The Morning After

Slowly but surely I’ll get us to number one on The Zone list of the Top 91 Songs of the 00s.

We left off last time at song 60, Finger 11‘s “Paralyzer.”  Today I’ll tackle 59-50.

59) Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers”

What can i say about Radiohead’s bold game changer In Rainbows that hasn’t already been said?

Most of us were or are already ripping off tons of music from the internet, Radiohead basically said, “bless you my child,” and gave it to us.  SWA?  I wanted to teal it!  Fuck you Radiohead, I’ll show you! … and yeah, I plucked down $9.99 for the thing.  Take that Thom Yorke… how do you sleep at night.

Wiki says:  Yorke told the New York Times that “Bodysnatchers” was inspired by Victorian ghost stories, The Stepford Wives and his own feeling of “your physical consciousness trapped without being able to connect fully with anything else.”

58) Hot Hot Heat – “Bandages”

Sandwiches, sandwiches, sandwiches.  yum.

First single form their first album for this YYJ rock band.

57) The Flaming Lips – “Do You Realize”

When I was younger I used always dream of living in Omaha.  I lived in a little house/cottage thing by the airport.  Strange thing to dream about.  Omaha is in Nebraska, not Oklahoma, I don’t why that story makes any sense.

This song is the official state rock song of Oklahoma.  the Sooner State is the 20th largest state in the Union and joined federation in 1907.  When in Oklahoma, make sure you check out the National Wrestling Hall of Fame!  wow, does West Jet fly direct or what?

Guy (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives) recommends Leo’s BBQ in Oklahoma City!

56) Arcade Fire – “Neighbourhood #3”

Arcade Fire’s Funeral got one of the highest marks that my fave indie rocker website hands out.

That review in 2004 set the stage for the amount of buzz necessary to shoot Arcade Fire into the stratosphere of indie rock demi-goddom.

The song is about the Ice Storm of 1998 that took place in Montreal PQ.  The city was without power for a week and the darkness of the city was the inspiration for the song.

55) Cage The Elephant – “Aint No Rest for the Wicked”

Kentucky singer Matt Schultz dreamt up this song while working as a construction worker.  His coworker was a drug dealer complaining of life and Matt says, “well why do you do it?” and he goes, “ain’t no rest for the wicked.”  Boom, song.

54) M.I.A. – “Paper Planes”

This was a bit of a controversial song on the Zone.  It came out in 2007 and the Zone featured it a bit but no one cared.  It went the way of the dodo like many singles the Zone feature son the inbox.  Then the song gets picked up later int he summer for 2008 for the trailer of the movie Pineapple Express and people are calling up wondering why we don’t play the song?  Doh, so into heavy rotation it goes and many months of fighting with people on the Zone Phone about why they love and/or hate this song begins.  awww, memories.  TV commercials are a powerful medium, i don’t care what anybody says about how they “never watch TV” or “I always skip the commercials.”  No you don’t.

53) Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”

I first encountered Silversun Pickups reading Pitchfork.  They gave it a “meh” type review.  But when reading why the author didn’t like the record, he inadvertently sold me on the record.  It sounded like something I’d like.  So I bought the record and I’m glad I did.  Turned into one of my favourites.

When not played on a ton of different radio stations, this song is also mega popular on TV shows or video games or… wow, everywhere.

52) The Killers – “When You Were Young”

The Killers channel their innner Boss for a more “American” style of rock song.  It must of worked as “When You Were Young” turned out to be the Killers best charting song to date!

51) Evanescence – “Bring Me To Life”

We’ll have to travel back to 2004 for this song.  happier times in the life of Evanescence singer Amy Lee.  She hadn’t had her falling out with guitar player Ben moody, no weird relationship with the Seether dude.  Times were good and this song dominated the world reaching number 1 on the Modern rock charts (actually number 1 on a whole bunch of charts, the song was everywhere).

50) Our Lady Peace – “Innocent”

The second single from 2002’s Gravity.  I am by far, not the biggest OLP fan in the world.  But this is a song by the band I don’t hate.  in fact, I’m listening to it right now.

He references Kurt Cobain.  hey I like Kurt Cobain too Raine!

Go with yourself.