Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Lizzie Davis – Geography

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Ricky in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Sometimes you are in a pissy mood and is just angry about the most arbitrary of things, and then you listen to some song that you have never heard before from some artist you wouldn’t recognize if she sat across the desk from you…. and it makes you feel better.

This was the case with this song. Geography is a countryish-folk track from singer/songwriter Lizzie Davis and it is a happy little affair that put a smile on my face. The track is off her sophomore album Latitudes. Let’s also talk about this PR picture, doesn’t it look like some perv hiding in a field spying on some girl playing guitar? Anyways, this song is pleasant, check it out.

Song of the Day: Neko Case – Man

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Celeste in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

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This song is like the best of Middlesex, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Ernie’s “I don’t want to live on the moon” song all wrapped in one. In this single from her new album The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, Neko Case pairs with M. Ward to deliver three minutes and thirty two seconds of pure, gender defying joy, packed with gender bending quotable moments:

I’m not your identity crisis
I’m not the runt of the litter
I’m a man, you’ll have to deal with me

and my favorite:
I am the man in the f*cking moon

Is it a piece of theater? Is it a rallying cry? Is it a political statement? I don’t know but I love it.

Song of the Day: Goldfrapp – Annabel

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Ricky in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

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On September 10, Goldfrapp will be releasing Tales Of Us and boy, is it a major departure from their previous work. Opting out of electronic pop entirely, the London group has instead crafted an album that is cinematic and gorgeous and sounds like an entirely different Goldfrapp. “Annabel” is one of the songs off the new record and is the one that caught my attention right away. It’s an acoustic tale that holds just the right amount of drama and the right amount of strings. Allison Goldfrapp sounds great in it too. The song is accompanied by a video, which you can see here:

Goldfrapp: Annabel on Nowness.com

or just listen to the tune here:

Like or Dislike: Calvin Harris – I Need Your Love (featuring Ellie Goulding)

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Ricky in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

I can’t really decide whether or not I like or dislike this song. Released earlier this summer, I Need Your Love is the seventh single off Calvin Harris record and it’s been a pretty big hit this summer. Yet I can’t decide whether I actually like this song. I think it has to do with the lyrics and the delivery.

For some reason, when Ellie sings the chorus

I need your love
I need your time
When everything’s wrong
You make it right
I feel so high
I come alive
I need to be free with you tonight
I need your love

I feel like she is singing it in a tone or manner that feels instructional. It reminds me of ESL or when you are learning French or something and the teacher delivers a sentence in that tone in which you have to repeat it. Sadly, me and everyone else who has listened to this song has now memorized these lyrics and in my mind, any song we can sing out, we will end up liking, whether you like it or not. So I feel like somehow I have been tricked into liking this song because I know the lyrics, and I only know the lyrics because this song sounds like an instructional or tutorial lesson on the actual lyrics. Does that even make sense?

I guess that’s probably how all pop songs work, but for some reason, I feel duped on this one. Having said that, I’d probably still dance to it so maybe I’m also a hypocrite.

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