We like sentences. In fact, we work for a magazine, so we pretty much stare at sentences all day long. To help you process this list, I’ve broken it down into types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory and just rude. Enjoy, and don’t forget to download two FREE songs!
Meanwhile, the first person to diagram three of these sentences wins a really old Paste Music sampler CD. Woo!
Love,
Kate
Declarative
1. The Brunettes “Mars Loves Venus” FREE!
2. Broken Social Scene “Ibi Dreams Of Pavement” FREE!
3. Califone “Our Kitten Sees Ghosts”
4. The Thermals “Power Doesn’t Run On Nothing”
5. Cole Porter “Miss Otis Regrets (She’s Unable to Lunch Today)”
6. The Cardigans “I Need Some Fine Wine, And You, You Need To Be Nicer”
7. Gram Parsons “We’ll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning”
8. Boy Least Likely To “I’m Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star
9. Explosions In The Sky “With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept”
10. The Magnetic Fields “I Thought You Were My Boyfriend”
11. Pedro the Lion “When They Really Get To Know You They Will Run”
12. Bright Eyes “Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man”
13. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
14. Bob Dylan “Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine”
Interrogative
15. The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize??”
16. Mogwai “I Know Your Are But What Am I?”
17. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists “Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?”
18. Dani Siciliano “Why Can’t I Make You High”
19. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings “What Have You Done For Me Lately?”
Imperative
20. Belle & Sebastian “Don’t Leave The Light On Baby”
21. Destroyer “Don’t Become The Thing You Hated”
Exclamatory
22. Rilo Kiley “Salute My Shorts!”
23. Minus The Bear “I Am Totally Not Down With Rob’s Alien”
Just Rude
24. Shelby Lynne “You Don’t Have A Heart”

Let’s go!
- Ryan Adams: “La Cienenga Just Smiled”
- The Smiths: “William, it Was Really Nothing”
- Mark Knopfler: “Don’t Crash the Ambulance”
- Imogen Heap: “Have You Got it in You?”
- Crash Test Dummies: “I Think I’ll Disappear Now”
It seems like “Just Rude” is the category missing the most - to which I add,
Wilco “I am Trying to Break Your Heart”
Interrogative:
Tift Merritt “Are You Still in Love With Me?”
Aimee Mann (or Bettye Lavette’s version) “How am I Different?”
Imperative:
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez “Keep Your Hat on Jenny”
Jonny Lang “Lie to Me”
to name a few…
My Decemberists representin’ skills clearly failed here… I forgot “My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist”!
I clearly erred by not forwarding the entire Minus The Bear <i>oeuvre</i> when the list was being compiled.