C Is The Best Letter Of The Alphabet

I could make excuses, but I'd rather just think about music.

The first letter of my first name!

! Cake - Stickshifts and Safety belts.  Not only is this my favorite Cake song, but it's one of my three favorite love songs ever (The other two are still to come, and they will come, and I will make it clear).  I love this song partially because I think Cake is lyrically one of the best bands I'll live to see, but mostly because it perfectly expresses something small that can mean a lot.  "I need you here with me, not way over in a bucket seat" and "Stickshifts and safety belts, bucket seats have all got to go, when I'm riding in my car, it makes my baby seem so far" are two of the cutest lines I have ever heard sung (It certainly doesn't hurt that it's John McCrea singing them, either).  I haven't found anyone else that feels the same way about this song, or at least anyone who has expressed that love out loud, but I'm sure I will marry someone who does.

@ Cat Power - He War.  This song makes me want to learn to play the piano.  A lot of things do, but I just think this song is beautiful.  It's one of her best songs.  A friend of mine had the opening ten or fifteen seconds as his voicemail in high school, and I won't pretend I didn't call him more because of it.  There have only been a couple things that Chan Marshall has produced that I haven't liked, but it's pretty easy to shrug those off.  She also covers music better than almost anyone in the business (John McCrea aside).

# Cinematic Orchestra - All Things To All Men.  It was hard for me to choose a song by them, mostly because they're more of an experimental jazz group than anything, and this song is especially not indie, but it's important.  They went from nearly perfect jazz to nearly perfect hip-hop in less than ten seconds flat.  It's quite impressive, and certainly it's musically important, so I'm including it for that, if nothing else.  I love this song.  It puts me to sleep.  I'm going to listen to it now.  Good.

$ Cursive - The Radiator Hums.  This may have been the first Cursive song I ever heard.  Otherwise I can't come up with a reason that I chose it over any other Cursive song.  It's not their best.  It's not my favorite.  It's a good song, but who knows.  Listen to it.  It's cool enough.

There's the best letter.  I almost included Clinic, but I decided at the last moment that I could do better with Cursive (I'm not feeling too logical today).  Anyway, there it is.  Now on to D!  I feel like in the spirit of the alphabet, I should just go ahead and skip to T and do They Might Be Giants.  Oh, how I loves the Johns.