Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Paste’s Top 50 Songs for 2010 Resampled – Part 2 of 5

If you missed the last post, we had just gone through 3 poor songs in the low 40s.  Hoping the 30s brings the musical contentment I was looking for in this project.  So we continue with Paste Magazine’s top 50 songs from 2010 as presented in http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/12/the-50-best-songs-of-2010.html

39. Dr. Dog - “Stranger”

A good apple.  Shiny, red, with hews of green blushes. This piece of fruit felt fresh and juicy in the mouth after a couple of acidulous tracks.  

38. Belle & Sebastian - “I Want the World to Stop”

Somewhere between the 1980s shiny bright blue spandex and an afternoon playing of REMs Shiny Happy People comes this upbeat, bouncy tune.  I can’t tell if this has the required complexities of a 2010 80s remix.  It certainly has the boom box held high in front of the suburban white picket house, the Franch Fries, and the hot car racing Howard Cosell.  But ultimately it lacks the depth of truly needing two dollars.   

37. Jamey Johnson - “Poor Man Blues”

There are three times when country is awesome.  When you’re walking out of prison.  When you’re going back in.  And when you’re drinking a ton in a Southern bar.  This song made me think of all three times.  Kristyle – queue this one up baby.   

36. New Pornographers - “Crash Years”

Fun solid song, good powerful voice and a nice whistling background.  Continuing the 80s theme, this one loses a half star for being Debbie Gibson-esque.

35. The Black Keys - “Tighten Up”

Took me three listens through and grabbing Brad from the cubicle next door before I stumbled upon where I’d heard this from.  Listen from 2:15 to 2:28. Answer below.  Doesn’t matter, still a good song with a nice surprise changeup at the end.   

34. Avi Buffalo - “Truth Sets In”

Nice soft track.  Bubbly with veins of truthiness.  Truthfully though, I think I might tire of this song after two listen throughs.  Hold on, I’m going to try it again. [Hold on] … [Stop Holding] Yeah, I stick with my original thought although if someone were to buy me a drink I might change my mind on this one.  Nice background but a bit grating.  

33. Freelance Whales - “Hannah”

Seems to be a theme of tapping off color 60s blown glass, adding some xylophonic symphonies, and a female voice and blessing it as a track.  Well, 15 songs deep into this list I won’t be fooled. 

32. Magic Kids - “Hey Boy”

This song went Beach Boys too early and my mind immediately went to Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and from there I went Mickey Mouse club. Not being able to escape the strong 1950s gravitational forces, I couldn’t appreciate this as a 2010 piece.

By the time I came back,  living color had been invented.  Speaking of which, check out the first color TV presentation ever, October 1958, 14 days after Sputnik:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivx0aJJmC8

31. Surfer Blood - “Floating Vibes”

Nice piece, not too flashy but sets low expectations.  Rhythmics are predictable.  It’s vanilla underwear. If I was tied up in a Middle Eastern prison, blindfolded, and asked to name the band I would’ve guessed Weezer or Granddaddy.  Thankfully, I’m not. 

30. Gorillaz - “Stylo”

We wind down the 30s with a beat bop mixed in with some subway style lovin’.  I did my best to funk as bad ass as I could sitting in my IT cubicle.  The Caddy’s in the shop and the bling didn’t come for Christmas so all I really had to work with is white angst. Let’s use that.  I’m hitting Play again.

Answer to 35. Witchy Woman.

Even more to come after the break … the Twenties!

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