye that hugs you tight and says: “Don’t worry. You’ll be fine.”
If you know someone that’s having a rough time, wrap them in a blanket, play them this song and watch how soon they start to smile. Promise.
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.
