ValasXitan on 12/4/2007 at 22:11

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Maybe not the best songs ever, but they're up there
(I'll name the album as well)


1. Starless - Red
2. Freebird - Pronounced
3. Thick as a Brick - Thick as a Brick
4. Have A Cigar - Wish You Yere Here
5. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin 4 (You must have expected it)

SD on 12/4/2007 at 22:59

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The Alchemist on 13/4/2007 at 02:23

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Instead of trying to recommend one song out of all the different genres and eras of music I listen to (except country, oddly. From Pink Floyd, Seal, UB40, Alanis Morissette, my obsession with latin jazz, to the weird new age synth pop weird ass stuff like The Faint and then masturbatory metal epics like Opeth, I just can't seem to like country. Does Fleetwood Mac count as country? I hope not.) I'll recommend something random and probably not as [oh shit read bottom*] obscure anymore as it was when I discovered it.

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (song).

Not sure if it's this guy (Postal Service/DCFC) or if it was the time in my life/events etc but my ex agrees that nothing else makes memories come back so vividly and intensely. I can feel the December wind (Miami December anyway) coming through the open sunroof of her car as she sped way too fast on the highway at the wee hours of the morning just before sunrise, my hand on her thigh as a futile attempt to throttle the acceleration). I can FEEL the cold, the air, the way it silences everything and this song breaking through that. I can feel the way I felt at that exact moment more vividly than any other memory trigger makes me feel. Same with Great Heights. This was years ago, 3 or 4 years ago. Not my first love by a long shot so that wasn't it. Then again music does tend to bring back vivid memories for me in general. This really crap (but I love them, perhaps nostalgia sake. Although their new album sucks) local Miami rock band called UnLoco have these two songs (Facedown and Useless, emo highschool rock) that make me feel careless the way you felt in highschool when life was super simple but you thought it was hopelessly difficult.

Might be partially due to the fact that I grew up with carpenters so I was forced to sleep to the sound of construction often, but I find certain music to have a sort of "filling" sound that puts me to sleep right the fuck away. UnLoco and obscure Australian underground psychedelic metal band Alchemist are good examples. I think it's the guitar, this endless riff that doesn't leave any silence in the background. Anywho sorry for going off on a story there but there are two other good songs, Useless by UnLoco (disclaimer: highschool rock, I might like it only due to nostalgia) and Great Southern Wasteland by Alchemist, hippie metal with greenpeace lyrics. Again, I must mention Alchemist's other albums don't do it for me.

Tool - Lateralus is another, although sadly my strong memory tied to it was a very very lazy summer in early life (early highschool I think) where I did nothing but play some awesome Starwars flying game for the GameCube. And I'm not even a goddamn fan of SW. Although obviously all of Tool is quite amazing.

Anywho I'll stop here it's quite apparent at this point I'm sure that I'm far from sober.

No no a few quick ones:
UB40 - Red Red Wine. There's a video somewhere of me jamming out to this ate the age of 4 or so. This song makes me smile no matter what.
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
REM - Losing My Religion
Rolling - Paint it Black
Radiohead - Street Spirit
2Pac - Changes (seriously)
Bone Thugs - Crossroads (sorry I was born in the hood after all)
Floyd - Have a Cigar

As much as I love and listen mostly to newer music and usually rock or metal, my strongest emotional ties are to older music for apparent reasons I'm sure.

I play metal that makes people cringe, but I know the lyrics to every Alanis Morisette song ever, and The Cranberries. In fact, if my neighbor hates me, it's not cause I play my music loud, it's cause I randomly switch through genres so contrasting that I'm sure eventually I hit something he hates. This is probably due to being raised mostly by my two angsty teenage aunts in the late 80's early 90's.

Seal - Kiss from a Rose
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit and the other popular ones. Might seem like a trite choice but I love them. A shame they didn't get to make more albums, although the music itself was also on a downward spiral I think.

So much for pulling out before I make a fool of myself, not that this post is what would have done that anywho.

Against Me! - Those Anarcho Punks are Quite Mysterious.
Dunno about their other album but Reinventing Axel Rose has some great punk/ska songs with intelligent lyrics (which always means a lot to me. I hated those people in highschool who would say stuff like: did you see RATM on that MTV thing? God they suck, can't hear a word they say. Who cares they're just emo cause they're ugly. But that song obviously has some meaning even if RATM seemed to make up a lot of the political strife they sung about, maybe it was worse back then. Anywho those girls would laud Mariah Carey or something instead.) This reminds me of 3am CounterStrike matches with my best friend on the lan I had at home. And for the record since I didn't have active mom/dad I bought/built those computers from money I earned or spare parts I collected. Don't want to come off as a brat, I struggled and worked for everything in my life. I also remember singing this with my friend on the bus, much to everyone elses dismay:

And we rock,
Because it's us against them.
We found our own reasons to sing,
And it's so much less confusing
when lines are drawn like that,
When people are either consumers or revolutionaries,
Enemies or friends hanging on the fringes
Of the cogs in the system,
It's just about knowing where everyone stands.

One of those good to sing when you're extremely drunk and already made an ass of yourself type songs.

Spanish:
Manu Chao - Desaparecido
Jarabe de Palo - La Flaca
Juan Luis Guerra - Burbujas de amor, although practically anything of this nature brings back vivid memories of my Hispanic family gatherings and disturbing memories of my grandma dancing in a moo moo while cleaning and listening to this.
Anything by Mana.

Ok now that I've remembered, which one of you lot introduced me to the polish (?) band Moonlight. And I kick myself every time I reformat and forget to save extremely rare things like that. Also, has Flos ever been used in a commercial or movie or something, I swear it sounds familiar.

Last one cause I'm really fagging up this thread, although it's so difficult to stop. Am I the only person that doesn't like picking favorites? I hated that shit like "what is your favorite color?" Are you serious? I like a lot of them why would I like a specific one over others? Depends on mood, context, etc. Same with -everything-.

Twice the Sun - Self Control
Another local band that none of you have EVER heard of. This song is great, all their songs are great, they broke up far too soon.




*Great I didn't forget, this note is cause Firefox died and I was cursing the gods, but when it restored it restored my text too.

Don't let me delete this later, lol. I always act the fool when I'm intoxicated somewhere online then go shit shit shit in the morning and remove the evidence. Whatev.

Btw, whomever was fucking with me that night I was tripping (which I don't do anymore. Learned a lot, got what I could out of it then I was done with it) by randomly adding the word BONG to my post, and changing my name to BONG... you have no idea how much that fucked with me at the time. It was fun. :P

jstnomega on 13/4/2007 at 04:33

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ez listenin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdwfuO-qPU)

Rogue Keeper on 13/4/2007 at 07:33

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Queen - Radio Ga Ga

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZ9GsVKvDM)

(because it was my first favourite song in the kindergarten, because it had (ironically) great video and because it described the nature of pop music so good)

Radio I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio

You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly
Radio

So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when youre not there
You had your time you had the power
Youve yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Radio someone still loves you

We watch the shows - we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years

Let's hope you never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around cos' we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time you had the power
Youve yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Someone still loves you