Top Songs of 2010: #6 Written in Reverse -- Spoon 

Written in Reverse -- Spoon

Spoon just keeps putting out albums that slightly move the target for what good rock music is. Each album they put out lands slightly askew from where they'd taken rock music with their previous album. The songs on Transference are more anarchic than anything they'd done before. "Written in Reverse" shows that anarchy at its peak, with the slightly out of tune piano hitting over sharp guitars, and then the disembodied voice of Britt Daniel pops in with a half a lyric layered a few beats off of the lyric proper (and a "whoo!). It is just enough to make you wonder if they've lost their minds. And then you realize that you've been tapping your foot for three minutes and you shake your fist and yell "Darn you Spoon!"