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• Song of the Day #1,693: ‘Rococo’ – Arcade Fire

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  ‘Rococo’ jumps right from the “modern man” of the previous track to the “modern kids” who use “great big words that they don’t understand.” This song is a rather vicious dissection of hipsters (a popular target based on my experience reading web comment boards). Butler seems to be taking down [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,692: ‘Modern Man’ – Arcade Fire

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  The third song on The Suburbs picks up where its predecessor left off. If ‘Ready to Start’ depicted a young man stepping into adulthood, ‘Modern Man’ gives us the depressing result of that move. Win Butler sums up the existential malaise of modern man with one powerful phrase: “In line [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,691: ‘Ready to Start’ – Arcade Fire

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  Track two of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, ‘Ready to Start,’ picks up the tempo after the ramshackle opening track. This is the anthemic rock sound I most associate with the band. ‘Ready to Start’ seems to be about commercialism vs. purity, though lead songwriter and vocalist Win Butler doesn’t necessarily [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,690: ‘The Suburbs’ – Arcade Fire

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  I’ve done two full-album series on the blog — for Ben Folds Five’s debut album and Frank Sinatra’s Watertown — and I’ve wanted to try it again for awhile. The challenge is finding an album worthy of the attention that I haven’t already picked clean through other Song of the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,689: ‘Domesticated Lovers’ – Josh Rouse

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  Here’s a cute little ditty from Josh Rouse’s 2007 album Country Mouse, City House. That record marked the end of era for Rouse… it was the end of his acoustic folk pop sound. His next album, 2010′s El Turista, was performed half in Spanish and entirely in a world music [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,688: ‘Silent House’ – Dixie Chicks

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  The other day I was thinking about R.E.M. — that one could argue they called it quits about five albums too late. Certainly they released some worthy music in the post-Bill Berry years, but nothing that stands up to their best work. I was reminded of that thought when this [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,687: ‘Stay’ – Rihanna

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  Four years ago Rihanna missed the Grammys ceremony because she had been brutally assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown just hours before it started. This year she was seated next to him, cuddling like newlyweds. That’s likely the image of Rihanna that will stay with people following this year’s show — [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,686: ‘The A Team’ – Ed Sheeran

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  Ed Sheeran was somewhat on my radar prior to the Grammys, thanks to my niece, who played this song for me on her laptop a few months ago. But it was nice to be reminded of it during Sheeran’s lovely acoustic performance of the track alongside Elton John last week. [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,685: ‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White

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  Another memorable Grammy performance came courtesy of Jack White, who released his first solo album early in 2012 after fronting what seems like a dozen different bands. A solo Jack White album isn’t really as novel an idea as it might seem… pretty much everything he touches belongs to him, [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,684: ‘Lonely boy’ – The Black Keys

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  The Black Keys are another band that eluded me in 2012, even thought I’ve been vaguely aware of them for a couple of years now. I even downloaded their last album (Brothers) but I’ve yet to listen to it. In late 2011, they released El Camino to universal acclaim and [...]
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