I wrote this big intro that had nothing to do with music, but I didn’t like it so I decided to scrap it and go simple. So, if you are new to our page and curious just what the hell those numbers next to the music below mean, check out this link to see our 1K Minutes idea laid out and prepare to be amazed with our genius and innovation.

27. Bjork – Army of Me (mp3) from Post (3:54) [Time Remaining: 887:27]

While there are certainly many other songs I could choose to be the first of my list with a female singer, I decided now was as good a time as any to add this particular track to make it the first. I was a mere youth when this song was initially released and I first stumbled across it and its author. I recall getting a sense of something evil and foreboding as I heard this on the radio, and I dug it. For one reason or another I relate this song closely with the other track in this particular edition as well. This is certainly my favorite Bjork track, although ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ off the same record is fairly close.

28. PJ Harvey – Down By the Water (mp3) from To Bring You My Love (3:14) [Time Remaining: 884:13]

Both songs are from albums released in 1995. Both were played by the local radio station I’ve mentioned a few times before and likely will again, WBER. Both are dark songs thematically as well as musically. And somehow when I came upon these songs, dark appealed to me. Both are great songs and forever linked in my mind, so shall they remain linked forever on the interweb….that is unless we happen to take this page down.

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Let me preface this by saying I’ve never been a big fan of Grizzly Bear. I also must at the same time admit that I had never given them much of a chance. I believe my only experience with the band was a video or two that I had seen on Subterranean. I don’t quite recall which song(s) I may have heard, but nevertheless I was none too impressed and therefore did not attempt to learn more about the band. Recently I came upon a video of the band playing their song Two Weeks. I was mesmerized by the song and can now easily say that it will surely be somewhere high on my year end best-of list and that I am eagerly anticipating the pending release of Veckatimest. So much so in fact that I believe I am more eager to hear this album than I have any other release thus far this year, and that includes the Doves record. I hope the rest of the album lives up to the promise of this song, and that others enjoy it as much as I do. Watch the song played live before you grab the song if you haven’t already.

Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (mp3) from the forthcoming Veckatimest