If we met up at midnight in the Hanging Tree~ (September music)
September is always an interesting month for me. Like half the world, it seems, my birthday is in it; I finally went back to doing platelet donations; and Fall showed up with these amazing fresco temperatures to start kicking everyone's ass. And there's a weird time thing with it; despite it being a thirty day month, it always seems to crawl by.
Unlike October. In roller coaster terms, September is the climb up the big hill, while October is the drop.
This September was also interesting because I stopped having two cars.
It was a very short lived period of having two cars, but for a wee bit of August and September, I had Moody (the Saturn of ten years) and Ezio (the Sonata of a little over a month). Moody got donated right after my birthday, though, so now it's just Ezio. And there is a story to Ezio, the car I was blackmailed into, but I will save that for another time. I will say, though, that the car's sound system is phenomenal, and if you don't think that's not going to influence music in the future, well. Have I got news for you.
But
September was a *really good* month of music for me. I got bits from the radio, from Tumblr, from friends--I just kept tripping over earworms. Hell, I tripped over so many I forgot some. It's nice to have a month like that.
5. Fun - Some Nights - What do I stand for? Most nights, I don't know anymore
Fun is the group responsible for that "We Are Young" song, which aside from having Janelle Monae in it and a great example of metonymy in the lyrics, didn't have much to recommend it. However, the moment this song surged into the drums on the radio, I was sucked in. Interestingly, it's very much a car stereo or headphones sort of song; playing it through laptop speakers doesn't come across a nearly as gripping, and some of the song's production choices become all the more glaring. Its beat makes for a *great* walking song, though.
4. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive - I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Tumblr find, courtesy of raynos. This song has been used in an ad, I think, but she got it by way of a PMMMMM video, then went and found the song so I could set it in another tab and hit "play" a thousand times. (Okay, not for ME, but I appreciated the effort, certainly *g*.) Do not be fooled by the Coldplay sounding opening; this song doesn't really stick to that sound. And its sound is fantastic. Any other month, I'd probably put this one higher on my not-scale, but it wasn't the only thing to catch my ear...
3. Bruno Mars ft. Cee-Lo Green and B.O.B. - The Other Side - It's better if you don't understand
PMMMM strikes again, this time by way of pts, who was all "TEN TEN TEN--DOESN'T THIS WORK?" And I went, "Yup!" and proceeded to listen to it for hours. On multiple occasions. I don't like Bruno Mars's music most of the time; either it makes me want to gag or to punch him, catchy as it can be. But this song? I have no idea what it's about. Is it about vampires? Drug users? Someone who works black ops? Who the hell knows! And that, it seems, allows it to pass my personal Bruno Mars filter.
2. Green Day - ¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl] - Little girl, little girl why are you crying? Inside your restless soul your heart is dying
Not a Green Day song I picked up from my Green Day obsessed acquaintance, for once. Rather, PhunnyNeon--of Legion and Friends and Garrus's Callibrations Vid--ran the GMod Musical Collaboration again this year. Last year it was a 14 minute, mostly TF2 vid; this year, it was a 51 minute, mostly TF2 vid. And I watched it all, 'cause GMod is fascinating. The piece that ran to this song really stood out, along with the song itself, and once I'd nailed down what it was, it got stuck in my head. It's the tempo? The time signature? The tinkly piano bits? It was unusual enough to stand out and fun to sing besides.
1. Adriana Figueroa - The Hanging Tree (Hunger Games fanmix) - Are you, are you, coming to the tree?
Another Tumblr find, though more random than the last: it was just there, haunting and gorgeous and kind of perfect. It's one of the first hits on YouTube for a version of this song, so I don't think I'm alone in that thought. It reminds me a little of the "creepy" songs we used to sing in elementary choir; those songs have stuck in my head for a long time now and continue to make me go BRR, so it's in good company. I have no interest in The Hunger Games or its universe, but I am unlikely to stop sticking this song on repeat any time soon.
Honorable Mentions
Caroline Lufkin - Pink and Black - I'm gonna make all this happen, in little steps
One of those "I'm unintentionally awake and suddenly transfixed" songs. Are a lot of the lyrics unintelligible to me? Yup. Does it matter? Not in the slightest. I like the mood and sound of it.
Green Day - Kill the DJ - Shoot that fucker down
This song got me through more than one walk, my platelet appointment, and it nicely fills my "cranky song under your breath" niche. There is a non-explicit version, too, but why would you bother? Shoot that fucker down.
Unlike October. In roller coaster terms, September is the climb up the big hill, while October is the drop.
This September was also interesting because I stopped having two cars.
It was a very short lived period of having two cars, but for a wee bit of August and September, I had Moody (the Saturn of ten years) and Ezio (the Sonata of a little over a month). Moody got donated right after my birthday, though, so now it's just Ezio. And there is a story to Ezio, the car I was blackmailed into, but I will save that for another time. I will say, though, that the car's sound system is phenomenal, and if you don't think that's not going to influence music in the future, well. Have I got news for you.
But
September was a *really good* month of music for me. I got bits from the radio, from Tumblr, from friends--I just kept tripping over earworms. Hell, I tripped over so many I forgot some. It's nice to have a month like that.
5. Fun - Some Nights - What do I stand for? Most nights, I don't know anymore
Fun is the group responsible for that "We Are Young" song, which aside from having Janelle Monae in it and a great example of metonymy in the lyrics, didn't have much to recommend it. However, the moment this song surged into the drums on the radio, I was sucked in. Interestingly, it's very much a car stereo or headphones sort of song; playing it through laptop speakers doesn't come across a nearly as gripping, and some of the song's production choices become all the more glaring. Its beat makes for a *great* walking song, though.
4. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive - I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones
Tumblr find, courtesy of raynos. This song has been used in an ad, I think, but she got it by way of a PMMMMM video, then went and found the song so I could set it in another tab and hit "play" a thousand times. (Okay, not for ME, but I appreciated the effort, certainly *g*.) Do not be fooled by the Coldplay sounding opening; this song doesn't really stick to that sound. And its sound is fantastic. Any other month, I'd probably put this one higher on my not-scale, but it wasn't the only thing to catch my ear...
3. Bruno Mars ft. Cee-Lo Green and B.O.B. - The Other Side - It's better if you don't understand
PMMMM strikes again, this time by way of pts, who was all "TEN TEN TEN--DOESN'T THIS WORK?" And I went, "Yup!" and proceeded to listen to it for hours. On multiple occasions. I don't like Bruno Mars's music most of the time; either it makes me want to gag or to punch him, catchy as it can be. But this song? I have no idea what it's about. Is it about vampires? Drug users? Someone who works black ops? Who the hell knows! And that, it seems, allows it to pass my personal Bruno Mars filter.
2. Green Day - ¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl] - Little girl, little girl why are you crying? Inside your restless soul your heart is dying
Not a Green Day song I picked up from my Green Day obsessed acquaintance, for once. Rather, PhunnyNeon--of Legion and Friends and Garrus's Callibrations Vid--ran the GMod Musical Collaboration again this year. Last year it was a 14 minute, mostly TF2 vid; this year, it was a 51 minute, mostly TF2 vid. And I watched it all, 'cause GMod is fascinating. The piece that ran to this song really stood out, along with the song itself, and once I'd nailed down what it was, it got stuck in my head. It's the tempo? The time signature? The tinkly piano bits? It was unusual enough to stand out and fun to sing besides.
1. Adriana Figueroa - The Hanging Tree (Hunger Games fanmix) - Are you, are you, coming to the tree?
Another Tumblr find, though more random than the last: it was just there, haunting and gorgeous and kind of perfect. It's one of the first hits on YouTube for a version of this song, so I don't think I'm alone in that thought. It reminds me a little of the "creepy" songs we used to sing in elementary choir; those songs have stuck in my head for a long time now and continue to make me go BRR, so it's in good company. I have no interest in The Hunger Games or its universe, but I am unlikely to stop sticking this song on repeat any time soon.
Honorable Mentions
Caroline Lufkin - Pink and Black - I'm gonna make all this happen, in little steps
One of those "I'm unintentionally awake and suddenly transfixed" songs. Are a lot of the lyrics unintelligible to me? Yup. Does it matter? Not in the slightest. I like the mood and sound of it.
Green Day - Kill the DJ - Shoot that fucker down
This song got me through more than one walk, my platelet appointment, and it nicely fills my "cranky song under your breath" niche. There is a non-explicit version, too, but why would you bother? Shoot that fucker down.