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: 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: 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: Brand New
Song: Jesus Christ
Album: The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
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Why this song is awesome:
That’s one helluva album cover, and one helluva line:
Do you believe you’re missin’ out / That everything good is happening somewhere else? / But with nobody in your bed / The night’s hard to get through
This post is awesome
It’s been a blast sharing songs with you over the past year (along with some of my strangest thoughts) - you guys and gals are rad.
Just wanted to let you know I’m going to try keeping things short over the next while in the interest of focus. I want you to think of this Tumblr as a magnifying glass for the best lyrics and most interesting moments in a bunch of really awesome songs that you may have overlooked or never heard of.
Okay, so I guess this post wasn’t that awesome. Maybe you can imagine there’s fireworks or something.
TTFN - ta ta for now
-M
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.
