Ernest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade, Number 16
by Ernie on 11/01/10 at 3:12 pm
16. “I Love the Unknown” by Clem Snide: Eef Barzelay (love that name), the animating force behind the alt-rock/alt-country band Clem Snide, really nailed it with this fine song. It is comic, yearning, and wise. You know what he’s talking about when he sings “they asked him, / ‘hey, where’s this bus going?’ / and he said, ‘well, I’m really not sure.’ / ‘Well then, how will you know where to get off?’ / and he said, ‘the place with the most allure.’” A song for everyone who ever dreamed of running off with a circus lion tamer, a bass player, a carnival barker, or a pretty person you just met in a hotel bar.
