so, i’m thinking i might start a weekly saturday post listing my top five songs from the week previous.  if you follow the blog, you know i am terrible at regular updating, but i am going to try to make this a regular thing.

so here we go: week of february 7 – 13, 2010

frightened rabbit – my backwards walk
the midnight organ fight (2008)

a whole album about breaking up. need i say more? it’s usually a songs lyrics that grab me. and this album caught me from the very first song. last.fm told me i would like it, and it was right. i <3 last.fm.

i’m working on erasing you
just don’t have the proper tools
i get hammered, forget that you exist
there’s no way i’m forgetting this

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the national – slow show
boxer (2007)

i am all about lyrics this week. initially i found matt berninger’s voice kind of annoying, and then i hit this song and kind of just melted.  there are a few other tracks on the album, but none that have as much appeal as this one. for me anyways.

Looking for somewhere to stand and stay
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away

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mumford & sons – i gave you all
sigh no more (2009)

builds slow, and just kicks ass at the end. props to dave brosha for being the one to point out the awesome of this album to me (random tweet i believe). it is much appreciated, cause it rocks from top to bottom.

But you rip it from my hands
And you swear it’s all gone
And you rip out all I have
Just to say that you’ve won

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we were promised jetpacks – it’s thunder and it’s lightning
these four walls (2009)

just love. very good when played very loud. i haven’t had much of a chance to listen to the rest of this album, but it’s on my list to get through next week.

Sit tight with the lights off
Waiting for my brain to start
Trying to work things out
It’s thunder and it’s lighting
And it’s all things too frightening
I could barely see outside

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glen hansard & markéta irglová - falling slowly
the swell season (2006)

and slowed right down. this is just a really nice song. i think it may be impossible not to like it. try.

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can’t go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I’m painted black

enjoy this week’s listening. i have enjoyed putting this together.