We can turn this into Party Town. I'll bring the homosocial relationships and dizzying jump cuts if you bring the misogyny and lack of a comprehensible plot.
The Memory Tapes album was really great and I'm disappointed to see him left off both lists. Also, I thought Best Coast and Dum Dum Girls both released some super good songs this year that made me really excited for their full lengths.
I forgot all about Songsmith! I watched that video so many times I guess I just figured it'd been around much longer. And it's good to see the ninja's on the list.
All the artists you mentioned brought something new to the table. Owl City only apes the signifiers of the Postal Service to give his lazy stupid writing some sort of cache.
Not to mention the Magnetic Fields have a much better version of this song that they recorded in '91.
Also, have we all forgotten the Headphones? They even did the one album and then permanent hiatus thing.
I didn't really care about this video when it was posted, but over the weekend I just kept thinking about it. Now I just can't stop watching it. His conviction is so charming. When he sings "and she's kinda neat," and raises his eyebrows, it just gets to me. And this song is awesome.
I love this video unconditionally.
May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
Hey, I just found a competition in art: http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Arth213/baptistry_competition.html
And don't act like Michael Bolton is winning at something
I think it works better as novelty, but it's still pretty wicked. People don't care about buying music, but they'll buy shirts with a band's name on it to show off. I personally think the lantern is killer.
Nonesuch is owned by WB, so no 69 Love Songs or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
I'm Wide Awake is the mature and coherent Bright Eyes album and was real surprise, but it didn't define the year. But neither did Z.
I agree with TV on the Radio for 2006.
GaX5 just isn't substantial enough to be included. It feels forced. The National? Of Montreal? Animal Collective? There were so many great records from last year, why settle for one that is slightly less? It's too bad Person Pitch was a solo record.
Radiohead makes sense for 2008 because that's when In Rainbows got a "street date," but still, do we need a record to define this year when we're just three months in? Maybe it's because Radiohead has "changed the model" and it's going to affect this year in a way it couldn't affect last year (since it was released in December). Putting In Rainbows for 2008 is still a scam though.
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