Playlist Week 30: First Annual Raggies/30th Anniversary Edition
This week, we held our own awards show that we called "The Raggies," giving away an award to every song or band in our playlist... except for Adele. She has enough already. Here's a run-down of this year's winners:
New Slang - The Shins -- Best My Favorite Song to Play on the Guitar Sometimes
Helplessness Blues -- Best Our Favorite Fleet Foxes Song
Mind Eraser - The Black Keys -- Best Final Line of a Final Track That Most Accurately Encompasses What I Feel When the Album Ends
My Will Is Good - Port O'Brien -- Best Drums in a Port O'Brien Song
Blue Ridge Mountains - Graffiti6 -- Best Fleet Foxes Cover
The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade - The Joy Formidable -- Best Longest Title That I Have on the List this Week
It's My Life - The Animals -- Best Animal-Based Band Name
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac -- Best Song Whose Title Features a Name No One's Ever Heard Of
The Funeral - Band of Horses -- Best Least Depressing Funeral-Related Song
Flume - Bon Iver -- Best My Favorite Bon Iver Song That is Not Blood Bank, Skinny Love, or Holocene
Roll Away Your Stone - Mumford and Sons -- Best Banjo Solo AND Best Incorporation of Banjo by a Band
Waiting for a War - The Morning Benders -- Best Original Song I Discovered After Originally Hearing the Cover
People Are Strange - The Doors -- The "You Make a Better Door Than a Window" Award
Cecilia - Paul Simon -- Best Inspiration or Reason to Name Your Child Cecilia
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird -- Best Song That Always Comes on When Boarding a Plane
Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop - Landon Pigg -- Best Non-Committal Love Song
Bad Day - Darwin Deez -- Best Song to Use to Wish Someone Ill
Three or Four - The New Pornographers -- The "Better Than the Old Pornographers" Award
Lovesong - Adele -- AND NONE FOR GRETCHEN WEINERS
Floorplan - Tegan and Sara --Â Best My Favorite Band That's Going Into the Studio in Five Days
Scared as Fuck - An Horse -- Best Song with an Expletive in the Title but Not in the Lyrics
Howl - Florence + The Machine -- Best Red-Haired Goddess
Longform - The Dodos -- Best Song to Listen to on a Long Bus Ride
There you have it, folks. The first annual Raggies has come to a close. Oh, and Happy 30th "Anniversary" to us. Listen in next week at www.wloy.org!
Love always and forever until the sun explodes and after that,
tangentwithtanner
ellievsbear
pixelskylines
izzy806
vaporwave
jacobvanloon
yousharknotpass
amandla