Saturday, January 27, 2007
chris 20-16
20 "i believe in your victory."
this will destroy you.
young mountain.
[magic bullet].
moment @ 1:27
only really ethereal adjectives can describe how i feel when listening to this song. no words strangled together to make sentences make any sense to put here when referencing the gloriousness that is this perfect instrumental. so here we go: glistening, otherworldly, celestial, heavenly, transcendent, angelic, utopian, ghostly, apparitional, phantasmal, boundless, infinite, enduring....huh, i guess there is a sentence i could fangle together: if a song soared down from above to my dying body and jolted life into me one more time if only to look at my life as if it was not mundane and meaningless for one more newly born second before i became a pile of ashes, it would surely be this song.
19 "hearts and stars."
super xx man.
x.
[hush].
"i'll wait around until you calm down."
the shortest song on the countdown, it still packs a whallop. and i absolutely despise the flute, yet this song brings me down from whatever drama/stress/stupidness that may be interfering with my happiness and chilled-out-ness, no matter how absurd. "i'll do something for you no matter what." how hard is that? i'll be there and i won't freak out when you're freaking out. i'll talk to you if you talk to me. i'll be here with a smile on my face when you can't be. just freaking do it. i'm here, we're friends, in love, family, whatever, so see it. but i'm here if it's gonna take time, and sometimes it will feel like a chorus of me singing over a fairy elf-like piano riff like everything's a freaking larf (and it is), but eventually it will seem like it all happened in a-minute-and-a-half and it will be a blip on your radar. but you won't be a blip on mine.
18 "last cans of paint."
boat.
songs that you might not like.
[magic marker].
"i won't pick up the telephone / cuz there's 900 people and they're all alone."
quite possibly the most fun song to sing along to on this list. the vocal melodies are such a brilliant mixture of sadness, madness, and geeked-out glee that you just want to grab your hair and air drum a million times harder than the actual slacker that's doing the job, belting out the chorus like you're trying to turn yourself inside out through your mouth. and while the execution is far different, this song reminds me of why i'm still in love and always will be with pavement. you can care passionately about what you say, who you're talking to, what you think, but still not care about how it's received. this song is so tiny it hurts and yet it means the world to me. we are all little people with little voices, but we say things we mean. you choose whether or not to listen, not those sending the message.
17 "sweet sweet heartkiller."
say hi to your mom.
impeccable blahs.
[rebel group].
"we still both like the smell of anything night blooming / and she cuts through necks like a ginsu."
no that is not a metaphor, this song is actually about vampires!!! how cool is that?! i've always thought say hi to your mom were harmless pleasant indie pop, but this song is probably one of the best songs that tell a story that i've ever heard. don't you hate it when you're a creature of the night and you fall in love with another vampire and then the feeling becomes so strong that you have some wicked bloodlust and just give in and drink her blood, because you know that stuff will be the best tasting blood you'll ever get. but then ah dammit she's dead. and you've got to live forever (literally) without her! that's the pits. huh, i guess it could be a metaphor, but whatever, VAMPIRES!!!!!! you'll be smiling inside a minute if you take a minute and let these quiet popsters tell you this story - you might even join in on the handclaps.
16 "the warning."
hot chip.
the warning.
[astralwerks].
"hot chip will break your legs / snap off your head."
oh man i can just feel the love for these songs getting stronger and stronger as we inch toward the top. and i apologize for this doubleshot of violent songs, but as everyone knows, friendly music + violent lyrics = inevitable genius. plus, if there's one thing that's better than a song about vampires falling in love and then one drinking the other's blood, it's a song about a malfunctioning musician android thinking it's human and then going on a killing rampage when it finds out it's not. the story here is a little more subtle, and i'm mostly extrapolating this from the uber-poetic lyrics, but c'mon...you've got bobbly wobbly keyboards and the kiddish click-clack of the percussion taking you on a little trip through the song as our humble narrator bumps into strangers and introduces himself as a "mechanical music man," and every time brings him to chorus about his band beating you up to the point of funeral. and then the malfunctioning high-pressure high-volume bridge that's so painfully disjointed it hurts? but don't worry, those sparks/xylophones are notes of acceptance of living in a world without true melody, as long as you know we're all going to die from it.
we're getting close, #s 15-11 will be up soon!! ¶ posted by chris at 11:38 AM
20 "i believe in your victory."this will destroy you.
young mountain.
[magic bullet].
moment @ 1:27
only really ethereal adjectives can describe how i feel when listening to this song. no words strangled together to make sentences make any sense to put here when referencing the gloriousness that is this perfect instrumental. so here we go: glistening, otherworldly, celestial, heavenly, transcendent, angelic, utopian, ghostly, apparitional, phantasmal, boundless, infinite, enduring....huh, i guess there is a sentence i could fangle together: if a song soared down from above to my dying body and jolted life into me one more time if only to look at my life as if it was not mundane and meaningless for one more newly born second before i became a pile of ashes, it would surely be this song.
19 "hearts and stars."
super xx man.
x.
[hush].
"i'll wait around until you calm down."
the shortest song on the countdown, it still packs a whallop. and i absolutely despise the flute, yet this song brings me down from whatever drama/stress/stupidness that may be interfering with my happiness and chilled-out-ness, no matter how absurd. "i'll do something for you no matter what." how hard is that? i'll be there and i won't freak out when you're freaking out. i'll talk to you if you talk to me. i'll be here with a smile on my face when you can't be. just freaking do it. i'm here, we're friends, in love, family, whatever, so see it. but i'm here if it's gonna take time, and sometimes it will feel like a chorus of me singing over a fairy elf-like piano riff like everything's a freaking larf (and it is), but eventually it will seem like it all happened in a-minute-and-a-half and it will be a blip on your radar. but you won't be a blip on mine.
18 "last cans of paint."
boat.
songs that you might not like.
[magic marker].
"i won't pick up the telephone / cuz there's 900 people and they're all alone."
quite possibly the most fun song to sing along to on this list. the vocal melodies are such a brilliant mixture of sadness, madness, and geeked-out glee that you just want to grab your hair and air drum a million times harder than the actual slacker that's doing the job, belting out the chorus like you're trying to turn yourself inside out through your mouth. and while the execution is far different, this song reminds me of why i'm still in love and always will be with pavement. you can care passionately about what you say, who you're talking to, what you think, but still not care about how it's received. this song is so tiny it hurts and yet it means the world to me. we are all little people with little voices, but we say things we mean. you choose whether or not to listen, not those sending the message.
17 "sweet sweet heartkiller."
say hi to your mom.
impeccable blahs.
[rebel group].
"we still both like the smell of anything night blooming / and she cuts through necks like a ginsu."
no that is not a metaphor, this song is actually about vampires!!! how cool is that?! i've always thought say hi to your mom were harmless pleasant indie pop, but this song is probably one of the best songs that tell a story that i've ever heard. don't you hate it when you're a creature of the night and you fall in love with another vampire and then the feeling becomes so strong that you have some wicked bloodlust and just give in and drink her blood, because you know that stuff will be the best tasting blood you'll ever get. but then ah dammit she's dead. and you've got to live forever (literally) without her! that's the pits. huh, i guess it could be a metaphor, but whatever, VAMPIRES!!!!!! you'll be smiling inside a minute if you take a minute and let these quiet popsters tell you this story - you might even join in on the handclaps.
16 "the warning." hot chip.
the warning.
[astralwerks].
"hot chip will break your legs / snap off your head."
oh man i can just feel the love for these songs getting stronger and stronger as we inch toward the top. and i apologize for this doubleshot of violent songs, but as everyone knows, friendly music + violent lyrics = inevitable genius. plus, if there's one thing that's better than a song about vampires falling in love and then one drinking the other's blood, it's a song about a malfunctioning musician android thinking it's human and then going on a killing rampage when it finds out it's not. the story here is a little more subtle, and i'm mostly extrapolating this from the uber-poetic lyrics, but c'mon...you've got bobbly wobbly keyboards and the kiddish click-clack of the percussion taking you on a little trip through the song as our humble narrator bumps into strangers and introduces himself as a "mechanical music man," and every time brings him to chorus about his band beating you up to the point of funeral. and then the malfunctioning high-pressure high-volume bridge that's so painfully disjointed it hurts? but don't worry, those sparks/xylophones are notes of acceptance of living in a world without true melody, as long as you know we're all going to die from it.
we're getting close, #s 15-11 will be up soon!! ¶ posted by chris at 11:38 AM
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