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originally posted on January 13th, 2008 @ 3:42pm
Top 10 Songs of 2007
we will continue without too much rambling.....
you'll notice a lot of these songs of the year come from my albums of the year, but i planned it so i wouldn't duplicate any of the songs........you're welcome for the free music - but do yourself (and the artists) a favor and go out and pick em up.
10. The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
Inside In/Inside Out - Astralwerks
This was the first song i heard off of Inside In/Inside Out, and i coulnd't get enough of Luke Pritchard's super British accent. Once i figured out what he was even saying, it made it all that much better.
9. The Everybodyfields - Aeroplane
Nothing is Okay - Ramseur Records
From the time i first popped Nothing is Okay in the cd player and that fiddle came screamin' in on the track 1, i was sold The Everybodyfields.
8. Ryan Adams - Goodnight Rose
Easy Tiger - Lost Highway
What a way to kick off an album. No foreplay - just straight into what Ryan does best: a rockin', memorable guitar riff and powerful lyrics delivered like only he can.
7. Deer Tick - Diamond Rings 2007
War Elephant - Feow Records
Don't know why he put that 2007 on the end of the title, but it kinda makes sense now doesn't it? John McCauley gives a jangly, tamborine filled song with enough echoey reverb to make Jack White happy.
6. Feist - 1234
The Reminder - Interscope Records
Most of us first heard this on the iPod nano commercial, and (consequently or not) i soon after starting getting into more indie rock like this. This song starts pretty simply - a little acoustic guitar and Feist's voice - but turns into one huge party as her vocals soar. Horn sections, dozens of backup vocals, jazzy piano, and lays back down with just a plunky banjo. The video's pretty cool, too.
5.Spoon - The Underdog
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Merge Records
i consider myself to like pretty tradtional music and always enjoy stripped down acoustic stuff, but the crazy amount of shit goin' on in The Underdog is what drew me in. There's a horn section, a booming bass drum, and about a dozen different noise makers (maracas, shakers, tambourines, hand claps, some sort of stick bangin' on a bottle, and probably much more) that all culminate into a crash landing at the end. And not one bit is unnecesary.
4. The Kooks - Naive
Inside In/Inside Out - Astralwerks
The second gem i came across from the album is a little more rockin' than She Moves.... but again it's that accent that makes the song. Somehow i don't think anyone without a British accent could cover this and do it justice.
3. Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter - Sony USA
Normally a song that mentions the inevitability of WWIII would immediately get skipped on my playlist, but Josh does this futuristic look at Adam and Eve controlling the fate of the world too cleverly not to enjoy.
2. The Avett Brothers - Paranoia in Bb Major
Emotionalism - Ramseur Records
From the first ring of the Scott's banjo, to Seth's guttural "yeah's", to every single plunk of Bob Crawford's bass, this song is pure energy manifested into one of the best folk-rock songs ever.
1.Bright Eyes - Four Winds
Cassadaga - Saddle Creek Records
Some the best fiddle solos i've ever heard mixed with Conor's philosopher-like lyrics on top a driving rhythm combine to make my number one song of 2007. Just check out the lyrics:
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where...
The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four Winds blowing through her hair
But when Great Satan's gone...
the Whore of Babylon...
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves
The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qu'ran is mute.
If you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth
Still they’re pouring over Sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen the sun
Cast on a school and meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four Winds cry until it comes
It's the Sum of Man slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks. It breaks. It breaks.
Well I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And now it’s off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East
I buried my ballast. I made my peace.
Heard Four Winds leveling the pines
But when Great Satan's gone
The Whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks. She breaks. She caves. She caves.
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