*** Let's share our 2007 SONG OF THE YEAR *** - Page 2

Cool post SONGsanmanwah... I've always enjoyed reading interpretations of highly metaphorical/poetic songs. The songs are few and far between, and interpretations of them are even less so.

It'd be interesting to read your take on all the songs off the new Shins album... Past Shins albums had pretty metaphorical lyrics.. it is even moreso the case in the newest album that I don't have a clue where he's getting at with the lyrics.

Indeed, great post and please tackle some songs like "Blues From Down Here" on Return to Cookie Mountain next.

My favorite song of the year so far is "Over the Ice" by The Field.

It's an electronic sound whose title encapsulates the feeling. Close your eyes and fly over an Arctic landscape. That's what I do.

Easily Matthew Good's "Champions of Nothing" from Hospital Music.

When Hollywood runs out of Indians
When the bar stars melt and their golden hair turns into glass
When Hollywood runs out of Indians
When the bubble bursts and the first are come for by the last
There's something in the way you move
Makes me catch a cold
There's something in your "too cool for school"
When you slide up and down my pole
There's something in the way you look
That only casts a shadow
When Hollywood runs out of Indians
Only the Indians will know

A kick in the head, pass it around
Begging for a bed, pass it around
Pass it around

And I'd say what you'd say
It makes me feel nothing
There's a car waiting to take me to something
At the end of my rope there's
A new world, it's snowing
The globe it starts shaking
Is it me not worth knowing?
The white coats are melting
The snow down our mountains
To process the rivers for hallways, and fountains
And I'd say what you'd say
But it makes me feel nothing
Til there's a man waiting to take me to something
That I'm for

Hell
It looks red in all it's pictures
My sisters sing laments
While their skin blisters
(take your time, take your time, take your time)
Halleluiahs
Offered down on the floor
Nobody goes above decks
No, not no more
They say the sun is still shining
That you can feel it in your core
But I ain't seen nobody move
That weren't going for the door

And I'd say what you'd say
Champions of nothing
But there's a car waiting to take me to something
At the end of my rope
There's a new world, it's glowing
The globe it starts shaking
Was it you not worth knowing?
The white coats are melting
The snow down our mountains
To process the rivers for hallways, and fountains

And I'd say what you'd say
But it makes me feel nothing
Til there's a man waiting to take me something
That I'm for...

Porcupine Tree- Anesthetize

X2!!!!!

Song of the year for me, off my album of the year (so far) is "Parting of the Sensory" by Modest Mouse. The first time I spun this album and heard this song I was floored. I listened to it three times before continuing with the disc.

hmmm.... can't pick one. It's a toss up between The National - Slow Show from Boxer, Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe from The Stage Names or The Gourds - Steeple Full Of Swallows from Noble Creatures. Or maybe Wilco - Impossible Germany from Sky Blue Sky. ...or perhaps The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom or... a lot of good stuff this year I think.

You and me both!!!


Man, you chose some good songs there...love them all...

Yes

thank ye. there's so many. ...and now I will have to check out that Modest Mouse thing...

x2 great song

Delta Goodrems new single - In This Life

Here's another vote for Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree. The song is just amazing. It goes through so many phases and they all fit so well together. The amazing mixing and recording quality only add to the fact that it is my Head-fi SOTY.

^ This one will do.

As well as "Don't you evah" by Spoon

and

"To the east" by Electrelane