Frankenstein Mix 1.0

[irishmarigold]

1. A song you would use to pump up a sports arena: Bear Vs. Shark, "Six Bar Phrase Hey Hey"
It's only half a minute long, but it's got great energy, and short is good since songs always get faded out halfway through at sporting events anyway.


2. A song you dance to when you're alone: Goo Goo Dolls, "Big Machine"
Honestly, this is the only song that I could think of that reminded me of dancing by myself. I never dance, even when I'm alone, but I remember dancing when I got out of the shower while listening to this.


3. A song that makes you drive faster: The Blood Brothers, "Fucking's Greatest Hits"
Really, a lot of my music is the kind that makes me want to drive faster when it plays, but the intro to Fucking's is just perfect inspiration for lead foot.


4. A song with a title that ends in n: Coheed & Cambria, "Junesong Provision"
Probably my favorite song off of Second Stage Turbine Blade, and therefore arguably my favorite Coheed song.


5. A song you completely misunderstood the first time you heard it: Third Eye Blind, "Semi-Charmed Life"
I was what, 10 when this song came out on the radio? I can even remember the moment that I listened to it and finally understood what the hell they were talking about. Catchy pop masking drugs and debauchery.


6. A song you only like half of the time: Pretty Girls Make Graves, "The New Romance"
PGMG has a tendency to really build me up for half of a song, and then disappoint in the end. This song is no exception. The great electronic-y riff is so perfect and the little solo/breakdown halfway through with the "ah-ah"s is great, but the vocals really leave me disappointed in the end. Half of the time it's worth listening to for it's strong points, and the other half, it's... not.


7. A song that mentions gambling: Minus the Bear, "The Game Needed Me"
We don't have money / so we can't lose it - to me, this entire song really has a gambling vibe, but on a greater scale: gambling with one's life or happiness.


8. A song that could inspire a novel: The Decemberists, "Eli, The Barrow Boy"
I'm pretty sure that most any Decemberists song could be used as inspiration for a novel, but Eli was the first that came to mind and since I'm in a more or less tragic frame of mind, it seemed appropriate.


9. An educational song: The Cranberries, "Yeats' Grave"
I suppose to some degree this is stretching the "educational" label, but it prompted me to learn about Yeats and his life, plus it has spoken excerpts from one of his poems, so that seems educational to me.


10. A song you know is a cover song, but for which you've never heard the original: AFI, "Today's Lesson"
Originally by Filth - I love the AFI version and for a long time I had no idea that it was a cover. Since then, I've just never bothered to find the original, and in some recent searching I've found that it's not readily available anyway.


11. A song that made you cry shamelessly when it was used on a TV show: Imogen Heap, "Hide & Seek"
Though it may be cheesy to use a song from the OC here, this song has been on the forefront of my mind for months and is the one song that I can ever remember that made me truly emotional about a TV show. It kind of makes me want to have it played at my funeral, in spite of it being more lyrically a breakup song.


12. A song you wish TPTB would use on a TV show: Jimmy Eat World, "Goodbye Sky Harbour"
Clarity is arguably JEW's best album and this song is just amazing. The guitar riff is fantastic and I can totally see the instrumental outro used for TV.