My ten favorites of the year, and one great lyric from each album:
10) Moo, You Bloody Choir - Augie March
One crowded hour, you were the only one in the room.
Well I played a few songs for those bumps in the night.
In fact I played this very tune.
You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent doom?"
And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin. -- "One Crowded Hour"
9) Broken Social Scene Presents Spirit If... - Kevin Drew
my best friend took me in
and laid me down beside my own sin
and I said "can you
please forgive the love?" -- "TBTF"
8) Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release - Simian Mobile Disco
It's 8 o' clock and I got nothing to do.
Can't go to the club, so I guess I'll go to the record store.
Visit my record man, with my sticky hands
Walk out that record door, put your records in my clothes.
The records in my clothes.What the fuck is you gonna do?
What the fuck is you gonna do about it?
Nothing. -- "Hustler"
7) Glory Hope Mountain - The Acorn
The rushing river rattlesnakes your legs
and baby boy's got you drinking from the dead.
You lick your lips and paddle for the levee.
The sinking banks are sifting through your teeth. -- "Flood Pt. 1"
6) 23 - Blonde Redhead
23 seconds, in you I see a chance
23 magic, if you change the name of love
Your crazy heart, my crazy love.
Repent now.
How many times ? As long as you wish
How many times ? The world will go around -- "23"
5) The Con - Tegan & Sara
Build a wall of books between us in our bed.
Repeat, repeat, the words that I know we both have said.
Relax into the need, we get so comfortable.
Remember when I was so strange and likeable? -- "Back In Your Head"
4) The Stage Names - Okkervil River
It’s just a life story, so there’s no climax.
No more new territory, so pull away the imax.
In the slot that you sliced through the scene there was no shyness.
In the plot that you passed through your teeth there was no pity.
No fade in: film begins on a kid in the big city. -- "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe"
3) In Rainbows - Radiohead
I'd be crazy not to follow
Follow where you lead
Your eyes
They turn me -- "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
2) Boxer - The National
We expected something, something better than before.
We expected something more.
You were always weird
but I never had to hold you by the edges like I do now. -- "Start a War"
1) Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
It was the longest day that I've ever known
I watched you start that drive alone
Blow out that cherry bomb for me
It's gonna burn right up your sleeveOh so there you go again out in your dressing gown
Get yourself to bed, blow out that cherry bomb
Oh, life can be so fair, let it go on and on
I got paid and my hand on your cherry bomb -- "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"
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