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Shout Out Louds – Very Loud
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (a song that makes this
girl who does not dance, EVER, want to
dance) Phenomena (If I had a theme song
that played every time I walked into a room this would be it – love the swagger
of it)
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Gomez- How We Operate, Girlshapedlovedrug
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Coldplay – Fix You
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Augustana – Boston (tells a great story – great to sing
along to)
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Tv On The Radio – Dreams, Golden Age
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Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done (saw the killers
open for stellastarr* at the shelter.
There were probably like 50ish people there. It was before the killers were THE
KILLERS. As soon as I heard this song I
knew they were gonna be big. And for
better or for worse, big they are.)
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Stellastarr* - Somewhere Across Forever (or pretty much
every other song from their s/t debut album)
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The Damnwells -
Sleepsinging , I Will Keep The Bad Things From You, Texas
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Damien Rice – Amie, Eskimo
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Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (what can i say, i like sad bastard music)
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Johnny Cash – Streets of Laredo (from the album with Hurt
and Personal Jesus, but I couldn’t believe my ears when I first heard THIS song
on WDET, driving home from my job at another Detroit radio station, I was
singing along, but didn’t know exactly how, or why. I couldn’t place it, and there I was singing
along – and then a minute or two in I realized it was the song that my Grandpa
used to sing to us as kids. I probably
hadn’t heard it in 15 years until that day.
It was a really great radio moment, you know, when you hear something on
the radio, when the time and circumstances are just so, and you feel like a
song was totally meant just for you even
though thousands of other people are listening
- and a really great version of the song )
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Interpol – Untitled, NYC (for the rest of their career I will
constantly be looking for them to top these songs. I will likely be disappointed)
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Flaming Lips - Do You
Realize
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White Stripes - Hotel
Yorba, Fell in Love With A Girl (white blood cells converted me from a hater to
a fan)
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Pete Yorn - Life On A
Chain, For Nancy
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Ours - I’m A Monster,
Dizzy (Jimmy’s voice is perfection – I’ll never forget when Emily and I sat in
on an interview/in studio performance AnnDelisi hosted with Ours at the DVD
studios - there were like 6 of us in
this small studio, and his voice was just huge – bigger than the room we were
in, bigger than the floor we were on – bigger than the whole damn fisher building. And such perfect control. A really special thing to experience. I’m a
forever fan.)
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Tragically Hip – Music @ Work
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Supergrass – Pumping On Your Stereo
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The Strokes – Take It Or Leave It
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Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
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Radiohead – Idioteque (something about the intensity and
franticness of this one)
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Joseph Arthur –History, Exhausted
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Dashboard Confessional – 
Hands Down (yeah, yeah….I know, I
know. But dude knows how to tell a great
story. And this is one of those great
stories. The kind of song you wish
someone would have written about you – and the version of the song from the
mtv2 album covers project thing where Michael stipe joins dashboard
confessional on the song, I find particularly irresistable)
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Catherine Wheel – Crème Caramel (a list of my favorite songs
from the decade wouldn’t be complete without a song from my all time favorite
band. Not my all time favorite song of
theirs – that would go to Fripp - but
the last song on the last album they made as a band is a beautiful one)
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The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations
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The National - Mr.
November, Fake Empire
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Brandston – Earthquakes and Sharks
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Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
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Modest Mouse – Float On
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Pedro The Lion – Rapture
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Muse – Stockholm Syndrome, Starlight (nothing better than
SCREAMING along to Stockholm syndrome at a live show. Nothing.
)
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Cold War Kids – We Used To Vacation, St. John (great songs
that tell great stories)
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Rustic Overtones – Oxygen (In theory, if it wasn’t for this
song…well at least this album and this band, Tim and I never would have met. They’re amazing live and should be HUGE - but
it’s kind of nice to have the band as our own little secret. Interested to hear
what the new album, out by the end of the year, and decade, sounds like.)
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Death Cab for Cutie –Transatlanticisim, Passenger Seat
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Bell X1- The Great Defector (despite being a total Talking
Heads rip-off, it very well may be the song of 2009)
Debate all you want, but these are, hands down, MY favorite
songs of the decade.
