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I Have Mastered Forgetting: A 2011 Playlist
Year 2011 was such a roller coster for me as I graduate from university and join the labor force. It definitely had so many highs but the lows were definitely low. And so I thank 2011 for making me a better, stronger person. In reference to the playlist’s title, I say let’s all be masters of forgetting the stuff we need to forget and be good recallers of the stuff that will keep us moving forward. As with my 2010 playlist, some of the songs in this list may not necessarily have been released in 2011 and may not necessarily mean something profound to me, but I’ve definitely discovered, re-discovered and listened to each of these songs almost non-stop for quite a while the past year. I drew everything in the cover art because I definitely needed some time looking at stuff other than numbers and graphs. I apologize for being lazy to not put the songs’s mp3s up on a file sharing site, I’m linking some youtube vids for the songs instead. The Extra songs are songs I would have loved to put in the list as well but I tried not to put more than one song from the same artist. So these Extra songs would be B-sides to their same-artist-song counterparts on the official list if that sort of makes sense to you. Again, Happy New Year and may we all have a blessed year ahead!
Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am
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Do you know when you were already born
You were already you and I already me?
So take me as I am
Note: This is determinism (read: literary determinism) written in a song. How painful.Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
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All your life, now I understand
So many hours and no company
Note: I’ve searched the internet for perhaps an interview with Ra Ra Riot about this song, what it means, the story behind it or something like that, but to no avail. Everytime I listen to it, I keep on imagining a short story or a music video about two lovers, one is the daughter of the owner of the orchard in the song (“All your life/you were important/and your father too”) and an orchard laborer who sneak out at night to spend time together in the orchard. The story supposedly ends when the father discovers (and obviously disapproves of) their affair and catches them together one night and beats the guy to near-death in front of his daughter (“Oh this blood in my mouth/makes me hate/how we both end up”).
Cults - Never Saw the Point
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What I wouldn’t give
For the chance to see you smile?
I did what I could
To be yours just for a while
Best Coast - Our Deal
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I wish you would tell me
How you really feel
But you’ll never tell me
‘Cause that’s not our deal
Note: I wish Drew Barrymore kept the video to just this song. The parts for each Best Coast song in the real whole video ended abruptly and was sort of irritating. The edited version for this just thing was still heart-wrenching.
Tennis - Marathon
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We didn’t realize
The forecast had been revised
Coeur de Pirate - Comme des Enfants
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But he loves me still
And I love you a little more
Note: Yes. Sometimes I’m French. Coeur de Pirate is French Canadian though.
The No Twist - Consequence
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Fail with consequence, lose with eloquence
And smile
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
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Save up all the days
A routine malaise
Just like yesterday
I told you I would stay
Note: Whenever I watch the music video to this song, I keep on convincing myself that the video is about this group of organic robots (like Kathy, Ruth and Tommy in Never Let Me Go except that they’re clones) spending their last moments praying in a chapel and then finally taking their last breaths of air and exploding.
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
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But for me, I am a vector
I am muscle, I am boneOh Land - White Nights
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These dreams under my pillow
In the twilight of these white nights
Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
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And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
Note: I had to stop myself from pasting the lyrics to the whole chorus (or perhaps to the whole song). Singing this song is such a release even if you have not recently gone through a break up. My friend Kara labeled me an angel (or maybe a fallen angel) after linking this to her one night. I was scared to ask her why.
Lana del Rey - Video Games
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I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
Note: This girl is making quite a controversy for her fake lips and apparently being a failed mainstream artist repackaged into a a lofi indie songstress. But who can deny? Video games really is catchy.
Bird and the Bee - Heard It On the Radio
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Oh, I can still remember when I heard it on the radio
Oh, but now we are SeptemberDavid Byrne & Fatboy Slim ft. Florence Welch - Here Lies Love
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Is it a sin to love too much?
Is it a sin to care?
I do it all for you
How can it be unfair?
Note: The album is an attestation to Imelda’s interesting character. Oh how I’d like to have singers like Tori Amos, Florence Welch and Sia sing a song about me too?
Cat Power - Sea of Love
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I want to tell you
How much I love you
Note: That high note at “Iiii want to tell you” just makes me want to sing my heart out.
Extras:
Au Revoir Simone - Anywhere You Looked
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If we could all say we’re sorry
Give up all awkward tomorrows
Finding nothing more to argue
I was right
Cults - Make Time
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Give yourself a chance to take a moment
Best Coast - I Want To
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I want to go back to
The first time, the first place
The No Twist - Off The Rail
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We are trains ourselves
Grizzly Bear - Knife
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I want you to know
When I look into your eyes
With every blow
Comes another lie
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