Okay, since the first MP3 worked, I've been just waiting to post more. I'm like a kid in the candy store. I don't know what to do next. So, I'm going start with two tracks that I haven't been able to get out of my head for the last couple of days, so much so that I've mentioned, vaguely, both tracks in my posts over the last couple of days.
The New Pronographers - Use It
This track is fantastic. Off of their lastest disc, Twin Cinema (you know... the record that was reviewed by PopMatters and then belittle on this blog), and I can't stop singing it to myself. From the slow build beginning to the repetition of "tonight" at the end, it's just great pop music. The lyrics are cryptic, but it doesn't matter because, like all NP songs, the interplay between AC Newman and Neko Case's vocals are brilliant. The drums are really loud on this song, which is awesome especially with all the syncopation in the chorus. But I'm only describing different parts. You've got listen to the whole song and judge for yourself.
The Hotknives - Don't Go Away
Okay, first I've got to apologize for the quality of this MP3, but I had a really hard time tracking this song down. The Hotknives were, from what I can figure out, second wave Ska band from the UK. I know they released a bunch of singles, but they were never that big. In high school, my friend Paul bought a cheap Ska compilation that had this song on it. This song is more pop than ska, but that's not a reason to hate it. You can't even hate the cheap fake horns on the chorus or the really bad backup vocals on the second last line of every verse. And the lyrics. "don'tcha go away/don'tcha go away from me/you're everything/you're everything a girl should be." This is why teenagers shouldn't decide what is good lyrics because when I was fifteen I though this was genius. I wished I could write lyrics like that so the girl I like won't go away. I just didn't understand everything a girl should be was.
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