Top 10 - Best Songs From the First 51

If you're new to SPR, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to sift through the 51 entries we did when we first started last summer. So we've tried to make it easier on you by narrowing it down to our favourite 10 songs (we each chose only five of our own posts to avoid overlapping). It was so so hard to narrow it down to only five because we love all of the entries we've done so far, but at least it'll give you a place to start if you're new, and a quick refresher if you're a returning fan!

BOY!'s picks

#5 Interpol - Untitled
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#4 Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You
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#3 The Presets - This Boy's in Love
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#2 Gotye - Hearts a Mess
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#1 Howie Day - Bunnies (Live Version)
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If there's one video for my to recommend from the first 2 months of submissions that I did, it would be Bunnies by Howie Day. I'm almost positive that this is a Live-only song, never having been professionally recorded and made for distribution. However, almost all of Howie Day's stuff is better live - when you get to see just Howie and his contraption of pedals, recorders and looping mechanisms. When I first posted this song, I used a YouTube version recorded in New York, which until about a month ago was the only decent-sounding version I could find. Recently I stumbled across a great website - http://www.moshcam.com/ - that features high-quality live videos of many great, new artists. What's great about Howie Day is that each live version of his songs sounds slightly different. If you listen to both the YouTube video and the following Moshcam video, I'm sure you'll hear (and yet appreciate) the differences between the 2 versions. Thus, I present to you: Howie Day - Bunnies (Live).



GIRL!'s picks

#5 3OH!3 - Electroshock!
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#4 Black Mountain - Druganaut
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#3 Midnight Juggernauts - Tombstone
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#2 Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
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#1 The Deadly Syndrome - Eucalyptus
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It's kind of hard to imagine that listening to The Deadly Syndrome's debut album, The Ortolan, on repeat for the last six months has not lead to me getting sick of them, but it's true - I love them just as much now as I did back then. This CD remains one of my favourites, and to top it off, their drummer, Jesse Hoy, was kind enough to do a guest blogger entry for us. Oh also they have a new video for their song "Emily Paints" (click here) and it's really great. Okay I think I should become the President of their fan club or something, so I'm going to stop here.