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my favorite song is here we go by jon brion from the punch-drunk love soundtrack.

some people say that music now is edging towards corporate. i can't say that they're wrong, but i can't say they're all that right, either. i guess it's just the scene around here's more independent than usual.

i'm gonna hop on the bandwagon and just say i really, really, really like maps by the yeah yeah yeahs, even though the song's been out for a long time now, and although i haven't been quite the hermit when it comes to popular shit (goodness knows i'm a fan of american idol), i must admit, where was i when the yeah yeah yeahs all of a sudden turned awesome?

i believe my situation would be likeiwise in the case with rilo kiley; "takeoffs and landings" was an awesome album even though it was lackadaisical, musically. i personally thought that go ahead was the best break-up song that i could ever use, if need were to arise. but i liked the song too much to use it -- i think ever -- in that situation. sooner or later i'm humming about robots inside a grid or someday we'll meet beyond the time and the bars and it'll be away from here. it was the lovelife i had always wanted, in one great little cd.

i don't know if you've heard their song with arms outstretched, but if that were a person, i would be making out with it right now.

there's something about all of these songs that makes me just want to listen to them over and over and over again, too: from the simplest bass grooves (think n.e.r.d. and their song she wants to move) to the greatest exploitation of disco violins (can we say the ten-minute version of don't let me be misunderstood from the kill bill soundtrack, thanks to santa esmeralda?), from simple melodies (joao gilberto's vocals over guitar in desafinado) to layered, complex sounds (2 + 2 = 5 none other than radiohead). i can go off on just aural pleasure, but i think some songs most especially have some wonderful sentimental value attached to them.

take elliott smith's waltz #2, for example. i barely know the words to the song. but i've listened to it seventy-odd times today. i've come to associate the song with my troubled frustration. and it helps.

dave matthews' crush is another one i have to say i have to be a little sentimental about. melodically, it's genius; lyrically, it's genius. it's the romantic in me wanting to say this so much to someone that i basically did. (but leave it to me to have them hear the song instead.) i think you know that i'm talking about you when you see this; i always considered this 'our song' after that.

but sucker for suckers, i'm saving the best for last. high school graduation, even though i've written about how much the whole high school experience sucked, deserves its own mix. i cemented my friendships on that last day, and kept, however tentative, some ties that i think would be nice, since i get to say "i knew them when."

for starters, greenday and semisonic both make the list, respectively for time of your life and closing time (i know, so cheesy!).and then comes the wondrous angst of our teen years: third eye blind, the great one-hit wonder of harvey danger, thrown in with some 98 degrees and the inevitable k-ci and jojo (don't tell me your freshman year dances didn't have all my life on the playlist because every dj basically did).

there's a lot more songs that add to the day-to-day that make it more interesting. wilco's melodies make my day seem at ease; the corrs are a nice throwback to my high school summers; phantom planet is a nice hearken bac to socal; morcheeba is the soundtrack of who my friends are.

it's amazing to me that songs have that much pull over you. i won't even listen to yellow by coldplay sometimes because i just can't bear to reminisce about it playing in the background while i read liam's note.

maybe i'm just reading in the songs too much, but i can't help it.

and your favorite song is?

posted by Open Source Food @ 2:56 PM