Day 1: Favourite Song

Pixies-U-Mass

If I'm to believe my last.fm account (http://www.last.fm/user/kungfucowboy) my favourite song of the last 5 odd years is LCD Soundsystem's 45:33. But last.fm is trapdoor spider, filling you with false hope before it eats you alive. The only reason that it tops my list with an elegant 100 plays is that it's part of an album of the same name, a nike+ mix. It's 8 songs long, all dedicated to getting the blood traveling as fast as your feet. The downside to this is that all of the songs share the same title. It sucks for stat tracking. I'd divide this number by 8, do some weird rounding somewhere along the way.

So that leaves me with stuff like Dan Deacon's Build Voice, easily my favourite track this year next to the Animal Collective's My Girls, which is a sexy shower made of sound. But is it my favourite song of all time? Probably not! Last.fm doesn't take into account my whole entire life as a music listening entity. So instead of tunneling deep within myself and narrowing it down to my favourite song of all time, I'm just going to narrow it down to a couple of songs that I really dig.

First up is the Pixies' U-Mass. Nirvana once said that when they made Nevermind that it was theme doing their best attempt at a Pixies' album. If you listen to U-Mass you'll see that it's pretty close. The beginning riff is suspiciously close to Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the structure of the quiet then loud was aped by grunge wannabes. This is my favourite Pixies song.