Top Five Songs of the Past Week (with Brief Rationale)
5. "Surf's Up" from Brian Wilson's Smile. Better than the version on the Beach Boys' Surf's Up album. "Columnated ruins domino" wins the Baffling-But-Eventually-Insightful-Lyric Award.
4. "How to be Dead" from Snow Patrol's Final Straw. Can the relationship song be forged anew by a Brit-Rock band post-Coldplay? Snow Patrol says, Anything they can do, we can do better. Cheers, SP.
3. "More Like the Moon" from the More Like the Moon EP by Wilco. Loop this song for an hour or so and poof you're by the ocean, finding lost shoes of your own. Spare and sorta timeless.
2. "Shelter From the Storm" from Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. This song needs no further praise, really, but revisit the moment when Bob describes himself as "a creature void of form" before rhyming with the titular phrase, "'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give ya shelter from the storm," and ah isn't that what it's all about?
1. Every song on Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days. In here lies a sort of sedate yet hyper-aware sense of love and mortality that's grounded in the most reflective of country (think "Long Black Veil" vintage Johnny Cash) but totally transcends it. For now I'll call it shoegazing post-country until I absorb more of it's superlativeness. Beware, however: This Album Will Make You Weep (even in the car).
4. "How to be Dead" from Snow Patrol's Final Straw. Can the relationship song be forged anew by a Brit-Rock band post-Coldplay? Snow Patrol says, Anything they can do, we can do better. Cheers, SP
3. "More Like the Moon" from the More Like the Moon EP by Wilco. Loop this song for an hour or so and poof you're by the ocean, finding lost shoes of your own. Spare and sorta timeless.
2. "Shelter From the Storm" from Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. This song needs no further praise, really, but revisit the moment when Bob describes himself as "a creature void of form" before rhyming with the titular phrase, "'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give ya shelter from the storm," and ah isn't that what it's all about?
1. Every song on Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days. In here lies a sort of sedate yet hyper-aware sense of love and mortality that's grounded in the most reflective of country (think "Long Black Veil" vintage Johnny Cash) but totally transcends it. For now I'll call it shoegazing post-country until I absorb more of it's superlativeness. Beware, however: This Album Will Make You Weep (even in the car).
posted by Wil at
2:40 PM
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I tried tried tried to listen to the Iron & Wine album, but kept falling asleep--something that often happens when I try to listen to any post-Summerteeth Wilco.
I'm nodding off just typing this post.
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Anthony Robinson, at 3:30 PM
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