{"id":2894,"date":"2013-09-20T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2024-09-09T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:30:31","slug":"fr-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2013\/09\/20\/fr-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"FR Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t obsess about music the way I once did. I blame that on the digital music revolution. As much as I love having access to a seemingly endless stream of music, it also means I don\u2019t live with an album for weeks at a time the way I once did. But there are exceptions to that, certainly, whether it\u2019s a Pearl Jam or Clash week or when I do fall in love with a record and listen to it beyond its first week of release.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the lone recent band that I listen to with only occasional pauses: Frightened Rabbit. Man, do I love those guys. After finally putting their most recent album Pedestrian Verse<\/em> aside for a bit over the summer, I\u2019ve been listening to it once again in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

And then Stereogum decided to include FR in the \u201cTen Best Songs\u201d feature, where a writer breaks down an artist\u2019s career and then lays out a list of their ten finest pieces. Which did a number on my brain. Between listening to songs and watching videos, I listened to, ohhh, two million FR songs last night. OK, that\u2019s a slight exaggeration, but I listened to a lot.<\/p>\n

I had a mental list similar to this in the spring. I think I put it together one night while we were on spring break and I couldn\u2019t sleep because of the nasty cold I came down with. I never shared it; I feared that even with my efforts to sell the band to my readers it would still be too esoteric. But many of my favorites appear on the Stereogum list. \u201cThe Modern Leper\u201d is one of my favorite songs ever, but \u201cHead Rolls Off\u201d is a terrific song and the line about making tiny changes to earth was one that resonated with me in the days before L.\u00a0was born. My favorite song of 2010, \u201cFootshooter,\u201d is here, as is my 11th favorite song of last year, \u201cState Hospital\u201d. My favorite song of this year might<\/em> be on this list, although there are several FR songs in the running, a couple strong contenders by other acts, and we still have new Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire albums ahead of us.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you\u2019ve always wondered what it is about the band that I love so much, this is a fine list of songs to sample and hear for yourself.<\/p>\n

The 10 Best Frightened Rabbit Songs<\/a>
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  1. \nI feel like I\u2019ve written this paragraph a dozen times over the past ten years. My apologies if it\u2019s really been that often. ↩<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I don\u2019t obsess about music the way I once did. I blame that on the digital music revolution. As much as I love having access to a seemingly endless stream of music, it also means I don\u2019t live with an album for weeks at a time the way I once did. But there are exceptions to that, certainly, whether it\u2019s a Pearl Jam or Clash week or when I do fall in love with a record and listen to it beyond its first week of release.1 And then there\u2019s the lone recent band that I listen to with only occasional pauses: Frightened Rabbit. Man, do I love those guys. After finally putting their most recent album Pedestrian Verse aside for a bit over the summer, I\u2019ve been listening to it once again in recent weeks. And then Stereogum decided to include FR in the \u201cTen Best Songs\u201d feature, where a writer breaks down an artist\u2019s career and then lays out a list of their ten finest pieces. Which did a number on my brain. Between listening to songs and watching videos, I listened to, ohhh, two million FR songs last night. OK, that\u2019s a slight exaggeration, but I listened to a lot. I had a mental list similar to this in the spring. I think I put it together one night while we were on spring break and I couldn\u2019t sleep because of the nasty cold I came down with. I never shared it; I feared that even with my efforts to sell the band to my readers it would still be too esoteric. But many of my favorites appear on the Stereogum list. \u201cThe Modern Leper\u201d is one of my favorite songs ever, but \u201cHead Rolls Off\u201d is a terrific song and the line about making tiny changes to earth was one that resonated with me in the days before L.\u00a0was born. My favorite song of 2010, \u201cFootshooter,\u201d is here, as is my 11th favorite song of last year, \u201cState Hospital\u201d. My favorite song of this year might be on this list, although there are several FR songs in the running, a couple strong contenders by other acts, and we still have new Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire albums ahead of us. Anyway, if you\u2019ve always wondered what it is about the band that I love so much, this is a fine list of songs to sample and hear for yourself. The 10 Best Frightened Rabbit Songs     I feel like I\u2019ve written this paragraph a dozen times over the past ten years. My apologies if it\u2019s really been that often. ↩<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,9],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14441,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/14441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}