music

i love it.

i mean, of course i do, but sometimes i’m reminded how much i love all the little bits.

i’ve been listening to cath… by death cab for cutie. i’ve had the album for a while now, but as is often the case, i’ve come back to it and discovered how much i like this song. is it one of my favorites? probably not, but certainly one of my favorite death cab songs.

it opens with a guitar rift and symbols and the first verse is my favorite….

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admittedly, one of my favorite gifts to receive are borders or barnes and noble gift certificates. yes. i’m a bit geeky and a bit odd. i like shopping (not just buying) new books and new music.and for my recently past birthday, i received a couple such excellent gifts. i’ve already used one:

narrow stairs by death cab for cutie
saturday nights & sunday mornings
by counting crows
the people speak: american voices, some famous, some little known, from columbus to the present
by howard zinn

i’ve finished the book, it was quite short, but good. narrow stairs is good, more of the death cab i’ve come to know and love. saturday nights, is alright. at least so far. i should say i still think august and everything after is still my favorite album and so far this new one is my least favorite, but maybe it’ll grow on me as i listen more. that’s what happened with recovering the satellites.

the next music to purchase? i’m not sure yet, but i definitely have books to purchase: a biography (of sorts) on the first amendment as well as another by zinn on just war and a couple of good study guides for the lsat.

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so, in the last couple of weeks i’ve been inundated with a mass of new music to listen to.  admittedly, this is both really great and bad.

on the one hand, new music is always a good thing and i’ll take it whenever it’s offered or suggested.  as it stand now, i’ve got roughly two dozen bands and 300-400 songs to listen to.  some of it is new albums of bands of which i’m already a fan, others i’ve either never heard of or have only heard mentioned in passing.  so far i’ve liked everything i’ve listened to, but some of it i’ve really liked.

let me explain to you how i listen to music, how i’ve listened to music ever since my sister got me excited about it….  when i find something i really like, i listen to it over and over and over and over again, until i’ve fully absorbed it, until know every note, every beat, and every lyric.  out of those 300-400 songs, i’ve maybe listed to 25.

one of the reasons i’m saying this is because, if you look at my last.fm list on this page, you’ll notice i’ve been listening to the same song on repeat.  i can’t help it.  the song, in case you haven’t looked, is an all angels cover of ‘the scientist’ by coldplay.  the original is one of my absolute favorite coldplay songs and when i first bought that album, i listed to their version over and over again (the video is one of my favorite also).

this version i actually heard while visiting my family in london over the holidays.  since then i’ve been looking for it back here in the states.  i finally found it yesterday and have pretty much been listening to this one song since then.

their cover is, i think, completely mesmerizing; i can’t get over the beauty of the song, the melody, and the harmony of their voices.  some might see it as sappy, or childish (especially when you see their picture), but i think its great.

eventually, i will have had my fill of this song and move on to the plethora of new music i have.  in the meantime, i’m thoroughly enjoying this.

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quite possibly my favorite opening verse and chorus of all time:

We’ll take ourselves out in the street
And wear the blood in our cheeks
Like red roses
We’ll go from car to sleeping car
And whisper in their sleeping ears
We were here, we were here
We’ll set off the geese of Beverly Road

Hey, love, we’ll get away with it
We’ll run like we’re awesome, totally genius
Hey, love, we’ll get away with it
We’ll run like we’re awesome

by the national, on the album alligator…. and i can’t stop listening to it.

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