Alright, I’m about to get pretentious up in this bittttttttchhh.
1- King’s Crossing by Elliott Smith.
Elliott Smith is my hero so this may be biased. This song to me is a window into his life, a suicide note to his fans. He wrote this song years before it appeared on his album (Which the songs were chosen by his friends and family because he killed himself before finishing the album), and he had re-written virtually every word in the song to what it is now. The lyrics are poignant and terrifying to me. A mixture of his struggles with heroin with a distaste for this word. 1 1/2 minutes of just ambient noise and him saying weird words that goes into a slow beautiful song, very lyric driven. This song almost makes me cry every time I hear. “I don’t care if I fuck up, because I’m going on a date, with a rich white lady, give me one good reason not to do it” Unfortunately no one gave him a good enough reason since he’s dead now.
2- Stop the Show by Built To Spill.
Built to Spill is fucking awesome. The amount of rock this band packs, mixed with some really really interesting lyrics and some very very forward thinking. This song is friggin outstanding. The 3 minutes of build up is so intenset hen the transisition to pucnhy chords then with using the chords mixed with Doug’s voice really really REALLY works.
3-Reservations by Wilco
The closing track to the unbelievable Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album, and probably one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The transition of noise at the end of Poor Places to the beginning of Reservations is amazing. The song Reservations is one of the best ways to end an album, a fairly slow paced song with interspersed piano chords plunked heavily in the middle of verses and choruses really really make the song amazing to listen to. But the true crowing achievement is the last 5 minutes of feedback and noise. When listening to the entire album the noise really REALLY makes you think back on the cd and how amazing the CD is. FUCK! I love this song. I was lucky enough to see them last week and they did poor places to reservations live, hands down the most amazing musical thing I’ve ever seen.
4- While My Guitar Gently Weeps- The Beatles
Do I reallllly have to say anything for this?
Fuck yes George Harrison.
5- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by The White Stripes.
The White Stripes are fantastic, to get so much noise out of just guitar and drums is so good. Jack white is one of the greatest guitarists ever, and this song really really helps prove it. He doesn’t do anything super special with it, he plays chords with little picking patterns inbetween. The way he sings some of the lines in this song are really great, you can feel his emotion in his voice as the song progreses “Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most is probably one of my favourite lines in any song. It’s so real, goddam it’s so good.
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