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“Surveillance”: A Video For The Liars Song “Scarecrows On A Killer Slant”

Daniel Fincke — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:59 +0000

Liars’ most recent album, Sisterworld, is simply my favorite 2010 release so far. It is just a great album. Listen to a representatively great song from the album:

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Daily Hilarity: Jeff Tweedy Of Wilco Does Beyoncé’s Single Ladies

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:04:45 +0000

This is classic:

Twenty Four Bit provides context:

A Jeff Tweedy solo show is something to behold, and the Wilco frontman’s benefit gig at Chicago’s Vic Theatre in March was—by all accounts—a prime example. Tweedy performed a host of pre-submitted audience requests, including “Shakin’ Sugar,” a Wilco rarity that even he had to Google, Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” (once again), Bill Fay’s “Be Not So Fearful,” his new Mavis Staples track “You’re Not Alone,” a Kinks cover, and dozens more. One fan requested YHF stunner “Ashes of American Flags” or Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” Guess which one he chose to sing for 10 seconds and then recite in full for some classic Tweedy stage banter lulz. I, for one, am glad that someone “forfeit[ed] their memories” for this clip.

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271. Figurines

Daniel Fincke — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:18:36 +0000

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7XSvZi9Z1E&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocYRedWheDw&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
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272. Frightened Rabbit

Daniel Fincke — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:53:55 +0000

For whatever reason I think of these guys as sort of the Scottish Counting Crows with a little more aggressive emotional frankness. Songs don’t come much more brutally blunt than this one:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ3r2BC7ctA&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
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289. Jesus Lizard

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:46:23 +0000

For a long time, to my discredit, I naively thought that Nirvana were either a singular phenomenon or a band whose closest cousin was Pearl Jam. Only when I started really listening to music did I realize what different musical universes Nirvana and Pearl Jam really existed in. And coming to this realization took some discovery of the many of the lesser hyped bands from the ’80s and ’90s who both developed the sound Nirvana would eventually mainstream and the genuinely grungy bands that were too actually grunge to be what the mainstream was passing off as allegedly “grunge”.

Jesus Lizard is one of the bands any Nirvana fan should really spend some time with. And stay tuned for more such bands as the rest of this top 366 list of my favorite bands continues to countdown all year until the new year.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7FCfsPqR0&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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296. Badly Drawn Boy

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:50:44 +0000

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4E_1I4kiP0&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx4UxfJbLwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvwXghx9j4&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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297. Fleet Foxes

Daniel Fincke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:06 +0000

An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you. The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZTvGIzeGg&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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299. The Hold Steady

Daniel Fincke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:56 +0000

The 21st Century ’70s Springsteen, Craig Finn writes songs that are anthemic, evocative, and rich with narrative and emotional detail and perceptiveness. If his talk-singing didn’t become a slog so often, his band would rank much higher. This song always makes me smile though:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdT8tIrfEU&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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300. Joseph Arthur

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:39:19 +0000

The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJkOat8zTO4&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QotZ7TIaztw&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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301. The Good Life

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:55:18 +0000

The Good Life’s Album of the Year is an album of a year long relationship and as a sucker for concept albums and songs about the complications of relationships, I eat it up. I love this (long) song most. It’s the only one with a female lead vocal on the album:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYT8XUKO-58&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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