Songs of the Week

First post in a month. It feels weird. Anyway, of course it's about music, because I don't write about anything else. Here's what I'm listening to this week:

1. Band of Horses, "No One's Gonna Love You"
Well, this one's a no-brainer. Cease To Begin is so pretty to listen to. It makes me happy.

2. Barry Louis Polisar, "All I Want Is You"
I'm obsessed with the Juno soundtrack. This is the song from the opening credits, and it's just so cute and quaint. I love it.

3. Bright Eyes, "Poison Oak"
I feel quite silly now for having loathed Bright Eyes for so long. It was completely unfounded; I'd only heard one or two of his songs. This album is GORGEOUS and Conor totally gets it. He just gets it exactly right.

4. Built To Spill, "Else"
Again, late on the train for this one. I've been meaning to listen to them for a long time, and I finally have, and I really like this album, Keep It Like A Secret. Haven't listened to Ancient Melodies of the Future yet, but I will soon. This song stuck out to me, for some reason.

5. Hello, Blue Roses, "Sunny Skies"
Damn you, Dan Bejar. Damn you AND your girlfriend. Why? Because you know exactly what to do to make me be madly in love with you. I'm super geeked about the release of this album. This song and "Shadow Falls" are both lovely.

6. Jacques Brel, "Ne Me Quitte Pas"
Trying to get into French mode. Props: Brasher. This song is perfect. There's nothing to say about it, really. It just needs to be listened to by everyone.

7. The Magnetic Fields, "Desert Island"
Just now discovering Holiday, and it sucks that it took me this long to do that, but I'm glad that I know it now because it's terrific.

8. Michael Cera and Ellen Page, "Anyone Else But You"
More from Juno. This is the Moldy Peaches cover that they play together on their guitars at the end of the film. This is the point at which I cried.

9. Okkervil River, "Do What You Gotta Do (Jimmy Webb cover)"
One of the great songs from Sheff & co.'s covers mixtape. Again, a song that makes me cry a little. I actually haven't heard the original; I need to get on that.

10. Radiohead, "A Wolf at the Door."
One of my favorites (along with "There There") from Hail To The Thief. It's a pretty brilliant little tune.

11. Ryan Adams, "Everybody Knows"
I don't know, it's just doing it for me right now. For this genre, as far as voices go, no one does it better than Ryan.

12. The Unicorns, "Sea Ghost"
Just discovered these guys as well. Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone rocks pretty hard. It's exactly the kind of strange, unique sound that I love, love to hear. I ear-gasm'ed when I heard this album.

13. The Wrens, "She Sends Kisses"
There aren't really words for Meadowlands. It's just one of those albums that is so classic and so brilliant, you can't really try to describe it, because it'll just ruin it. This song is grrreeeeeaaattt.


C'est tout!