friday random ten: “relatively hipster” edition
With a few exceptions, I guess. That Katy Perry song sticks out, but damn if I don’t really like vast swaths of the Teenage Dream record; unsubtle penis metaphors, cotton candy-scented packaging, and my own anti-commercial sensibilities aside.
She’s got a great rock voice when she lets it loose, like she does on selection #8 below, along with a couple of well-placed lyrical F-bombs. It’s almost like she’s one more heartbreak away from her own personal Jagged Little Pill, and this song’s a little preview. Not that I wish her ill, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to hear that record.
Anyway, I wish you all a happy weekend, as long as you don’t say anything about my forgetting to pick up my mobile phone before I left the house. Again.
- “Carry Me” – Patty Griffin
- “Sixteen Military Wives” – The Decembrists
- “Soil, Soil” – Tegan and Sara
- “How To Skin A Cat” – Hüsker Dü
- “Finest Worksong” – REM
- “My Body Is A Cage” – Arcade Fire
- “Sing” – She & Him
- “Common People” – William Shatner
- “Circle the Drain” – Katy Perry
- “Flower” – Liz Phair
