Monday, January 26, 2009

The 333 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s: #193

#193: "Since I Left You" (2000) - The Avalanches


Possibly the most lilting and lovely, windy and winsome, happy and harmonious song ever created from (almost) nothing but samples, Aussie group (I'm not sure I can call them a band) The Avalanches' "Since I Left You" is a perfect pop concoction of dappled sunshine, flowers and flutes, and ambient surf spray, with just enough of a breeze to pick up and carry the beat as it floats through the air, wafting over us like, carrying us along its airwaves with just a spritz of nitrous oxide. Ahhh. Listening to it makes me feel like the men on the Viagra commercial, the ones who stand out on their deck to view the sunset over the ocean horizon, with a lovely lady draped over my shoulders. Bliss.

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