The 11 Best Songs By The Cold War Kids

Everyone loves surprises.  This morning I woke up after a mother of a Bob Dylan concert last night and had planned on going for a jog before settling in for a day of football and the World Series.  Only to my surprise when checking my 1-6 fantasy football team line-up did I discover that there was an NFL game already happening in London.  Obviously, there's only one choice in this situation...jogging will have to wait until tomorrow.

This week a new Cold War Kids EP was released...barely 18 months after their last release.  And this EP, clocks in at 11 songs...which might as well as be a full length.  Another nice surprise this week.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Cold War Kids:

I've Seen Enough (Loyalty To Loyalty)

We Used To Vacation (Robbers & Cowards)

Something Is Not Right With Me (Loyalty To Loyalty)

Miracle Mile (Dear Miss Lonleyhearts)

Audience (Behave Yourself)

Welcome To The Occupation (Loyalty To Loyalty)

Hang Me Up To Dry (Robbers & Cowards)

Mexican Dogs (Loyalty To Loyalty)

Bulldozer (Mine Is Yours)

Lost That Easy (Dear Miss Lonleyhearts)

Hospital Beds (Robbers & Cowards)

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The 11 Best Songs By The Cold War Kids

I had a  free credit to Best Buy that was expiring.  I needed to get something.  It was only $15.  Not enough for a big purchase...but I could definitely pick up a CD I didn't have.  Which is rare to hear that there's a CD out there that I don't have.  I've been wanting the new expanded edition of Fleetwood Mac's Rumors...so I felt that would be a good choice. I went to the store and begin browsing.  I felt like I had walked out into a war zone.  CDs were strewn all over the racks...none of them in any sort of discernible order.  Empty gaps...some CDs opened.  Any no trace of the new Fleetwood Mac set.  But they did have about 50 copies of the new Justin Timberlake and Lil Wayne CDs.  When I asked a sales person for help they told me they could order the CD online and have it shipped to my place.  I thought...I could have done that. At home.  What's the point of me coming into the store if you're just going to do something I'm could do myself?  What's the point of even having a store?

Once upon a time, Best Buy was my go to Tuesday destination.  When a new album came out I would be at Best Buy the moment it opened because the new albums would actually sell out.  There was a demand.  Now it's a graveyard.  A graveyard created by the box store itself.  They used to have one of the best music selections this side of Tower Records.  From obscure CDs, to exclusive editions, to the most popular releases, they gave it a shit.  Now, it's obvious they couldn't care less.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Cold War Kids:

1. Something Is Not Right With Me (Loyalty To Loyalty)
2. Audience (Behave Yourself)
3. We Used To Vacation (Robbers & Cowards)
4. Mexican Dogs (Loyalty To Loyalty)
5. Hospital Beds (Robbers & Cowards)
6. I've Seen Enough (Loyalty To Loyalty)
7. God, Make Up Your Mind (Robbers & Cowards)
8. Hang Me Up To Dry (Robbers & Cowards)
9. Bulldozer (Mine Is Yours)
10. Welcome To the Occupation (Loyalty To Loyalty)
11. Louder Than Ever (Mine Is Yours)

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The 11 Best Songs By The Cold War Kids

You know how a picture says a thousand words?  I think this picture of the CD racks at a local Target speaks volumes to the problems within the music industry.  I went to pick up the new Cold War Kids CD at Target.  They didn't have it.  "Out of stock" was the answer I was given.  In fact, they were out of stock of many hot artists.  In the top 20 slots they were out of stock on 14 titles.  The music labels keep complaining that illegal downloading is killing them.  No one is buying CDs anymore.  Maybe the reason no one is buying CDs anymore is because you're not selling any of them!  How are we supposed to buy CDs if you won't even stock them?  This rack was specifically set up for certain artists.  Target obviously had these titles at one time.   Which means people obviously bought them. Am I the only one perplexed by this?

On a side note, they had dozens of copies of Snooki's new book.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By the Cold War Kids:

1.  Something Is Not Right With Me (Loyalty To Loyalty)
2.  Audience (Behave Yourself)
3.  Mexican Dogs (Loyalty to Loyalty)
4.  We Used To Vacation (Robbers & Cowards)
5.  Hang Me Up To Dry (Robbers & Cowards)
6.  I've Seen Enough (Loyalty To Loyalty)
7.  Welcome to The Occupation (Loyalty To Loyalty)
8.  Hospital Beds (Robbers & Cowards)
9.  Coffee Spoon (Behave Yourself)
10.  God Make Up Your Mind (Robbers & Cowards)
11.  Dreams Old Men Dream (Loyalty To Loyalty)

Buy the new Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours

The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

I'm going to tease this out just a bit more before the reveal of the Top 11 of the decade. Until then, here are the runner-ups. Those who were good...but maybe...just not good enough.

The Next Best 111 Albums of the 00s:

1. ...And You Will Know Us - Source Tags & Codes
2. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
3. Against Me! - New Wave
4. Alicia Keyes - The Diary of Alicia Keyes
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
7. The Anniversary - Your Majesty
8. At The Drive-In - Relationship in Command
9. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
10. Beck - Guero
11. Black Rebel Motorcycle - Black Rebel Motorcycle
12. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
13. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake and It's Morning
14. Bright Eyes - Cassadega
15. Burial - Untrue
16. Cat Power - The Greatest
17. Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards (Hospital Beds)
18. Cursive - Happy Hollow
19. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Sierra)
20. Damien Rice - O
21. Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
22. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
23. The Darkness - Permission To Land
24. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
25. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (The New Year)
26. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We Are Voting Yes
27. The Decemberists - Her Majesty
28. The Decemberists - Picaresque
29. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
30. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
31. Drive By Truckers - Dirty South
32. Elliott Smith - Basement on the Hill
33. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
34. The Faint - Danse Macabre
35. FELT - A Tribute to Lisa Bonet
36. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
37. The Foo Fighters - There Is Something Left To Lose
38. Fugazi - The Argument
39. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
40. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks
41. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
42. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
43. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
44. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
45. Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
46. Iron and Wine/Calexico - In The Reins
47. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
48. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3.0
49. Jay-Z - MTV Unplugged
50. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
51. Joanna Newsom - Ys
52. John Legend - Get Lifted
53. Kayne West - 808s and Heartbreak
54. The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
55. The Knife - Silent Shout
56. The Libertines - The Libertines
57. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
58. Loretta Lynne - Van Leer Rose
59. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
60. M. Ward - Post War
61. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion
62. Mastodon - Leviathon
63. Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
64. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
65. Metallica - Death Magnetic
66. M.I.A. - Arular
67. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
68. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive
69. Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
70. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
71. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
72. Mr. Lif - I Phantom
73. Muse - Absolution
74. Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
75. Neko Case - Fox Confesor Brings The Flood
76. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
77. Okkervil River - Stage Names
78. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
79. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
80. The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
81. Q-Tip - Kamaal: the Abstract
82. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
83. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
84. Radiohead - Amnesiac
85. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
86. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
87. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
88. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
89. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
90. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
91. Santogold - Santogold
92. She and Him - Volume One
93. Sia - Colour The Small One
94. Sigur Ros - ()
95. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (The Ghost of You Lingers)
96. The Strokes - Room On Fire
97. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
98. Talib Kweli - Quality
99. Tapes and Tapes - The Loon
100. Tegan and Sara - The Con
101. Tool - 10,000 Days
102. Tool - Lateralus
103. Travis - The Invisible Band
104. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
105. U2 - How To Build An Atomic Bomb
106. Usher - Confessions
107. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
108. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
109. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
110. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
111. Wilco - The Album
     
     
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The 11 Best Albums of 2008 (Part 3)

Maybe I'll just make this a trend...every day I'll screw up my list a little bit further adding another new entry to the list. Today finds Peasant (#24) slipping in after downloading the album off Emusic last night. Check out their session on Daytrotter...his bare bones style is quite mesmerizing.

The 11 Best Albums of 2008 (Part 3):

23. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night (Use Somebody - SNL)
24. Bloc Party - Intimacy

24. Peasant - On The Ground
25. Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Inside The Human Body
26. Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty

27. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
28. The Killers - Day & Age
29. Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off (Hang Them All - Daytrotter)
30. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Cardinology
31. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
32. Travis - Ode To J. Smith
33. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark

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The 11 Best Cold War Kids Songs

Last election, the candidates used terrorism to scare people into voting for them. This time around people are sick of terrorism. So what the best thing to scare people about? Their money. Each candidate is proposing tax cuts. Each candidate is claming the other guy is going to raise taxes. Who's telling the truth? Who's lying? Well, they both are. They each are cutting taxes but only on specific americans. So how do you know which one you are? Here's an easy chart...made by the Tax Policy Center that breaks it down in the simplest terms possible. If you make more than 112K a year, McCain will cut your taxes more. If you make less than 112K a year, Obama will cut your taxes more.

• Annual Salary______McCain avg. tax cuts____Obama avg.
• Over 2.9 million______ -$269,364______________ +701,885
• 603K+____________ -$45,361_______________ +115, 974
• 227K- 603K________-$7,871_________________ +$12
• 161K- 227K________ -$4,380_________________-$2,789
• 112K - 161K________ -$2,614________________ -$2,204
• 66K - 112K_________ -$1,009 _______________-$1,290
• 38K - 66K__________ -$319________________ -$1,402
• 19K - 38K__________ -$113________________ -$892
• Under 19K_________ -$19_________________ -$567

The 11 Best Cold War Kids Songs:

1. We Used To Vacation (Robbers & Cowards)
2. Hospital Beds (Robbers & Cowards)
3. Robbers (Robbers & Cowards)
4. God, Make Up Your Mind (Robbers & Cowards)
5. Quiet, Please! (The Mulberry Street EP)
6. Hang Me Up To Dry (Robbers & Cowards)
7. Hair Down (Robbers & Cowards)
8. Tell Me In The Morning (Robbers & Cowards)
9. Don't Let Your Love Grow Away From Me (The Mulberry Street EP)
10. Electioneering (OKX)
11. Passing The Hat (Robbers & Cowards)

Buy the new Cold War Kids, Loyalty To Loyalty.