tanaise | and i am finally seeing why i was the one worth leaving

Okay, so I'm listening to the Best Songs via the streamed link and it's...really good. Much better than I can afford it to be.

Maps, by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is good but not completely to my taste.

The Strokes I always like much more than I want to, but I'm not sure why I don't want to like them.

My Morning Jacket has two songs, and they're both quite nice (I like the line in Golden "People always told me bars were dark and lonely"), but I don't think I need their CD. (Though I added it to my wishlist anyway. I need a way to rate how badly I want the things on my wishlist, so that people know what things I just put there mostly to keep from forgetting I want them vs things I really really want but can't justify buying for myself.)

David Dondero's song wasn't bad, just...I don't know. Not on my list.

Grandaddy, I really like that song. "Bust the lock off the front door/Once you're outside you won't want hide anymore." On my list.

Lou Reed I skipped.

Daniel Lanois--nice song. Good sound too. Like Angelo Badalamenti of Booth and the Bad Angel fame (or Twin Peaks, if you're not weird like me), he produces and scores as well.

Sufjan (Stevens) is a name I've never heard before, so I wonder what the ethnicity is. The song's nice, and the album is about Michigan, so I approve. ;)

Postal Service sounds really neat, and the song's about DC plus, I love it ("you seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex/a stranger with a door key explaining that i am just visiting/and i am finally seeing why i was the one worth leaving."--it's on repeat now, as I write this)

I skipped the Outkast song after about 30 seconds, though I do like Heya when it's on, and I appreciate the weirdness of the song.

Oddly enough, I totally don't remember the Death Cab for Cutie song. I'll have to listen to it again.

Skipped the Lost in Translation soundtrack as well, as I wasn't in the mood for music I can't understand.

Skipped Kings of Leon because Eli was listening to Allman brothers all day today, and I've quite decided that I hate them, and they make my skin crawl.

Skipped Kris Delhorst because it was morose and not pretty. If you're going to sing depressing songs, they must be pretty.

Thus, I loved Kathleen Edwards because Six o'Clock News is really pretty. Especially for a song about a woman coming home and finding her boyfriend holed up in a shoot-out with the police. And that's all the farther I've gotten tonight.