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Despite the fact that it's already 2008, I'm still getting around to counting down ten songs that made me especially glad to have ears last year.
I've been away for the better part of a week - in transit, in flux, in deliberation, in contemplation. While I meant to have this list wrapped up well before the new year, as they say, the best laid plans...
Laziness more than anything else, I guess. As if to prove I'm not really ready to break a sweat yet, here's a trio of great 2007 songs by artists I've already written something about; I'll (mostly) let me speak for myself.
Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls. I said it before, and I'll say it again, albeit with less words than Pelle. It's an eternal truth.
The High Strung - Rimbaud/Rambo (live)
On Extrawack few months back, I testified to this being the essential High Strung song, one that gets at the very core of the band's vision...or my personal vision, which I'm keen to transfer on to unsuspecting outsiders. And here's where you notice just how much glam has seeped into the garage these geniuses must put their albums together in. Like radon. Really, really awesome radon.
The Avett Brothers - If I Get Murdered In The City
You won't find it on Emotionalism, which is probably my favorite album by probably my favorite act of 2007 (not that I go in for superlatives.) You won't find it on anything released by the Avetts, who I gushed about here and here. But this live staple is simply beautiful and will quite possibly move you to tear up. That last line.
I've been away for the better part of a week - in transit, in flux, in deliberation, in contemplation. While I meant to have this list wrapped up well before the new year, as they say, the best laid plans...
Laziness more than anything else, I guess. As if to prove I'm not really ready to break a sweat yet, here's a trio of great 2007 songs by artists I've already written something about; I'll (mostly) let me speak for myself.
Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls. I said it before, and I'll say it again, albeit with less words than Pelle. It's an eternal truth.
The High Strung - Rimbaud/Rambo (live)
On Extrawack few months back, I testified to this being the essential High Strung song, one that gets at the very core of the band's vision...or my personal vision, which I'm keen to transfer on to unsuspecting outsiders. And here's where you notice just how much glam has seeped into the garage these geniuses must put their albums together in. Like radon. Really, really awesome radon.
The Avett Brothers - If I Get Murdered In The City
You won't find it on Emotionalism, which is probably my favorite album by probably my favorite act of 2007 (not that I go in for superlatives.) You won't find it on anything released by the Avetts, who I gushed about here and here. But this live staple is simply beautiful and will quite possibly move you to tear up. That last line.
Labels: most songs of the year, Pelle Carlberg, The Avett Brothers, The High Strung
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