The 11 Best Songs By Cursive

I've been slow on the draw this month...but it's not my fault.  I blame the lack of quality music from our rock n roll vets. Outside of Van Halen...February has been a slow month for artists with solid resumes.  There have been some strong releases which I promise to get to at the end of the week for an early 2012 recap, but there haven't a lot great releases by experienced artists.  I'm not sure why Jan-Mar tend to be the dumping grounds for music.  I would think with a new year, labels would be vying for setting the stage for a new sound.  Right now...Van Halen is owning it!  A band who has been dormant for almost 30 years is now the big dog on campus.  It didn't matter that their album came out in February.  It only mattered that it came out.  Like they said in the movie Sideways, it isn't the day you decide to drink the nice bottle of wine that makes it important.  The day you drink the wine is what makes the day important.  Music should be the same.  It's not the release date that matters...only that the album is being released.

The 11 Best Songs By Cursive:

1. Rise Up! Rise Up! (Happy Hollow)
2. Some Red Handed Slight of Hand (The Ugly Organ)
3. Dorothy At Forty (Happy Hollow)
4. The Recluse (The Ugly Organ)
5. The Martyr (Domestica)
6. In The Now (Mama, I'm Swollen)
7. Sierra (The Ugly Organ)
8. Into The Fold  (Happy Hollow)
9. Art Is Hard (The Ugly Organ)
10. The Great Decay (Burst and Bloom)
11. We Built This City (A.V. Under Cover)

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The 11 Best Songs By Cursive of the 00s

Today, I stopped by a Crown Book liquidation center.  I only planned on buying some $1 books for stocking stuffers.  Thought I'd walk out of there spending no more than  5 or 6 bucks.  Not even close.  I did a ton of really good deals.  A ton of respectable $1 books...if there is such a thing.  But I made one unique discovery.  Something I never thought in a hundred years I would find...a CD.

In the back of the store, behind a rack of VHS movies, I found the CD shelves.  Strangely, the CDs were hidden behind an even more obsolete medium...or maybe not.  Most of the CDs, were very obscure groups on even more obscure labels.  Yet, one artist stood out.  One artist I had been looking for...for years.  That artist is Sweet 75.

For those who don't know, Sweet 75 is the short-lived post-Nirvana project of Krist Novoselic.  It didn't have the sparkle of the Foo Fighters...and sold only a few dozens copies.  I'm a huge Nirvana fan and always wanted a copy...but it was impossible to find one.  It was released one Tuesday and was out-of-print by Friday.  I scoured used stores...even ebay.  But the price tag was always too high.  Until today.  Today, I found the CD for $1.  One freaking dollar.  From the most important band of the 90s to the $1 rack at a liquidation center.  Take note Guy Berryman...you're next.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Cursive of the 00s:

1. Rise Up! Rise Up! (Happy Hollow)

2. Some Red Handed Slight of Hand (The Ugly Organ)
3. Dorothy At Forty (Happy Hollow)
4. Art Is Hard (The Ugly Organ)
5. The Martyr (Domestica)
6. In The Now (Mama, I’m Swollen)
7. Sierra (The Ugly Organ)
8. Mama, I’m Satan (Mama, I’m Swollen)
9. Into the Fold (Happy Hollow)
10. The Night I Lost the Will To Fight (Domestica)
11. The Great Decay (Burst and Bloom)

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The 11 Best Albums of 2009: 34-44 (Part 2)

With the end of decade sending everyone scrambling to make decade topping lists, let's not forget all the good music that made this year one of the better musical years of the decade.

Don't forget to vote in our annual "best of." Just send us your top 20 albums of the year...or as many as you can think of, if you can't think of 20. We take all albums...all genres...just be sure they were released in 2009. To vote, just put your list in the comments section of the blog...or email us.


Here 11 Best Albums of 2009: 34-44 (Part 2):

34. Moby - Wait for Me (Shot In The Back of the Head) - only $5.00
35. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
36. Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light - only $5.00
37. Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 -only $5.00
38. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti...is a Skyscraper
39. Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen (What Have I Done)
40. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (East Jesus Nowhere)
41. The Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
42. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
43. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
44. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

I'm going to tease this out just a bit more before the reveal of the Top 11 of the decade. Until then, here are the runner-ups. Those who were good...but maybe...just not good enough.

The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

1. ...And You Will Know Us - Source Tags & Codes
2. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
3. Against Me! - New Wave
4. Alicia Keyes - The Diary of Alicia Keyes
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
7. The Anniversary - Your Majesty
8. At The Drive-In - Relationship in Command
9. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
10. Beck - Guero
11. Black Rebel Motorcycle - Black Rebel Motorcycle
12. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
13. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake and It's Morning
14. Bright Eyes - Cassadega
15. Burial - Untrue
16. Cat Power - The Greatest
17. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (Hospital Beds)
18. Cursive - Happy Hollow
19. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Sierra)
20. Damien Rice - O
21. Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
22. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
23. The Darkness - Permission To Land
24. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
25. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (The New Year)
26. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We Are Voting Yes
27. The Decemberists - Her Majesty
28. The Decemberists - Picaresque
29. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
30. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
31. Drive By Truckers - Dirty South
32. Elliott Smith - Basement on the Hill
33. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
34. The Faint - Danse Macabre
35. FELT - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
36. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
37. The Foo Fighters - There Is Something Left To Lose
38. Fugazi - The Argument
39. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
40. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks
41. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
42. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
43. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
44. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
45. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
46. Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
47. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
48. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3.0
49. Jay-Z - MTV Unplugged
50. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
51. Joanna Newsom - Ys
52. John Legend - Get Lifted
53. Kayne West - 808s and Heartbreak
54. The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
55. The Knife - Silent Shout
56. The Libertines - The Libertines
57. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
58. Loretta Lynne - Van Leer Rose
59. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
60. M. Ward - Post War
61. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion
62. Mastodon - Leviathon
63. Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
64. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
65. Metallica - Death Magnetic
66. M.I.A. - Arular
67. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
68. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
69. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
70. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
71. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
72. Mr. Lif - I Phantom
73. Muse - Absolution
74. Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
75. Neko Case - Fox Confesor Brings The Flood
76. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
77. Okkervil River - Stage Names
78. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
79. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
80. The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
81. Q-Tip - Kamaal: the Abstract
82. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
83. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
84. Radiohead - Amnesiac
85. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
86. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
87. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
88. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
89. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
90. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
91. Santogold - Santogold
92. She and Him - Volume One
93. Sia - Colour The Small One
94. Sigur Ros - ()
95. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (The Ghost of You Lingers)
96. The Strokes - Room On Fire
97. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
98. Talib Kweli - Quality
99. Tapes and Tapes - The Loon
100. Tegan and Sara - The Con
101. Tool - 10,000 Days
102. Tool - Lateralus
103. Travis - The Invisible Band
104. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
105. U2 - How To Build An Atomic Bomb
106. Usher - Confessions
107. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
108. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
109. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
110. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
111. Wilco - The Album
     
     
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The 11 Best Cursive Songs:

As album sales continue to slide, bands are looking for new ways to get people to buy their product. Cursive is the newest band to adapt to the digital market with their newest promotion. Today, March 1st...you can buy their new album (Mama, I'm Swollen) for only $1 from the Saddle Creek website. On March 2nd, it will be $2...on March 3rd it will be $3...and so on until the official release on March 10th.

So what are you waiting for? ...grab some laundry quarters and go download the album.

The 11 Best Songs By Cursive:

1. Rise Up! Rise Up! (Happy Hollow)
2. Some Red Handed Slight of Hand (The Ugly Organ)
3. Dorothy At Forty (Happy Hollow)
4. The Recluse (The Ugly Organ)
5. Into the Fold (Happy Hollow)
6. The Great Decay (Burst and Bloom)
7. The Martyr (Domestica)
8. Sierra (The Ugly Organ)
9. The Night I Lost the Will To Fight (Domestica)
10. Art Is Hard (The Ugly Organ)
11. Nonsense (Saddle Creek 50)



Buy Cursive's new album, Mama, I'm Swollen now.