WAS TOP5'ing WITH J.
HERE'RE MY TOP5 TRACK 1 SIDE 1's.
MAIL ME YOURS: SADBIRTHDAYS@GMAIL.COM
NO ORDER. SHEESH, AS IF I COULD. FUCK.
~ C.
That bassline. It jumps and jostles and affects smiles for miles.
This album is a masterpiece. ...
If you only listen to one Arcade Fire song EVS, this one tells you ALL you need to know.
If a song is going to track in at an epic whopping 9 minutes plus, it best have a good payoff.
This song is perfect perfect perfect. Each graduation in the layering is just in the right time, just at the right volume... just... fuck.
The sardonic cheering at the end will make you want to shoot someone in the head, or go take a warm bath with a razor blade, and some candles. You know, aesthetics.
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And also, in no particular order either. Here are mine.
~ J.
[I'd have put Is This It? But you've just heard it, annnnnd I think I've said quite enough about The Strokes right over... >> here]
Here's a super happy track to kick things off! Nobody plays a Dirge quite like these taciturn motherfuckers. This is pure control and simplicity; a taut as fuck piece of beautiful, 2-chord post-punk grunt.
Disorder. Period.
This song: flawless. This particular presentation of that song? More flawless.
There's a lot of hit and miss with Blondie, but this? This is a definite fucking hard hit. It doesn't hurt that the band's fronted by the sexiest flippen bitch in music, ever. Fuck her for being 30 when she started Blondie man; FUCK HER!
I've been hooked on this song since I first heard that opening celesta cascade. Thank heavens John Cale found one in the studio at the time of recording. Thanks gods also that Lou sang it and not Nico.
Some songfacts:
"This song is all about last-minute changes. The inclusion of the track on their first album was literally penciled in, Reed decided to take over vocals at the last minute as they walked into the studio to record it, and John Cale noticed a celesta in the studio and decided to include the instrument for the song on the spot. Cale also played the viola on the song."
And all this last minute shit is what makes it the fucking stupidly great song it is.
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