Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 7

-Seems to me that Petty should be revered at the same stature as Bruce Springsteen.  Is it cuz he didn't have a self-fulfilling nickname like The Boss?



--That stature should be very tall.



--- When a song like this comes out and doesn't even sniff Top 40 radio in America, I realize I don't understand how the world works.



----Or this



-----Or this?  Why do we wait five years and then *best case* we get a more boring version with Ellie Goulding or someone singing it?

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 6

-I wouldn't mind if much more post-synth, post-drum machine pop sounded somewhere between this....



--....and this.



---when you stuck at work listening to an "oldies" station, this sounds like an oasis



----seems like in the 80's, they had a much healthier relationship with BPM. PS I think Bieber could do a killer cover of this. 



-----It is flat-out amazing that this song still sounds refreshing and invigorating.

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 5

-A go-to when I'm feeling really despondent.  Never fails.  I'm like Hagrid with his little pink umbrella.  PS how bullshit is it that none of the professors could just like, tutor the dude?  WTF?



--So glad this got an official release.  Each Sam Beam new release is less and less interesting, but as he keeps revealing his back catalog, it is becoming evident that he's written 40-50 amazing songs.


---The Prince-sweeping algorithm on Youtube hasn't found this guy yet.   I've singing this all week. 
---Gah they're finding 12" remixes within a week!  Damnation,  we need a symbol for him that computers don't recognize....
Replacing it, with a stone cold classic that always always always sound good.



----I'll always remember being 6 and the first time we visited my granddad's grave, we drove through the cemetery and this was on the stereo.  It will always sounds like being glad to be in a warm car with your whole family.



-----How shameless can Ben be?  This shameless.

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v. 4

-Some of these are going to be obvious



--painfully obvious



---the 80's are the second greatest decade for music, after the 60's, and the U.K. plays a huge role in that.



----at some point I might get sick of it, but ten years and 100's of listens in, nope.



-----my favorite duet ever and I am a huge sucker for duets.

Ten Thousand Favorite Songs, v.3

--long-term romance is the new punk rock



--had a badly-recorded, joyous live cover of this done by Death Cab and the Decemberists that kind of melts into the original in my mind, until it is a globally sung, gleeful go-fuck-yourself



--possibly my favorite bass line ever



--it has to be one of your favorite songs if every time you hear it, heavy weights fall from your body



--this song on a car stereo rules.  Phil Collins practicing choreography in a sweater vest and rumpled khakis rules even harder.