1. Alphabeat - 10,000 Nights of Thunder
Let's start a band. We'll sing cute songs like these. And it will be awesome. And poppy. It's got to be poppy.
2. The Anniversary - All Things Ordinary
Most of my entries of this list will be bands with two singers - something I know Evan strayed away from. I love the dynamic of a guy and a girl singing. The Anniversary is one of the first bands that I encountered that did this in a way that made sense to me. And since that fateful evening, I've been obsessed with the idea of this kind of band.
3. Mystery Jets - Young Love
This is a cute song. I like cute things. Therefore, I like this song.
4. Chairlift - Bruises
Yeah, so this was in an iPod commercial, but it's a little subversive while still being a beee-boopy pop song. Beee-boop!
5. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Kevin Drew is a lucky man. He often enjoys the pleasure of song with ladies like Amy Millan, Emily Haines, and (in this track) Feist. How does one guy get so lucky?
6. The Teenagers - Homecoming
This one is just tongue-in-cheek fun. "I fucked an American slut." v. "I loved my English romance." Perfection.
7. Jason Collett - Hangover Days
I think Canada must have just those three girls: Amy, Emily, and Leslie. I believe this is Emily here (on the recording - the video is Feist). I'd give just about anything to be one of these girls.
8. Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
I know nothing about these two other than this song was used on The OC. Does that make it automatically good? Sure. As long as it involves a cute Seth Cohen moment.
9. Damien Rice - 9
This woman's voice is hauntingly beautiful. I saw Damien Rice play before 9 Crimes came out, and he brought her along. The audience was breathless with every note she sang. It's unbelievable.
10. Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
And now for something completely different. Davey, sing me something I know!
11. Stars - Midnight Coward
Stars will probably go down as one of my favorite bands of all time. I love the Torq/Amy combo. Their songs are stories and their lyrics are often conversations.
12. The Kills - U. R. A. Fever
The Kills are like the anti-Stars. While Stars write mostly whimsical love songs, I mostly expect the two in The Kills to be constantly engaged in a fist fight.
13. Mates of State - Everyone Needs an Editor
An early track from these indie-darlings. They do everything together it seems: music, live, work, make babies, raise babies. It's all them all the time. I don't know if I think that's awesome or insane.
14. Rainer Maria - Breakfast of Champions
Kyle & Cait. Another great pairing of voices.
15. The New Pornographers - Adventures in Solitude
A non-Neko Case New Pornos track. I like the addition of this new gal. She compliments A.C. Newman very well.
16. Phil Collins - Separate Lives
OOOOOOOOH YES. Here my Phil sings with Marilyn Martin. (I don't know who that is.) And they sing themselves a nice power slow jam ballad. It's awesome. And it deserves to be the closing track because of how awesome it is.
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