Cheap Girls - "Her and Cigarettes"
"And we took the long way so we could have another."
Pinhead Gunpowder - "Beastly Bit"
What could be more honest than crust-punk-turned-acoustic love? Also, the end features the best appropriation/perversion of a "Brown Eyed Girl" sample ever. (P.S. - if that voice sounds familiar, it's because it is. PHGB is/was one of Billie Joe Armstrong's many, many side projects.)
Built to Spill - "Distopian Dream Girl"
I think I love this song mostly because Doug Martsch's voice sounds like a Midwestern teenager who just woke up from a nap. I'm also not entirely sure whether this is a love song, or rather the random musings of a Midwestern teenager who just woke up from a nap. Either one works for me.
Paul Baribeau - "Blue Eyes"
Definitively, one of the loveliest songs I have ever heard. Maybe the loveliest. Just goes to show that folk punks do it better.
7 Seconds - "Trust"
Proving that hardcore straight-edgers fall in love as hard as they mosh. An unsurprisingly straightforward, unapologetically honest love song that you can nevertheless violently run around in a circle pit to. But also, it's so sweet!
What an unexpectedly lovely compilation! thank you "blue eyes".....
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