Monday, September 22, 2014

Music Monday: It all Comes Down to the Sound

Salvation - Scanners


Salvation has such an eerie tinge to it's sound but I can't.stop.listening.

Home - Dotan


"Feel it crashing and burning, 'til it all collides.
Strike a match lit the fire, shining up the sky...
...Hear the voices surround us, hear them screaming out.
We'll be crying for mercy, we'll be crying out loud.
Burn the bridges in our town 'til the point where we drown.
As it all comes down..."

Before the video starts, there's a text that asks "What if home is not a place, what if home is not there to be found?" The video itself reminds me a lot of the movie "Where the Wild Things Are" and the questions posed seem to coorelate with the theme of searching for a sense of belonging, searching for a sense of love. The sound provokes desperation but the words spark a sense of hope, that in the end we'll all find home.

"Can you feel it coming back?
Through the warmth, through the cold,
Keep running 'til we're there..."

The Good Left Undone - Rise Against


The Good Left Undone is one of my all time favorite songs. It never gets old and this verse makes me melt inside every time...
"All because of you I believe in angels
Not the kind with wings, no not the kind with halos.
The kind that bring you home, when home becomes a strange place
I'll follow your voice, all you have to do is shout it out."

[&] Delinquents - Woe, Is Me


Another old favorite. I'm usually not a fan of screaming and heavier music, but if Tyler Carter's voice is somewhere in the song, I'll keep listening. I don't really follow Woe, Is Me since he left the band, but Number(S) is a regularly played album in my playlist.

"I find no humor in letting yourself stray away,
from those pictures when they cause you to see shame in yourself.
you can run from your problems,
But they'll follow you like a trend,
One shot to forgetting, six shots to falling in the end."

Saturday Night - Natalia Kills


"Teenage Tragedy"
Too true, and too many broken people, but it's all in the sound.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Music Monday

Beggin for Thread - Banks


"So I got edges that scratch
And sometimes I don't got a filter
But I'm so tired of eating all of my mispoken words
I know my disposition gets confusing
My disproportionate reactions fuse with my eager state
That's why you wanna come out and play with me, yeah
Why?

Stooped down and out, you got me beggin for thread
To sew this hole up you ripped in my head
Stupidly think you had it under control
Strapped down to something that you don't understand
Don't know what you were getting yourself into
You should have known, secretly I think you knew..."

Waiting Game - Banks



"Baby, I'm thinking it over
What if the way we started made it something cursed from the start?
What if it only gets colder...
Would you still wrap me up and tell me that you think this is smart?"

West Coast - Lana Del Rey

We've Got It - Cults

"I bet you think that you're the only ones
That the brightests lights will keep on burning for you
You keep on weaving out the smoking gun
Go on and let them talk, we'll give them something to do
There's no one else for me but you,
There's only you, my love
There's no one else that's really here
There's only you, my dear..."

Stolen Dance - Milky Chance



"Coldest winter for me, no sun is shining anymore
The only thing I feel is pain, caused by absence of you
Suspense controlling my mind, I cannot find the way out of here
I want you by my side, so that I never feel alone again...

Hell and Back - Kid Ink

Because I just really like Kid Ink...

Monday, September 08, 2014

Music Monday

If it doesn't make you feel something... 

Heart Out - The 1975
"You got something to say? 
Why don't you speak it out loud, instead of living in your head. 
It's always the same... 
Why don't you rip your heart out, instead of living in your head." 

Chandelier - Sia 

Chills anyone?

"I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist... 
I'm gonna flylike a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry... 
I'm holding on for dear life, 
won't look down, won't open my eyes...
 ...I'm just holding on for tonight." 

You+Me - You and Me
City and Color and Pink? 
Umm yes... 

"You can be flawed enough but perfect for a person. Someone who will be there for you when you fall apart..." 

Ki: Theory - Stand by Me 

I know I've probably shared this song with my friends numerous times before, but if it's not in your Ipod yet, you're missing out. You also may remember hearing it if you attended Salon Chocolat's 3rd Annual Runway Show: In Reverie. The louder, the better... UH-MAZE-ING. 

For Me This is Heaven- Jimmy Eat World
And I know it's a oldie, but this is my all time favorite song on the planet. In fact it's the song behind my most recent tattoo, for all my friends who have been wondering. 

"The first star I see, may not be a star. 
Can't do a thing but wait, so let's wait for one more. 
The time such clumsy time, when deciding if it's time. 
I'm careful but not sure how it goes, you can lose yourself in your courage. 
When the time we have now ends, when the big hang goes 'round again... 
Can you still feel the butterflies? 
Can you still hear the last goodnight? 
And the mindless comfort grows, when I'm alone with my great plans.
And this is what she said gets her through it, 
'If I don't let myself be happy now, then when? 
If not now, when?'"

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Until next Monday music lovers.