9/4/10

This song is so good through headphones. Reminds me of early high school, but it sounds totally different now.
The whole album does, really, I didn't notice guitars this much when I was 14 but now it's like, damn, this is better than I remember.


But I threw you the obvious
Just to see if there's more behind the
eyes of a fallen angel
eyes of a tragedy
~3 Libras
A Perfect Circle, Mer de Noms

9/4/10

Hear this on WBER all the time, gorgeous.

Tom McRae - Please

Seriously, go listen to it. It's a beautiful recording but it sounds pretty good in the live link above.

Fireworks through the trees, city turns away from me
my hand raised to say goodbye, goodbye my love.
Wheels roll to the light, sleep kills fevered night
and it's easier now, it's easier now you're gone.

Shadow rise, shadow fall, deaf to siren call
a year has died, a year since I said your name.
Burning in the blue, light comes low and cool
and like your love there's no heat in this winter sun.

So please let my heart go.

Walk the world side to side, place where hidden memories lie
and I buried you there along with your history.
Give me sun you give me shade and seven years of hurricanes
but now my love I'm sundialling my days away.

So please let my heart go. Cos I don't care no more.
~Please
Tom McRae, The Alphabet of Hurricanes

8/15/10

You know why I think I like love songs? It's sometimes terrifying to write something so dangerously true. And I think that's why I have so much respect for those who do them well. Hence the blog. As I said initially, I'm just figuring this out as I go. I haven't been able to write as much about here lately (and I've been forum-hopping). But I've been listening to them all the time.

I drive about 8 hours a week. I've managed to scrounge up an old iPod shuffle, like, the long skinny kind, which holds about 70 songs, so I here the same over and over a lot.
It winds up being a lot of love songs,
given that's what, oh, 80 percent of songs are about.
The National's been good. So has The Gaslight Anthem, and the new Taylor Swift and select Fearless tracks. Can't wait for the new Jimmy Eat World, and there's a bunch of other stuff I still need to pick up.
I pretty much always stop when the Lovedrug EPs come on, I just like them so damn much and they're so good. Thinking of road tripping to see them throughout the year.

And I listen to a lot of the radio, which is pleasing more often than you'd think, if you set the right stations.

I think about my truest feelings, and I wonder if I say them. I think, the best songs do. So, props to those who do it well. Even if they never hear it, maybe someone will. Maybe they'll like it.

8/8/10

Waiting for the new Jimmy Eat World on Sept. 28 is going to get me through the next few weeks, I gather.

7/24/10

This is my favorite song of the week. I guess I'm a little slow on the uptake about these guys, but, better late than never.



I've got these habits that I cannot, I've got this habits that I can't, I've got these habits that I cannot break.

I found life out on the weekdays
When we would drive to some new city
Call me crazy I was born to make a mess
Would you love me still if I were to confess
That I had a little too much fun
Back when I was young?"
~Sins of my youth
Neon Trees, Habits

Chorus is rather cheesy but ohsogood.