Best songs of 2013 (or how we all tried to win Stip over)

[LetMeSleep]

Stip - Shouting Matches are fronted by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver..... its his old Eau Claire compadres from back in the day. Great, great record.

[stip]

There's been a lot of great stuff released this year, but for me nothing touches this:

that was nice

[William Bloke]

Stip was talking previously about 'guilty pleasures', and I guess that I've heard these songs enough this year (and not hated them) to qualify. This post is brought to you by my 10 year old daughter:

Katy Perry - Roar


Karmin - Acapella


Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball


Ylvis - What Does the Fox Say


Actually, I do hate that last one.

[stip]

a couple more:

these were all misses for me

[Rangi Guy]

or if you have 15 minutes...

the important thing is i listened

I liked Fuzz, that second one I liked at first, but then it just didn't seem to go anywhere and I lost interest

[stip]

Lets cut the bullshit. Every single person here knows what the best song of 2013 is.

"Red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere
Hands in the air like we don't care
'Cause we came to have so much fun now
Bet somebody here might get some now"

If these lyrics don't speak to you, then you're dead!

so this is a thing, is it?

[stip]

I like that Kurt Vile track. I've been meaning to hear that album. I liked the last one. Thumbs up for whoever posted Alela Diane too

Just started putting together a few tracks and this run of tracks was quite nice indeed. I'm stuck in the 90's maybe.

Shouting Matches - Gallup, NM


Beyond Measure - Stone


I've Got To Stop - Mazzy Star


Adara - Vista Chino

this shouting matches song was pretty good too, although I liked the one strat linked more.


the mazzy star song is pretty in their gauzy way

[LetMeSleep]

This album was good but not as good as their first.

[Strat]

stip:

[William Bloke]

Kingswood Ohio

[Kevin Davis]

Oh this beauty from Laura Marling. (I don't think many of you will like her)

I liked this song. Ominous and experienced

One of my favorite albums from this year too. I hear it as a kind of modern day "Astral Weeks"--a sort of meditative, almost mystical song cycle, with a wisdom that belies its creator's young age (pretty sure Marling is the same age now that Van Morrison was when he recorded "Astral Weeks"). The closing track, "Saved These Words," is probably my favorite on the record.

[verb_to_trust]

There's been a lot of great stuff released this year, but for me nothing touches this:

that was nice

Jason Isbell kind of looks like daft twits avatar in that picture.

[verb_to_trust]

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[verb_to_trust]

I'm not wrong

[gems and rhinestones]

Lets cut the bullshit. Every single person here knows what the best song of 2013 is.

"Red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere
Hands in the air like we don't care
'Cause we came to have so much fun now
Bet somebody here might get some now"

If these lyrics don't speak to you, then you're dead!

so this is a thing, is it?

I forgot all about that, if we're thinking the same thing.

It is a thing of massive massive hate.

[Lament]

I'm gonna post this cause it's far and away my favorite track to appear anywhere this year. This album (and this song in particular) shattered my perceptions of what you could expect from a traditional rock band two decades into their career. It is simultaneously true to who they are while also sounding like absolutely nothing else they've ever done before. And even if you have no knowledge of them, it's just a killer fucking song. Intelligent, insightful, angry, dramatic, daring. Great music, great lyrics, great production, great performance. I ended up (unfairly, but for good reason) making a lot of comparisons between this album and Lightning Bolt (my two favorite bands, both releasing their first album of their third decade together merely weeks apart; It was inevitbale), and it probably caused me to be harsher on LB than I should have been. I can't help it though.



And yes, stip, I know you won't like it because of the vocals.

[zeb]

Can I still post in this thread even though I don't give a good goddamn what Stip likes?

[verb_to_trust]

I would encourage it, if only because I generally dislike most things stip likes and was hoping for some good recs....

[Heathen]

I didn't realize we were actually trying to win stip over, I thought we were making fun of him as per usual.

[Heathen]

Adara - Vista Chino

I might not have picked that one, but great album either way