Smoke and Narcolepsy, by Ben Folds Five
Here I Stand and Face the Rain, A-Ha
You Turn the Screws, Cake
Big-Eyed Fish and Bartender, Dave Matthews
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
Invisible Sun and Synchronicity II, Police
Karma Police, Radiohead
Jumper, Third Eye Blind
The Smiths (several songs)
4 responses so far ↓
1 xJane // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:31 am
I like the convention of the Friday Random Ten: so often iTunes knows better what I want (need?) to listen to than I do. That, and you can totally tell things about a person by what’s on their iPod.
2 John // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:46 am
I can see how those lists can communicate. I’ve only seen them in the feminist blogosphere–have you seen them elsewhere?
This list wasn’t random. I was feeling down, and didn’t want to do a stereotypically emo blog post, so I just went through my library and picked the songs that expressed my melancholy and feelings of futility that evening. Synchronicity ii has some great lyrics for people who feel caught in the rat race:
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
Plus, it has Nessie!
3 xJane // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Ah, for emo rock I go straight to Los Angeles by Sugarcult (
) and LA Song (are we sensing a theme, here?) by Christian Kane (
)
4 xJane // May 5, 2008 at 7:01 am
you know, I don’t think I have…but I always assumed that was because I spent too much time in the feminist blogosphere, as opposed to the fact that it was unique to it.
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