This is a thread I have wanted to start for a long time. The song can be new or old, and you don't have to be listening to it right now, just something you may have in your head or have heard recently.
I am going to start with "Fire on High" by ELO. I have heard this song three times in the last few days and I can't help but listen to it every time! Last night I actually heard the entire song, including the weird, "proggy" opening. The song always makes me think it should be the soundtrack for some b-movie outer space flick. Love it!
She's got a lovely voice and I love the plucked strings in the background of this song... I am smitten. I think I might marry her based on this song alone. And a picture I saw of her.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
Just bought Fishscale yesterday. This song really stuck out to me. Great soul samples (the harmonies are so sweet), and the biggest thing lacking in Rap/hip-hop IMO...a positive message. Well, they are talking about girls doing drugs and getting messed up, but he's tellin' them he'll take care of them, buy all their books if they want to go back to school, etc. Give up the drugs, you're too good for them...
Now, to be fair, I've only listened to the track once so far (about 15 mins ago), so I'm not 100% on the lyrics...but the song gave me an incredible vibe, and that doesn't happen enough these days.
Originally posted by Chamberk: Regina Spektor - Fidelity
She's got a lovely voice and I love the plucked strings in the background of this song... I am smitten. I think I might marry her based on this song alone. And a picture I saw of her.
I agree. It's a great song, but not even my favorite on that album, which belongs to "On the Radio." The part about "November Rain" is priceless.
"I Hate to See You Baby Doing That Stuff": Lloyd Cole.
From his self-titled first solo record, one of my favorite records EVER. I got into this record, and Lloyd, through a girlfriend. Over time, this song became a sort of mantra because said girlfriend got pretty heavily into drugs, and a formerly fun, funny, and gorgeous girl became a shell of that former self. We broke up, and I didn't see her for a while. She eventually cleaned herself up, but our time had passed.
Man, PRG, for some reason this excellent thread isn't getting much love. I'll keep putting it at the top of the discussion board until it does.
Today, I listened to Animal Collective - Feels on the way in to work. I totally forgot how stunningly gorgeous Loch Raven is. WOW! It is such a wonderful sounding song, with the repeating drum fill and magnified whispers and breaths. I have no idea in the world what the lyrics are, but it sounds heartbroken and beautiful at the same time.
Even if you don't like the AC, I'd recommend sitting through this song at least once. It's a 5 star affair.
...And You Will Know Us by The Trail of Dead - "How Near, How Far":
I know I've mentioned this track in other threads, but I seriously can not get over how amazing it is. I've had Source Tags & Codes for abouve six months now, and the song just will not go away. The guitar groove at the opening is incredible. Everything about the song just has so much intensity and urgency to it. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. It honesly might be one of my top songs ever, right up there with "How to Disappear Completely" and "Holland, 1945".
"Never My Love" by The Association. Just heard this on my Starbucks run and had to talk about it. It's such a great love song. I particularly love the organ sprkinkled in the background, and then the fills toward the end. Timeless.
Shannon Curfman , then age 13 or 14, knocks out a tremendous Jimi Hendrix tribute on "Playing With Fire". Some people are born with a guitar in their heart and soul and this gal surely was. You could say that some of Jimi's riffs are ez to copy, but he was a master and this song of Curfman's has Jimi all smilin' sitting up their on his cloud.
These guys have made some terrific dance songs, but this one definitely ranks as one of their best. If Cesar Perez's semi-bassy vocals don't get you jumpin', Steve Berlin's sax and the rest of the band's kick-ass jammin' should turn you into a cumbia lover.
"Naked Woman, Naked Man Where did you get that nice sun tan?"
"Porcelain Monkey" by the late, great Warren Zevon (from Life'll Kill Ya).
A perfect summary of Elvis's life in three verses. And being a logophile, how could I resist a song that includes the words "sobriquet" and "regicidal"?
If every song on Funeral was as affecting as this one, it would be the greatest album of all time. The music is infallable; that rain-drop piano at the beginning, the rising crescendos, and the best use of the xylophone I've ever heard. The center focus of the song is Win Butler's voice though. It has the ability of somehow portraying both sadness and joy similtaneously, and it's at top quality on this song. I'm reminded of the end of the last verse that starts out "Sometimes we remember our bedrooms..."
The whole song just kind of has a Lord of The Flies feel to it. The idea of children being removed from society and completely losing touch with it is something I personally find interesting, and "Neighborhood #1" manages to put a romantic spin on it by making the rendezvous between a young couple. This bridges the gap nicely between the fear of being seperated from everything you know, and the joy of being with someone you love.
"Julie is A Junkie" by the Eastern Dark. I've had this song on a couple v/a comp cds but it never really clicked until this week when I heard it again on the first volume of Tales from the Australian Underground. Great intense song, the vocals tough but showing the heartache of the subject matter.
I decided to hunt down the Eastern Dark album from which it came. When doing a search online, I found this about the song in an interview with band member Bill Gibson:
"Julie is a Junkie: This song was written and apparently played before we formed, in a fun band called the Party Bores - the band James was playing with when our legendary encounter occurred. Written in the tradition of Ramones songs like Judy Is A Punk and Suzy Is A Headbanger, and fairly obviously about his girlfriend at the time. James and Julie had a fairly volatile relationship, broke up and got back together more times than I can remember. He was seeing Julie again at the time of his death. Incidentally, Jules eventually got off the gear and is doing very well these days."
The James he mentions is James Darroch, the band's singer/songwriter/guitarist who was killed in a car wreck, which also seriously injured the other two members of the Eastern Dark.
Girl Talk, "Hold Up" - Overall, I'm not a big fan of this album, Night Ripper. It feels too contrived, just too many samples for the sake of being there, and some rather poor transitions. But I will say one thing in its favor... some of the priceless moments which involve songs I was already very familiar with have quite possibly indefinitely replaced the originals. These include the Biggie "Juicy" clip and the M.I.A. + Amerie, but none more than the Pixies "Where Is My Mind" clip in "Hold Up". I'm a huge Pixies fan, and it brought such a smile to my face. Then, when I tried to go back and listen to the Pixies original, it was so slow, I couldn't listen to it!
I can listen to this song on endless repeat; it never gets old. For those who haven't heard it, it is a 16 and a half minute epic, with essentially 4 distinct sections, that mixes a sort of post-nuclear war, end of the world narrative with haunting instrumentation. I love that whole album, but that song is one of my all-time favorites. The album is available as an Emusic download, for those who subscribe.
