Mick Lewis’s Top Ten — May 21

by Mick Lewis
21 May 2006

1. Keane – “Is It Any Wonder?”

   Barely publicized gig next month at Bowery Ballroom sold out in eight minutes on Friday!

2. Grant McLennan – “Haven’t I Been a Fool”

   The second track from Watershed, it has always a been favorite of mine, and I have been playing it on guitar all week. Certain lines give me the chills especially now—“Tell the funeral man I don’t like powder on my face” and “I thought by now, we’d be on, we’d be further on.” R.I.P., Grant.

3. The Avalanches – “Since I Left You” music video

   Don’t know to where these sample-happy Australians disappeared, but I still love this song from 2001, for which I recently saw the video for the first time—it’s a keeper…

4. Art Brut @ Knitting Factory (New York) Wednesday, May 17

   Top of the Pops!

5. Ron Sexsmith – Time Being (V2)
6. Shack – On the Corner of Miles & Gil (Sour Mash U.K.)

7. Ripley’s Game
8. Arctic Monkeys – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? EP (Domino U.K.)
9. Go-Betweens all week long…

   Still remembering Grant…

10. Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger (Warp)

    I’m getting more and more into this remarkable debut.