2010 Song Project - Countdown - #190-#181

#190 Minus The Bear - "My Time" from "Omni" - It's weird that an indie rock song released in 2010 would have a 70's feel to it, but that's the case with "My Time", the top Minus The Bear song on the countdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rSYYNPQSc&ob=av2n


#189 Good Shoes - "Under Control" from "No Hope, No Future" - A tight indie rock song with solid lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1KworDaCqs


#188 Jennifer Knapp - "Letting Go" from "Letting Go" - This song gets lumped under the "country" genre, but it's really more of a singer-songwriter song, and a powerful one at that, with an Etheridge-level of passion applied to the chorus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXe76HUnXtE


#187 Paul Weller - "Wake Up The Nation" from "Wake Up The Nation" - I don't know what it is about songs with "Wake Up" in the title, but they always seem to be excellent. Case in point, this punchy alt rock song from former Jam front-man Paul Weller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HykV37M67MI


#186 Devo - "Later Is Now" from "Something For Everybody" - Yes, that's right, Devo is still making music and it's still awesome. They sound just as sharp as they did back in the 80's and now that technology has infected our lives more than ever, their sound is as urgent as it's ever been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqwZm3mgM4c


#185 Big Boi - "Train, Pt. 2 (Sir Lucious Left Foot Saves The Day)" from "Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son Of Chico Dusty" - The title track from "Sir Lucious", "Train" is a trippy hip hop song with many weird music effects mixed in with Big Boi's usual lyrical brilliance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXgY7NoEzYo


#184 Mark Ronson And The Business Intl - "Introducing The Business" from "Record Collection" - The chorus is hypnotic to the point of being damn near subliminal and the verses feature some of the best hip hop lyrics of the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKLzvx6EbI


#183 Emma Pollack - "I Could Be A Saint" from "The Law Of Large Numbers" - A slow starter to be sure, this song has a fantastic chorus of "How you gonna break my heart when you've never even made my day" that fits the song perfectly, creating a great narrative tone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXsdGW42Du0


#182 The Vaselines - "My God's Bigger Than Your God" from "Sex With An X" - All of the world's religious politics condensed into a 3 minute pop song. If you've followed my countdowns in the past, you know that I love this sort of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQljbGEwvgY


#181 Reflection Eternal - "Strangers (Paranoid)" from "Revolutions Per Minute" - Bun B guest stars on this Reflection Eternal song, which does an outstanding job of living up to its name by building a paranoid atmosphere with nervous lyrics and the booming horn section that injects itself into the song every couple seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjsn9ifTwMg&ob=av2e