I have to preface this with the assertion that to say I love music would be a gross understatement… I ALWAYS have something playing somewhere, and I sing along, badly, when I can, and I wish I weren’t so untalented. I can hear everything, but I can’t create it…it’s like a block…I don’t know…maybe a birth defect. Like, I HATE math, and music is close to being math…so close. So I’m Salieri, and all you lucky Mozarts who “get it” and can play… kiss my jealous ass.
What can I do? Crown molding?
Goose bump Songs:
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: In the last part right when the cellos start … you know when. Holy cow. And then the choral, right when you think it’s over…but it ain’t.
Thunder Road –Springsteen; The lines, “you ain’t a beauty but eh you’re all right…” always get me. And of course, I belt it right along with it.
Don’t Stop Believing –Journey; Of course, if you don’t LOVE this song, you’re dead inside.
Forever Yours –Journey; That kinda love will always give you goose bumps.
The Best for Last- Vanessa Williams; I HAD those penthouses, my dog Duffer ate them, but I’ve always imagined her and a certain high-school crush singing that to me.
Blue Sky –Allman Brothers; I always think of my daughter now when I hear/sing this because she is my blue sky, my sunny day etc…
Still Fighting It- Ben Folds: What can I say. It completely parallels my encounter with my boy when I literally picked him up in Guatemala City and everything changed. AND it reflects my realization that my daughter is also so much like me that she deserves an apology
Why-Annie Lennox: Just hafta to wait til the end! Because I don’t think you know how I feel.
Thank You -Alanis Morrisette
Doesn’t Remind Me –Audioslave: That guitar solo? Likes hammering nails? Hell, who doesn’t?
Just Like Heaven –The Cure
Three Days-Jane’s Addiction: What a mantra the drum and bass beat! Tune in, turn on, and drop the fuck out! I got a man crush on Dave Navarro!
Baba O’Riley –The Who: This is the greatest rock and roll song ever written. I’ve almost ruined it for me listening to it so much. I almost killed my self wind-milling in my old gas F-250 coming home from the Amigos’ house…60 miles an hour and I knocked her in reverse on HWY 68! Good times, and yes, I was pretty tight.
En el Muelle en San Blas – Mana: I LOVE this song. The music alone gets you, you don’t need to know what they’re singing about!
Angels of the Silences –Counting Crows: When they get to “I’m gone, I’m gone…” Whew, good stuff.
Creep--Radiohead: I want you all to notice when I’m not around! The first time I heard the album version with the f-bomb brought the short hairs up! Changed the whole meaning in one fell swoop! And Mr Mackay says we shouldn’t say it m’kay?
L.A. Woman—The Doors: James Morrison is my real dad by the way. But that first riff. MMM that’s the shit.
Soul Singing—Black Crowes:
Rio-Duran Duran: But you hafta wait till the end…doo doo doodoo doo dooooo…
Bizarre Love Triangle—New Order: The 12 incher, not the album single!
Porch—Pearl Jam: indicative, baby!
Table for One--Liz Phair: Naw, I ain't a alcoholic.
Ray of Light--Madonna: Hell yeah, and the video's bad ass too. The opening strains and the middle "bridge?"
Rocky Mountain High--John Denver: Mentions seeing an eagle and how it made "him" a better man! Hell yeah...got a hunting story about seeing bald eagle and feeling great about it...and No he's not talking about passing a blunt around the campfire when "everybody's high!"
I’ll stop, but I could go on…
Tear Jerkers
Still Fighting It –Ben Folds: And some day you fly away, from me? Fuck. I’m tearing right now!
This Woman’s Work –Kate Bush: Oh man, tough stuff, when I’m whiskey soaked and on a crying jag.
Amazing Grace –Done with bagpipes: Even if I never met your dead ass before, I’ll cry at your funeral if you have “them” play this!
The Final Cut –Pink Floyd: Whew! Tough on a teenager full of angst. So it harkens it all back when it’s played now.
Night Swimming –REM: Remind me I am getting and old and am gonna die and step back.
En el Muelle en San Blas – Mana: I LOVE this song. The music alone gets you, you don’t need to know what they’re singing about! BUT it’s about loving someone who ain’t there.
Star Spangled Banner –Francis Scot Keyes: I saw somebody mention this under SAK’s post and it’s true. The older I get…
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Yeah, I saw it done live on PBS a few years ago and cried like a baby. To think I was listening to someone’s brain, not reading it, not looking at a picture or using an invention of a dead guy, but hearing his thoughts like 200 years later?
Romeo and Juliet—Dire Straits: I hate getting dumped and this reminds of those times. Which makes me want to expound on something.
Do Re Mi—Julie Andrews et al Sound of Music Soundtrack: This corroborates what was said about songs dragging old memories up…I wish I were still there…
Don’t Give Up—Peter Gabriel w/ Kate Bush: Maybe it’s her voice?
Drugs or Me—Jimmy Eat World: I don’t know anyone addicted to drugs, but the song just gets to me. I wish I did.
Bang—Frankie Goes to Hollywood: I don’t know if that’s the right title, but he says, “I’ll protect you from the hooded claw…” That’s fuckin’ love!
A Feast of Friends—James Douglas Morrison: Again…remind me that I’m gonna die and you’ve ruined my day….
All I Want is You—U2: ‘Nuff said.
I could go on, but I won’t.
Albums I can listen to one end to the other:
Making Movies—Dire Straits
Ten—Pearl Jam
Every Picture Tells a Story—Rod Stewart if you take out Maggie May
Unforgettable Fire—U2
Rattle and Hum—U2
So—Pete Gabriel
Dark Side of the Moon—Pink Floyd And yes, we listened to it and watched The Wizard of Oz once.
Weezer Blue Album--Weezer
Back Home Again—John Denver
Sap—Alice in Chains
Jar of Flies—Alice in Chains
Nevermind—Nirvana
Skin and Bones—Foo Fighters
I’m sorry it’s so long. It’s humid outside…sauna humid…and I got no desire to got out, so you get this list.
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