My Top 25 Most Played Songs
Any excuse to use a photo of St. Vincent. Photo by me.
So in honor of the list I gathered for The Awl (What’s Your Most Played Song?), here’s a run-down of my top 25 most played songs, and the bits I love the most about ‘em:
1. “Good Intentions Paving Company” by Joanna Newsom, 120 plays
All the way to the thing we’ve been playing at, darlin’
I can see that you’re wearing your staying hat, darlin’
For the time being all is well
Won’t you love me a spell?
[song]
2. “My Heart Is A Drummer” by Allo Darlin’, 92
And when you call me, on the telephone
My fingers will still twist through the cord
And I’ll slide my feet up and down the wall
But I know that I’m stronger than you are
[song]
3. “A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off” by the Magnetic Fields, 94
We don’t have to stars exploding in the night
Or electric eels under the covers
We don’t have to be anything quite so unreal
Let’s just be lovers
[song]
4. “Our Way to Fall” by Yo La Tengo, 89
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
And I remember pretending I wasn’t looking
[song]
5. “Bridges and Balloons” by Joanna Newsom, 83
We sailed away on a winter’s day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, like all things, fades
I actually listened to the Decemberists’ version of this long before I knew it was a Newsom song.
[song]
6. “The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1” by Neutral Milk Hotel, 77
And this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you
And from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go
[song]
7. “Peach, Plum, Pear” by Joanna Newsom, 76
And I am blue
I am blue and unwell
Made me bolt like a horse
[song]
8. “I Can Change” by LCD Soundsystem, 70
And love is a curse shoved in a hearse
Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry
And this is coming from me
[song]
9. “Two-Headed Boy, Pt. 2” by Neutral Milk Hotel, 68
And in my dreams you’re alive and you’re crying
As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet
Rings of flowers round your eyes and I love you
For the rest of your life
[song]
10. “Inflammatory Writ” by Joanna Newsom, 65
And what’s it mean when suddenly we’re spent
And tell me true ambition came and reared its head and went far from you
Even mollusks have weddings, though solemn and leaden
But you dirge for the dead, and take no jam on your bread
Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
[song]
11. “Quiet Houses” by Fleet Foxes, 64
Don’t give in
[song]
12. “AT&T” by Pavement, 63
Maybe someone’s going to save me
My heart is made of gravy
And the laps I swim
From lunatics don’t count
Open up your stockings
Pull out the things you never wanted
From room service calls
Room service calls
I woke up with that opening line stuck in my head once, so of course I had to listen to it over and over again.
[song]
13. “Abandoned Love” by Bob Dylan, 62
We sat in an empty theater and we kissed
I asked ya please to cross me off your list
My head tells me it’s time to make a change
But my heart is telling me I love ya but you’re strange
[song]
14. “Spit on a Stranger” by Pavement, 62
Honey I’m a prize
And you’re a catch
And we’re a perfect match
[song]
15. “The Good That Won’t Come Out” by Rilo Kiley, 62
All the good that won’t come out of me
And all the stupid lies I hide behind
It’s such a big mistake lying here in your warm embrace
[song]
16. “Car” by Built to Spill, 61
I want specifics on the general idea
I wanna think what I should know
Want you to do me what to show
I wanna see movies of my dreams
[song]
17. “Two-Headed Boy” by Neutral Milk Hotel, 60
And in the dark we will take off our clothes
And they’ll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
And when all is breaking everything that you could keep inside
[song]
18. “Useful Chamber” by the Dirty Projectors, 58
I’m caught up in a storm
That I don’t need no shelter from
All I want and all I need
Right here with me
You’re right here with me
[song]
19. “Randy Described Eternity” by Built to Spill, 55
Where you gonna be?
Where will you spend eternity?
I’m gonna be perfect from now on
I’m gonna be perfect starting now
[song]
20. “Need You Now” by Cut Copy, 54
Hand touches your body now
Lips touch as you’re falling down
Run for the last train
One of them will get you home
[song]
21. “The Only Moment We Were Alone” by Explosions in the Sky, 52
8:23-10:14
[song]
22. “Cruel” by St. Vincent, 52
You were the one waving flares in the air so they could see you
And they were a zephyr, blowing past ya, blowing fastly so they can see ya
Cruel, cruel, oh
[song]
23. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel, 51
Now how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
Now we keep where we don’t know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don’t even know his name
[song]
24. “Zero” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 51
Shake it like a ladder to the sun
Makes me feel like a madman on the run
I listened to this album (explaining this song and the one below) over and over again because it just came out at the time while I was waiting for a friend to pick me up for a party in Cambridge
[song]
25. “Heads Will Roll” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 49
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The river’s all wet
You’re all chrome
[song]
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