My Top 1000 Songs #955: Lust For Life

[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.]

F*ck it, I'm gonna get cute with some back-to-back "Lust For Lives." (Ok, it's not the first time.) Though they only stuck around for a couple albums, San Francisco's Girls had that brief moment where it felt they might be one of those next-big-thing acts, at least here in the Bay Area. I loved 2009's Album (not the only time a band had tried that trick), and "Lust For Life" in particular felt like an instant mixtape classic, just as mixtapes were kinda becoming obsolete. It's a zippy rush of frenetic guitar jangle and adolescent angst, a mad sprawl of tortured yet maybe-almost-hopeful journal scribblings. "I'm just crazy, and fucked in the head." Think the Shins after a few more drinks and a little later at night, seemingly destined for youth film soundtracks if there had been more youth films at the time.

Live 2009: