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This is my best-of-2007 list. I hate best of lists. My list only has one item:

Wire's "23 Years Too Late" (off the EP Read & Burn 03) is not just the best song of 2007, it's the best anything of 2007. Very little this year has brought me as much pleasure as this song. I love love love when a band that started before I was born can still make amazing music. The ominous, bass-y spoken word makes this song almost like a post-punk version of Thriller. Now that I think about it, that's a fairly apt comparison.

(FYI: The rest of the EP is alright, but this one song makes the purchase more than worth it. I hardly ever get to the other songs on the CD because I keep listening to this one over and over and over.)

If you, like me, think that the "Me And My Rhythmbox" scene is one of the greatest moments ever committed to film, you might also be interested in the soundtrack to Liquid Sky, the movie it's from. Well, it just so happens that Heino und Jerry have made yet another post of awesome music. I alternate between only liking that one song and loving the whole cheesy thing. Right now, I'm listening to that one song over and over and over until my train ride in the morning.

Maybe there are other sites like Passing By that randomly show a specific theme of videos, but this is the first I've found, so it's getting my respect. The theme of this site is videos that were shot out of moving vehicles. No more, no less. And I love it.

Already I half-regret posting this. But the smiling makes up for it...

Props to Josh for the link, btw. (My first credited source?)

Is it too late for me to jump on the Kissy Sell Out bandwagon? In NY time, probably. But whatever. This remix is awesome. I've been growing sick of remixes lately, but this one reminded me that a remix can be totally awesome, not merely a minor improvement on the lame original. This is a wonderful mixture of poppiness, chopped-up-ness, and electro-ness, with just the right ammount of dancey house-ness sprinkled on top. It almost makes me dance. Almost.

(But I promised I'm never dancing again, after a particularly embarrassing night, so nothing will ever actually make me dance. Mark my words.)

How come I've never heard this before?! How come my "friends who know about more music than I" have never mentioned this band to me? Was I just not listening to you, dear friends? Whatever the case, this is exactly what I wanted (needed?) to hear tonight, after gorging myself on loads of wine and beer and homemade, collective-made vegetarian food. What better way to get through a food coma than with some sort of psychedelic music. Sure, sure, psych is everywhere, we've heard loads of it.... but what makes this stand out to me is that it reminds me a lot of Television Personalities. I can't say quite why, it just does. And I like it. I now totally need to get the other albums. Damn.

If you really want, you can listen/download this one also, over at Heino Und Jerry's again. (I'll try not to let all my recommendations come from there, really.)

(And yes, the album cover is not quite the right album, but it's close.)

Thank you, Stephane Vigny, for making something I always wanted, but never knew I wanted.

...and it is good.



Honestly, this makes me sooooooo very happy!

Practically every version of this song is quite awesome, especially when its by the composer Jacques Brel himself, but this is my favorite, hands down. I don't know why. As I said in an earlier post, this song is at the top of my songs-I-wouldn't-mind-having-soundtrack-my-death-scene list (I blame HatChris for me having such a list, btw). I can even picture the scene: I'm laying on the ground, after having been violently shot or stabbed (no doubt I was trying to prevent some great tragedy... like Lincoln's assasination... or a lover's abduction), still and lifeless, in a puddle of my own blood. The camera is directly above, centered on my face, close up, spinning very slowly, and zooming out to reveal the whole scene, blood and bodies and shell casings and knives. Then on the "But if you stay..." bits, the camera swoops in for a close up on one of my eyes. On the next "If you go away..." bit, the camera does the slowly spinning and zooming out thing again. Repeat until song is done, then fade to white, or perhaps to a scene of a river. (Or something like that, at least. My cinematagraphic skills aren't the best.)