5 songs for feeling annoyed
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enthusiastickannoyed. an·noyed. ə-noid. aroused to impatience or anger; troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
5. "Handbook for the Sellout" by Five Iron Frenzy
This song is as much about annoyance with indie culture in general ("being popular is lame" is one of the more concise sardonic barbs in the lyrics) as it is with sellouts in particular. And I can get behind that. The first track off their second full-length album, this song is from an era when Five Iron Frenzy wasn't so relentlessly Christian as to make my teeth hurt. Those were the good old days. "Blame it on the band now," sings Reese Roper. "If you prick them, do they bleed?"
4. "Wow, She Dumb" by Home Grown
This is one of those songs that makes it onto the list by merit of its very first lines: "I'm sick of playing all your stupid little games," gripes the lead singer in a tone of, well, complete annoyance. This song can be found on Home Grown's second album Act Your Age, which is famously the only album they ever released on a major label (Outpost Recordings.) Its simultaneously responsible for a surge in popularity and for the beginning of the band's descent into pop punk garbage that would prove their ultimate undoing. I'd like to think I've outgrown the particular source of annoyance characterized by this song, but only time will tell.
3. "Saturday Night" by Eve 6
I've honestly never thought of myself as misogynistic, at least not until I started trying to compile this list, and thought about the sheer number of songs I liked based on the fact they expressed a particular brand of annoyance at women in general or in a specific woman. Although I guess being annoyed with the opposite sex is pretty routine and not necessarily a sign of deeply-routed psychological albums. This later track of Eve 6's breakthrough self-titled album is just another example of why I still have so much vitriol about high school. As Max Collins so eloquently wrote and sang, "There is nothing in between you and me that you can't see, so beg my pardon."
2. "Mercyfuck" by Mary Prankster
No artist will ever go wrong writing a song that's moderately catchy and makes frequent use of the word "fuck," and the inimitable Samantha Johnston (aka Mary Prankster) does an excellent job of doing precisely that. Originally released on her first album Blue Skies Over Dundalk, this song is the kind that was pretty much custom-made for cranking up loud in your car and railing at the top of your lungs. "I wish I could fuck all of you 'till you see, I'm the worst fuck-up in all history," croons the smoky-voiced Mary, practically begging you to sing along.
1. "Happier" by Guster
There were a frankly surprising number of Guster songs that could have made it onto this list, but in the end I honed it down to the one that, for me, best expresses the concept of annoyance. Track 8 off their third album Lost & Gone Forever, this song is forever and hopelessly paired in my mind with Track 9 ("So Long"), which continues with a similar theme. Strange that this list should get progressively more acoustic as it progresses to number 1, but there you have it. "So go on, if this will make you happier. It got you this far, did what you had to."
Next week: 5 songs for feeling anxious.
5. "Handbook for the Sellout" by Five Iron Frenzy
This song is as much about annoyance with indie culture in general ("being popular is lame" is one of the more concise sardonic barbs in the lyrics) as it is with sellouts in particular. And I can get behind that. The first track off their second full-length album, this song is from an era when Five Iron Frenzy wasn't so relentlessly Christian as to make my teeth hurt. Those were the good old days. "Blame it on the band now," sings Reese Roper. "If you prick them, do they bleed?"
4. "Wow, She Dumb" by Home Grown
This is one of those songs that makes it onto the list by merit of its very first lines: "I'm sick of playing all your stupid little games," gripes the lead singer in a tone of, well, complete annoyance. This song can be found on Home Grown's second album Act Your Age, which is famously the only album they ever released on a major label (Outpost Recordings.) Its simultaneously responsible for a surge in popularity and for the beginning of the band's descent into pop punk garbage that would prove their ultimate undoing. I'd like to think I've outgrown the particular source of annoyance characterized by this song, but only time will tell.
3. "Saturday Night" by Eve 6
I've honestly never thought of myself as misogynistic, at least not until I started trying to compile this list, and thought about the sheer number of songs I liked based on the fact they expressed a particular brand of annoyance at women in general or in a specific woman. Although I guess being annoyed with the opposite sex is pretty routine and not necessarily a sign of deeply-routed psychological albums. This later track of Eve 6's breakthrough self-titled album is just another example of why I still have so much vitriol about high school. As Max Collins so eloquently wrote and sang, "There is nothing in between you and me that you can't see, so beg my pardon."
2. "Mercyfuck" by Mary Prankster
No artist will ever go wrong writing a song that's moderately catchy and makes frequent use of the word "fuck," and the inimitable Samantha Johnston (aka Mary Prankster) does an excellent job of doing precisely that. Originally released on her first album Blue Skies Over Dundalk, this song is the kind that was pretty much custom-made for cranking up loud in your car and railing at the top of your lungs. "I wish I could fuck all of you 'till you see, I'm the worst fuck-up in all history," croons the smoky-voiced Mary, practically begging you to sing along.
1. "Happier" by Guster
There were a frankly surprising number of Guster songs that could have made it onto this list, but in the end I honed it down to the one that, for me, best expresses the concept of annoyance. Track 8 off their third album Lost & Gone Forever, this song is forever and hopelessly paired in my mind with Track 9 ("So Long"), which continues with a similar theme. Strange that this list should get progressively more acoustic as it progresses to number 1, but there you have it. "So go on, if this will make you happier. It got you this far, did what you had to."
Next week: 5 songs for feeling anxious.
