I gotta have music on all day everyday (don't get too literal on it, read as much as possible), when i feel good, feel bad, remember a particular time, up, down..well basically anything!! and i think thats the brilliance of music (any audiophile would agree)... the funny thing is i can relate to songs that i dont even have a personal equation with..that is, if its a sad song, i don't need to have gone through that feeling, i actually just kinda project myself into the situation (if you're thinking this is wierd, think back to the last time you heard a sad song and said "oh that'd be a great song if i had a fight!!")
Anyways here's a list of great songs (old and new and in no order of preference). Don't be alarmed by the high number of sad songs...im not manic depressive or anything, just like em.
If any of you have some songs (and we all do!) or feel a particular way bout the ones ive listed lemme know. post them in the comments.
- Falls Apart - Sugar Ray: Song about a girl who's alone and puts up a brave front but is broken inside. Feel like i know people like that. I think we all do. Love the line "hold her hand, it seems to dissapear."
- I'm on fire - Bruce Springsteen: Doesn't really have any theme. Just a guy totally into this girl. The video gives a slightly sad picture of a guy who likes this girl but doesn't ask her out. The eternal "what if" situation.
- Sparks - Coldplay: Brilliant mellow song good for an afterparty or when feeling down. Hopelessness of an unsavable relationship. Love the line "I won't let you down...oh yeah i will, yeah i will"
- Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - OST Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind: Reminds me of the movie and what the guy goes through. Have to watch the movie to understand.
- Cocoon - Jack Johnson: Mellow (as all of his stuff). Super song about a relationship thats fallen apart and how one wants to "heal" ourselves and the other by taking support from each other. Love the line "I guess all we have, is really all we need" and "Mend your broken heart and leave"
- You're beautiful - James Blunt: Yes! we all've heard this one and we love it. I like how the song's about an amazing moment you sometimes have and the sad realisation that nothing will ever come out of that. And in the end it's all ok cos there'll be more moments like these. Love the line "She could see from my face that i was..fuckin high"
- Your Body is A Wonderland - John Mayer: One of the best, if not, the best tribute to a women's body. A love song for our generations. Love the line "I'll never let your head, hit the bed, without my hand behind it"
- Life Goes on - Tupac: Old Skool rap number about death and life in the 'hood. (Central theme for a lot of his tracks). Sad song of death, seperation and unfulfilled dreams.
- The Scientist - Coldplay: Super song about a broken relationship and how the guy try's to find out what went wrong in a ery logical way, when the truth is that some stuff can't be sorted out with the mind. What can i say, Coldplay rocks! Love the line "Noone ever said it would be so hard."
- Creep - Radiohead: Strong sad song about wanting to be more and feeling left out. Love the lines "wish i was special, you're so fuckin special"
- Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice (OST Closer): One of the most powerful and raw songs of a guy hopelessly in love and the regret one feels after breaking up. Love the last few lines "can't take my mind of you.......till i find somebody new." Human Nature right there!
- Yellow - Coldplay: An unexpectantly happy, even romantic song. Love the line "Look at the stars, she how they shine for you."
- She don't want nobody near - Counting Crows: Amazing song, one of the lesser known counting crows tracks. All about how people don't wanna get close cos they're afraid of getting hurt. Love the lines "she don't want noone around, cos she don't want anybody to see, what She looks like when she's down, cos it's a really sad place to be." Beautiful and sad.
- Ready for a fall - P.J. Olsen: Song about a guy whose expecting the relationship to come to an end. Sad pre-breakup break-up song. Love the lines "Where will you go after me?" and "If it was this easy to find you, i should...be ready for a fall"
- Crash Into Me - Dave Mathews Band: A boy's fantasy. DMB perfectly portrays his / all of us's boyhood fantasy of seeing and making love to that one fantastic girl. Just takes you away! The most killer drums too! And if you love the song, the video will blow your mind!!! Love the line (for no perverse reason, the choice of words is brilliant!) "hike up your skirt a little more....show your world to me.)
- Mr. E's Beautiful Blues - The Eels (OST Road Trip): One of the most happy, chiller tracks. Makes one feel completely at ease..like all is good! Love the line "God damn right..it's a beautiful day."
- Colourblind - Counting Crows: Song about being completely locked up inside and wanting to break out and open up. Another Counting Crows masterpiece. Dark, sad but strangely happy song. The last parts makes one feel hopeful of a better time. Love the line "pull me out from inside."
- Everybody's Changing - Keane: Song about that feeling when everyone and everything around you is changing. To me, the feeling of things changing around me is unsettling and a bit upsetting and the song relays of all that. Love the lines "everybody's changing and I don't know why."
- Are you in - Incubus: No real theme just a great good feel song. Perfect after party song. Somehow seems fit to be played when you're with a bunch of good friends chilling at night on some beach. Well, takes me there anyways! Love the lines "it's so much better...when everyone is in..are you in?"
- Say Something - James: Song about two people in a relationship and how the guy is literally begging the girl to open up to him. We all have had or have come across this feeling of being "shut out". This song just reflects that desperation. Love the lines "Take a drug to set you free...strange fruit from a forbidden tree...You've got to come down soon"
XXXXXX
will add more soon..
4 comments:
Sneha says -
All the songs you mentioned are about relationships.Hopeless Romantic.LOL
acknowledging not only yr taste in music but also yr deep reflective meaning into each song...
it's weird coz we've not even met but taniya's filled me in wit pranav tis n pranav tht,so feel alright postin a comment now...lol
but seriously lovedd yr blog...da coffee n hibernation in particular :)
keep posting!
anjan
>anon: wow! nice things from nice people who i havent even met before. must thank taniya for sure :)and i like that you like my list. As for the reflective meanings, considering you acknowledge the list (making me believe that you like similar stuff), i'm sure all your favorite tracks have their meanings too no? so im hoping you'd add some of yours.
and by the way, taniya's let me have a sneak peek at your work (the early stuff). Reaally nice - i particularly like the one with her in it and the one with the kids in white. would love to see more
tis is fun....i leave a comment complimenting yr words (courtesy taniya) n i get compliments on my work!! i dun think i mind da way tis is turning out lol....
n yup u do ve a couple of all time loved songs on tht list....so its very relatable i guess...
anyways seriously keep posting coz now taniya n i r regulars to tis blog....so u need to do tis for da greater good....hahahhaha
anjan
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