2008: 15 of the Best. #15...
Alright folks, it's the start of December, which means the start of your favorite time of year and mine: when everyone with the most passing of interests in music reflects on the past 11 months and cobbles together their best of lists. This blog is no exception, but rather than ranking albums, we're all going to take a look over the next three weeks at the 15 best songs released this year. At the end, as always, you'll have a killer little mix tape or playlist for your fine self.
#15 - The Fireman - Light From Your Lighthouse
From: Electric Arguments
Label: MPL, ATO Records
Released: November 25, 2008
Buy it: Here.
And so here we are, the third teaming of Paul McCartney and Youth and the first one that forsakes ambient noise and grooves for more traditional song structures (although, albeit in that they have vocals and loose structure). Most reviewers are championing Macca's free spirit on the record - laying down one song a day for 13 days, and essentially entering the studio each day with little more than an idea. This formula plays to McCartney's strength in that the guy's got a knack for a hook and if he's not given time to finesse that idea and water it down, it can be pretty effective. Although some of the album's cuts show a lack of a solid idea to begin with and thus a sometimes frustrating 5-minute journey still ends up finding nothing. However, when it works -- as it does here -- it's a lot of fun. There's nothing at all complex about this song, with Macca forsaking the middle man and only laying down bass and falsetto guides to service the lead vocal and plodding along as if it's 1968 and he's got a great addition to the White Album. That it sounds like it could've fit in right after "Wild Honey Pie" is not strange, nor is it that Macca can still knock these out at his age. What is surprising is that Mr. Pizza and Fairy Tales seems to work so hard to steer clear of this "naff" stuff these days when this is where the damn wheelhouse is. Old dogs, new tricks, something something...
#15 - The Fireman - Light From Your Lighthouse
From: Electric Arguments
Label: MPL, ATO Records
Released: November 25, 2008
Buy it: Here.
And so here we are, the third teaming of Paul McCartney and Youth and the first one that forsakes ambient noise and grooves for more traditional song structures (although, albeit in that they have vocals and loose structure). Most reviewers are championing Macca's free spirit on the record - laying down one song a day for 13 days, and essentially entering the studio each day with little more than an idea. This formula plays to McCartney's strength in that the guy's got a knack for a hook and if he's not given time to finesse that idea and water it down, it can be pretty effective. Although some of the album's cuts show a lack of a solid idea to begin with and thus a sometimes frustrating 5-minute journey still ends up finding nothing. However, when it works -- as it does here -- it's a lot of fun. There's nothing at all complex about this song, with Macca forsaking the middle man and only laying down bass and falsetto guides to service the lead vocal and plodding along as if it's 1968 and he's got a great addition to the White Album. That it sounds like it could've fit in right after "Wild Honey Pie" is not strange, nor is it that Macca can still knock these out at his age. What is surprising is that Mr. Pizza and Fairy Tales seems to work so hard to steer clear of this "naff" stuff these days when this is where the damn wheelhouse is. Old dogs, new tricks, something something...
Labels: The Fireman
posted by Paul at 1.12.08
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