song: 23
album: 23
band: blonde redhead
usa - 2007
23 seconds, all things we love will die
23 magic, if you can change your life
song: slow hands
album: antics
band: interpol
usa - 2004
nobody searches
nobody cares somehow
when the loving that you’ve wasted
comes raining from a hapless cloud
then i might stop and look upon your face
disappear in the sweet sweet gaze
see the living that surrounds me
dissipate in a violent blaze
can’t you see what you’ve done to my heart and soul
this is a wasteland now.
song: billie holiday (rough trade sessions)
album: exquisite corpse ep
band: warpaint
usa - 2009
+: half ode to billie holiday, half cover of “my guy” by mary wells (1964)
song: spring and by summer fall
album: 23
band: blonde redhead
usa - 2007
+: not an official video. made of a panam commercial from the public domain.
song: the weight of the world
album: an end has a start
band: editors
uk - 2007
every little piece in your life
will add up to one
every little piece in your life
will mean something to someone
song: evil
album: antics
band: interpol
usa - 2004
you’re weightless, semi-erotic
you need someone to take you there
saying, “hey why can’t we look the other way?”
why can’t we just play the other game?
why can’t we just look the other way?
+: what a great show they did @ coachella 2011.
song: special
album: and the glass handed kites
band: mew
denmark - 2005
there’s a taste that you can’t shake
but you can’t seem to let them go awry
i know you’re special
you’re a rocket to me
at this surprised
all the time
song: post break-up sex
album: what did you expect from the vaccines?
band: the vaccines
uk - 2011
post break-up sex,
that helps you forget your ex.
song: surrounded by your friends
album: momo
band: hooray for earth
usa - 2010
i’m walking in, and greeted with a smile
i keep my bottle to my chest
i know you, and them and she is fine
i might offer her the rest
scan the crowd
every face in a quite familiar place
tomorrow’s free and so are drinks
as far as i know
i hope, at least, till the end
you’re surrounded by your friends
and they all know, that you’re all right.
the things they do are really not so new,
you’re better off to just have a blast,
oh the shoulder that you got the last,
oh the comfort.
song: 156
album: frengers
band: mew
denmark - 2003
i won’t care for you,
like i’m really supposed to
there are things i’ll do,
that could really hurt you.
don’t you just love goodbyes?
song: head on
album: automatic
band: the jesus and mary chain
scotland - 1989
and the world could die in pain
and i wouldn’t feel no shame
and there’s nothing holding me to blame
makes you want to feel makes you want to try
makes you want to blow the stars from the sky
i’m taking myself to the dirty part of town
where all my troubles can’t be found.
+: covered by ‘the pixies’ for their 1991 album ‘trompe le monde’.
song: kingdom of welcome addiction
album: kingdom of welcome addiction
band: iamx
uk - 2009
if you chose life,
you know what the fear is like.
if you welcome addiction,
this is your kingdom.
song: undertow
album: the fool
band: warpaint
usa - 2010
what’s the matter? you hurt yourself?
opened your eyes and there was someone else?
now i’ve got you in the undertow.
now i’ve got you in the undertow.
why you wanna blame me for your troubles?
ah ah ah you better learn your lesson yourself.
nobody ever has to find out what’s in my mind tonight.
song: strange powers
album: holiday
band: magnetic fields
usa - 1994
and i can’t sleep
cause you got strange powers
you’re in my dreams
strange powers
+: video @ youtube
+: trent reznor @ his blip.fm account: “try starting with ‘holiday’, then dive into the opus: ‘69 love songs’. there are more ideas on that record alone than most bands’ entire careers. if you get hooked, check out ‘i’ next.
song: cigarette
album: great shakes
band: whitey
uk - 2007
please save me from myself and rescue me from everyone i know
