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trinityvixenThe letters VW, my friends! The Alphabet Music Meme draws ever nearer to its end! Alas! This has been so much fun!
V is for...
1. Vista - Guadalcanal Diary
I got this from a mix tape! Remember those? A tape! My older sister made it for me after I spent two Christmases making mix CDs (remember those!?). The lyrics are all nonsense, but the song is catchy and silly-fun.
Every time I go to sleep, wake me up with this crazy speech
2. Vater Unser - E Nomine
I still can't decipher some of the German in this. I don't think you need to in order to enjoy it. It's probably the only non-opera, non-Rammstein song I've got in German and it's centered around the Lord's Prayer, so whatever you can't translate, you can sort of guess at. A prayer-song! That I like! Craziness!
Vater unser, der Du bist im Himmel
3. The Vampires of New York - Marcy Playground
They actually had a couple of other songs! I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true. Most of their other songs that I like are way silly like this one. I dunno what a bunch of kids from Seattle know about New York that they've not seen in movies, but there you go. We're all vampires here.
Come lose your mind in Central Park
4. Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt
How could I not? I miss bands like this when I catch them too late to have ever known them when they were actually, you know, together? They are so much fun and have such great high-energy to all their songs. Ah me. "Seether" is better, perhaps, but there's a lot of kick-assery about this song. And it feels genuine, instead of pasted up rock-star pretentious. Seeing as rock's been as much pre-packaged as pop these days, it's a welcome revisit to the past.
So get down and meet me on the floor
5. Velocity Shift - Overseer
The song that made me a lesbian for Jessica Biel. No, really. She has an absolutely mind-blowingly great introduction scene in Blade: Trinity of all things. She bulked up for the role, so when she throws punches in this fantastic action sequence, you wince because damn that would hurt if it were real. Girlfriend is the hottest thing kicking the shit out of you. Okay, so, objectively I realize the movie was terrible, and I really own it to ogle Ryan Reynolds abs of sweaty-must-lick, but Biel holds her own in the hottie department. Also, this song is good. And the action was perfectly timed with it. I swear, I'm shutting up about Blade: Trinity now.
Runners-Up:
Vow - Garbage
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles and the cover by The Presidents of the United States of America
W is for...
1. What Ever Happened to the Heroes? - Joss Stone
What's better than Ioan Gruffudd in tight clothing with a touch of gray? This song from the Fantastic Four soundtrack. Joss Stone is like Macy Gray--they both have distinctive, amazing voices and I don't tend to like any of their songs. If Joss Stone got a really great writer alongside her, or she could just sing so old standbys that I like, I'd probably never listen to the originals again. She's that good and soulful and wonderful.
I just need someone to look up to, to help me down this winding road
2. Watching Me Fall - The Cure
The song that taught me drug lingo just in time to say that I understood the reference to "getting slow" in the cute, cute boy from my writing class' story my freshman year. Also, this song is totally about being so high and being fucked so good that you lose your soul. That's what it sounds like, anyway.
And as I fall, in mirror on the wall, I'm watching me scream
3. The World is New - Save Ferris
Far too perky and upbeat to be denied. This is a toe-tapper every time I put it on. It just makes you want to dance and whip your head around like a crazy person. Again, wish I liked more by the band because they've got a good sound, but I've never really latched onto them except for this one song.
Life was getting hectic, and things were unexpected
4. Wheel of Fortune - Kay Starr
A little ditty from the L.A. Confidential soundtrack, which is start-to-finish good times. For starters, every song is richly harmonized and perfectly sung. Because they are all recordings that were made back in the days when you didn't rely on reverb and studio clean-ups to fix a so-so singer. The singing just had to be that good. This isn't even my favorite from the soundtrack (I am a sucker for "Ac-cen-tu-ate the Positive"), and I adore it. There's something smokey and sultry and teasing about it that just works.
If you'd ever smile on me, please let it be now
5. War Cry - Joe Strummer
When I make these lists, I just throw every single song in my mp3 folders onto Winamp that start with the letter du jour and whittle down the list. Some times, I throw off stuff almost immediately again, but other times I'll sit and listen and something will surprise me. And voila! We have "War Cry." It's off the second soundtrack to Grosse Pointe Blank (both are genius and must-have), and it's an instrumental that you can just fall into the rhythm of and not want to get out of it. Six minutes long this is, but you always feel cheated when it ends. I really didn't intend to hang onto this one, but it just wormed its way in there and would not be denied. Good stuff. Also, apparently James Marsters punched out Joe Strummer or something? News to me.
Runners-Up:
When You're Falling - Afro Celt Sound System (aka Peter Gabriel and some other dudes)
Who's Gonna Save Us? - The Living End
V is for...
1. Vista - Guadalcanal Diary
I got this from a mix tape! Remember those? A tape! My older sister made it for me after I spent two Christmases making mix CDs (remember those!?). The lyrics are all nonsense, but the song is catchy and silly-fun.
Every time I go to sleep, wake me up with this crazy speech
2. Vater Unser - E Nomine
I still can't decipher some of the German in this. I don't think you need to in order to enjoy it. It's probably the only non-opera, non-Rammstein song I've got in German and it's centered around the Lord's Prayer, so whatever you can't translate, you can sort of guess at. A prayer-song! That I like! Craziness!
Vater unser, der Du bist im Himmel
3. The Vampires of New York - Marcy Playground
They actually had a couple of other songs! I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true. Most of their other songs that I like are way silly like this one. I dunno what a bunch of kids from Seattle know about New York that they've not seen in movies, but there you go. We're all vampires here.
Come lose your mind in Central Park
4. Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt
How could I not? I miss bands like this when I catch them too late to have ever known them when they were actually, you know, together? They are so much fun and have such great high-energy to all their songs. Ah me. "Seether" is better, perhaps, but there's a lot of kick-assery about this song. And it feels genuine, instead of pasted up rock-star pretentious. Seeing as rock's been as much pre-packaged as pop these days, it's a welcome revisit to the past.
So get down and meet me on the floor
5. Velocity Shift - Overseer
The song that made me a lesbian for Jessica Biel. No, really. She has an absolutely mind-blowingly great introduction scene in Blade: Trinity of all things. She bulked up for the role, so when she throws punches in this fantastic action sequence, you wince because damn that would hurt if it were real. Girlfriend is the hottest thing kicking the shit out of you. Okay, so, objectively I realize the movie was terrible, and I really own it to ogle Ryan Reynolds abs of sweaty-must-lick, but Biel holds her own in the hottie department. Also, this song is good. And the action was perfectly timed with it. I swear, I'm shutting up about Blade: Trinity now.
Runners-Up:
Vow - Garbage
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles and the cover by The Presidents of the United States of America
W is for...
1. What Ever Happened to the Heroes? - Joss Stone
What's better than Ioan Gruffudd in tight clothing with a touch of gray? This song from the Fantastic Four soundtrack. Joss Stone is like Macy Gray--they both have distinctive, amazing voices and I don't tend to like any of their songs. If Joss Stone got a really great writer alongside her, or she could just sing so old standbys that I like, I'd probably never listen to the originals again. She's that good and soulful and wonderful.
I just need someone to look up to, to help me down this winding road
2. Watching Me Fall - The Cure
The song that taught me drug lingo just in time to say that I understood the reference to "getting slow" in the cute, cute boy from my writing class' story my freshman year. Also, this song is totally about being so high and being fucked so good that you lose your soul. That's what it sounds like, anyway.
And as I fall, in mirror on the wall, I'm watching me scream
3. The World is New - Save Ferris
Far too perky and upbeat to be denied. This is a toe-tapper every time I put it on. It just makes you want to dance and whip your head around like a crazy person. Again, wish I liked more by the band because they've got a good sound, but I've never really latched onto them except for this one song.
Life was getting hectic, and things were unexpected
4. Wheel of Fortune - Kay Starr
A little ditty from the L.A. Confidential soundtrack, which is start-to-finish good times. For starters, every song is richly harmonized and perfectly sung. Because they are all recordings that were made back in the days when you didn't rely on reverb and studio clean-ups to fix a so-so singer. The singing just had to be that good. This isn't even my favorite from the soundtrack (I am a sucker for "Ac-cen-tu-ate the Positive"), and I adore it. There's something smokey and sultry and teasing about it that just works.
If you'd ever smile on me, please let it be now
5. War Cry - Joe Strummer
When I make these lists, I just throw every single song in my mp3 folders onto Winamp that start with the letter du jour and whittle down the list. Some times, I throw off stuff almost immediately again, but other times I'll sit and listen and something will surprise me. And voila! We have "War Cry." It's off the second soundtrack to Grosse Pointe Blank (both are genius and must-have), and it's an instrumental that you can just fall into the rhythm of and not want to get out of it. Six minutes long this is, but you always feel cheated when it ends. I really didn't intend to hang onto this one, but it just wormed its way in there and would not be denied. Good stuff. Also, apparently James Marsters punched out Joe Strummer or something? News to me.
Runners-Up:
When You're Falling - Afro Celt Sound System (aka Peter Gabriel and some other dudes)
Who's Gonna Save Us? - The Living End
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