after reading a bunch of other people’s top ten lists and not being very impressed with them i decided to make my own. i don’t really think there were ten albums worthy of being on a list as the majority of good songs that i heard were not on any album.
1) the new song with no name yet – the walkmen, no album yet
it has the line “you look so much older now, i still look young,’ that i found out a few weeks ago doubles as a funny and confusing put down to text to people at 5am on a friday.
2) all hands the cook – the walkmen, a hundered miles off
kind of loud and eerie, but also perfect.
3) king james – levy, no album yet
the opening piano notes are kind of perfect for closure – either for an album or a band. great song.
4) four minute warning – radiohead, no album yet
one of the songs they played live a handful of times. a perfect example of the old radiohead sound that chris martin and coldplay have ripped off to make millions and land himself a hot and pretentious wife.
5) hollywood – mickey finn, no album yet
an all around great song, and accurate decription of the place that has taken almost all of my friends over the last year.
6) deadwood – dirty pretty things, waterloo to anywhere
better than anything they did as the libertines. also perfectly placed in the oc last week during the pool party scene. it kind of makes you wonder what, if anything pete doherty did with the band.
7) videotape – radiohead, no album yet
actual new radiohead, that is to say not radiohead singing like they did on the bends.
8) thunder on the mountain – bob dylan, modern times
the only song he has written in the last twenty years that i can say i like for reasons other than that bob dylan wrote it.
9) glorious – levy, no album yet
another great song, with no record to call home…though it would be the perfect song to start an album if one were so inclined to do so. the lyrics and accompanying music work perfectly.
10) 15 step – radiohead, no album yet
this one probably has the best chance of any of the new radiohead material to make it on to the new album next year. it gives thom yorke the chance to again dispay why he is the greatest modern lyricist, bar none.
if you want to hear most of these songs search around the internet, you can probably find them…it is strange that most of them never found their way on to an album. hopefully they will all be released next year.
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