Lewis Talks About Music - Holiday Edition

Okay so, Renard sucks at writing blogs.

Which means it’s up to me to save this thing from suckage.

Now, Now, save your applause till the end.

I’m here to tell you what music you need this season. If your lady or your guy to gets you one of these excellent disks, they totally deserve some compensation. And you know what I mean by that.
(I mean they deserve chestnuts or maybe even hazelnuts, man.)

For Your Lady: If you want any action in the New Year, get your lady love this amazing disk by Dragonette. Galore is what all girls want. Full of ‘empowering lyrics’, sung by a tough broad with a pretty face, with some cute guys in the back playing the instruments; It’s a sure hit with the ladies. And you can’t go wrong givin’ somebody this with the crazy mash of styles and slick heavy rhythms. It actually sounds good, with a re-listen value of about 8. Plus it’s got a cute pink cover. When it comes to girls, no matter what they say, pink always helps.

For Your Guy: If you don’t got a lady and you got a hunk instead, try Led Zeppelin’s old-is-new collection Mothership. It’s a two C.D. set, so you might need to splurge, but it’ll be totally worth it. All the key tracks a Zep fan craves without the downers or needin’ to flip the album over in the middle. It’s paradise, and of course it being Led Zeppelin, it automatically gets a re-listen of 11. You may not get why this crazy tuneless screaming cost you 25 bucks, but your guy will love you that much more for it. Trust me.

For Your Younger Sibbies: Get ‘em hooked young on music that doesn’t suck by throwing either of Billy Talent’s albums at them. Literally throw it at them. Hopefully that’ll knock them out long enough so you can turn off that god-awful High School Musical slurry and substitute it with a nice mix C.D.

Speaking of mix C.D.s though, I’ll give you a list of stuff to rock your little furry (or hooved or webbed or cloven or whatever) feet and get those awful Holiday Carols outta your head. This list is Canadian Themed, because winter makes me patriotic (and gassy, but that’s a completely different story, for a different kind of blog)

1. Polar Bears and Trees - Rheostatics
2. The Canadian Dream – Sam Roberts
3. L’Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours - Feist
4. All The Things I Wasn’t – Grapes of Wrath
5. Underwhelmed - Sloan
6. Nova Heart - Spoons
7. Locked In The Trunk Of A Car – Tragically Hip
8. Explode – Nelly Furtado
9. Devil’s Eyes – Buck 65
10. Into Your Hideout- Pilate
11. Dead Disco – Metric
12. Celebration Guns – Stars
13. The War of 1812 – Arrogant Worms
Bonus Track: Dandelion – Boards of Canada (They’re actually Scottish)