Alala - CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy - 2006

Saturday night I'm walking down Avenue A on the path from one bar to another. I'm relatively tall, and a fast walker to boot, so I was cutting past a group of Frat boy or ex-frat boy looking dudes and I heard this little gem "It's not that I'm not attracted to her, or that I don't think she has a great body, it's just that I was introduced to her as 'Cow-Pig', you know?"

I'd love to know the context, but I'm sure it would be dissapointing...

I have no idea why I like CSS, but I kinda do.

Alabama - Neil Young - Harvest - 1972

Ok, so here is a moral delima. On one hand we have a pretty good song by Neil Young during his heyday...on the other hand, this is the song that prompted the Lynard Skynard douchebags to write Sweet Home Alabama to defend their home land. So, should I hold the results of this song against it. I mean it's well meaning "the South has an ugly history of racism" stuff from a Canadian...and it has a decent guitar line and the great harmonies Young had on Harvest...but again, fucking Sweet Home Alabama...

You know what, I side with the Canandian. Fuck Bama...fuck it hard.

Abigail, Belle of Kilronan - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Volume 2 - 1999

And speaking of Merge Records...

Gosh remember when Magnetic Fields were just this quirky indie-pop band with a ridiculously ambitious project? Remember when you thought Stephen Merritt was closet prodigy, a sweet gay boy with Johnny Cash's voice, a cheap keyboard, and ridiculously low self-esteem? Remember when you didn't know he was a pompous, self-regarding asshole with no respect for his peers?

Yeah, I don't remember any of that either...

Here's the one where he tries to pretend to be Irish...

Aaron and Maria - The American Analog Set - Know by Heart - 2001

By all rights, I should hate this song. Its hushed groove, its delicately sweet lyrics about a couple of trust fund kids in Brooklyn Heights expecting their first child, its adorable lack of realization that these people are probably smug douchebags....but in the summer of 2001, before the world went to hell, I still believed in this kind of happiness.

Plus, despite their mellow vibe, the AmAnSet's can lock into a pocket like nobody's business. I saw them live a few times and was always struck by the way the band all seemed to be in their own world, like they were all in entirely different bands. The bass player wouldn't even look at the rest of them, but they fit together like a jigsaw. Every rhythm fit together perfectly, it was quiet impressive.

So, I like this sweet, quiet, song about rich, entitled white people breeding...go figure.