I was going to write more, but to heck with it. I shouldn't be up.
1. reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. list (and upload or link to) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. post them to your journal with these instructions.
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senmut gave me a "P", so here goes:
Bruce Springsteen - Paradise - from "The Rising" - his 9/11 tribute album. Just so haunting and desolate, it's hard not to cry when I hear it.
Two steps from Hell - Protectors of the Earth - Two steps from Hell continue to make my days a little more epic. I love the rhythm of this.
Garbage - Push it - reminds me of being a teenager and hating everybody.
Texas - Put your arms around me - I love Sharleen Spiteri's soulful, honey-like voice and I love the sort of quivering, slow build-up of this song.
Kent - Passagerare ("Passenger") - I was a Kent fan for quite a while. They're a special band for me, because their sound, to me, embodies what growing up in Sweden was like. Something about the sound and the lyrics - something beautiful, but unpolished, cold and a bit bitter. It's about finding beauty in unemployment and concrete, I guess, at least to me. They came from an industrial town, just like me, and that's been a running theme of Jocke Berg's lyrics since...ages back. I don't know if it's just him or if the rest of the band also have trouble divorcing their hometown. I just recently came across this song (Rebecka Törnqvist is another favorite voice of mine) and here it is again - about going back to where you grew up and realize that you've grown away from it and the melancholy that that brings. It's kind of exactly what I felt when I visited my hometown last year.
( Lyrics and translation for Passagerare under the cut )
1. reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. list (and upload or link to) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. post them to your journal with these instructions.
senmut gave me a "P", so here goes:Bruce Springsteen - Paradise - from "The Rising" - his 9/11 tribute album. Just so haunting and desolate, it's hard not to cry when I hear it.
Two steps from Hell - Protectors of the Earth - Two steps from Hell continue to make my days a little more epic. I love the rhythm of this.
Garbage - Push it - reminds me of being a teenager and hating everybody.
Texas - Put your arms around me - I love Sharleen Spiteri's soulful, honey-like voice and I love the sort of quivering, slow build-up of this song.
Kent - Passagerare ("Passenger") - I was a Kent fan for quite a while. They're a special band for me, because their sound, to me, embodies what growing up in Sweden was like. Something about the sound and the lyrics - something beautiful, but unpolished, cold and a bit bitter. It's about finding beauty in unemployment and concrete, I guess, at least to me. They came from an industrial town, just like me, and that's been a running theme of Jocke Berg's lyrics since...ages back. I don't know if it's just him or if the rest of the band also have trouble divorcing their hometown. I just recently came across this song (Rebecka Törnqvist is another favorite voice of mine) and here it is again - about going back to where you grew up and realize that you've grown away from it and the melancholy that that brings. It's kind of exactly what I felt when I visited my hometown last year.
( Lyrics and translation for Passagerare under the cut )
