TOP 10 SONGS WE HEARD LIVE IN 2007

BY EMILY ALLEN FEIGELSON & ELLEN LOUISE FREEMAN

“Pocketful of Money” – Jens Lekman at the First Unitarian Church

I’ve never felt more like I belonged in a church in my life. After the main set Jens took the stragglers upstairs into the sanctuary and played all requests for half an hour. Someone asked for “Pocketful of Money,” a glorious, sad, and somber song about loving a person you don’t know. As Jens sings “You set my heart on fire,” Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening tolls over and over again, “I’ll come running with a heart on fire” in a fuzzy, obscure sample. Jens echoes him, his voice sounding like Sierra Mist bouncing off the walls of a glass chamber. The song shoots straight to heaven. When he played it upstairs that night, everyone in the church sang the rumbly Calvin Johnson funeral march of love part together—high voices, low, good, and bad. Boys’ Choir of Harlem, eat your hearts out. We felt bad for the one hopeless unbeliever in the FRONT ROW!!! texting all throughout the chorus.

“A Postcard to Nina”* – Jens Lekman at the First Unitarian Church

d3ad c4t (11:02:35 PM): k so what should be the downstairs jens song? they were all so grrrrrrrreat!
iamthesilliest (11:02:58 PM): i liked postcard to nina
d3ad c4t (11:03:07 PM): oh yeah! that was a really great thing to hear live, too
iamthesilliest (11:03:19 PM): because it seemed like the first time he was singing it, like i thought he was making it up right there
d3ad c4t (11:03:13 PM): the story made the song so much better i thought
d3ad c4t (11:03:15 PM): yeaaaahhh
d3ad c4t (11:03:22 PM): wow what a gift from jens
d3ad c4t (11:03:26 PM): not to be a jerk or anything
iamthesilliest (11:04:09 PM): a jerk about WHAT
iamthesilliest (11:04:13 PM): you make no SENSE
iamthesilliest (11:04:25 PM): ok lets finish up the list the movie is
over
d3ad c4t (11:04:20 PM): like "ooh wow what a gift" as i stroke my ironic soul patch
iamthesilliest (11:04:39 PM): ohhh

iamthesilliest (11:04:45 PM): yeah i was being that way when i was saying mine too 

d3ad c4t (11:04:39 PM): soooo should the weezer cover by us be my name is jonas or another one?
iamthesilliest (11:04:51 PM): DON'T WORRY I'M NOT A HAVERFUCK
d3ad c4t (11:04:47 PM): lulZ
iamthesilliest (11:05:03 PM): probably i should be no one else

iamthesilliest (11:05:07 PM): it*

d3ad c4t (11:05:01 PM): yeah i think so

d3ad c4t (11:05:17 PM): more like probably you SHOULD be someone else so i could tolerate you!!!!!!!!
iamthesilliest (11:05:55 PM): LOLOLLLLOLLOL MEANIE!>:O 

d3ad c4t (11:05:48 PM): aaaaaaahahhahaha i'm making a list on word and it looks so good there
iamthesilliest (11:06:06 PM): #1 No One Else by Us

d3ad c4t (11:06:03 PM): 
1.      “Pocketful of Money” – Jens Lekman at the First Unitarian Church 
2.      “A Postcard to Nina” – Jens Lekman at the First Unitarian Church 
3.      “No One Else” (Weezer cover) – The Necromobenambrosallafassagossoes

d3ad c4t (11:06:20 PM): i honestly think putting it in the #3 spot makes it so much more hilarious

d3ad c4t (11:06:26 PM): like we thought about it intensively

iamthesilliest (11:06:36 PM): ok

d3ad c4t (11:06:43 PM): does he want blurbs?

iamthesilliest (11:06:52 PM): ok i'll come down to your apt now

d3ad c4t (11:06:51 PM): kkkkk i'm living in a rats nest

iamthesilliest (11:07:04 PM): i'll be ther ein 5 

d3ad c4t (11:07:17 PM): k

“No One Else” (Weezer cover) – The Necromobenambrosallafassagossoes in Stokes Auditorium

We did really good that night. Love to all our a cappella girls!

“Heart Of Glass” (Blondie cover) – Melt-Banana at the First Unitarian Church

“Singer Yasuko O. windmilled her arms like a weird, mystical conductor…They were a wall of sound like Phil Spector never dreamed: jackhammer guitars, and vocals like a child throwing a rhythmic fit…I bet you’ve never seen thirty people moshing to a noise cover of “Heart of Glass” before.” – Emily Feigelson, “Melt-Banana Play First Unitarian Church,” The Bi-College News, 9 Oct 2007

“Wham City” – Dan Deacon at the Starlite Ballroom

Ellen swears to god that the lyrics to this were up on a screen at the end of his set. I have no fucking idea what she’s talking about, but I’ll take her word for it because I don’t think she drank any of the Welch’s grape soda that strange woman gave us in the bathroom.

“Happy Birthday” – Japanther at Lunt

It was my birthday! (From Emili) I requested it! (From Ellen) This was the greatest night of my life! I had such a good time! (From Jon)

“A-Punk” – Vampire Weekend at Lunt

This is such a sad list. We chose this song because it would be unexpected. :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Also we came in costume, WHY DIDN’T ANYONE ELSE????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (From Emili Cardiganne and Ellen Creste) This was the greatest night of my life! I had such a good time! (From Jon)

“Mr. Emerson” – The Smoking Sandinistas at Circa 22

A protest song on par with other protest songs—perhaps even better.
Spoken word performance of selected excerpts from Wizard People, Dear Reader (Wizard People, Dear Reader cover) – The Necrobenambrosallafassagossoes and their sister group the 2D Breasts
I hate that shit! I’m here to read a top ten list, not to watch a fucking performance!!!!!!!

“Young Folks” (Peter Bjorn & John cover) – BOOMSTAND! at the Millcreek Tavern
Ok so we weren’t there. Were YOU?!

*This is a song for his lesbian pen pal. He took sweetly swinging, bass-heavy instrumental breaks to explain the story, how Nina told him straight-faced outside her dad’s apartment, “By the way—I’ve told my parents that we’re engaged,” and about her red-faced, hulking German father, who’d clearly “had a little too much to drink.” We were eating out of the palm of his hand like little rabbits in a petting zoo!