Consequence of Sound’s songs list came out yesterday. Always intense, always exhausting, always a labor of love. To make the list, each CoSer creates his or her own top list and that is integrated into the whole. This isn’t a full top 20 list and I’ve certainly missed some. Case in point: I haven’t listened to the new Bon Iver and I know I know… I really freaking need to. Catching up with the music of 2011 is what 2012 is for and so on and so on for ever and ever and ever.
1) Astronautalis - “Midday Moon”
2) Paul McCartney - “Blue Sway”
3) Grace Jones - “This Is”
4) Goyte Feat. Kimba - “Somebody That I Used to Know”
5) M83 - “Midnight City”
6) The Strokes - “Two Kinds of Happiness”
7) The Non-Commissioned Officers - “Rich Stuff”
8) Future Islands - “Give Us the Wind”
9) Thomas Dolby - “Evil Twin Brother”
10) Yes - “Fly From Here Prt. III - Madman at the Screens”
11) My Morning Jacket - “Victory Dance”
12) Yip-Yip - “Day Off”
13) Kate Bush - “Wild Man”
My write-up for the CoS list:
50 Words for Snow is a rare album themed to winter holiday months while not being pigeonholed as a Christmas album. “Wild Man” is a testament to that. It’s a seven-minute journey through the snowy crags of Tibet, name-dropping countless faraway places and romanticizing the fabled Yeti as only Kate Bush could. That said, it’s a very different Bush song in a lot of ways, with guest vocalist Andy Fairweather Low providing the chorus and Bush swapping out her usual vocal stylings with a husky Mark Knopfler-esque dialogue for most of the track. The sweetness of Bush’s words and the song’s misty, musical veil make it easy to mistake “Wild Man” as a love song, but that’s not quite it. It’s a tribute to the mysteries still hidden in the natural world and the figments we chase, rounding the corners of distant hills, just out of reach.
14) Decemberists - “This is Why We Fight”
15) Marc With a C - “You’re My Princess”
16) Weird Al Yankovic - “Party in the CIA”
17) They Might Be Giants - “Protagonist”
18) Sweet Lights - “You Let Me Down”
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