
Pic courtesy the awesome Catswholooklikehitler.com
16. Eluvium - Amreik: The leadoff track from the best album of last year, Eluvium's 'Copia'.
17. Stars of the Lid - Another Ballad For Heavy Lids: God, there's gonna be a lot of these. SOTL are a really gorgeous ambient band, but their songs are pretty much undistinguishable from each other. This is one of them.
18. Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major): and this is another one.
19. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight?: I've never been conviced that this is actually real, but it's hilarious, nonetheless. The story is Elvis was getting burnt out on playing this song all the time (That and he sounds pretty hammered here, too) and he just goes off. The song starts off normally enough, but suddenly after singing the line "Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?" instead of going with the usual "Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?" he follows up with "Do you stare at your bald head and wish you had hair?" then breaks into laughter. He spends the rest of the song laughing his ass off as the band plays on and his backup singers sing. He tries to get it back and sing again before breaking up into laughter and saying "That's it, man, twenty years down the drain." Also, Elvis kind of laughs like Hank Hill, which makes it even more awesome.
20. Eluvium - Area 41: More Eluvium.
21. Stars of the Lide - Articulate Silences Part 1: More SOTL
22. Stars of the Lide - Articulate Silences Part 2: Yet more SOTL
23. Eluvium - As I Drift Off: Have I told you lately that I love Eluvium? Oh yeah, just three songs ago.
24. The 6ths - As You Turn to Go: Featured on the terrific indie comedy Pieces of April. The 6ths is the guy from Magnetic Fields third or fourth project where he has guest artists singing for him (This one is with Momus, whoever, or whatever that is) and is just a simple little love song, gently plucked guitar (Almost sounds like harp) and simple singing over top. I love the catch in the singer's voice when he sings "As you turn to go" it almost sounds like he's breaking into tears as he sings it.
25. R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful: I've never listened to this song, I think I added it by accident. One day I will listen to it.






