Best Songs: 20 - 11
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10 - 1
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| 20. |
Titus Andronicus, "Titus Andronicus" Indie-rock clarion call from butt-crack suburban New Jersey, with the traffic-stopping inspirational yawp: "Fuck everything / Fuuuuck me!" |
| 19. |
Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind" Sylvester takes Kurt Weill to the threepenny disco and gets mighty real. |
| 18. |
Ponytail, "Celebrate the Body Electric, (It Came From an Angel)" Punk-rock double Dutch, with all the B-girls screaming like their skulls are on fire. |
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| 17. |
Violens, "Violent Sensation Descends" In 1966, this alternately ominous and sparkly nugget would've been the No. 50 British single of the year, after the Creation's "Making Time." It's that good. |
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| 16. |
R.E.M., "Supernatural Superserious" Michael Stipe reaches out to humiliated summer-camp teens, and Pete Buck chimes in with his most thrilling power-chord riff ever. |
| 15. |
Alphabeat, "Fascination" Imagine if Abba's grandkids trashed High School Musical and made it even giddier. |
| 14. |
Young Jeezy, feat. Jay-Z, "Put On (Remix)" Somehow, mid-recession, Jeezy's consumerist catalog of crackspot swag transformed into a nationwide anthem of hometown hood pride. Kanye's sinister gospel production didn't hurt (nor did that punch line about her weave looking like curly fries!). |
| 13. |
Grizzly Bear, "While You Wait for the Others (Live On KCRW)" The most beautifully brittle of the 4,367 songs currently indebted to Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds. |
| 12. |
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, "Buriedfed" Like the soundtrack to an episode of Intervention directed by a passive/aggressive Sam Peckinpah. "Shit, man, I ain't even dead," says Billy the Kid to Pat Garrett as the casket passes. |
| 11. |
The Knux, "Cappuccino" A Creole stepchild of Beck's "Where It's At" and the Pharcyde's "Passin' Me By." Crackling guitar, wheezing organ, and beignets included. |
Best Songs: 20 - 11
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10 - 1
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