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today, i realized that i know what my favorite song is.
my favorite song of all time, rather.
i don't know how often this comes up, when you have a song that will always be your favorite always and forever, but i have one. maybe you do to.
if so, how did you know? what led you to believe that? i figured it out today. i was listening to it, and i thought... thats what it is, that is the very quality i need.
my favorite song is Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.
i can remember the first time i heard it, on my shitty radio i found at a garage sale. i was listening to 107.7 and the hits collection for Depeche Mode had just come out, so this song was just getting big. and i heard it, and i fell in love. in my mind, its one of the earliest memories i have. chronologically this is far from true, but the bulk of my memories start to surface a few months before this, so in my head i say this is the start of my life. it's not true at all, but the fact that i still love the song so much gives it more weight.
but that is not why i love this song.
i love this song because i love it even when someone else does it. i have versions done by Evergreen Terrace, It Dies Today, and Lacuna Coil. i've got Remixes by everyone from Apollo 440 to Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, if you can believe it.
i love them all so much. with one exception. because when you cover a song you can only change so much before it becomes parody, or at worst, a travesty. and all the things they have to keep are what makes me love.
what are these things? those 4 distinctive notes. the raw passion in the chorus. the general pacing of the song itself. if it were too much faster or slower, to much out of step with the original it wouldnt seem right.
Tori Amos does not keep these things.
in short, Tori Amos ruins other peoples songs. we always suspected as much.
also, TELL ME I AM NOT CRAZY. tell me Stars by Lacuna Coil and Won't Go Away by Vertical Horizon sound somehow similar.
DO THIS THING. i am listening to them both back to back on repeat, for hours. it's probably not healthy. also, other than packaging them together and putting them for upload, i can't think of a way for you to listen to them, and i don't know a single one of you who listens to both lacuna coil AND vertical horizon.
in fact, i can't think of a single one of you who listens to vertical horizon.
also, i lost my job
DON'T! try and console me. it just makes me feel worse. make some jokes about it and maybe give me an extra hug next time you see me.
my favorite song of all time, rather.
i don't know how often this comes up, when you have a song that will always be your favorite always and forever, but i have one. maybe you do to.
if so, how did you know? what led you to believe that? i figured it out today. i was listening to it, and i thought... thats what it is, that is the very quality i need.
my favorite song is Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.
i can remember the first time i heard it, on my shitty radio i found at a garage sale. i was listening to 107.7 and the hits collection for Depeche Mode had just come out, so this song was just getting big. and i heard it, and i fell in love. in my mind, its one of the earliest memories i have. chronologically this is far from true, but the bulk of my memories start to surface a few months before this, so in my head i say this is the start of my life. it's not true at all, but the fact that i still love the song so much gives it more weight.
but that is not why i love this song.
i love this song because i love it even when someone else does it. i have versions done by Evergreen Terrace, It Dies Today, and Lacuna Coil. i've got Remixes by everyone from Apollo 440 to Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, if you can believe it.
i love them all so much. with one exception. because when you cover a song you can only change so much before it becomes parody, or at worst, a travesty. and all the things they have to keep are what makes me love.
what are these things? those 4 distinctive notes. the raw passion in the chorus. the general pacing of the song itself. if it were too much faster or slower, to much out of step with the original it wouldnt seem right.
Tori Amos does not keep these things.
in short, Tori Amos ruins other peoples songs. we always suspected as much.
also, TELL ME I AM NOT CRAZY. tell me Stars by Lacuna Coil and Won't Go Away by Vertical Horizon sound somehow similar.
DO THIS THING. i am listening to them both back to back on repeat, for hours. it's probably not healthy. also, other than packaging them together and putting them for upload, i can't think of a way for you to listen to them, and i don't know a single one of you who listens to both lacuna coil AND vertical horizon.
in fact, i can't think of a single one of you who listens to vertical horizon.
also, i lost my job
DON'T! try and console me. it just makes me feel worse. make some jokes about it and maybe give me an extra hug next time you see me.