Okay as some of you may know i'm always saying "this is my favorite song EVER!" to pretty much every song. and you guys are like shut up katie "i'll make love to you" is not your favorite song EVER. maybe you're right. but it is a very good song OK?! and yeah i guess now looking back sugar ray's "fly" wasn't the "greatest song ever written". but it ruled at the time. so now i've composed a list of songs that i personally think kicksth assth and that have stood the test of time in my books and may not the awesome credit they deserve. some of you may disagree but whateves.it's not your list, its mine. here go some of them in no certain order:josie by blink 182there are a few things that can make a song awesome. obviously the musical part, the lyrics, the vibe, the time in your life it reminds you of, etc. i was a crazy blink 182 fan. like i should've been on fanatic. embarassing? maybe. but i know some folks that could say the same for koRn or ricky martin so....anyways this song was the first song by them and i fell so in love. so i'm up at 6am or whenever getting ready for school watching music videos and i see alyssa milano and i'm like wtf mate? so i turn it up and discover not only is this babe in the video but the dudes in the band are smoking hot annnd the song is totally adorb! and so i became obsessed with them and i went to sam goody's and got my dude ranch cassette, yeah cassette. ever since i heard josie i've wanted a guy to write me a song like that. Josie is so sweet because its not like "baby i love you" its likes "thanks for staying with my shitass i recognize you put up with a lot of shit and you're the best." which really, for the guys out there, is all girls want. we figure you don't notice or care about the little things we do for yall, like bring you food. so if you want your girlf to love you forever and maybe throw a beej your way, write her a josie song.got you where i want you by the flysi'm not even sure where i heard this song first. to be honest i don't anything about this song or the band. i just know i fucking love the song. its slow and sexy and a little grungey. the lyrics aren't too deep or meaningful and the music isn't real complicated. its a pretty simple song but i love it. i want to make out to it. i didn't develop my love for it til probably ten years after it came out. like a few years back i was at a party with friends and someone mentioned the song and we all just started yelling "ah ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh got you where i want you!" and then i was like oh yeah this song DOES fucking rule. i think of a few people when i hear this song but mostly sean berg cause we couldn't believe singing this song at parties, and alden wellman cause i think we tried to figure out the rap in his car one night. towards the end of the semi-grunge song it breaks into a reggae rap. it's kinda corny but whateve! so up until today when i googled that shit i always thought the rap was "sucka sucka ya know that i love ya bubabulabualbub buba we'll go undercova" STUPID I KNOW! man was i wrong, but i always am when it comes to filling in my own lyrics. turns out its "Suffer, suffer Ya dont get no rougher Rub it up baby girl Don't ya be like no other Suffer, sufferYa dont get no rougher When ya rock me baby Put me thing on me lover ". those are some freaky nasty lyrics. i like it.i don't know where he's going with that but i feel him.hey jealousy by the gin blossoms
i know i say "favorite song ever" but this probably is my favorite song ever. the gin blossoms are underrated. they are awesome! they didn't have tons of hits but they had a solid few. i can listen to it on repeat for hours and still sing along and smile just as much as the first time i heard it. I love the song for the honesty. He's not like i'm the best dude in the world and i have a huge weiner. He's like don't expect a lot from me. i'm not perfect but i will love forever...or until i kill myself. SIKE he didn't say that in the song but it did end up killing himself. which makes me love this song more cause i like think he wrote it for this girl and she was like whateves so he didn't end up getting her and hes like well now this is happening and killed himself. stupid cave woman ass bitch ex girlfriend! it's probably NOT what happened but its a little more tragic/romantic that way. Anyways i love to drive around listening to this song. "tomorrow we can drive around this town, and let the cops chase us around.." totally reminds me high school. but the part that gives me little chills is "Cos all I really want's to be with you and feel like I matter too" i mean...AWWWWWWWWW! thats the cutest thing ever. EVER! the song is amazing.
if she wants me by belle and sebastiani didn't come across this song til sophmore year in high school when my old boyfriends little sister made me a mix cd. this song from start to finish is amazing. the music is so uplifting and carefree. anytime i listen to it i just imagine driving down the prettiest country roads out in clifton, all my windows down and sunroof open, on a warm sunny day, with my hand out in the window in the wind. the lyrics are so true for me and for many i'm sure. sometimes you get caught up in wanting something and your so concerned and all the sudden you realize fuck it. cause sometimes nothing beats being happy and having good company. this song is beautiful. and i miss you jocelyn!the promise by when in rome
let the record show i loved the song long before napoleon dynamite came out. i mean don't get me wrong i almost shit myself when i was in the movie theatre and they played it cause i thought i was the only freak in the world besides the members of when in rome that liked/knew of this song. basically what we have here is your typical 80's new wave song. it starts off with a piano and some inspirational notes that make me want to caaww like a seagull and take off flying. then comes the drum machine which makes you start dancing like a fag on ecstacy. then the singer comes in with a almost tranny like voice. i might have to find a picture to see if the visual in my head matches with that he looks like. i picture a cross between morissey and boy george. anyways i first heard this song at this weird gay bar, go figure, that i was dragged to by some friends. this song was the only highlight of that night and it haunted me for weeks with its super catchy beat. if you haven't heard it download it and it will haunt you too!
institutionalized by suicidal tendencies
this song is an obviously pick. listen to it. i don't know if its just me but i feel like deja vu when i hear this song. i remember my mom getting all nerdy on me and buying these "Surviving Teenagers" books and then staring at my all intense at dinner trying to apply some bs she learned earlier in the day from a parenting bible. Every single time i had a bad day i was "CLEARLY HIGH" and blah blah. Just listen to the song, there isn't much i can say for it that it doesn't say for itself. the whole song is a hilarious and genius.
" I go: Mom I'm okay, I'm just thinking.She goes: No you're not thinking, you're on drugs! Normal people don't act that way!I go: Mom just give me a Pepsi please all i want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me!"
god i love it. and don't even get me started on how stoked i was when i found out it was in guitar hero....DONT EVEN.
crying.. or is it crazy..?..not its crying by aerosmith
i am NOT an aerosmith fan by anymeans. steven tyler freaks me out. however, this song is pretty sexual. even though it can absolutely be confused with the other aerosmith song crazy...which is also pretty good. i think i like it cause alicia silverstone was in the music video and i love her. but anyways its on the ipod and its one of the those songs where the louder you sing it the more badass it sounds. best song! not best dudes. aerosmith is definately homo.
okay i feel weird about these next couple songs cause i didn't want to have more than one song by the same artist but shit happens. especially when you are as incredible as ben folds. it would be impossible for me to pick A favorite ben folds song so i'll pick a couple. but for the record if you buy either the rockin the suburbs cd, sunny 16 cd , or the speed graphic cd you will not regret it.rockin the suburbs by ben folds
it's about time someone wrote about the hardships of being white. you turn on 106.5 or any rap station and all you hear about is how hard it is growin up in the "projects"..waaah! how tough it is to push enough drugs to get some sick grills, oh poor babies! or how many people they had to kill to be the little shit they are today.. boo fucking hoo. ben folds addresses some REAL issues. Such as : "I'm pissed off, but I'm too polite,When people break in the McDonald's line." SHIT SUCKS! how many times are you being white just minding your business when some sonofa cuts in front of you. i'm not pointing any fingers (BLACK GIRLS) but its very upsetting on the soul. I'm so happy someone let the truth be known about middle class white people. Times IS hard.
theres always someone cooler than you by ben folds
i wish i had heard this song in high school. i was always worried about what other people thought about me but every once in a while i'd see some kid that everyone else thought was a weird loser and i would wish i was them. cause i could see they weren't a loser, they were proabably the tightest kid in the school they just didn't give a shit about what other people thought and because of that they were totally free to do whatever made them happy. so if they wanted to wear acid washed pants they could cause fuck everyone who didn't think it was cool. this song is about people who try so hard to be cool and in reality they will never be as cool as the people who don't care about being cool. i've definately been there before and this song put me in my place. and made me want to rock acid washed clothes and play a micro korg. besides its inspirational lyrics its insanely catchy and makes me smile like a tool whenever i listen to it.
keep your hands to yourself by the georgia satellites
whenever i hear this song it makes me want to put on my cowboy boots and chew a piece of hay. this is southern rock at its finest. The singer, dan baird, does this thing with his voice thats incredibly sexy. He somehow makes his voice crack similar to a 15 year old boy without the awkwardness. and check these bamf dudes out.
loud as hell indeed. i had no idea howard stern was in this band..light and day by the polyphonic spree
the polyphonic spree is a force in itself. they didn't need to even write a song to make this list. just the fact that theres about 20 hippie ass people in white robes (until the recent anti-bush record they released where they now sport black robes in rebellion) that dance around ALWAYS smiling and spreading joy and for some terror, puts them on this list. it does help that the song magically releases endorphins and seratonin into your brain causing eurphoria for 3 minutes. but seriously who are these people? where did they come from? why does this song make me so happy? why can't i stop dancing when i hear this song?! i don't know! i'm fairly sure they are a cult. but thats cool cause they are a happy cult. this is the perfect song to start your morning with...or an acid trip.
i mean holy shit. look at these people! they have fiddles, and triangles, and tambourines for crying out loud. on top of all that they roll deep! it would be one thing if it was three dudes but its not. it's 20 people ages 9-40 all banned together for what?! i don't even know! but i want in on it. and is that pauly shore? i don't know!
the scientist by coldplay
all of coldplay's songs are beautiful but this song surpasses them all. this song makes me cry like nancy kerrigan. i know i said this list isn't in order but if it were this song would be top 3. i have never listened to the whole song without getting a little teary. there is something about it that i can't describe. this song reminds me of a special person that i lost and would give anything to have back for a day and change what happened. the music is sad but pretty and you can here the regret in chris martins voice. i don't want to get too mushy so i'll just leave it at i think this song is one of the most lovely songs ever written.