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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | best songs of 2002 |
| Date | Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:20:00 -0500 |
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Well, to break in the new server, we might as well have our annual best
songs of the preceding year thread. Basically, it's the singles and/or
album tracks that did it for us the most in 2002, for whatever reasons.
For me, that was:
1. "Neverland" -- Motorpsycho
Every time the chorus comes up, I don't quite expect it, and it never fails
to just plain give me chills. Plus my wife finds it amusing because it
sounds like they're singing "Come to Levelland," the aptly-named West Texas
town I lived in for a bit as a bored and mildly trouble-making adolescent.
2. "Soak Up the Sun" -- Sheryl Crow
I never thought I would like a Sheryl Crow song so much, but after months
of being relentlessly bombarded with it, I finally succumbed. It happened
in Toronto, when during a shopping-and-galleries stroll through Dundas,
Chinatown and Queen Street, I realized that we had heard a snippet of this
song in nearly every store we'd been in that had had a radio on. It was
like a fragmented, pixilated soundtrack to our entire vacation, and as
such, it was really cool. Still haven't bought the album, largely because
I'm *still* hearing it whenever I'm within 20 feet of a radio.
3. "John Coltrane's 'My Favorite Things'" -- Consonant
All my favorite things about my favorite album of the year wrapped up into
4 minutes.
4. "Get Over It" -- OK Go
My favorite, for lack of a better term, "power pop" song of the entire year.
5. "Don't Know Why" -- Norah Jones
See #2, but for "summer," read "Christmas" and for "Toronto," read
"Tennessee." I never thought this would be the number-one album in the
country (which it currently is) when I first heard it, but there you go.
S
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