My favorite songs of the year.

My intention was to make this a big post, just like the albums post I made last week, but I've been a combination of really busy with this new jibby job of mine and a bit lazy too. So, here we are over a week after I said I'd put this up and I'm just now doing it. Eh, in the immortal words of Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein, "Could be worse, it could be raining". So, without further ado, here's my 28 favorite songs of the year in no order whatsoever. Why 28? If I had spent more time, it probably would have been 128, I just stopped at 28. Rather than tell you why I love these songs so much, I'm going to let these poets' words speak for themselves. Enjoy.


The National - Mistaken For Strangers

Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
so you swear you just saw a feathery woman
carry a blindfolded man through the trees

Andrew Bird - Dark Matter

When I was just a little boy
I threw away all of my action toys
When I became obsessed with operation

Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks

What a dream in the dark
About working so hard
About growing so stoned
Trying not to turn up
Trying not to believe in the light
On your own

Songs of Green Pheasant - Boats

This song is so beautiful and Duncan mumbles a bit so just listen.

Radiohead - All I Need

It's all wrong
It's all right
It's all wrong
It's all right

Low - Murderer

Don't act so innocent
I've seen you pound your fist into the earth
And I've read your book
It seems that you could use another fool
Well I'm cruel
And I look right through

Animal Collective - Fireworks

Attractive day in the rubble of the night from before.
I can't walk in a vacuum, I feel ugly, feel my pores.
It's the trees of this day that I do battle with for the light.
Then I start to feel tragic, people greet me, I'm polite.

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan,
and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.

LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great

The worst is all the lovely weather,
I'm sad, it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,
Because, what's the difference?

Bright Eyes - Coat Check Dream Song

I slept with that dealer all summer
The ecstasy is still in my spine
Coat Check I couldn't remember
Walked into the winter, came out on the other side

Beirut - Cliquot

Set fire to foundation and burn out the station
You'll never get nothing of mine
The pane of my window will flicker and billow
I won't leave a stitching behind

Jose Gonzalez - Cycling Trivialities

Don't know which way to turn.
Every trifle becoming big concerns.
All this time you were chasing dreams,
without knowing what you wanted them to mean.

Kevin Drew - Tbtf

slice my eyes took me through
another night that goes all night through
tries to seize what their hearts have lost
my best friend took me in
laid me down beside my own sins
and I said "can you please forgive the love?"

Deerhunter - Cryptograms

My greatest fear
I fantasized
The days were long
The weeks blew by
Before I knew
I was awake
My days were through
It was too late

Sigur Ros - I Gaer

I don't speak Icelandic

Spoon - Finer Feelings

I was part-time at the Tasty Prawn
That and moving furniture and cutting lawns
Covered in newsprint, staying up real late
Just holding out for some fate

The Twilight Sad - That Summer, At Home I Became The Invisible Boy

and fourteen and you know
that I'm looking the wrong way
and is the past outside
or in this lovely home

Kings of Leon - Knocked Up

I don't care what nobody says, no
I'm going to be her lover
Always mad and usually drunk
But I love her like no other

Menomena - Muscle n' Flo

There's so much more left to do
Well I'm not young
But I'm not through

Menomena - Wet and Rusting

I made you a present, you’ll never expect it
And when you unravel the secret will travel, oh
It's hard to take risks, with a pessimist

The Weakerthans - Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure

For a while, I heard you missing steps in the street
And your anger pleading in an uncertain key
Singing the sound of you that you found for me

Dan Deacon - Wham City

I hope in my heart
that we on a whole will die
and the earth be left alone
just beast and bee and fish and tree
this hope I wish will someday be

Panda Bear - Bros.

i know myself and i know what i want to do
im doing my best and i want to know is it good for you?
you give me trouble
you give me everything that you've got
ill show you that whats right for me aint for you

Caribou - She's The One

time and time I hear things that can't be true
and it's only talk cause she'll never be so cruel
every night there's a new name on her arm that I don't think I recognize and it's never strange just how long she stays away
I guess I'll have to compromise

John Vanderslice - Kookaburra

Lightning shot from the sky
It breathed life into every, every living thing
It made you, it made me
It gave us the Kookaburra
It gave us Frangipani tree

St. Vincent - Paris Is Burning

Enclosed in this letter there's a picture
Black and white for your refrigerator
Sticks and stones have made me smarter
It's words that cut me under my armor

Explosions In The Sky - The Birth and Death of The Day

No lyrics here, and none needed.

Caspian - Asa

ditto.

All those that know me, know that I find humor in many things. Well, this year (and many of the last few years) the thing that I found funniest was R Kelly. So to end the list making season with a bang, I present to you the most hilarious song of the year.

R. Kelly - Sex Planet

Girl now that you're next to me
We'll be just like satelites
Watching over the Earth
We'll make space our paradise
Girl I promise this will be painless(painless)
We'll take a trip to planet Uranus
Uh just put your trust in me
And girl i promise destination
will be a trip that you will never forget
I'm gonna take you out of this world
So hold on tight my dear

Hold on tight indeed.