Will you look at that? It’s only took me about 3 months, but I finished the 30 day song challenge. Way to go, Josh!
Anyway, I know this song was on my iTunes quite a bit at this time last year. Not only had I only discovered Laura a few months earlier, but it was a tune that seemed to encapsulate much of how I was feeling about my love life up until that point. I had too many ghosts following me around and I related. Still a great song, but thank God I’m no longer at that place.
Although I wouldn’t touch a Duran Duran album to save my life these days, they had quite an influence on young Josh. So with that…here’s Hungry Like The Wolf.
Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
I frankly thought today’s submission idea was really…odd…to say the least. I suppose it’s probably a good thing I can’t immediately think of a song that makes me feel guilty. So instead I threw the work guilty into thesaurus.com and regretful came up as a synonym. I then thought, “Hey, Regret from New Order is one of my favorite songs” so there you go, stream of consciousness, thanks for the help. Submission chosen.
New Order - Regret
As a general rule I feel this way about the Nick Drake catalog, as I love his composition and the sounds he was able to get via alternate/open tunings and the like. So the following is merely one of many but a tune I’ve specifically thought of in this way before.
Nick Drake – Three Hours
I can strum out the basic chords in the right order and everything for Creep from Radiohead. Yep.
The good boys from Monty Python will now take the stage…
I think that whenever I take a dirt nap I’ll want “Come Thou Font of Every Blessing” to play at my funeral. And I *do* mean the Sufjan Steven’s version, not just the traditional arrangement. In fact, if you can book Sufjan, that would be swell. Anyway, The Lord has been the fount of every blessing in my life, and the longer I live I see this evidenced so it only seems appropriate.
Sufjan Stevens – Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
I’m going to cheat a little bit on this one and pick two…because I can. Here you go.
Ben Folds – The Luckiest
Nick Drake – Northern Sky
I lost my mummy in 2007.
John Lennon – My Mummy’s Dead
Travis (the band) makes me happy often and this was the first tune that jumped into my brain when thinking about this day’s song so there you go.
Travis - Happy
I don’t have a “go to” song when I’m angry, but I *do* know that this tune has accompanied angry times during past fun post break-up periods for me so here you go.
Ben Folds Five – Song For The Dumped
Okay so in full disclosure, I don’t have a single favorite album. I mean, how could I? I have an obscene amount of music tucked away and I’d like to think that at least *some* of it is worth the CDs they’re on. Having said that, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second (and sadly, last) album, 1998’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, is one of my very favorite albums. Someday I hope Jeff Mangum gets things together to write a follow-up but until then, we have gems like this song.
Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945
So I suppose this is where I’m to come up with a song I wish were played on the radio I don’t listen to. Odd question although it feels wrong to give two days the pass so here goes nothing. Oh, how about the title track from Sufjan Steven’s last album, The Age of Adz? I mean, come on…it’s musically diverse, weaves the narrative of a paranoid schizophrenic man having hallucinations of a coming apocalypse, and clocks in at around 8 minutes. Sounds radio friendly to me. In related, I would be awesome at driving a radio station into the ground…but boy would we’d go down swinging. Here goes…
Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz
I don't listen to the radio so nothing is my answer to this day's song. I honestly don’t even know how to begin with answering this one because all I listen to are songs from my collection. Never fear, I'll whip up an actual entry in a New York minute.
Over the arc of my musical life, New Order has been one of my perennial favorites. I love so much about what they contributed to music history, they have a fascinating story from having risen out of Joy Division after Ian Curtis’ tragic suicide in 1980, and have helped shape music today in ways many still don’t appreciate. But if I hear the drum part from Blue Monday one more time, I’m going to put a brick through a window. Thanks for all the memories, gang.
New Order – Blue Monday
