Song of the Week

By: Charbarred | in: Music |

16 Horsepower

Every week each of our writers shares the song that made his week just a little bit brighter…

Kendall
“Me and You” by Little Brazil
Sometimes we all need fun. This Omaha quartet delivers on this jangly good time of a boy loves girl song. Filled with harmonies, da-da-da’s, and clanking piano, I was ready to start singing before I had listened to the song all the way through the first time. Everyone has been in that happy, “I’m in love” stage, and the happy hand claps will bring you right into Landon Hedges’ puppy dog world. This sounds cheesy, but it’s a rollicking good time.

RustyCat
“Prison Shoe Romp” by 16 Horsepower
I’m trying to stay true to the ‘Song of the Week’ concept and write only about the song that I played all week over and over like a broken record. You know those albums that someone recommends and it takes you a year to give them a listen? Well, I just found my new favorite – 16 Horsepower: Olden.
Prison Shoe Romp captures the essence of the whole album with a celebration of clean and slide guitars, a Doors like sound, and some awesome rugged vocals. Have a good listen; I think this is one of those albums worth the effort.

D Thompson
“This Shit Will Fuck You Up” by Combichrist
What a difference a week makes! Last week I was the generally happy go lucky guy my friends know and love, this week the plumbing in my apartment is totally shot! Well, music is for enhancing the mood and Combichrist has to be the most negative band I’ve ever heard. Here’s a song to play LOUD and guaranteed to get you disaproving looks from other motorists. Harsh electronic rhythms, insistent repetitive beats, antisocial lyrics. What more do you want on a week where you’re “showering” in the kitchen sink?

Charbarred
“Saltbreakers” by Laura Veirs
I can’t think of many songwriters who are as innovative and as exciting as Laura Veirs. Her new album “Saltbreakers” is out at the end of the month, and to say it’s as good as her previous work is saying quite a lot. I can’t get the title track out of my head all week. It’s a beautiful cheery tune that can also serve to offset D Thompson’s choice for this week (and maybe even cheer him up a bit).

Alibastard
“Bunny Aint No Kind of Rider” by Of Montreal
Riding, in a nervous static wave, out of the preceeding 11 min 53 sec Syth/punk tyrade about verything fucked up in the life of Of Montreal frontman/solo artist Kevin Barnes, “Bunny Aint No Kind of Rider” takes a little time to warm up. When it does it starts to worry you because it dips so effortlessly into the percussive inanities of early ’90s House. Then you realize its probably aking place in a club, where Kevin, or some likeness, is getting wickedly hit on by a couple people. The song structure is strange, defiant and kind of wicked. A fuzz line muddies the refrains. Constant interuptions keep breaking in to set the scene. And then out of nowhere stumbles one of the most catchy, bitchy choruses in recent memory. Coming from this Lit-quoting, overdubbing, bleeding heart Romantic dance poet, this frank terratory of just flat out telling some “faggy girl” she doesn’t have the “soul power” to make him leave his wife comes on strong, is gorgeous, embarassingly personal and so cheeky. You know “soul power” isn’t some funk era catch phrase - he means the girl’s got no substance, no integrity, which you’d guess is not Barnes’ bag exactly. After the song breaks down to give you the bare bones of this gem couple of lines, it has the audacity to add a guitar line and a few harmonies behind it that makes you think early Beatles - almost like this is a love song…something groovy. Something to say, “Its cool. You’re just some faggy girl.” What? All week I’ve been listening to “Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer“. The whole thing blows my mind. And though this track is perhaps not the most dance worthy, experimental, perfected or strange, a chorus like that is hard to shake out, and easy to take with you.

So what’s your song of the week?

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Posted on March 2, 2007

Comments

16 Responses to “Song of the Week”

HMTKSteve on March 2nd, 2007 3:42 am

I’m really liking this song of the week feature. Keep it up guys!

remixboy on March 2nd, 2007 4:07 am

Another Friday..and more tracks to listen to…I love it!!!!

Well i always think its interesting as you work your way through all the choices, you find yourself thinking..Oh I really like this..and when I played the Laura Veirs track I thought i though Id found my Friday fav..but as Alibastard points out, the chorus in Bunny Aint No Kind of Rider is so damn infectious..so that is my pop picking top tastic tracks kids!!!! :p

Saskia290878 on March 2nd, 2007 6:02 am

I really like ‘Me and you’, that songs makes me so happy

Joe on March 2nd, 2007 6:22 am

Im loving the new one from Kenna - Out of Control, cant wait for his new album

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Emon on March 2nd, 2007 8:12 am

I’ll have to go with ‘Me and You.’ My ‘You’ is the new love in my life, the 30GB video iPod…and my first one at that. Bye bye dinner and a movie.

Giovanna on March 2nd, 2007 8:41 am

One more time amazed at your songs, a really hard choice to make! This week my favourite track is “Prison Shoe Romp”… a vague country feeling mixed with a decadent Pink Floydian allure - their “Obscured By Clouds” period… And bottle neck always conquers me!

Kendall on March 2nd, 2007 9:52 am

I wasn’t expecting Laura Veirs. Havn’t heard of her, but that song is way cool!

MG Siegler on March 3rd, 2007 1:21 am

Definitely the Of Montreal song. I love the new CD, especially “A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger”.

makes on March 3rd, 2007 3:06 am

My favorite is “Bunny Aint No Kind of Rider” !!!

Jason on March 6th, 2007 5:07 am

This is a great idea for people to explore new music.

I have to say that this week I’ve hit repeat a few times for Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You into the Dark”.

Cheers!

Charbarred on March 6th, 2007 6:20 am

Damn Jason, the Death Cab song was one of my top contenders for next week’s Song of the Week…Back to the drawing board…