Six songs that are important to me......
Six songs that are important to me and then tag six other people, huh? Well, I'm probably gonna tag the same people as everybody else as our little livejournal community has a limited population, but I'll do it just because it sounds cool.
6. Counting Crows-A Long December.....Everyone pretty much knows why this one is important to me, but I'll say it anyways. In the summer of 2003, after we would finish shooting or hanging out at the cinemas or hanging out at someone's house, we would all go to Waffle House. The Waffle House that we always frequented has a very limited number of good songs on it's jukebox; at least ones that came out when we were all alive. This was one of the few and definitely the best. It's the one I would always play. No matter when I hear it now it always gets me choked up. It's also a reminder that those times will always live on, no matter where we are, because when we hear that song it will always take us back.
5. Collective Soul-Run.......Probably the song that got me into music the most. I have this song on three cds. Collective Soul's "Dosage" album, Collective Soul's Greatest Hits, and the Varsity Blues soundtrack. It really is one of those songs that never ages; everytime I hear it it reminds me of that sense of discovery that I had when I was sixteen. It's a really rolling, contemplative song that just screams to be played on the radio at 3 in the morning when you're driving home from a friend's house and all is right with the world. It reminds you of that feeling when you think the whole world is asleep and your the only one up, and you feel damn good about it.
4. Dashboard Confessional-Hands Down......I'll never forget the first time I heard this song right after I bought the cd. I was driving out of Wal Mart's parking lot and all of the sudden this really great picking guitar part opened it up and then finished....three hits on the cymbal later the lyrics began, and they hearkened back to every great moment a guy could ever have with a girl. It's a song about the great night where you discover something with someone...and your own idealism allows you to hold it as sacred like no other experience. I've always made it a point to have this song on hand whenever something like that happens. It just captures that youthful innocence and discovery better than almost any song that I've ever heard.
3. Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road.....I say almost because this is the song that captures it better than anything else. There's just something about it that screams how good it felt to be 17. I remember the summer after I turned 17 as one where I had Springsteen playing a whole, whole lot, and it was the best soundtrack I could have possibly had. The dude just made me feel like it was all okay, and any of the insecurities that you were feeling at the time were natural, and you needed to feel them. If I didn't have this song, or any of those Bruce songs, I probably wouldn't remember things as fondly as I do now.
2. Frou Frou-Let Go.....A song that I think everyone needed to hear at this stage in their life. It really does tell you not to be too careful and that the world goes on without you if you don't let go and jump in. It helped illustrate that beautifully in the best film of 2004, and it's still a song I think about whenever I'm about to get into a situation that I'm unsure of. A lot of the time it just gives you license to do what you want to do because it's not going to wait around forever.
1. Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit.....I don't really feel like I need to explain that one. It kind of speaks for itself.
Okay....Erin, Colleen, Lauren, Brian, Scott, and Allison
You're it.
6. Counting Crows-A Long December.....Everyone pretty much knows why this one is important to me, but I'll say it anyways. In the summer of 2003, after we would finish shooting or hanging out at the cinemas or hanging out at someone's house, we would all go to Waffle House. The Waffle House that we always frequented has a very limited number of good songs on it's jukebox; at least ones that came out when we were all alive. This was one of the few and definitely the best. It's the one I would always play. No matter when I hear it now it always gets me choked up. It's also a reminder that those times will always live on, no matter where we are, because when we hear that song it will always take us back.
5. Collective Soul-Run.......Probably the song that got me into music the most. I have this song on three cds. Collective Soul's "Dosage" album, Collective Soul's Greatest Hits, and the Varsity Blues soundtrack. It really is one of those songs that never ages; everytime I hear it it reminds me of that sense of discovery that I had when I was sixteen. It's a really rolling, contemplative song that just screams to be played on the radio at 3 in the morning when you're driving home from a friend's house and all is right with the world. It reminds you of that feeling when you think the whole world is asleep and your the only one up, and you feel damn good about it.
4. Dashboard Confessional-Hands Down......I'll never forget the first time I heard this song right after I bought the cd. I was driving out of Wal Mart's parking lot and all of the sudden this really great picking guitar part opened it up and then finished....three hits on the cymbal later the lyrics began, and they hearkened back to every great moment a guy could ever have with a girl. It's a song about the great night where you discover something with someone...and your own idealism allows you to hold it as sacred like no other experience. I've always made it a point to have this song on hand whenever something like that happens. It just captures that youthful innocence and discovery better than almost any song that I've ever heard.
3. Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road.....I say almost because this is the song that captures it better than anything else. There's just something about it that screams how good it felt to be 17. I remember the summer after I turned 17 as one where I had Springsteen playing a whole, whole lot, and it was the best soundtrack I could have possibly had. The dude just made me feel like it was all okay, and any of the insecurities that you were feeling at the time were natural, and you needed to feel them. If I didn't have this song, or any of those Bruce songs, I probably wouldn't remember things as fondly as I do now.
2. Frou Frou-Let Go.....A song that I think everyone needed to hear at this stage in their life. It really does tell you not to be too careful and that the world goes on without you if you don't let go and jump in. It helped illustrate that beautifully in the best film of 2004, and it's still a song I think about whenever I'm about to get into a situation that I'm unsure of. A lot of the time it just gives you license to do what you want to do because it's not going to wait around forever.
1. Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit.....I don't really feel like I need to explain that one. It kind of speaks for itself.
Okay....Erin, Colleen, Lauren, Brian, Scott, and Allison
You're it.