Though this practically carries a sentence of death, I wasn't particularly enamoured of the music selected by Master Gryphon (May his wise and just rule go on for thousands of years and not involve beating me into a fine chowder-like paste) for the Art of Noise. I'm OK with it, but not, you know, inspired...

What I have thus done is compiled a rival playlist, drawn from rank upon rank of semi-obscure and mainstream albums (yes I'm an indie kid, please put the guns down), of things I would dearly love to see Kaitlyn 'n' Co play live. Were they to exist. I'm beginning to realise how strange this all is. Anyway, the list is (in no particular order) below. A brief reason is given as to why I chose each track.

1: Transmission (Joy Division) {During their gothic phase, would've made for a great opener}
2: Stevie Nix (The Hold Steady) {Good ol' fashioned blues-rock with vocal gymnastics by 4 chartered accountants and Hercule Poirot}
3: Leaders Of The Free World (Elbow) {Because I truly detested Rockin' In The Free World and thought this had a bit more subtlety to it}
4: Phantom Limb (The Shins) {Well, it's a song about a lesbian couple in a small town, dumped over a summery dream-pop guitar line in the grand tradition of Big Star, how could I NOT put it in?}
5: Feel (Big Star) {Speak of the devils... It's Zep, Jim, but not as we know it - chiefly because Zep came after these guys, the most ironically-named band ever}
6: We'll Live And Die In These Towns (The Enemy) {I can really see Kaitlyn writing something like this if you dumped her in a backwater planet somewhere with a couple of Jam records and a pen}
7: 9 Crimes (Damien Rice) {Downbeat acoustic rock from the people that brought you Laughing Len, it's pretty much what I heard in my head when Kei went missing}
8: Hysteria (Muse) {Completely unrelated to Def Leppard's song of the same name and all the better for it, this is probably Matt Bellamy's best work}
9: Here's Lookin' At You, Kid (The Gaslight Anthem) {A slow-burning semi-acoustic wander through late-teen love affairs, beautifully sung by Brian Fallon}
10: Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors (Editors) {The chorus is just MADE for this band, back when they were a bit dark and gothic}
11: Intervention (The Arcade Fire) {Are you seriously telling me the thought of Miki behind a whocking great church organ doesn't fill you with rampant glee?}
12: Butterflies & Hurricanes (Muse) {Similarly to above, I can imagine total silence in a packed stadium as Kaitlyn and Miki belt out the bit in the middle from Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2}
13: Starlings (Elbow) {Amazingly delicate for such a powerful love song, this is Guy Garvey at his voice's emotional peak}
14: SRXT (Bloc Party) {Kele Okerele's song, named after an antidepressant, is beautiful in a way that bands have striven to emulate since the album came out in 2007}
15: Vodka And Toblerone (Mitch Benn) {Well, after all this dour stuff we need to lighten the mood a little, and what better way to do it than a song poking fun at being stuck in an airport departure lounge?}

I hope you enjoy this little thing. Please do check out the tracks and see what you think, then impart your comments. I await them with considerable interest...

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"She's old, she's lame, she's
barren too, // "She's not worth
feed or hay, // "But I'll give
her this," - he blew smoke at
me - // "She was something in
her day." -- Garnet Rogers,
Small Victory

Anyway.

If I may make so bold, sir, your musical selections reveal you for a bit of a snob.

Actually, upon further review, it's not so much your musical selections themselves as the way they're presented here, complete with the occasional snide dig at some better-known song. I know you announced at the top of the post that you're an "indie kid", but really.

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And yes, you did musical-snob in, but I'm going to note a few things here, perhaps a bit less, er, firmly than Our Beloved Editor-In-Chief.

Having seen the Arcade Fire (admittedly, it was on Conan O'Brien), yes, I can see Miki at the keyboards of a portable organ - or even with an accordion - playing away with glee.

"Transmission" isn't one of my favorite Joy Division songs - that honor goes to "Shadowplay" - but it is a very good song, but the Art of Noise was never really ...that depressed. And that's a bit of a problem with some of those songs, in that they're somewhat gothy, and don't quite fit. Now, I'd give Intervention, and Butterflies & Hurricanes, and perhaps even Vodka and Toblerone, and even stretch to Stevie Nix, but in my opinion most of the rest of them just don't fit the band. (Haven't heard Starlings, but a friend of mine is a huge Elbow fan, so I'll hit her up for it.)

Just my opinion; as always, Gryphon is the Final Arbiter. (And boy, does he look funny as a renegade Covenant Elite.)

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