Thursday, July 24, 2008

What I Currently Have on "Repeat"

1. Between the Bars (Elliot Smith cover) - Emily Haines & James Shaw
"The things you could do
You won't but you might."


2. Lump Sum - Bon Iver
"Colour the era
Film, it is historical."


3. California Dreamer - Wolf Parade
"I thought I might have heard you on the radio but the radio waves are like snow."

4. Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone - Islands
"Laying low in a tropical hideout
If anyone finds out
I'll turn their lights out."


5. I Don't Want to Grow Up (Tom Waits cover) - Scarlett Johansson
"Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down."


6. Pink Bullets - The Shins
"Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal."


7. Gobbleldigook - Sigur Ros
"La La lalalalalalala La La."

8. Lovely Head - Gold Frapp
"Frankenstein would want your mind
Your lovely head."


9. The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
"She would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene."


10. New York Telephone Conversation - Lou Reed
"Did you hear who did what to whom, happens all the time."

11. Dramamine - Modest Mouse
"I said what I said and you know what I mean."

12. Ohio - Neil Young
"We're finally on our own."

13. Mississippi Goddamn (live) - Nina Simone
"The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddamn
And I mean every word of it."


14. Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan
"And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you."


15. Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
"He flows like the big muddy but that's ok
Pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait."


16. Peace Beneath the City - Iron & Wine
"Give me good legs
and a Japanese car
and show me a road.”


17. At Last - The Do
"A man I can trust
Trust with my dust, oh ho."


18. Knife (Grizzly Bear cover) - CSS
"When I look into your eyes..."

19. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
"Dear shadow alive and well
How can the body die?"


20. I Was Made for You - She & Him
"Cause I have been waiting for a long, long time for a boy like you."

21. Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"I'll stand for the sake of my friend
I will see him there."


22. We Put a Pearl in the Ground - St. Vincent
N/A.

23. So-so - Brooke Waggoner
"He wanted to know
how I liked Del Rio
And if the lack of snow had made it all perfecto."


24. Brown Bear - Bell
"Clouds shaped like bears are just water in air."

25. Horse & I - Bat for Lashes
"Horse and I, we're dancers in the dark."

26. I Don't Blame You - Cat Power
"They said you were the best,
But then they were only kids."


27. The Engine Driver (live acoustic) - Colin Meloy
"I'm a county lineman on a high line, such a high line
So will be my grandson."


28. Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover, live) - The Raconteurs
"Come on now who do you, who do you who do you who do you think you are?"

29. Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
"I like to disco
I like to rock n' roll
Well I like to hip-hop."


30. Glory Box - Portishead
"I'm so tired, of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow."


31. Reckoner - Radiohead
"You were not to blame for..."

32. Pavlov's Daughter - Regina Spektor
"I hear them say my name
Regin-ah, Regin-ah, Regin-a-a-ahhhh."


33. Our Hell - Emily Haines
"We're paralyzed, we apologize
Our hell is a good life."


34. Cosmia (live) - Joanna Newsom
"Can you hear me, will you listen
Don't come near me, don't go missin'."


35. Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
"Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled."

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