Inexhaustible devotees of the rush, instrumental filigrees, and semantic meaninglessness of power pop, the New Pornographers have nevertheless recorded an impressive canon of albums. Their love songs are valentines to being in bands or being fans; their idea of a bad time, to quote one of their indelibles, is to endure life through blown speakers. The New Pornos are a band that took the Raspberries’ “Overnight Sensation” as seriously as T.S. Eliot did the Upanishads. Carl Newman brought the tunes and vacuum-packed seals, Neko Case the presence, and Dan Bejar the inscrutability that would become legible on Destroyer’s recordings.
The list:
1. The Bleeding Heart Show
2. The Laws Have Changed
3. Sing Me Spanish Techno
4. The Slow Descent into Alcoholism
5. Higher Beams
6. The Body Says No
7. Use It
8. Challengers
9. Letter from an Occupant
10. All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth
11. Mass Romantic
12. High Ticket Attractions
13. Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile
14. Myriad Harbors
15. Another Drug Deal of the Heart
16. It’s Only Divine Right
17. To Wild Homes
18. Testament to Youth in Verse
19. From Blown Speakers
20. This Is The World Of The Theater
21. Your Hands (Together)
22. Jackie, Dressed in Cobras
23. Whiteout Conditions
24. The Fake Headlines
25. Born with a Sound
Humanizing The Vacuum 
Good list!
I have “All for Swinging You Around”, too. And I bet you don’t like whistling, because THAT song was the best one I’ve heard about the 2008 crisis (even though the “war” vague references) Surprise “Your Hands” it’s your pick from “Together”.
Well, the second “best one” after “Bloodbuzz Ohio” anyway.
That’s fine — thanks!