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Top Artists Of The Year

New Finds

Favorite Albums

Favorite Songs

Favorite Lyrics

Favorite Harmonies

Favorite Concerts

 
 
 
Kendra's Choices
 
Kathy's Choices
 

Top Artist Of The Year

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1. Glen Phillips

 

 

 

2.  Josh Rouse

 

 

3.  Ben Gibbard

 

 

4.  Dick Prall

 

 

5.  Daniel Tashian

 

 

6.  Ilya Toshinsky

 

 

7.  Chris Thile

 
 

 

1. Glen Phillips

 

 

 

2.  Josh Rouse

 

 

3.  Dick Prall

 

 

4.  Eliot Morris

 

 

5.  Ben Gibbard

 

 

6.  Ilya Toshinsky

 

 

7.  Brendan Benson

     
 
 

New Finds
 
 
  1. Eliot Morris

 

 

2.  Ben Gibbard

 

 

3.  Cary Brothers

 

 

4.  The Shins

 

 

5.  Griffin House

 

 

6.  The Bees

 

 

7.  Aqualung

 
  1. Eliot Morris

 

 

2.  Patrick Park

 

 

3.  Griffin House

 

 

4.  David Berkeley

 

 

5.  The Killers

 

 

6.  Tegan & Sara

 

 

7.  Modest Mouse

     
 
 

Favorite Albums
 
 
 

1. Transatlanticism -
Death Cab For Cutie

 

 

2.  fizzlebuzzie – Dick Prall

 

 

3.  Nashville – Josh Rouse

 

 

4.  Garden State Soundtrack

 

 

5.  Winter Pays For Summer – Glen Phillips

 

 

6.  Alternative To Love – Brendan Benson

 

 

7.  Let Go – Nada Surf
 
  1. Nashville - Josh Rouse

 

 

2.  Winter Pays For Summer – Glen Phillips

 

 

3.  fizzlebuzzie – Dick Prall

 

 

4.  Garden State Soundtrack

 

 

5.  Loneliness Knows My Name – Patrick Park

 

 

6.  Everyone Is Here – Finn Brothers

 

 

7.  O – Damien Rice
     
 
 

Favorite Songs
 
 
  1.  A Lack of Color –
Death Cab for Cutie

 

 

2.  Book of Songs – Dick Prall

 

 

3.  Sad Eyes – Josh Rouse

 

 

4.  Finally Fading – Glen Phillips

 

 

5.  Anyway – Eliot Morris

 

 

6.  Blue Eyes – Cary Brothers

 

 

7.  I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You – Colin Hay
 
  1.  Tell Me a Lie –
Griffin House

 

 

2.  Finally Fading – Glen Phillips

 

 

3.  Clark Gable – The Postal Service

 

 

4.  Grand Marquee – Dick Prall

 

 

5.  My Love Has Gone – Josh Rouse

 

 

6.  Such Great Heights – Iron & Wine/The Postal Service

 

 

7.  No One Has To Know – Eliot Morris
     
 
 

Favorite Lyrics
 
Kendra's
 
  1.  My cup is 1/16 full.  I’m getting there, but the getting’s slow –
Glen Phillips ‘Released’

 

 

2.  And when I see you, I really see you upside down.  Buy my brain knows better, it picks you up and turns you around – Death Cab for Cutie ‘A Lack of Color’

 

 

3.  The money arrives, minus the price of your lifestyle – Dick Prall ‘Saturday’s Changed’

 

 

4.  Seems to me, I’m exactly where I dreamt I would be.  And the view from here is something to see, but I need a hand to hold on to. – Aqualung ‘If I Fall’

 

 

5.  You won’t believe me if I promise again, telling you that I can change.  Scream it at the top of my lungs, but it’s out of my range – Griffin House ‘Tell Me a Lie’

 

 

6.  One lie short of true – Cary Brothers ‘Honestly’

 

 

7.  Just a glimpse of her ankle and I react like it’s 1805 – The Shins ‘Turn a Square’
 
 
Kathy's
 
  1.  Everyday I take a bitter pill. It gets me on my way, for the little aches and pains. The ones I have from day to day. To help me think a little less about the things I miss. To help me not to wonder how I ended up like this –
Patty Griffin ‘Useless Desires’

 

 

2.  I want to get almost too familiar, but still notice the way that you walk –
Glen Phillips ‘Easier’

 

 

3.  His goal in life was to be an echo. Riding alone, town after town, toll after toll. A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her – Wilco ‘Hummingbird’

 

 

4.  Loneliness, it's got your name and your new address. When it walks in the place is a mess and it drinks and never leaves – I Am Kloot ‘3 Feet Tall’

 

 

5.  And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay – The Postal Service ‘Such Great Heights’

 

 

6.  Lock, stock and barrel shot. One smoking gun and enough anger in you to hurt someone – Charlie Mars ‘Gather The Horses’

 

 

7.  My grandfather was a high school football star. It was all downhill from there. I wonder if he'd known, would he have lived it differently, would he have loved more willfully? –  Andrew Kerr ‘The Peak’
 
 
 

Favorite Harmonies
 
 
  1.  Courage – Glen Phillips and Ben Folds on Winter Pays For Summer

 

 

2.  A Lack of Color – Death Cab for Cutie on Transatlantacism

 

 

3.  Waste Another Day – Griffin House on Lost And Found

 

 

4.  Great Admirer – Dick Prall on fizzlebuzzie

 

 

5.  On Ice – Chris Thile on Deceiver

 

 

6.  Easier to Lie – Aqualung on Strange & Beautiful

 

 

7.  Alternative to Love – Brendan Benson on Alternative to Love
 
  1.  Edible Flowers – Finn Brothers on Everyone Is Here

 

 

2.  Waste Another Day – Griffin House on Lost And Found

 

 

3.  Sad Eyes – Josh Rouse on Nashville

 

 

4.  Francesca – Mutual Admiration Society on S/T

 

 

5.  The Blower's Daughter – Damien Rice on O

 

 

6.  Where Does the Good Go? – Tegan & Sara on So Jealous

 

 

7.  Honey & the Moon – Joseph Arthur on Redemption's Son
     
 
 

Favorite Concerts
 
Kendra's
 
  1.  Josh Rouse @ Exit/In (Nashville, TN) 4/29/05

 

 

2.  Glen Phillips @ Schuba’s (Chicago, IL) 11/14/04

 

 

3.  Dick Prall @ Schuba’s (Chicago, IL) 3/4/05

 

 

4.  Matt Nathanson @ The Point (Bryn Mawr, PA) 6/16/05

 

 

5.  Mutual Admiration Society @ Metro (Chicago, IL) 8/9/04

 

 

6.  REM @ Auditorium Theater (Chicago, IL) 10/27/04

 

 

7.  Eliot Morris @ WorkPlay Theater (Birmingham, AL) 12/29/04

 
 
Kathy's
 
  1.  Marcy Playground @ YMCA (Chicago, IL) 9/10/04

 

 

2.  Mutual Admiration Society @ Metro (Chicago, IL) 8/9/04

 

 

3.  Matt Nathanson @ The Point (Bryn Mawr, PA) 6/16/05

 

 

4.  Finn Brothers @ Vic Theater (Chicago, IL) 7/22/04

 

 

5.  Josh Rouse @ Exit/In (Nashville, TN) 4/29/05

 

 

6.  Glen Phillips @ Schuba’s (Chicago, IL) 11/14/04

 

 

7.  Eliot Morris @ WorkPlay (Birmingham, AL) 4/30/05