Posts Tagged ‘2008 songs’

The Exciting Conclusion of the Song List

January 7, 2009 by brian | No Comments »
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Citizen James is away on important business.  We can’t tell you much, as it’s kind of top-secret, but, suffice it to say, they don’t have the internet in the deepest, darkest reaches of the Canadian wilderness.  We did, however, want to give you a peek into the mind of citizendick’s third leg and have included [...]

back slittin’ pastors’ kids….

January 6, 2009 by kevin | No Comments »
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Today’s installment of our “Best Songs of 2008″ compilation is lyrically bent and steeped with melody.  As a fan of distortion, I struggle a bit with the Iron and Wines of the world.  I get bored.  Breathy vocalists don’t do it for me.   Instead, I envision a MTV Celebrity deathmatch pitting James Taylor versus Grace [...]

The Song List Strikes Back

January 5, 2009 by brian | 2 Comments »
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Kevin has a bit more organizational prowess than I do.  His list has a theme, a unifying principle of sorts.  Mine does not.  Below are five more songs from 2008 that I loved listening to.  They don’t make a lot of sense next to each other, but I can vouch for the quality of all [...]

I ain’t no sissy…

January 4, 2009 by kevin | No Comments »
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I like it when I see baby dolls get run over in the street.  I like tattoos, and when girls fight.  As my colleague James once said, “I like music that makes me a worse person, but in a good way.”  I like my guitars tuned down a half step, and when singers go after [...]

Songs, Part II

January 3, 2009 by brian | No Comments »
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We’re switching it up a bit on you for the next five tracks we loved from 2008.  The first five all came from albums we did not hit in our notable 2008 records list.  Today, we present our favorite tracks from some of those notable records.  There were some disagreements in the citizendick offices on [...]

Songs + Detritus

January 2, 2009 by brian | No Comments »
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Over the next several days, we’ll be lobbing some of our favorite songs from 2008 your way; the first batch is listed below.  We’re still wrapping our brains around how the “internet” works, so, for the time being, we’re just listing (although most of them are in the lala player at your right).  We’ll throw [...]