Bjork - Bachelorette Homogenic
6.5/10
Major nostalgia for Bjork, used to have a friend who was obsessed. This is really cool and reminded me of the Requiem for a Dream theme at first. She has some really cool/ weird pop electronica? love tracks. Really interesting title too. With usual Bjork style, it's fucking weird, it's fucking fabulous, it's some creepy chick's justification for not having a boyfriend. Solid choice.
Evgeny Kissin - Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat Major
7/10
Romantic and sweet, a very embellished interpretation but it works with the soft balancing. You can just imagine a moonlit stroll with your sweetie after getting milkshakes, maybe hitting up some classy joint and ending the night with *gasp* hand holding.
Robin Trower - In This Place
9/10
Fucking love this entire album, and this song especially always gave me a bit of a chill in its heavy interpretation of loss. The video really captures a lover gone well. Memories interspersed with the blank, loveless void of the cosmos. Psychadelic with sunglasses to hide the tears. This song is straight up fucking sexy. It'd be a good track to bang an ex you should still be with to. Or a good track to cry to because you cheated on someone you love.
Yes - I See You
3/10
YES. Yes. Maybe. Nah.
Sera Cahoone - Baker Lake
1/10
Meh, never cared for singer-songwriter shit for the most part. But this theme is rife with such choices so I'll try to be objective. She has a nice voice - granted, a completely replaceable voice I've heard a thousand times before. Guitar is also replaceable. If you ignore craftsmanship, it's not totally terrible! At least she's singing instead of sneezing.
Swans - Miracle of Love
8/10
Metal, shame on you. Deep and introspective. Swans are like that. You think you'll get sick of the scheme, but Swans are like that too, and always switch shit up when you've had about enough. A great song with a positively cynical viewpoint, and frankly, it's downright fucking pretty. It's like being in love without wanting to be.
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
7.5/10
God dammit I'm a sucker for the goddamn Cubans. Beautiful and exotic, spicy and stalkerish. Yeah, I said it. It makes me think of a stalker. But a sexy stalker. Some beast of a fucking Spaniard popping up at every crossroads in the dusty streets with a rose. Horns, expertly woven percussive acoustic, typical vocals but dammit that's just fine with me.
Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother The Mountain
6/10
Sad and so very, very brutal in its way. This dude got fucked, and then he got FUCKED. A quaint song with tastes of the frontier, a voice truly tortured, and seriously, flutes? Fucking toight. I'll admit it could have used more variety than his quivering vocals, but a really cool song, truly.
Punishment Of Luxury - Obsession
4/10
It's twisted, it's definitely more stalkerish than that Spaniard I mentioned. The title proves it. It's a little demented, with a certain cacophony that really drives the point home. Like the mind of a madman, occasionally rational, only to build up to a crescendo of insanity that doesn't quite sound good enough.
Lee Moses - Bad Girl
8.5/10
Oh fuck yeah, nothing like that old school soul with them old school vocals. Love this song. You ever love a woman who could never really love you? Your love would never be enough for her, she needs the love of thousands? Well bust out some whiskey and throw this track on, because Lee understands. Heartbroken but still going strong. Great fucking song.
Coil - Tattoed Man
6.5/10
Quirky and somewhat french sounding. I didn't like the vocals being so far back, they could have done with a teensy bit more volume, just a teensy bit, but I get it and begrudgingly accept it. The whole track has a fog about it, like someone wandering unsure in Parisian streets, occasionally vomiting. It makes you dizzy. It makes you question everything. It epitomizes bad love in a good way.
R.L. Burnside - Someday Baby
6/10
Bouncy and puts a smile on my face. Its filled with hope, filled with the south, filled with a 'fuck you lady, I'm just fine.' A good song.
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply.
1.5/10
Ladies and gentlemen, I've found the gay. Lmfao. I don't hate this song. I don't like it, but I don't totally hate it. I'm not even gonna bother discussing the actual music aspect it, I'm just picking apart why it's gay. He wants to stand on a mountain? Sure, a mountain of cock. Sky falling down on him? Bathing in the sea? More like jizz raining down from the heavens. This song is heralded as a great love song but it's really a douchy masterpiece designed to bang basic bitches. OR BASIC MEN. Saving grace is it's noteriety and occasionally interesting guitar footyfoos.
Lisa Ekdahl - Love For Sale
5/10
I've heard other tracks by her, cool bitch. Really city-worshipping, even if it is a bit typical of the genre, and she has that sweet little lounge voice filled with innocence and hope. Ironic, when you consider the title.
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love
8/10
Come on, who doesn't at least like this fucking song a little? Cohen has one of the most amazing voices. It's a man who has danced all the way to the end of love, over the end of the cliff, still dancing on his way down even as the descent steals the air from his lungs. Purely fucking pathetic and sad.
Seal - Kiss From A Rose
9/10
This song probably won't do well, but FUCK YOU GUYS. It's not gay, it's a masterpiece. All hail the greatest scarred black man of my generation.
Blue Cheer - The Hunter
4.5/10
My first assumption that this must be a pro-rape song, which gave me some nice visuals as I listened. It's young, it's naive... and a little boring. But I have always enjoyed such sweeping guitar shit.
Despondent Visions - To My Love
8/10
Depressive travels, desperate chasing and pleading. Haunting melody with a fantastic ambiance and who doesn't love a good string set? This track is epic in a way, reminiscent of the saddest love stories you've ever heard, of loss and death and heart wrenching romance. Straight up, you're a bad person if you rate below 5.
