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January 02, 2007
MS Picks - Best of 2006 volume 1
This week we'll be recapturing some of our favorite moments of 2006. Think of it as a bloggy version of tv clip shows.
Raconteurs - "Store Bought Bones"
""Store Bought Bones" is insane. A siren-mimicking guitar riffs urgently, acting as prelude to the proggy disaffected vocals of Jack White & Brendan Benson. The Greenhorne rhythm is deep and warm filling the bottom end well and painting accents at all the right changes."
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Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
"Straightforwardness and simplicity, exactly what you’d expect from a White fronted band. Unlike the sparse White Stripes sound, the fuller sound we always sort of wished for is here."
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Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - "Big Guns"
"[It's] Loretta Lynn country, not the crap that passes for country these days. With "Big Guns'" lyrics like "Have mercy on me cause we're tired and lonely and we're bloody" you must agree."
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"It starts with a lone bass line. A good, strong bassline. One you can hang your hat on. Then, in a flash, it’s over. But not before dropping all the accumulated elements away once more to give the original bassline a well deserved curtain call."
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"Starting off with a boat motor that sounds suspiciously like a 8 bit NES "Spy Hunter" sound effect, and seguing into stomping horn and drum beats, this track evokes a sweet party where the din of accumulated conversation threatens to make any meaningful one on one interaction completely impossible."
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Liars - "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"
"A belated response from the man whom "Maps" was famously written about? That's my take, but it could also be about a German goblin, I guess."
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"Getting 20-something NYC kids to dance at an apartment party shouldn't be that hard, but for some reason it is. This song, however, achieved lift off for its entire length when trotted out in a recent social expirement."
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"Is this kind of keep you guessing song structure and varied instrumentation standard in underground hip-hop these days?"
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"Here in a brass balls display, our pal Cocker lifts the "Crimson and Clover" backing track for his own end, and not in a vague way like YYY's "Our Time" did."
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Fujiya & Miyagi - "Ankle Injuries"
"This krautrock workout is cleanly in the pleasure zone."
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Viva Voce - "We Do Not Fuck Around"
"The husband and wife team take from the Roger Waters playbook of black (musical) comedy and manage to keep it sweet and catchy."
Posted by Merry Swankster at January 2, 2007 09:00 AM
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