editorial: Jamie Milton
words: Jamie Milton & Gareth O’Malley
Stage two sees us keeping to the virtue of listing albums that defined how our writers thought, acted and went about listening to music. The choices below are some of the more personal in the whole top twenty. Moving from 2001 to 2008, every album achieved something bold and brilliant. Here’s how:
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mp3: Brainy
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mp3: Radio Protector
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mp3: The Rip
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mp3: Citizen Erased (live at Wembley Stadium)
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LYRICS OF THE WEEK
My bodyguard shows her revolver to anyone who asks
And yeah she comes to attention when you come up to me too fast
For a little while you’ll be here, the only good part of me
For a little while you’ll be here
So lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie Manhattan
Lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie
You wear skirt like a flag
And everything surrounds you, and it doesn’t fade
Nothing like this sound I make
That only lasts the season
And only heard by bedroom kids who buy for that reason
Cuz you’re the low life of the party, bad blood
Bad blood for everybody
I’m in control and I believe
So lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie Manhattan
Lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie from your bad blood
From your bad blood
Cuz you’re the low life of the party, bad blood
Bad blood for everybody
I’m in control and I believe
So lit up, lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie Manhattan
Lit up, lit up, lit up, lit up alright
I try to untie
lyrics courtesy of songmeanings
PLAY: The National – Lit Up
LYRICS OF THE WEEK
Stay out super late tonight
picking apples, making pies
put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
Tiptoe through our shiny city
with our diamond slippers on
do our gay ballet on ice
bluebirds on our shoulders
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
Turn the light out say goodnight
no thinking for a little while
lets not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
PLAY: The National – Fake Empire [Buy 'Boxer']
Read: ‘Boxer’ Review – 2007 –
lyrics courtesy of songmeanings
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