Thursday, June 04, 2009

First ever "incarnatus est" Music Awards

And the winners are :




Best song written from the perspective of a cat ... The Weakerthans, Plea From A Cat Named Virtute



Best jangly-pop song that expresses the post modern failure to achieve epistemological clarity ... Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin, Modern Mystery ... (with a secondary award for best band name)



Best History lesson masquerading as a rock song... Drive By Truckers, The Three Great Alabama Icons



Second Best history lesson masquerading as a rock song.... The Hold Steady, Positive Jam



Best nostalgic song looking back at being 16 even though being 16 wasn't that great ... The Avett Brothers, Sixteen in July



Best song about actually being 16 ... The Replacements, Sixteen Blue



Best Country and Western song that uses the word "gemutlichkeit"... Robbie Fulks, I'm Gonna Take You Home

3 comments:

Katie said...

Best song written from the point of view of a murderer...The First Mrs. Jones by Rudi Protrudi

Rebecca said...

Best song written about a women eaten by a dog...Mary Provost, by Nick Lowe

Katie said...

Best song written about death by drug overdose...She Took a Lot of Pills and Died, by Robbie Fulks