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The Decemberists – June Hymn
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Here's a hymn to welcome in the day / Heralding a summer's early sway / And all the bulbs all coming in / To begin / The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens / Disrupts my
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The Decemberists – January Hymn
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On a winter Sunday I go / To clear away the snow / And green the ground below / April all an ocean away / Is this the better way to spend the day? / Keeping the winter at bay
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The Decemberists – Anti-Summersong
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Here now, long gone / Three freaks in a Vanagon / Went to the river but the river got dry / And all the good people were hanging around / Too little, too late / Everybody gotta
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The Decemberists – Down by the Water
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See this ancient riverbed / See where all the follies led / Down by the water and / Down by the old main drag / I was just some tow-head teen / Feeling round for fingers to get in
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The Decemberists – Dear Avery
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Dear Avery, I think of you only / Were you waving, were you dead on the vine? / Oh Avery, to think of you lonely / I could just grab you by the nape of your neck / There are times
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The Decemberists – Rise to Me
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Frontman Colin Meloy picked this as one of The Decemberists' best songs in an interview, saying:
It best sums up what we were trying to do on that record, drawing from a more
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The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight
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From a 2010 article in Spin:
The track closes with a raw recording of a woman singing about her dog running through a field, accompanied by banjo and harmonica. It sounds like an
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The Decemberists – Don't Carry It All
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The first song on The King is Dead sets the tone for the rest of The Decemberists’s americana album both musically (with its acoustic guitar and mandolin and especially prominent
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The Decemberists – Calamity Song
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Lead singer, Colin Meloy, told NPR’s World Cafe that this was their attempt at a disaster song.
The music video is noteworthy for being a dramatisation of scene from David Foster
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The Decemberists – All Arise!
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This song is about someone the narrator loves, who has been let down time and again by the people they put their trust into. This has made the subject of the song weary of
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The Decemberists – Rox in the Box
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This song memorializes the Granite Mountain disaster of 1917, and references the Butte, Montana mining scene from 1910-1920 in general. In an interview with UK’s The Guardian
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Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom, Jr. – Dear Theodosia
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Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton both had children very soon after the Revolutionary War. Here they take a moment to coo, and to realize the human element of the country they are
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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
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“White Winter Hymnal” is the first single from Fleet Foxes’s debut 2008 self-titled album. The B-side is the non-album track “Isles”.
Time critic Josh Tyrangiel named this the #5
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Underrated Bands
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There are lots of bands belonging to the genre or one of the sub-genres of rock that don’t get the recognition they deserve. I thought it would be a good idea to discuss cool bands here. It’ll be a cool way to find new music and expand the fanbases of these bands.
If you know a band that you think could use a little more love, put it in the thread, along with some good songs by them.
I’ll start off with a few:
~Fly Away Hero (Hercules, Misunderstood, Madison’s Favorite Toys)
~Picturesque (Speak Softly, Just Exist, One of Us)
P.S. The bands don’t need to be incredibly unpopular, just any rock artist that isn’t recognized enough.
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You into the Dark
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Even on a concept album whose main theme is death, “I’ll Follow You Into The Dark” is a standout moving song about the transcendental power of love, even when that boundary is
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