Uni's 2017 in lyrics
YEAR END LIST 12/14. orderlessly |
| 1 |  | The Magnetic Fields
50 Song Memoir
'68 A Cat Called Dionysus
"He hated me, cause I loved him." |
| 2 | | The Magnetic Fields
50 Song Memoir
'69 Judy Garland
"In l'année érotique
"Je t'aime" was banned as pornographic" |
| 3 | | The Magnetic Fields
50 Song Memoir
'74 No
"My mother believes that this physical universe
Is a big holographic show
And she says someday science'll catch up with her
Has she a shred of evidence?
No" |
| 4 | | The Magnetic Fields
50 Song Memoir
'86 How I Failed Ethics
"My Mennonite professor did concede I'd done the coursework
Although my system left him quite dismayed
Depending, as it did, on neither history nor Jahweh
And gave me, finally, a passing grade" |
| 5 | | The Magnetic Fields
50 Song Memoir
'02 Be True To Your Bar
"Be true to your friends
And let your friends know
Without your bar you'd have no place to go" |
| 6 |  | The Black Angels
Death Song
Life Song
"I'm dying to say
I love you anyway
Even though you sent me off to die" |
| 7 |  | Porter Ray
Watercolor
Past Life
"Questions I had but I just couldn't ask
Before LJ got killed in a crash
Money that I spent when I just should'a stashed
And my grandmother's words that i just couldn't grasp at the time" |
| 8 |  | Tau Cross
A Pillar Of Fire
Pillar of Fire
"Oh no, they’re burning their Gods again, the sacred and the profane" |
| 9 |  | Perfume Genius
No Shape
Slip Away
"They'll never break the shape we take" |
| 10 |  | Wax Fang
Victory Laps
The Things I Do For Fun
"I can excuse the missteps of my past
The human body isn't built to last
It's not designed to stand the test of time
Sometimes you have to lay it on the line" |
| 11 |  | Future Islands
The Far Field
Cave
"Is this a desperate wish for dying?
Or a wish that dying cease?" |
| 12 |  | Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up
Fool's Errand
"I was thin and I saw all life in you
A fool's errand" |
| 13 |  | Milo
Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!
The Young Man Has a Point
"I regret to inform you of your imminent demise." |
| 14 |  | Arcade Fire
Everything Now
Everything Now
"Every inch of space in your head
Is filled up with the things that you've read" |
| 15 |  | Remo Drive
Greatest Hits
Yer Killing Me
"You make me want to start smoking cigarettes so I die slowly" |
| 16 | | Remo Drive
Greatest Hits
Name Brand
"Irresponsibility is dear to me
I piss away my money on this bourgeoisie coffee" |
| 17 |  | Sorority Noise
You're Not As ____ As You Think
No Halo
"If there's a race to heaven
I will surely come in last" |
| 18 |  | Algiers
The Underside of Power
Mme Rieux
"My relationship with that word: Abstraction" |
| 19 | | Algiers
The Underside of Power
Hymn for an Average Man
"Somewhere down along the line I lost the plot" |
| 20 |  | Flotation Toy Warning
The Machine That Made Us
To Live For Longer Slides
"I know it’s raining,
But did you have to build an ark?
You go easy now, that’s how religions start" |
| 21 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Murder Of The Universe
The Lord of Lightning
"Lord of Lightning shifts his gaze
Points his strong finger our way
Electricity escapes
Leaves destruction in his wake" |
| 22 | | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Murder Of The Universe
A New World
"As soon as the dust settles, you can see
A new world in place of where the old one had been" |
| 23 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Flying Microtonal Banana
Melting
"The earth is melting down
Our home and our playground
Won't be fit for children when our world
Has melted down" |
| 24 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Polygondwanaland
Crumbling Castle
"I see through the bricks, to the sea, crumbling castle
Water's rising up, thick and green, crumbling castle
Inching closer each century, crumbling castle
Are we safe in our citadel?" |
| 25 |  | The Menzingers
After the Party
Tellin Lies
"Where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?" |
| 26 | | The Menzingers
After the Party
Thick as Thieves
"I held up a liquor store
Demanding top shelf metaphors" |
| 27 | | The Menzingers
After the Party
Lookers
"You little Kerouac
Always running like Dean and Sal" |
| 28 | | The Menzingers
After the Party
Black Mass
"It's strange relating with the lamb to the slaughter" |
| 29 | | The Menzingers
After the Party
Your Wild Years
"A little Irish in your blood
A little Polish in your name
A little Boston in your attitude
Just the way you were raised" |
| 30 | | The Menzingers
After the Party
After the Party
"What a great way to start anew
To shed your skin and find the old you." |
| 31 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Flower Boy
I Ain't Got Time
"Nat Turner would be so proud of me
'Cause all these motherfuckers got their style from me" |
| 32 |  | Manchester Orchestra
A Black Mile to the Surface
Lead, SD
"Would you marry me? repeat repeat" |
| 33 |  | J. Roddy Walston and The Business
Destroyers of the Soft Life
I Called You
"You can only hurt the ones you know
It’s safer now to be alone" |
| 34 |  | Offa Rex
The Queen of Hearts
The Old Churchyard
"Mourn not for them, their trials are over
And why weep for those who will weep no more?" |
| 35 |  | Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder
Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse
"Words of hope are a joke for the numb" |
| 36 |  | Smidley
Smidley
No One Likes You
"I'm boring but I'm trying
Does that count just a little bit?" |
| 37 |  | Bleachers
Gone Now
Don't Take the Money
"Somebody broke me once
Love was a currency
A shimmering balance act
I think that I laughed at that" |
| 38 |  | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
A Private Understanding
"Call me Heraclitus the Obscure
Constantly weeping, cause the river doesn't move" |
| 39 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
My Children
"My children
Pay dividends
Vomit and rage spewing forth in the drive-thru" |
| 40 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Caitriona
"And all that loving, that's leaving
Replaced now with complaining" |
| 41 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
The Chuckler
"An angry customer's face
Confused because they didn't get their way" |
| 42 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Windsor Hum
"The sound that you're hearing across the river
Saying, "everything's fine" |
| 43 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Up the Tower
"The portraits in the hallway look better smashed upon the floor" |
| 44 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Night-Blooming Cereus
"Only in darkness does the flower take hold" |
| 45 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Male Plague
"See-through skin - barnacles of age
Male plague" |
| 46 | | Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent
Half Sister
"In ancient Palestine, a Roman middle manager dresses down a radical
"I have a backlog of so-called prophets
You are of a multitude"
The offender said, "I witness truth"
Perplexed and filled with pique the jailer replied, "Truth, what is it?"" |
| 47 |  | IDLES
Brutalism
Mother
"Sexual violence doesn't start and end with rape
It starts in our books and behind our school gates" |
| 48 | | IDLES
Brutalism
Date Night
"But I tried to shake shake shake it up
But I shook myself to boredom" |
| 49 | | IDLES
Brutalism
Divide and Conquer
"A loved one perished at the hand of the barren-hearted right" |
| 50 | | IDLES
Brutalism
Stendhal Syndrome
"Did you see that selfie what Francis Bacon did?
Don’t look nothing like him, what a fucking div" |
| 51 | | IDLES
Brutalism
White Privilege
"One miscarriage
Two abortions
One degree
Seven jobs" |
| 52 |  | The New Pornographers
Whiteout Conditions
Whiteout Conditions
"Only want to get to work
But every morning I'm too sick to drive
Suffering whiteout conditions
Forget the mission, just get out alive
Only want to glean the purpose
Only to scratch the surface, raise the plow
Suffering whiteout conditions
Forget your mission, just get out somehow" |
| 53 | | The New Pornographers
Whiteout Conditions
High Ticket Attractions
"This thing could go two ways
Won't be another exit for days
So pack a small suitcase
Anything else can be easily replaced" |
| 54 | | The New Pornographers
Whiteout Conditions
Second Sleep
"Been awake, thinking fast, cannot sleep
Second thoughts, second rate Socrates" |
| 55 |  | Landlady
The World Is A Loud Place
Cadaver
"Your patience left the station ages ago" |
| 56 | | Landlady
The World Is A Loud Place
Nina
"Fair is fair until an order came to be
Negatives of lightning burned a hole where we could see" |
| 57 |  | Benjamin Clementine
I Tell A Fly
Farewell Sonata
"Standing here and mingling with
Birds that cannot fly and
Fishes that cannot swim and
Rainbow black and white and
Man that cannot love!" |
| 58 | | Benjamin Clementine
I Tell A Fly
God Save the Jungle
"Welcome to jungle, dear
Where tensions do amount
And kids must grow as quick as possible" |
| 59 | | Benjamin Clementine
I Tell A Fly
Phantom of Aleppoville
"For me the difference between love and hate
Weighs the same difference between risotto and rice pudding" |
| 60 | | Benjamin Clementine
I Tell A Fly
Paris Cor Blimey
"One day, right before dawn she got up
Only to find that her pen was gone
And Paris' friend looked everywhere
Yet couldn't find it anywhere
There's a PENdemonium, whoa" |
| 61 | | Benjamin Clementine
I Tell A Fly
By the Ports of Europe
"A star twinkles not on a tree
But in front of a TV screen" |
| 62 |  | Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory
Party People
"Please don't look at me in my face
Everybody might see my pain
Off the rail, might off myself" |
| 63 |  | Palehound
A Place I'll Always Go
Hunter's Gun
"Don't come near me
I don't wanna fall in love" |
| 64 |  | Ghostpoet
Dark Days + Canapés
Many Moods at Midnight
"Those cargo pants hide all manner of sin
Their demon demeanour gets let out on a limb" |
| 65 | | Ghostpoet
Dark Days + Canapés
Trouble+Me
"Clothed like a friend
Best mates, guess again" |
| 66 | | Ghostpoet
Dark Days + Canapés
Freakshow
"Ain't left the city in months
I guess Westfield knows what I want" |
| 67 | | Ghostpoet
Dark Days + Canapés
Immigrant Boogie
"Oh, let us in
We never bite
Me and the four kids, show some love
Then it will be right
We won't stay
Grand promise in every way
It's just the boat's going down
And I don't think we wanna stay" |
| 68 |  | J.I.D.
The Never Story
Never
"Alright, what do you call a chick that don't suck dick?
You don't."
(sorry, I know it's stupid, but I just couldn't resist) |
| 69 |  | The Afghan Whigs
In Spades
Demon in Profile
"It was all that I wanted
Now it's killing me" |
| 70 | | The Afghan Whigs
In Spades
Toy Automatic
"Too late, my lie had been cast to the dark side of 'Do or die'" |
| 71 |  | Oddisee
The Iceberg
Digging Deep
"I ain't hear to tell you everything will be fine
Cause thinking critically is really on a decline" |
| 72 | | Oddisee
The Iceberg
Built by Pictures
"I was born with small access to big dreams" |
| 73 | | Oddisee
The Iceberg
Hold It Back
"Moment of silence for me, I don't really need applause" |
| 74 | | Oddisee
The Iceberg
You Grew Up
"Let me take it back to my childhood
When Six Flags was still called Wild World
Where I had every race as a neighbor
We were all working class trying to make it out of our hood" |
| 75 | | Oddisee
The Iceberg
Waiting Outside
"Been a little while we ain't fought
Guess you doing better than the last time we met up" |
| 76 |  | Quelle Chris
Being You Is Great...
Buddies
"I look in the mirror
Like, “Who is that nigga?”
I’m cool with that nigga" |
| 77 | | Quelle Chris
Being You Is Great...
Popeye
"Wiley Coyot’ great regrets always define my image
Seems I never reach the goal but always meet the finish" |
| 78 | | Quelle Chris
Being You Is Great...
Birthdaze
"They say "Boy, you've got a gift"
I say "Here, you take it." |
| 79 |  | Fred Thomas
Changer
Misremembered
"And there was something I was trying to say
But I was followed by a non-descript chemical smell
An amateur witch cast her fist binding spell" |
| 80 | | Fred Thomas
Changer
2008
"2008 - an era of pointless boys in putrid sea foam V-necks
I wanted to hate but I was much the same
Spiritually broke, my Bridge Card revoked" |
| 81 | | Fred Thomas
Changer
Brickwall
"You spend your time
Looking at books about New York from the 1990s" |
| 82 | | Fred Thomas
Changer
Open Letter to Forever
"I remember standing out in front of the Northern
After another 15-paid gig
Getting harrassed by Olympia street punks (the worst!) for looking like a hipster" |
| 83 | | Fred Thomas
Changer
Voiceover
"You talk about your enemies, that doesn’t really interest me
I’m grateful just to be considered" |
| 84 |  | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
Nurse and Patient
"Yes, I confess it was love at first sight
And as a Registered Nurse I fight
To save the lives of every girl and guy
That's wheeled through the door
For you, I fought a little more" |
| 85 | | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
Canadian Wine
"Canadian wine in a red plastic cup
Receiving line: I throw up" |
| 86 | | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
The River (Never Freezes Anymore)
"Remember that winter when we got snowed in and the power was out for a couple days or so
Your parents stayed inside and got wasted and they thought we didn't know
But we waited until they were fast asleep and poured their half empty glasses into mason jars" |
| 87 | | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
The Babysitter
"He said "well, read em and weep, dudes, I'm playing for keeps, and you fascists put the asses back into fiasco"
And with that he flicked his wrist and a gave a silent sharp kiss to their Nazi necks, said "this is how we say goodbye in Glasgow!"" |
| 88 | | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
Minor Changes
"But in general I really like the story arc
I find the landscape descriptions believably stark
And your characters, for the most part, are well-developed but not over-explained
And I love the recurring device of the poisonous rain" |
| 89 | | The Burning Hell
Revival Beach
The Last Night
"The piano is playing but nobody’s staying
To hear the young troubadour out
His songs blur together and go on forever
No one knows what they’re about" |
| 90 |  | Xiu Xiu
Forget
Get Up
"A piano fell on my face
You told me to get up" |
| 91 |  | The Fall
New Facts Emerge
New Facts Emerge
"You better buy stock
It might become a whirlwind" |
| 92 |  | Pere Ubu
20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo
Plan From Frag 9
"I am like a pencil
There's two ways to look at it
One, you got the sharp part
It leaves a mark
Two, you got the pushy part
It takes the mark away" |
| 93 |  | The Necromancers
Servants of the Salem Girl
Salem Girl (Part 1)
"She's running in the woods
Hide from the cross claiming the good" |
| 94 |  | Dispatch
America, Location 12
Only the Wild Ones
"In the attics of the city night
We talked corso and the MC5" |
| 95 |  | Loyle Carner
Yesterday's Gone
Ain't Nothing Changed
"They ask why every fucking song the fucking same
And I tell them it's 'cause ain't nothing changed" |
| 96 |  | Guided by Voices
August by Cake
Goodbye Note
"I’m leaving
Don’t interpret it wrong
And don’t worry
I’m not leaving for long" |
| 97 |  | Converge
I Can Tell You About Pain
Eve
"I need to forget and to move on
I need to feel loss to cherish love" |
| 98 |  | St. Vincent
MASSEDUCTION
Masseduction
"I can't turn off what turns me on" |
| 99 | | St. Vincent
MASSEDUCTION
Happy Birthday, Johnny
"When you get free, Johnny
I hope you find peace" |
| 100 |  | Spoon
Hot Thoughts
Hot Thoughts
"Hot thoughts melt in my mind
Could be your accent mixing with mine" |
| 101 |  | Cold War Kids
LA Divine
Love is Mystical
-This one is for butcherboy-
"Love is mystical
Do you feel the same?
Love is irresistible
It's calling out your name" |
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