[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #72 Tegan & Sara - Walking With a Ghost
SONGS OF THE DECADE #72
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Tegan & Sara - Walking With a Ghost (2004)
On "Walking with a Ghost," Tegan and Sara proved they were not the Lilith Fair teenyboppers critics tried to peg them as, and crystallized their role as one of the better musical duos under the age if 30 to emerge in quite some time.
Like many of the best bands of the decade, Tega and Sara were helped out by Jack White, in this case an inferior cover version of "Walking With a Ghost." Nonetheless, it's easy to see the influence of T & S- the twee vocals, the upbeat pop with a subtle but unavoidable tint of vulnerability- on the later work of The Raconteurs, White Stripes, and Dead Weather. Three wildly popular albums later, and Tegan and Sara have succeeded in their own right, in one of the rarer instances of good music prevailing for reasons much larger than the easiest way.
Tegan and Sara are one of the few breakthrough bands of the past 5 years to break through without the approval of Pitchfork media. The reasons for that success are, unsurprisingly, pretty reflective of the misconceptions of predominantly male critics between the ages of 30 and 45.
On "Walking with a Ghost," Tegan and Sara proved they were not the Lilith Fair teenyboppers critics tried to peg them as, and crystallized their role as one of the better musical duos under the age if 30 to emerge in quite some time.
Like many of the best bands of the decade, Tega and Sara were helped out by Jack White, in this case an inferior cover version of "Walking With a Ghost." Nonetheless, it's easy to see the influence of T & S- the twee vocals, the upbeat pop with a subtle but unavoidable tint of vulnerability- on the later work of The Raconteurs, White Stripes, and Dead Weather. Three wildly popular albums later, and Tegan and Sara have succeeded in their own right, in one of the rarer instances of good music prevailing for reasons much larger than the easiest way.
Labels: 2000s, lists, pop music, songs of the decade, tegan and sara, walking with a ghost
posted by Ethan Stanislawski @ 10/20/2009 02:00:00 PM
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