Doot de doo...
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trinityvixenMore Alphabet Music Meme goodness for youse all. Previous installments here.
T is for...
1. Touched - VAST
Okay, this is pop-goth-tacularity, but I still loves it to pieces, precious. I am such a sucker for songs of the long-suffering love variety of wuss rock like this. I apologize for nothing!
I looked into your eyes and saw a world that does not exist
2. Teardrop - Massive Attack
A surpassingly awesome song and the opening theme song to House. Proof positive that shows with British people just have better theme songs (Buffy, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica... just to name a few!). I realize I'm not pontificating to my usual length but I just love these first two songs, period. They are awesome. Download them now.
Love, love is a verb, love is a doing word
3. There Is No If - The Cure
When I bought Bloodflowers, amidst a frenzied, decades-late devotional period in which I listened to Wish enough times to make even myself sick of it, I wasn't especially blown away by the album. It's grown on me through familiarity, but there were always two songs that rocked my world. One will be showing up in the Ws. The other is this one. At first, I couldn't figure out what was going on--why was their love disintegrating in this particular Cure song? Didn't matter, it was melancholic yet not morose--a sort of reliably, really and truly normal recognition of some unknown pain. Then I took a look at the lyrics again and almost burst into tears. Because the person singing this is dying. I originally thought that the mention of "the last time I told you I loved you," and the object of affection crying meant they were ending a relationship and she wasn't going to be around and bugger whatever the chorus was doing. I finally got it. " 'If you die,' she said, 'so do I,' she said." Followed by, "There is no 'if,' just 'and.'" Because it wasn't at all uncertain that he was dying. God, I'm gonna cry right now. It's not even especially melodramatic because it's a fairly sober admission that they've had their time, and it wasn't always and always like they'd thought when they had more of it. Sadness.
There is no always forever--just this
4. Temptation Waits - Garbage
I had to throw this on here for being what it was when it was. Garbage's first CD was just kick ass awesome, heavy on the guitars and growling. Then they released Version 2.0, which was completely different and still completely them. It was a departure from the status quo but truly an upgrade that did not lose their essential sound for all the synth and reverb work. I think they sorta mixed the two when they got to Beautiful Garbage, with mixed success. However, when I first ran out to pick this up after only hearing about thirty seconds of the first single, "Push It," I had no idea what I was in for. In a different way from how their first CD is my favorite, this is my favorite Garbage CD. They're so different they can comfortably occupy the position of favorite, both of them. Have a listen to "Supervixen," the equally, shockingly good track off their debut CD and just savor how ten-twelve songs like it do, in no way, prepare you for where they went with their sound in Version 2.0, starting off with "Temptation Waits."
You are a secret, a new possession
5. Tank! - from Cowboy Bebop
And, as jolting as "Temptation Waits" was for my high school brain, it was nothing compared to my first serious anime crush coming upon me in college. Cowboy Bebop is, was, and probably will always be my favorite series ever. It had everything--humor, action, amazing artistic value, and, of course, just smashing songs. I love just about all the music from this series. Which is funny because I am not a jazz fan. It's part of my crazy not-liking-songs-without-words preference when it comes to music. But even I couldn't resist how eminently groovable and funky this shit is. Enjoy. And, if you haven't already, you simply must watch Cowboy Bedop.
I think it's time we blow this scene, get everybody and their stuff together. Okay, three, two, one: let's jam
Runners Up:
Take a Chance on Me - Erasure (And I can't find the ABBA version, which kills me because I was giving![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran the stinkeye for a week because she didn't know that anyone besides Erasure had ever sung this. Woe.)
They're Coming to Take Me Away - Dr. Demento (I first heard this on an infomercial for a CD of goofy songs, where there was, randomly, a shot of a guy dressed as Napoleon singing this son.)
There is a Light - Nick Cave
I still feel guilty about cutting "The Touch" by Stan Bush from this list. I'm a total sucker for all the sons from the animated Transformers movie. Oh well.
T is for...
1. Touched - VAST
Okay, this is pop-goth-tacularity, but I still loves it to pieces, precious. I am such a sucker for songs of the long-suffering love variety of wuss rock like this. I apologize for nothing!
I looked into your eyes and saw a world that does not exist
2. Teardrop - Massive Attack
A surpassingly awesome song and the opening theme song to House. Proof positive that shows with British people just have better theme songs (Buffy, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica... just to name a few!). I realize I'm not pontificating to my usual length but I just love these first two songs, period. They are awesome. Download them now.
Love, love is a verb, love is a doing word
3. There Is No If - The Cure
When I bought Bloodflowers, amidst a frenzied, decades-late devotional period in which I listened to Wish enough times to make even myself sick of it, I wasn't especially blown away by the album. It's grown on me through familiarity, but there were always two songs that rocked my world. One will be showing up in the Ws. The other is this one. At first, I couldn't figure out what was going on--why was their love disintegrating in this particular Cure song? Didn't matter, it was melancholic yet not morose--a sort of reliably, really and truly normal recognition of some unknown pain. Then I took a look at the lyrics again and almost burst into tears. Because the person singing this is dying. I originally thought that the mention of "the last time I told you I loved you," and the object of affection crying meant they were ending a relationship and she wasn't going to be around and bugger whatever the chorus was doing. I finally got it. " 'If you die,' she said, 'so do I,' she said." Followed by, "There is no 'if,' just 'and.'" Because it wasn't at all uncertain that he was dying. God, I'm gonna cry right now. It's not even especially melodramatic because it's a fairly sober admission that they've had their time, and it wasn't always and always like they'd thought when they had more of it. Sadness.
There is no always forever--just this
4. Temptation Waits - Garbage
I had to throw this on here for being what it was when it was. Garbage's first CD was just kick ass awesome, heavy on the guitars and growling. Then they released Version 2.0, which was completely different and still completely them. It was a departure from the status quo but truly an upgrade that did not lose their essential sound for all the synth and reverb work. I think they sorta mixed the two when they got to Beautiful Garbage, with mixed success. However, when I first ran out to pick this up after only hearing about thirty seconds of the first single, "Push It," I had no idea what I was in for. In a different way from how their first CD is my favorite, this is my favorite Garbage CD. They're so different they can comfortably occupy the position of favorite, both of them. Have a listen to "Supervixen," the equally, shockingly good track off their debut CD and just savor how ten-twelve songs like it do, in no way, prepare you for where they went with their sound in Version 2.0, starting off with "Temptation Waits."
You are a secret, a new possession
5. Tank! - from Cowboy Bebop
And, as jolting as "Temptation Waits" was for my high school brain, it was nothing compared to my first serious anime crush coming upon me in college. Cowboy Bebop is, was, and probably will always be my favorite series ever. It had everything--humor, action, amazing artistic value, and, of course, just smashing songs. I love just about all the music from this series. Which is funny because I am not a jazz fan. It's part of my crazy not-liking-songs-without-words preference when it comes to music. But even I couldn't resist how eminently groovable and funky this shit is. Enjoy. And, if you haven't already, you simply must watch Cowboy Bedop.
I think it's time we blow this scene, get everybody and their stuff together. Okay, three, two, one: let's jam
Runners Up:
Take a Chance on Me - Erasure (And I can't find the ABBA version, which kills me because I was giving
feiran the stinkeye for a week because she didn't know that anyone besides Erasure had ever sung this. Woe.)They're Coming to Take Me Away - Dr. Demento (I first heard this on an infomercial for a CD of goofy songs, where there was, randomly, a shot of a guy dressed as Napoleon singing this son.)
There is a Light - Nick Cave
I still feel guilty about cutting "The Touch" by Stan Bush from this list. I'm a total sucker for all the sons from the animated Transformers movie. Oh well.
