Eskimo- This is off Damien Rice's O album, one of my favorites and solid from top to bottom. Cannonball and Blower's Daughter are probably the most popular and great songs in their own right, but Eskimo is my personal favorite. If you listen to it just wait for the opera singer to come in.....amazing!!!
Say it to me now- This one comes from Glen Hansard's soundtrack for the movie Once. Sorry to start the list with two similar artists, but this is the kind of music I listen to during winter finals. Falling Slowly won the Oscar for best song last year and is also a great song, but I would pick Say it to me now as well as Lies over the award winner.
Bryn- Off of my favorite album from last year, the self titled Vampire Weekend, this is just one of the amazing songs that has made Vampire Weekend one of the best indie bands around. Oxford Comma and A Punk are probably the most popular off of the album, but for some inexplicable reason I prefer Bryn....so check it out.
Lucky- This may be a really bold statement. Karma Police and Paranoid Android are the two tracks that made OK Computer such a huge success for Radiohead. This is one of the best albums of all time and every track is great, but my personal favorite has to be Lucky. I also really like Subterranean Homesick Alien, but you really can't go wrong with this album. Everyone should own it.
Kids- Hands down my favorite "other" song. I think most people heard MGMT first either on a commercial or in a movie. Time to Pretend is their biggest hit, and Electric Feel is also fairly well known, but Kids is easily the best track on their album Oracular Spectacular. I don't know if this track really counts because it's one of their best known tracks, but because I like it so much I'm gonna throw it on the list. If you haven't heard them, stop what you're doin, go listen...and make sure you have some space around you to dance. You'll need it.
I could go on for a while, but I don't want to ramble on anymore than I have. Hope everyone likes these songs as much as me.
Band to check out- Ra Ra Riot
Movie to see- Synedoche New York
Bryn- Off of my favorite album from last year, the self titled Vampire Weekend, this is just one of the amazing songs that has made Vampire Weekend one of the best indie bands around. Oxford Comma and A Punk are probably the most popular off of the album, but for some inexplicable reason I prefer Bryn....so check it out.
Lucky- This may be a really bold statement. Karma Police and Paranoid Android are the two tracks that made OK Computer such a huge success for Radiohead. This is one of the best albums of all time and every track is great, but my personal favorite has to be Lucky. I also really like Subterranean Homesick Alien, but you really can't go wrong with this album. Everyone should own it.
Kids- Hands down my favorite "other" song. I think most people heard MGMT first either on a commercial or in a movie. Time to Pretend is their biggest hit, and Electric Feel is also fairly well known, but Kids is easily the best track on their album Oracular Spectacular. I don't know if this track really counts because it's one of their best known tracks, but because I like it so much I'm gonna throw it on the list. If you haven't heard them, stop what you're doin, go listen...and make sure you have some space around you to dance. You'll need it.
I could go on for a while, but I don't want to ramble on anymore than I have. Hope everyone likes these songs as much as me.
Band to check out- Ra Ra Riot
Movie to see- Synedoche New York
2 comments:
I love "Kids" too! Album was great, but MGMT isn't too special live...
Agreed! I always prefer the non-single tracks off an album.
Current fave non-single: "On Tour With Zykos" from Okkervil River.
And Gina--I've never seen MGMT live, but I don't know if I'd be able to without taking the lead singer out at his knees when they started to play "Electric Feel"...ugghhh
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