syd barrett's any/everything:

i want to 

but won't

try to figure

him out.

his words are like

a baby's. genius but

incomprehensible.

"i am only a person!"

the clash's "train in vain (stand by me)":

the only song other than wu-tang clan's "shame on a nigga" that is guaranteed to pull me from bad states. i dream of becoming a karaoke god to this.

brian eno's "third uncle":

i like to think this is eno's version of a love ballad. if it was given to me on a mix tape i would swoon.

"AND THERE WAS YOU."

black star's "brown skin lady":

the material is nothing groundbreaking. despite this opinion i now wish (even more desperately) that i were brown. 

"damn she's fine!"

"you provoke a brother."

the pixies' "ed is dead":

i'm talking Death to the Pixies Live at full volume. i'm talking who's ed but who cares. i'm talking 2:07 +.

my bloody valentine's "sometimes":

holds one of the more special places in my soul. i fell into it at a lonelier time than now and hearing it now softens what was. that voice.

the pharcyde's "labcabincalifornia" (album):

perfection.

the pixies' "cactus":

i like to think this is the pixies' verson of a love ballad. if it was given to me on a mix tape i would swoon.

the supremes' "you keep me hanging on":

lovely ladies disguising a proclamation of emancipation by being lovely ladies. 

"go on! get out!"

pavement's "summer babe (winter version)":

i care for it because someone i care for cares for it. 

"every time i turn around i find i'm shot."

electric light orchestra's "showdown":

makes me remember that disco is the coolest. this song has a great sense of urgency underlying a ridiculously danceable beat, the kind to which you eventually find yourself doing strange hippie arm waves as you chant "raining, raining!" ... not to mention an essentially perfect chorus.

foo fighters' "big me":

quintessential 90's singing over 60's drum/bass. i tend to request this when drunk. 

brian eno's "on some faraway beach":

probably one of the best intros ever. i want to die to this.