the sound of your laugh through the wall
I was reminded by oxoniensis's post that I totally forgot to commemorate my LJ's 5th birthday in December! I can't decide whether this anniversary is impressive, or simply indicative of the fact that I should get out of the house more often.
Instead of treating you all to a detailed retrospective of my years as a squealy teenage anime fan and a fledgling writer of sappy slash fanfic, my RP career (I started off by playing Persephone in a crack Matrix RP and moved through various Discworldian characters before reaching Milliways) and the growth of my flist from people I went to school with to people scattered across the globe...let's have some music. Retrospectives sound like too much effort, and also...embarrassing. (I was a really squealy teenage anime fan.)
10) Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
I listened to this song for about three days straight after the S1 finale. Um. Look, 2007 was the year I finally gave in to everyone telling me how awesome Supernatural was, and this is the quintessential SPN song.
9) Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
This was a Pilots vid first, and then my favourite track from Eyes Open, and then the song that I was delighted beyond words to see performed live at the Snow Patrol concert.
8) Susan Enan - Bring On The Wonder
I don't have the time for a drink from the cup
Let's rest for a while 'til our souls catch us up
Bring on the wonder, bring on the song
I pushed you down deep in my soul for too long
There's nothing hugely special about this song, but I find it beautiful and I first heard it in a Bones episode. Another TV show that I finally caved and started watching last year :)
7) Mendelssohn - Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64 - Allegro Molto Appassionato
The ONLY reason I tracked this down was String Theory. And then my brother paused near my door to have a classical moment music with me (we have a lot of those) and tell me about how I should have come to his friend's concerto concert because they played this. I've never really listened to a lot of Mendelssohn before, but this is fantastic.
6) Missy Higgins - Peachy
It's no-one's fault, it's nobody's fault
That I fell on you and you on me
That's what humans do as they pass on through
But I think we can't, don't you?
Missy Higgins's second album, On A Clear Night, was one of my favourites of 2007. And it was hard to pick a single track, but I've spent a lot of time bopping in my chair to this one.
5) Evermore - Running
You don't need a broken heart
To know a heart can be broken
You just need to open your eyes...yeah
We don't need to be deceived
To know a lie can be spoken
What I'd heard of Evermore prior to their second album, Real Life, did not at all predispose me to like them. And then came last year's fatal car trip to Thredbo, when my father played the album twice through and got my entire family hooked on it.
4) Indigo Girls - Kid Fears
Skipping stones, we know the price now
And any sin will do
How much further, if you can spin?
How much further, if you are smooth?
Oh man. I only discovered this song very late in the year, but it caught me immediately and I still can't listen to it without being blown away by the way it builds up, combining the two female voices and the one male, and just soaring.
3) The Faint - Southern Belles In London Sing
Velvet voices, haunting slow
Darkened notes with bright decor
Georgian femmes are gone for weeks
Southern belles in London sing
There is no exciting story for this beyond the fact that I love it ENORMOUSLY and it's great fun.
2) Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey
Nowhere in the suburbs in the cold light of day
There in the midst of it, so alive and alone
Words support like bone
This is the Most Played song in my entire iTunes library because I write to it (actually, Set The Fire To The Third Bar is a close second for the same reason). I write to it a lot.
1) The National - Ada
Ada don’t stay in the lake too long
It lives alone and it barely knows you
It’ll have a nervous breakdown and fall
Into a thousand pieces around you
Favourite song of the year, hands down. I still don't like any other track on Boxer quite as much as Ada, even though I've grown to like all of The National's stuff more and more.
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If you download, let me know what you think! I am always happy to babble more about music that I love.
Instead of treating you all to a detailed retrospective of my years as a squealy teenage anime fan and a fledgling writer of sappy slash fanfic, my RP career (I started off by playing Persephone in a crack Matrix RP and moved through various Discworldian characters before reaching Milliways) and the growth of my flist from people I went to school with to people scattered across the globe...let's have some music. Retrospectives sound like too much effort, and also...embarrassing. (I was a really squealy teenage anime fan.)
10) Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
I listened to this song for about three days straight after the S1 finale. Um. Look, 2007 was the year I finally gave in to everyone telling me how awesome Supernatural was, and this is the quintessential SPN song.
9) Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
This was a Pilots vid first, and then my favourite track from Eyes Open, and then the song that I was delighted beyond words to see performed live at the Snow Patrol concert.
8) Susan Enan - Bring On The Wonder
I don't have the time for a drink from the cup
Let's rest for a while 'til our souls catch us up
Bring on the wonder, bring on the song
I pushed you down deep in my soul for too long
There's nothing hugely special about this song, but I find it beautiful and I first heard it in a Bones episode. Another TV show that I finally caved and started watching last year :)
7) Mendelssohn - Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64 - Allegro Molto Appassionato
The ONLY reason I tracked this down was String Theory. And then my brother paused near my door to have a classical moment music with me (we have a lot of those) and tell me about how I should have come to his friend's concerto concert because they played this. I've never really listened to a lot of Mendelssohn before, but this is fantastic.
6) Missy Higgins - Peachy
It's no-one's fault, it's nobody's fault
That I fell on you and you on me
That's what humans do as they pass on through
But I think we can't, don't you?
Missy Higgins's second album, On A Clear Night, was one of my favourites of 2007. And it was hard to pick a single track, but I've spent a lot of time bopping in my chair to this one.
5) Evermore - Running
You don't need a broken heart
To know a heart can be broken
You just need to open your eyes...yeah
We don't need to be deceived
To know a lie can be spoken
What I'd heard of Evermore prior to their second album, Real Life, did not at all predispose me to like them. And then came last year's fatal car trip to Thredbo, when my father played the album twice through and got my entire family hooked on it.
4) Indigo Girls - Kid Fears
Skipping stones, we know the price now
And any sin will do
How much further, if you can spin?
How much further, if you are smooth?
Oh man. I only discovered this song very late in the year, but it caught me immediately and I still can't listen to it without being blown away by the way it builds up, combining the two female voices and the one male, and just soaring.
3) The Faint - Southern Belles In London Sing
Velvet voices, haunting slow
Darkened notes with bright decor
Georgian femmes are gone for weeks
Southern belles in London sing
There is no exciting story for this beyond the fact that I love it ENORMOUSLY and it's great fun.
2) Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey
Nowhere in the suburbs in the cold light of day
There in the midst of it, so alive and alone
Words support like bone
This is the Most Played song in my entire iTunes library because I write to it (actually, Set The Fire To The Third Bar is a close second for the same reason). I write to it a lot.
1) The National - Ada
Ada don’t stay in the lake too long
It lives alone and it barely knows you
It’ll have a nervous breakdown and fall
Into a thousand pieces around you
Favourite song of the year, hands down. I still don't like any other track on Boxer quite as much as Ada, even though I've grown to like all of The National's stuff more and more.
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If you download, let me know what you think! I am always happy to babble more about music that I love.