Ernest Hilbert’s Top Two Hundred Best Songs of the Decade, Number 17
by Ernie on 07/01/10 at 5:03 pm
“In The New Year” by The Walkmen: This five-piece Philadelphia/New York outfit loves the sound of vintage instruments, and so do I. This is a song that really snuck up on me over the past year. Although I haven’t managed to catch one of their shows yet, they’re definitely on my list. The chorus of this song stays with me for hours after I hear it. The sad organ line is like a procession of ghosts of years past, but the jangling guitars remind us it is, after all, a new year.
