SONGS OF THE YEAR: "Sky Started Crying" by White Wives

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.

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SONGS OF THE YEAR: “Sky Started Crying” by White Wives

POSTED: Monday, December 12, 2011, 10:00 AM

Filed Under: Music Song

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.

This song embodies what the entire album, Happeners, is about. Gang vocals, big hooks, punk energy, great lyrics and live guitar sounds. They played a show back in August at Teri’s Diner in the Italian Market in front of me and about 22 other people. They were, dare I say, epic. It reminded me of basement shows and everything I love about music. Kind of amazed that half of the band Anti-Flag could form a band that’s five times as good and sounds nothing like them. As a record, this is Number 1 on the year.

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