Seven Songs For Seven Singers (Memetastic)

"list seven songs you are into right now. no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you are presently enjoying. post these instructions in your journal, along with your seven songs. then four other people to see what they're listening to."

1. Damien Jurado- Just his voice. And the sound of his older stuff. I forgot about the year when I got into him so much, wheedling burnt copies of his cds out of people, passing off my fake i.d. at the Blackbird to see him smoke a cigarette, sing a few songs. I love that man.

2. Killers-Smile Like You Mean It: Finally, finally, after hints dropped so wide they could have paved the whole damn street, my roommates and neighbor bought me the Killers cd, thus (hopefully) putting an end to my propensity to gaze dramatically off into space and bob my head whenever their songs come on overhead at the bar. Imagined quote from the band: "Hey, guys, what do you think we should use in between out chorus hook and lyric hook?""I dunno. Howabout a bridge hook?"

3.Pixies-UMass: Because Frank Black loves to hear himself say stuff, and so do I, so even if I can't figure out what it all means I still get to stutter out the lines and feel like a badass ("like cap-i-talistssss, like comm-u-nissstss, like lot-sa thingsss, you heard about.").

4.Mountain Goats-There Will Be No Divorce: Is very haunting, sort of, Portland, sort of, and it talks about rain and radios and the hair stands up on the back of his neck and he delivers all the words in a soft way.

5. Gwen Stefani-Luxurious: The song I thought I'd never like has now wormed its way into my nonsensibilites through the gentle pull she gives to the lyrics at the line "E-gyptian cotton." A week ago, this would have been the Harajuku Girls song, chosen simply for its chance to allow me to annoy Kenneth by saying "Super Kawaii (that means 'super cool' in Japanese)" in a mock Japanese schoolgirl intonation.

6.Mr.Bungle-Sweet Charity: So damn catchy, Mr.Patton. So very damn catchy, and then there's little harmonies, and, like, seagulls and shit at the beginning. And just thinking of the title gets all the instrumentals stuck in my head, the bonging bass line and the the string section.

7.Vashti Bunyan-Lookaftering: Is an album, not a song, but I think about it all the time, and I don't even own it. I want it, though, pretty badly, and I want to sit and have some Kenyan tea and listen quietly with a blanket.