CoolBec

Wow..as a preacher's kid myself that hits pretty close to home. It helps (a little) to write it down and get it out though doesn't it?

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Track Four - Genevieve


This song has high school memories stitched into every stanza. I don’t care for it for that reason, but it’s so beautifully executed that you can easily ignore the tone and instead get caught up in the interesting percussion and use of harmonies. We’ve all been a Genevieve, I think, and we’ve all been the ones calling Genevieve out. We’ve all given too much voice and subsequently had our voice taken away.

The main reason I wanted to “review” the Lucius EP was so I could post this video – for those of you familiar with NPR the tiny desk series (Lucius’ performance at which is posted below) is stemmed from All Songs Considered. They host some of the most interesting bands, and this video is how I first heard and grew to appreciate Lucius. I’ve always said everything I know I know from NPR (that’s a joke, Big3) and I suppose it makes sense that music is no exception. This video is seriously worth a watch - the band's innovation with instruments and such is a sight to behold. I'm somewhat obsessed.

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I was referred to as a less manboy-ish Rob from High Fidelity earlier in this thread, and it’s almost worrisome to me the accuracy of that comparison. Almost.

I make playlists for everything. I make Top Five lists for everything (ironically, High Fidelity appears neither in my list of Top Five Books or Movies but is included in my list of Top Five Books Turned Into Movies). Seriously though, you could give me an aspect, any aspect, of everyday life and the probability is very high that I have a contextually relevant Top Five list for it already made or compiled in my head. I’m going to share some of these with you, and if any of you are curious about my Top Five anything I’d be glad to take requests on which lists I cover here. I’m going to start with a fun one.




5. Violent Femmes - Gimme the Car

How can I explain the deep down driving?

This song brings me back to my teenage years, in the best way. Back to times of experimentation and pure, hot, adolescent lust. Stumbling and fumbling, learning and enjoying. When I listen to this song I still smile, every time, and I will forever remember it as the soundtrack to my first make out session. Now, in my early twenties, I still put on this song when the, uh, time is right, and I'm able to relive all my teenage fantasies in a very... ahem... adult fashion. Yeah I'm blushing right now, shut up.

4. T. Rex - The Slider

God that guitar is just so sexy, listen to that, it's simply pulsating. Unf. I think I'm still worked up from writing about the last track. Jesus balls. The rhythm of this song is perfect for making out, the percussion is easy enough to uh, move along to, and the vocals are oozing with whispered euphemisms. Is it hot in in here? Windows need cracking.

3. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Sugar Ray

Did you feel my lips
Did they slide and slip
Did you feel my head
Shaking through your wrist?

What better song to make out to than one in which “all I want is you” is repeated? And the title of the track is such a great name for a cock, in my opinion. If I had a cock I would certainly name mine Sugar Ray. I need to stop oh my god I’m sorry everyone.

2. In Shades – Tom Waits

It is not uncommon for me to include Tom Waits in my Top Five lists, least of all any lists to do with anything even remotely sexual. This song is sexy as fuck, and there are no distracting words, and in fact what makes it super-hot is the little Tom Waits growl rasp about halfway through. If I was the type to dance I would dance to this song, and if I were the type to want to marry I would want to marry Tom Waits. Hit it and never quit it. Fo’ life.

1. Queens of the Stone Age – Skin On Skin

Why haven’t you kissed me yet?

Aaaaand, that’s it, ladies and gentlemen. My very favorite make out song. QOTSA are great and everything they do they do well, and that includes songs about fucking. It’s too easy to sample sex sounds in the background, it’s the subtleties in this song that do it for me. The sound of a zipper followed by tasteful heavy breathing and then the sound of a cigarette being lit at the end – it’s just wonderful. They do raunchy in the classiest fashion.


Get it on, friends. Enjoy yourselves: Download

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Honorable Mention: The Stone Roses - Don't Stop

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Dr_Rez

Steph I am disappoint...you have mixed up the #1 choice.

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This is on my list of Top Five Banging Songs though.

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5. Ludovico Einaudi – Una Mattina



Although he rejects the label himself, I’m not sure how else to classify the composer aside from “minimalist.” Una Mattina is thoroughly meditative, and my favorite album to drive to when it’s raining heavily. It will always evoke scenes from my first winter in California, spending countless hours in the living room listening to this album while sewing, reading, writing or just thinking while I stared out at the rain through the French doors. I’d never spent so much time alone, and I’d never seen so much rain.


4. Hop Along – Is Something Wrong?



Her first release under the Hop Along moniker, this seven track EP is, in my opinion, Frances Quinlan’s showcase album as far as songwriting is concerned. While I enjoy her first album, Freshman Year (released under the name Hop Along, Queen Ansleis) for the experimentation and innovation it contains, Is Something Wrong is just a better example of what she’s capable of creating. This is an album I like to listen to when thinking deeply about the creation of music, and when I want to feel inspired to write my own. I study her lyrics while I’m driving, marveling at the melodies she creates. I urge any fan of Get Disowned to check out Hop Along’s earlier work.


3. Daniel Johnston – Fun



While the next two albums are personally used for listening while pondering, this album is for when I want to expend excess energy at the end of the day or escape from the mindset of life’s tedium. I love most of what Daniel Johnston has done – I think his status as artistic genius is not only acceptable but is, in that recognition, relieving – but Fun is truly his finest work. He is confident and playful in his songwriting on this album, and that translates into unequivocally pleasurable listening.


2. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psycho Candy



Melancholic and melodic, Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut album is echoic and has the air of being unintentionally revolutionary. It’s the perfect album to drive to at sunset, when your eyes begin to adjust to the change in light and your thoughts begin to drift to the philosophical. Utter sonic frenetic mayhem - just as stuttering as it is smooth, this album is great whether being used for background driving ambiance or a more direct listening experience.


1. Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes



It evokes the vagabond mentality, the heart full of wanderlust, allures remembrance of tranquil scenes and feelings of ease. Unless thwarted by rain I always drive with my windows down and my sunroof open. In the dead of winter I’m known to have the heat cranked and the windows open, relishing feeling the mixture of warm and cool air blowing through my hair and across my skin. The gritty, garage-band influenced, four-track recorded twenty eight song record with not a single track breaking the three minute mark, Alien Lanes has earned a cult following, and rightly so. This is an arm-out-the-window, high volume, first cup of coffee of the day, driving for the sake of driving good album.

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ye-yeuh.

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I have an idea for a theme that could, in some ways, be interpreted as me whoring myself out to generate interest in my journal, but I also think it could be a lot of fun. The idea involves prizes and requires people to interact with and contribute their own ideas to a theme in a contest of sorts.

I've already put a lot of thought into how exactly it would work, what the rules are and what prizes I'd give out, but I need to see if there are people interested in being a part of it before I exert that amount of energy. If I get five yeses I'll go ahead and begin.

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Yes for curiosity

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