SONGS OF THE YEAR: "Fire at the Pageant" by The Felice Brothers

Our Top 21 Albums issue comes out Dec. 22, but that doesn't come close to telling you what 2011 sounded like. To help find the devil in the details, we've asked City Paper's critics, friends and family to name some of their favorite songs - be they secret gems on terrible albums, sleeper tracks you missed, huge pop songs that need defending, or just plain good songs everybody already knows and loves. (Ignore the video, this is about the audio.)

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SONGS OF THE YEAR: “Fire at the Pageant" by The Felice Brothers

POSTED: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 12:00 PM
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Our Top 21 Albums issue comes out Dec. 22, but that doesn’t come close to telling you what 2011 sounded like. To help find the devil in the details, we’ve asked City Paper’s critics, friends and family to name some of their favorite songs — be they secret gems on terrible albums, sleeper tracks you missed, huge pop songs that need defending, or just plain good songs everybody already knows and loves. (Ignore the video, this is about the audio.)

If you like a song with lots of moving parts, you might dig this crazy, creepy epic on the Felice Brothers’ Celebration, Florida. It’s got fire and anguish and messed up time signatures and screaming kid choruses and shaky Dylan vocal parts and a buried guy digging himself up and walking back into to down. The rest of the album didn’t quite live up to the promise of its grandly strange opener, but how could it? This song demands loud repeat listens.


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