My Top 1000 Songs #839: I Hear Noises

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

As a certified old music nerd, I'm given to crotchety "you kids get off my lawn!" exhortations about the sad state of modern pop music. But every few years I'll hear a song like Tegan And Sara's "I Hear Noises" (from 2002's If It Was You) and think, ok, things are gonna be fine. Next-generation jangly power pop with a fresh twist, for those of us who grew up on Joan Jett.

Live 2003:

Live acoustic: