LINKS: A few songs that have struck me recently:
*Mystery Jets, "Diamonds in the Dark": many have tried to imitate the Smiths, but it's hard to do better than "but you cut your hair/ and it ended there" (which must've appeared on a corner of Hatful of Hollow I've long since forgotten)
*Guided By Voices, "Cut-Out Witch/Man Called Aerodynamics" (this is the best youtube can do). This is turning into another indie rock summer, and "Do you think she can change your life?" is pretty arresting for a first line to a song (see also: "all men have secrets, here is mine," which appeared on the spine of a guitar magazine I bought way back when. Seeing it printed like that raised the level of seriousness above the way Morrissey tosses of the line in the song).
*Hem, "Half Acre". I've listened to Rabbit Songs about a dozen times in the three days I've had it--that's instant classic status, kids. Youtube, again, does not have "Stupid Mouth Shut," "Lazy Eye" or "When I Was Drinking," all of which are better; but this has ended up on the myspace pages of everyone I know from Michigan, and I don't think that's coincidental.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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