Songs For Expressing A Little Compassionate Hatred.
*Caring Is Creepy – the SHINS.
Harmonic, haunting angst, delivered in a hymnal package. Doubts about commitment never sounded this good...in fact they never sounded at all.
*When I Used to Love You – JOHN LEGEND.
John Legend gets his domestic discontent on – in a church! The choir comes in with an uplifting finish, and everybody’s laughing by the end – if your ex is the ironic type.
*Slow Night, So Long – KINGS OF LEON.
Back when Kings of Leon were a pack of tar-spittin’, gin-swiggin’ cowboys from outta nowhere, they made music that touched one’s inner cad. For the anti-gentleman, when halfway through a fumble in the dark, he realises he’s not having a nice time.
*I Don’t Know What To Do (With Myself) – the WHITE STRIPES.
I don’t know what to do with myself... but I’m almost certain I don’t want to do anything with you.
*Sick Sick Sick – the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE.
Phwoar! Doesn’t condone breaking up abruptly with significant others, getting demonically trashed immediately afterwards, and then getting sick on their doorsteps; but we have to admit that’s very Phwoar.
*Razorblade – the STROKES.
The coolest band in the world put down a song four years ago, this one, that contained the lyrics “My feelings are more important than yours...” Need we say more?
*Another You, JOHN MAYER.
Remember that old adage about there being plenty of fish in the sea? John Mayer wrote a song about it before he slipped into an ocean of hot actresses with the paparazzi for day-jobs, and it wasn’t too bad. He’s got tattoos now, so we wonder if he still feels the same way.
*Not My Friend, NORAH JONES.
We cannot say enough about Norah Jones, and she hasn’t had an album out for years now. What is that? A deftly pressed piano key? A xylophone? One fantastic note, interlaced maybe with just one more, drapes the songbird in a blanket of flowers. You don’t deserve her, you DOGS!
*Annie, You’re A Star – the KILLERS.
Hot Fuss was the album that defined modern pop-disco, and the Killers were the band that did it. The song for breaking things off when you really don’t want to, because you’ve been apprehended in ladies’ clothing. That doesn’t make you any less of a man, big guy.
*I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked – IDA MARINA.
The indie anthem of the summer! – midway through the war of words, call in reinforcements. He/she won’t know what hit him/her. That/this is/was about it/the end maybe?
