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| Cursive's Albums' Top Songs (2000 Onward)
The Top Songs per Cursive's 4 releases of the new millennium. Also, the best song overall. | | 1 | | Domestica
The Martyr
This song just has perfect rhythm and a beautiful vocal part; when Kasher sings "Sweet baby don't cry..." and the falsetto response "Your tears are only alibis!" comes in, the song bursts open and floods with energy.
Runner-Up: Shallow Means, Deep Ends | | 2 | | The Ugly Organ
Staying Alive
The best song on this album by far, and the best Post-Rock song that's never been labeled as Post-Rock. 2 minutes in and the song is okay, very moody and restrained; 2:53 in and the song becomes a spectacle.
Runner-Up: A Gentleman Caller | | 3 | | Happy Hollow
Rise Up! Rise Up!
Just a perfect song for the album. "You're not...the chosen one. And, I'm not...the chosen one."
Runner-Up: Dorothy at Forty | | 4 | | Mama, I'm Swollen
What Have I Done
Seriously, this song completely obliterates every standard for songwriting Tim Kasher ever set for himself; it's not brooding and complex, it's straightforward mournful, wasted time.
Runner-Up: I Couldn't Love You | | 5 | | And the winner is....
What Have I Done
If not just because it's amazing musically, this song is so emotionally straightforward, it has the rest of Cursive's catalog's emotional substance in just three lines.
"You're young and you're gonna be someone,
and you're old and you're ashamed of what you've become,
well take a look around ya! You're preaching to the choir!" | |
NortherlyNanook
03.02.09 | "Staying Alive" is the best from Ugly Organ. "The Martyr" is one of the best from Domestica, but for Happy Hollow, my favorite tends to be "Hymns For The Heathen." I also agree with you on "What Have I Done" as my fav from the new album (after a few listens at least), but I dunno about their best. | americanmusicmachine
03.02.09 | I agree 'What Have I Done' is greatness but my favorite cursive song (i only have domestica and mama,...) is 'Lament of Pretty Baby'. | Tits McGee
03.02.09 | needs The Radiator Hums | NortherlyNanook
03.02.09 | Yeah, "Let Me Up," "What Have I Done," and "From the Hips" are my favorites right now. Big payoff after nice build-ups in all of them. | JokesorInsults
03.02.09 | Let me up and From the Hips are awesome too, but I love What Have I Done and I Couldn't Love You.
Donkeys is the only song that really doesn't do anything for me |
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