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Spent Independence Day going food shopping, listening to the two latest Gaslight Anthem albums back-to-back, and watching District 9. Strange yet awesome selections. Now for the meme:
Day 01 - Your Favorite Song
I find it impossible to limit the selection to one song. Instead, here are my top two.
I absolutely love this song. It's completely badass and represents the best era of U2's history: the early 90s ZooTV era. Everything about the song is perfect to me. Edge's guitar is nasty as hell, working with a very simple riff and making it sound grungy right before the grunge movement really hit. Plus, it has his best guitar solo ever. Bono's vocal delivery between whispers and falsetto only adds to the coolness. It always gets me pumped up. I really hope I get to see it played live someday.
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. The acoustic guitar working with the string section creates a perfect backing for Thom Yorke's vocals. I like how it slowly builds emotionally and musically until it reaches a peak after the final chorus when Yorke switches to falsetto. The swirling strings at the end create a sense of claustrophobia that breaks when the strings fall away for just a moment, letting the falsetto be heard clearly before it's covered up again by the strings. This song made Radiohead my second favorite band.
Day 01 - Your Favorite Song
I find it impossible to limit the selection to one song. Instead, here are my top two.
Click to viewI absolutely love this song. It's completely badass and represents the best era of U2's history: the early 90s ZooTV era. Everything about the song is perfect to me. Edge's guitar is nasty as hell, working with a very simple riff and making it sound grungy right before the grunge movement really hit. Plus, it has his best guitar solo ever. Bono's vocal delivery between whispers and falsetto only adds to the coolness. It always gets me pumped up. I really hope I get to see it played live someday.
This song is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. The acoustic guitar working with the string section creates a perfect backing for Thom Yorke's vocals. I like how it slowly builds emotionally and musically until it reaches a peak after the final chorus when Yorke switches to falsetto. The swirling strings at the end create a sense of claustrophobia that breaks when the strings fall away for just a moment, letting the falsetto be heard clearly before it's covered up again by the strings. This song made Radiohead my second favorite band.