Time Out New York just posted their year-end best-of lists. I’m listening to Elisabeth Vincentelli’s 10 best songs of the year (which you can hear on the site.) I’m a little surprised she didn’t go for Alphabeat, but Girls Aloud’s Miss You Bow Wow is like a million times better than The Promise is. I also like this Little Jackie song a lot more than the one that was on the radio, and the Disturbia remix is pretty nifty too.
I actually only knew three of her top 10 before, and the She and Him album irritated me to no end, but I’m liking the playlist.
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Okay, so the radio show’s definitely not happening on Sunday. Which means I’ll be posting the top 50 here first rather than doing it live. I’m annoyed, but whatever.
Anywizzle, here’s my 80th through 71st favorite songs of the year.
80. Brian Eno and David Byrne, Strange Overtones
Did you know that Brian Eno and Grace Jones both turned 60 this past May? Both had big splashy comeback albums this year; Eno’s (with David Byrne…another Taurus!) featured this catchy number, which is the only track on their Everything That Happens Will Happen Today album that I listened to much. (Not that it’s the album’s fault. Not enough time, I’m only one person, etc.)
79. Von Hayes, Mr. Guts*
Von Hayes, the group named after the current coach of the Lancaster Barnstormers, put out a really good album called Evident Eyelid that just barely missed my albums of the year list. Short, catchy lo-fi numbers that would do Bob Pollard proud. Mr. Guts is probably my favorite of the album’s 20 short tracks.
[*Hopefully I'll remember to post an mp3 later, since the shitty Myspace player thing doesn't seem to be working right now. And this song's not on there anyway.]
78. Bjork, Nattura
Though I try to support the locals, i have to say that, in general, Providence’s Brian Chippendale bores my guts out. I think Lightning Bolt are totally overrated (and hate it when people bring them up right away when I mention where I’m from), and his art usually annoys me to no end. But let his loony drumming run rampant on a Bjork charity single, add a pinch of Thom Yorke and a sprinking of Matthew Herbert, and you’ve got yourself a winner!
77. Klee, Zwei Herzen
I first came across Klee on My Old Kentucky Blog a couple of years ago; they have a lovely song called Fur Alle Die that I was really into for a while, though I never really looked for more until this year. Scouring the world’s pop charts for my radio show, I found Zwei Herzen, a #29 hit in Germany and a delightful pop song, even if I don’t understand a word of it.
76. Antony and the Johnsons, Another World
While I doubt I’ll ever again like Antony as much as I did in 2005 (Fistful of Love was my #1 song of that year), Another World was a welcome return. This slow tale of wreckage managed to work on relationship and environmental levels, something I can’t think of ever happening before.
75. The Research, I Think She’s The One I Love
This charmingly twee ditty by UK trio The Research put a smile on my face almost every time I heard it. It’s not often that cutesy songs like this do it for me, now that I’m not a teenager anymore, but this one’s pretty frigging adorable.
74. Finger Eleven, Paralyser
Did no one else notice that this amazing slice of boneheaded Franz Ferdinand-eque rock sounded kinda like the Ting Tings’ Shut Up And Let Me Go? The lyrics are silly but the music is awesome and the chorus is hilarious. I’m pretty sure it’s the only song on cock rock radio that I liked this year. Also, I’m fairly certain it’s the highest-charting song by Canadians on this list.
73. The Chap, Fun and Interesting
“Come on, come on cloner! Clone me another me! My generation needs another me!” It might be 2008′s best shower sing-along, and it was my favorite part of the Chap”s excellent Mega Breakfast album. (Also, I really like the song’s video concept, though the execution could have been a little tighter.)
72. New Kids On The Block, Full Service
By not releasing this as a single, the Old Kids totally missed the opportunity for the best music video ever. Picture it: A convertible full of bleached and tanned ladies rattles up to a dusty old gas station. One gets out to pump, giving us a peek at her denim cutoff hot shorts, but then not one but five dudes in matching greasy mechanic outfits come out to fill them up. The girls dig it (as they should!) Another car pulls up, New Edition’s in that one, because somehow this song required eight to ten vocalists*. The fun goes on and on until the two groups stage a dance-off at the end.
Oh, and one of the girls in the car should be about twelve; there can be an intro part where it’s explained that she’s the niece of one of the other ones, in keeping with The Block’s inability to decide what age group to target.
[The New Edition Wikipedia entry is too confusing for me to figure out how many members they currently have, for some reason.]
71. Hercules and Love Affair, Blind
I don’t think I was quite as into Hercules and Love Affair as the rest of the world (or at least the gay music blogging world), but it’s hard to deny that this song’s pretty darn groovy.
