Blog: Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster

Part four! This time: Songs Written Before You Were Born I started my life as one of those weird kids in high school wearing a Beatles t-shirt, etching the Who logo on her binder, drawing various members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in art class. I still think that some of the best music was made between the years 1966 and 1972. Here's some of that music, recorded by some great acts of more recent years. Of special note is Gibbard's Monkees cover, noteworthy for the following reasons: 1 – Gibbard dedicates the [...]

• Don't Bring Me Down » Don't Bring Me Down.mp3
• Expecting to Fly » Expecting to Fly (Neil Young cover L.mp3
• Harvest » Harvest.mp3
• Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) » Ben_Gibbard_-_Look_Out_(Here_Comes_Tomor....mp3
• You Can Call Me Al » Jens_Lekman_-_You_Can_Call_Me_Al_(Paul_S....mp3