Kirk's Pick:
"You and I Are a Gang of Losers" by The Dears
First of all, how the hell am I supposed to pick a single favourite song!? Even narrowing it down to six, I know I'm forgetting a lot, and I almost couldn't decide between two songs from this same band*. Second off, it should be no surprise to anyone who follows this blog that I am picking The Dears, and this song is everything I love about the Montreal band. "You and I Are a Gang of Losers" starts with Murray Lightburn's soft vocals, lamenting on being an outsider, until joined by his wife Natalia Yanchak, their voices swirling together beautifully. "We, we got the same heart" she proclaims, as he belts out "You and I are on the outside Of all of this", their voices dripping with emotion & passion, for an uplifting song about two misfits finding each other. Or, that's my interpretation anyway, and you can't convince me otherwise.
(*The other song, if you are wondering, was "22: The Death of All The Romance")
Shout Outs: "Prime Time Deliverance" by Matthew Good Band, "It's All Gonna Break" by Broken Social Scene, "The Bleeding Heart Show" by The New Pornographers, "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" by Stars, "Margaret Downe" by Aidan Knight