Everett True’s 100 Favourite Songs of 2013. Yes, one hundred, and every last fucking song is genius.
Maybe that’s why I’m increasingly turning to Tasmania. I know what it’s like to be ignored.
Song of the day – 655: Yoko Ono
Sometimes, the concept is enough in itself. My head is still reeling from being around the psychedelic fountain.
Song of the day – 651: Woolf
How the FUCK is any of this a put-down? This is Wire first album great.
Song of the day – 638: Inflatable Boy Clams
Wait a minute. This is the greatest music ever made. Minimal primal electronic femme-led no wave rock’n’roll.
Body/Head – Coming Apart (Matador)
It articulates the feeling of inescapable grief, in what it says and what it keeps silent, as well as any album I’ve ever heard in my long yearning life.
Song of the day – 604: Jenny Hval
I have Dayna Evans to thank for turning me on to this, just about the sexiest video I’ve seen in years.
There is beauty in everything, if you look deep enough. Yoko Ono ‘covers’ Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’
Right now everything is totally right with the world. (Or, as the NME puts it with customary wit, What would happen if Beatle WAG and screaming performance artist Yoko Ono covered Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’?)
A Snore Just Like the Rest: Musical Superlatives for the Dissatisfied in 2012
The following list details the passionate musical warriors of 2012 — the glimmering hope of a less boring 2013.
Talk Normal – Sunshine (Joyful Noise)
Five hundred years ago Talk Normal would have been burned as witches for this act of prophecy.
10 future songs of the day
Sometimes, the concept is enough in itself.
