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.
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: Spiritualized
Song: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Album: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
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Why this song is awesome:
This is probably my favourite love song ever. Especially that warbly, gorgeous voice singing these lines:
I will love you till I die / And I will love you all the time / So please put your sweet hand in mine / And float in space and drift in time
If this song doesn’t give you that warm and fuzzy feeling inside, then you’re probably made of stone. And that’s pretty amazing, because stones are usually inanimate.
Artist: Panic at the Disco
Song: That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed For Me)
Album: Pretty, Odd
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Why this song is awesome:
I feel entitled to dislike Panic at the Disco the same way I feel entitled to dislike Theory of a Creedleback. It’s just fun because you can laugh about it with so many people.
Nevertheless, I’ve always had a big weak spot for this song. It’s so damn Beatles-y, and totally cheers me up whenever I hear it. Especially this line:
Things have changed for me / and that’s okay
Artist: Dimmu Borgir
Song: Gateways
Album: Abrahadabra
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Even if you don’t like metal, just listen to that fantastic insanity in the girl’s voice around 1:30. And the fierce guitar riffage right afterwards.
Dimmu Borgir are the closest thing to what a Castlevania: The Movie soundtrack would sound like if it were real. When I hear this song, I feel like I’m running through a burning castle with a battle-axe chopping demons and roaring like a beast.
And the melody and lyrics here are EPIC:
Be the broken or the breaker/ Be the giver or the undertaker/ Unlock and open the door/ Be the healer or the breaker/ The keys are in your hands/ Realize you are your own source of all creation/ Of your own master plan
I don’t even think English is these guys’ first language. Damn.
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Extra Credit:
Check out this great live performance of Gateways by the KORK orchestra - even if you’re not digging the crazy Norwegian Black Metal, you can probably still appreciate how intricate, exciting, and epic the orchestral arrangement is.
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.
