Did you ever meet
someone who, when asked what they are into, replies, “I like music.”
Um, hello vague. That’s like saying, “I enjoy food.”
Who DOESN’T like some sort of music? Who can honestly say that they detest all
music and never listen to music ever? I think the answer is no one.
Of course, there are
different levels of “liking music.” Some
people play. Some people compose. Some people have extensive collections. Some people attend concerts like it is their job. Some live with ear buds permanently
attached to their ears. (Ahem, my daughter).
Some fit into all the above categories.
Students often ask me
the type of music I’m into. Sometimes
they assume and sometimes they guess.
They are usually wrong.
No, I don’t like
metal. I never did. I don’t like any modern bands and don’t
listen to the radio other than NPR. In
fact, I don’t think I have fallen in love with a new song in many, many years.
I’m boring. I still listen to the same music I have
listened to for the past twenty plus years.
I still like the same artists I did in high school. My top eleven (I tried ten, but I couldn’t
decide) favorite songs really have not changed in the past twenty-five years or
so. Sometimes the order changes, but
that’s about it. Maybe that’s lame. I told you, I’m boring.
So, I figured I’d share
it. I hope some of you have heard of at
least one! I have even included some of my favorite lines.
I would love to make the
music video for this… I mean a real one.
"Do you remember when
You laid beside me?
And you said you'd marry me?
And not deny me?"
I heard this for the
first time when I was taking a year off from NYU. I remember watching it with my brother
Kenny. At one point, the entire band was
in a tree. It was gorgeous.
"Some say I'm vague
And I easily fade
Foolish parade of fantasy...
Drink in your eyes,
Drink in your sighs,
Grass on my thighs,
My aching legs."
When I hear this on
Pandora, I rock out. I don’t care who is
watching! Favorite lines,
“I’ll read to you, here,
save your eyes.
You’ll need them, your
boat is at sea.
Your anchor is out,
you’ve been swept away.
And the greatest of
teachers won’t hesitate
To leave you there by
yourself chained to fate…”
That’s deep shit, yo.
I remember playing this
on repeat when I was decorating my dorm room at USM. Carrie Mae, who I didn’t know at the time,
sat opposite my door and just listened.
I knew I liked her for a reason.
Favorite line “Post
nubila, Phoebus.” It means, “After
clouds, sun.”
Gorgeous, gorgeous song…
"Won't you stay? Won't you stay?
You were in my head today.
I closed my eyes to try to make you stay."
6. “Destiny” ~ Zero 7 (especially the acoustic version!)
This features Sia who is
uber popular right now when she was with Zero 7. I LOVE this song.
"The journey's long and I feel so bad
I'm thinking back to the last day we had.
Old fades into the new
And soon I know I'll be back with you.
I'm nearly with you.
And when you're lost, I know how to change your mood
And when I'm down, you breathe life over me.
Even though we're miles apart,
We are each other's destiny."
"When I lay down my head,
At the end of my day
Nothing would please me better
Than to find that you're there
When I wake."
At one point, my mother forbid me from listening to this because she thought it was pro-suicide. Um. No.
"We eagerly wait to feel the labors of love...
Maybe life isn't what it seems...
Beneath a grapefruit moon, we would roll in the grass
You said these times must never pass.
I know in love is where you wanted to be,
But when I ran, you didn't follow me."
"Let me in, let me in, I'll give you candy.
Let me in, let me in, I'll give you avocados.
That's much more than most people have to offer."
Radiohead is always
deep, but this is INTENSE. It's trippy as hell. Tell me what YOU think the lyrics mean:
"Everything, everything, everything, everything in it's right place.
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon.
There are two colors in my head.
What was that you tried to say?"
This has been my number
one song since February 1987. I’m not
kidding. I was a freshman in high school
and the then love of my life, Harry Lupo, and I were on the phone. He asked me what I was listening to and I
said “War” by U2. I had just gotten the
RECORD (yes, RECORD) in the mail from one of those record clubs (remember
those? Do they even exist anymore?)
He asked me if I had listened
to “Drowning Man” which was the last song on the first side. I hadn’t yet since I had just put it on.
“Well, I want you to
listen to it. It used to be my favorite
song, but now I’m giving it to you.”
I laughed. I wasn’t about to have someone ELSE decide
what my favorite song was.
After we hung up, I
listened to it. I mean REALLY listened to it.
Take my hand
You know I'll be there
If you can
I'll cross the sky for your love.
For I have promised
For to be with you tonight
And for the time that will come.
Take my hand
You know I'll be there
If you can
I'll cross the sky for your love.
And I understand
These winds and tides
This change of times
Won't drag you away.
Hold on, and hold on tightly.
Hold on, and don't let go of my love.
The storms will pass, it won't be long
now.
This love will last, this love will
last forever.
And take my hand, you know I'll be
there.
If you can I'll cross the sky for your
love.
Give you what I hold dear.
Hold on, hold on tightly.
Hold on, and hold on tightly.
Rise up, rise up with wings like
eagles.
You run, you run.
You run and not grow weary.
Hold on, and hold on tightly.
Hold on, hold on tightly
This love, lasts forever.
Now this love lasts forever.
I was hooked. I think I listened to it fifty times in a
row. “Give you what I hold dear?” “The storm will pass?” These words have sustained me for almost
thirty years. I believe they will
continue to do so.
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