Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Up from Below - 2009)

Oscar's Ridiculously Hyperlinked Post in honour of Australia Day and Triple J's Hottest 100 Countdown - don't get put off

Unlike Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons, which was the outright winner of Triple J's Hottest 100 competition, Home (link below), by the 11-piece "Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros," came 15th. To be honest, for all of Little Lion Man's diverse appeal, Home is more creative and daring, all the while sounding like it is the brainchild of the "summer of love."

Oscar's song notes:

• It features whistling from the beginning – this makes it +100 more appealing to me – cf. Young Folks by "Peter Bjorn and John"
• It also features spoken word to music, halfway through the song - excerpt: "While you were sitting in the back seat, smoking the cigarette that you thought would be your last, I was falling deep, deep in love with you. And I never told you until just then."
• It's taken the place of this song (OK it's Talk Show Host by Radiohead) in my mind - that is, it's had that kind of effect on me!
• It's fantastically acoustic. I really couldn't believe that this was made in 2009 as they've got such retro influences
• It has sincerity, musically and (gasp I listened to the lyrics!) lyrically. It's a nice change from the standard "I got my pecs, I got limos, I got bitches, and all my limo's powered by bitch juice, and my spare pecs are in the limo."~

I suppose it's time to actually link to this song!

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - YouTube, iTunes [yes it's that good]

(Other highlights from the Hottest 100 (read: some songs that I actually knew) are:

Blood - "The Middle East," (my other pick for this post!)

Blood Bank - Bon Iver,

and the 'shit' songs that none of you will like

Animal - Miike Snow,

I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris,

Sleepyhead - Passion Pit,

Pursuit of Happiness - Kid Cudi feat. MGMT and Ratatat [IKR!])