A Struggle For A Year End’s List: My 2011′s Most Played (Lazy Man’s Method) (Part 4)
Need I mention about New Year’s Eve?
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A wrap to 2011, what a year it has been. Thank you to myself for pulling it through, though I am not sure what I had done there. 2012, here it goes, let’s hope the year makes it through itself.
.20 |
“Even Though”
Norah Jones
Illegal injection again, and I think I should really restrict to just songs in 2011 only. But then again, this is my list, so I do whatever I want, and see – I am typing whatever I want. So, yeah. This song dated back to 2009, when the album was released and made available. But what an indie contemporary direction Norah Jones took with this album, and sounding as sweet and as nice as before, if not, even more fresh and refreshing – as adult contemporary can quite dampen the youthness of one’s soul, as it did in her case, but this – she sounded young and reborn again – and this is all done without selling sex like Jewel or coming out of Lady Gaga’s vagina in “Born This Way”. Amazzzzing.
.21 |
“Ritual Union”
Little Dragon
Definitely one of the albums of the year in my books, and I am glad to have bought a physical copy of it (unlike suckers out there who just plainly download and say they appreciate all the same). This is true – I just tidied my stash, and rescued them from heavyweight piling and getting damaged (due to the piling up), and sometimes one has got to make it stand to get it better (can totally be taken out of context here, horny buggers). I must say, further progressing on diverting in point of view, that for a poor bloke, or as Kanye West sang, “broke bloke”, I do have quite a selection. Now to bury that goddamn Enrique Iglesias somewhere further away from sight, or the Korean drama soundtrack. I have a history, okay!
Back on track, totally love the experimental electronic sounds that Little Dragon ventured into with this track and album. Also, absolutely love this line:
I drown my feelings in the sea,
then dry out over on the beach
.22 |
“Riverside”
Agnes Obel
She is like my Amy Winehouse of 2011 (on that note, sad to see her leave the music world and this world in general this year, may she rest in peace, which I believe, for some times and people, it is a total relief, to leave behind the world of its sorrows, sadness, disappointments, mishaps and what-not’s, just see what Kurt Cobain was quoted as saying:
If you die you’re completely happy, and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
)(I am really in the talkative writing mood and mode today) (Now, shut up).
As I said, Agnes Obel is like my Amy Winehouse of 2011 (repeating myself again, great, yeah, yeah). Back when she hadn’t made it big with the Mark Ronson produced “Back To Black” album, I had discovered her in a music library at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, illegally ripped off the album, and played it on my then-alive Toshiba laptop. It is the discovery of someone musically great, and yet feeling like the whole world doesn’t know of her but should. Now don’t say I didn’t say so prior.
.23 |
“A Community Service Announcement”
Jonathan Boulet
Another 2009 injection, and love the title – there is none like it out there, and it stands out by itself. There is a screaming seaside anthem to this, of breaking free and complete bonding with nature. Definitely makes one wanna sing along, if not, “shout it out” and “meet me at the water”. Let’s go! I love nature, peace in its surroundings and inner in oneself, when life just continues to go crazy by itself without one’s control over it.
(to be continued…)
