You Say You Want A List?
December 1st, 2011
So we’re slipping into December without realising that is unless you’re one of the many people who have been waiting for this very moment with which to rip out the Christmas tree and shove it in the corner of the living room. I’ve heard of people who already did it in November; how very worrying.
What you want is a list of things you don’t really care about. So here it is. Actually it’s a list of things that you don’t really care about but I do because at the moment this bird is all mine and what I say goes and right now I’m going to waste my life for the next five minutes or so telling you the best five songs I’ve heard this year (so far, I mean we still have another 30 days of searching but what are the chances of finding something incredible?):
1. My Pet Snakes / Big Wave by Jenny and Johnny – it’s hard to choose between the two, one a very weird song about two messed up people who still stay together even though that hate each other (I think) the other an ode to California but talking about how… messed up people are. Ah I see a pattern.
2. Howlin’ For You / Tighten Up by The Black Keys – again, hard to choose, they’re both jiggy and make you want to pull some shapes in the most elegant fashion. I’m sorry I ignored them for so long. Yes, Siobhan Merry, you were right again as always in the end.
3. Wolves at Night by Manchester Orchestra – they supported Biffy Clyro in 2009 and I enjoyed them then but it’s only now they’ve gotten through. Come back to Newcastle!
4. Anything from the Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack – guh huh, yeah, it’s scuzzy and most of the songs by Sex Bob-omb are only two minutes long but even if they weren’t from a superb film such as SP I’d still love them. “We are Sex Bom-omb and we’re here to make think about death and get sad and stuff!
5. Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel – amazing tune coupled with barmy lyrics, I want to listen to this over and over again until it makes sense and it never will.
Strictly speaking all of these weren’t from 2011. You know it makes sense.
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