ryanvergel
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List your top 5 favorite songs and WHY they are your favorite. It took me a solid ten minutes to finalize my list, but it's peculiar to me because it's mostly early songs I've heard that shaped my musical taste.
Although I have hundreds upon hundreds of albums now (around 10,000 songs), these early songs and music shaped my taste and still shape my taste even now.
In no order:
Modest Mouse's "Trailer Trash"- Describes this weird college-aged psyche one develops. After going to college, I still think about dropping out and just getting a horrible job and living out my life simply. It's like teetering between depression, hopelessness, and accepting one's lots and shortcomings and not knowing whether to move on with them or leave everything behind. Awesome band, awesome song.
Beatles' "Across the Universe"- Jai Guru Deva Om. I give thanks to the heavenly teacher...
This is an asbolutely moving song. It's so powerful. I can't think of anyone being able to listen to it and not being moved to a more stable and serene place.
Smashing Pumpkins' "Mayonaise"- Cleverly blends acoustic and electric rock. Slow-paced, and fast-moving, Billy Corgan sings of himself in that perfectly angsty and sad way he does. We're alone in our thoughts, and it's always difficult to explain our emotions. You can learn that in philosophy of language and in this song.
Broken Social Scene's "KC Accidental"- The perfect "opening song" of any album I've yet heard. It has the nice progressions and melody changes that makes it both a typical opening song, but one that stands alone. It's also an allusion to K.C. Accidental, whom BSS was born from. Indeterminable lyrics (like always) and this powerful guitar movement makes this an awesome song for me.
Blink 182's "Dammit"- This song literally got me into music. In 5th grade my cousin brought this cd over, and it was so scratched that only this song played. I listened to it dozens of times, and it was the perfect song to get me into music. From there I got into punk, then metal, then electronic, then indie rock- and now I have a more developed taste than almost anyone I know... all thanks to this one song.
This is a good oppurtunity to evaluate what songs you like, why you like them, and how your favorite songs shape your musical tastes(even your old favorite songs). I know I spend a lot of time on and with music, so I'm sure you all do too.
Although I have hundreds upon hundreds of albums now (around 10,000 songs), these early songs and music shaped my taste and still shape my taste even now.
In no order:
Modest Mouse's "Trailer Trash"- Describes this weird college-aged psyche one develops. After going to college, I still think about dropping out and just getting a horrible job and living out my life simply. It's like teetering between depression, hopelessness, and accepting one's lots and shortcomings and not knowing whether to move on with them or leave everything behind. Awesome band, awesome song.
Beatles' "Across the Universe"- Jai Guru Deva Om. I give thanks to the heavenly teacher...
This is an asbolutely moving song. It's so powerful. I can't think of anyone being able to listen to it and not being moved to a more stable and serene place.
Smashing Pumpkins' "Mayonaise"- Cleverly blends acoustic and electric rock. Slow-paced, and fast-moving, Billy Corgan sings of himself in that perfectly angsty and sad way he does. We're alone in our thoughts, and it's always difficult to explain our emotions. You can learn that in philosophy of language and in this song.
Broken Social Scene's "KC Accidental"- The perfect "opening song" of any album I've yet heard. It has the nice progressions and melody changes that makes it both a typical opening song, but one that stands alone. It's also an allusion to K.C. Accidental, whom BSS was born from. Indeterminable lyrics (like always) and this powerful guitar movement makes this an awesome song for me.
Blink 182's "Dammit"- This song literally got me into music. In 5th grade my cousin brought this cd over, and it was so scratched that only this song played. I listened to it dozens of times, and it was the perfect song to get me into music. From there I got into punk, then metal, then electronic, then indie rock- and now I have a more developed taste than almost anyone I know... all thanks to this one song.
This is a good oppurtunity to evaluate what songs you like, why you like them, and how your favorite songs shape your musical tastes(even your old favorite songs). I know I spend a lot of time on and with music, so I'm sure you all do too.