Top 100 Music Videos (10-6)

I bet my two week absence got you all really excited about my top 10. Well, my little Video Seekers, behold, the first half of my top 10!

10. The All-American Rejects - The Last Song
Yes, yes I know, three songs out of four. I chose this video over the over two because i can connect with it a lot easier, awww.

9. My Chemical Romance - Helena
This has always been one of my favourite music videos, it carries so much emotion, and is so well staged. I love it ^.^

8. Ok Go - Here It Goes Again
This music video is LEGENDARY. It's so simple yet so awesome to watch. Very clever indeed.

7. Lostprophets - A Town Called Hypocrisy
This was the first video where lostprophets stopped looking American and actually showed their true British roots, and for that, I am proud. I don't know why there's like two minutes of nothing at the end either...

6. 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
This video made it into my top 10 because it's full of freedom and mystery. And the bit with the argument? Better than sex (give or take).

Top 100 Music Videos (30-21)

30. Madonna - Die Another Day
Yes, I know. I don't like this because it's Madonna, I like the fight scene because it's awesome.

29. You Me At Six - Save it for the Bedroom

28. Michael Jackson - Thriller
Gonna be blunt here, MJ's death didn't effect my view towards him in anyway. I just want to say that it was on my list (in the same place) BEFORE he snuffed it :)

27. Pendulum - Slam
For the intro if nothing else.

26. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can't Stop
This video is so random. Love it. Hate them.

25. The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

24. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Dani California

23. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Admittedly, I thought this video would be a lot higher on my list. Oh well :p

22. MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
Another classic. Hammer's moves are amazing, and that's all you need to know. This video was REALLY hard to get and the best version I found had the ending missing :(

21. 30 Seconds to Mars - From Yesterday
Ahhh, didn't expect to see them again, did you? With a sword fight as intense as this, I'd have been crazy to miss it.

Top 100 Music Videos (95-91)

Sorry, kinda slowed this one down by accident while looking for a decent version of "Can't touch this", I'll keep it regular for you guys now. Don't say I never do anything for you :P

95. Biffy Clyro - Folding Stars

94. 30 Seconds to Mars - Attack

93. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

92. The Killers - Bones

91. Run DMC featuring Aerosmith - Walk This Way

This vid's a bit messed up, but you get the point.

Top 5 Songs! (Week Starting 06/07/09)

It's been a pretty dramatic week in terms of my top five, but I think this'll do :)

5. All That I've Got - The Used

I really like the little tinkly guitar bits of this song :p It's pretty cool. I used to be in love with this song a few years back. It's all very good, and has that emotional power that the used can do :p It's actually about Bert's puppy (named "David Bowie") who was hit by a car and died. Interesting times.

Good Lyrics: "So deep, that it didn't even bleed and catch me
Off guard, red handed"

"Hit me and knock me out
And let me go back to sleep"

"[Chorus]
I'll be just fine
Pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely
And it's all that I've got "

"I guess, I remember every glance you shot me"

"So deep that I didn't even scream "fuck me"

4. From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

At first I loved this song, then I grew to hate it. Then it came back, and here we are :) However, I have always loved the video, you'll see it sometime (hint hint). It's cool how they have that sort of quietness and then it sounds as if they're really giving it their all. I don't really like any of the lyrics though. Shame.

3. Promise - Eve 6

Yes, it did better than even I expected, Ant shall be pleased :) I like this song because it reminds me a lot of Alkaline trio and that group of bands, yet it has some pretty cool lyrics. Don't care about meaning, look at the lyrics :P

Good Lyrics: "I spit and stutter,
stuff and clutter
worries in my worried corner
maladjusted,
just untrusted,
rusted,
sometimes brilliant, busted thoughts.
Think I'll stay for a while
I'm intrigued and I'm
red as a newborn, white as a corpse."

"I promise not to-try not to-fuck with your mind.
I promise not to mind if you go your way and I go mine.
I promise not to lie if I'm looking you straight in the eye.
I promise not to-try not to-let you down."

"Why you gotta keep the fan on high when it's cold outside?
Just wanna let you know that I'm still a fan, get it?"

2. The New Black - Every Time I Die

Recordddd! This is the first song to be posted three times. Although it's not made it to number 1 yet, it's fast becoming one of my FAVOURITE songs =D So I'm gonna post all the lyrics and seriously recommend it!

"Baby, you got me all wrong
And maybe I am not at all down and out
I'm high and I'm in

Don't you know who I am?
I'm the jaded one with pop insensitivity
When I finish struggling,
We can make our way to the dance floor and stand like strangers
In an elevator stuck between stories
I always find myself in the middle of your stories

With the cameras as a witness I will suffer
With the cameras as a witness I will suffer

If everything I do is wrong
Then by God I'll do it right [x4]

We don't dance no no no
We got class
No we don't have any fun at all
It's the new style and we know it
We're not stunning, we're just stunned

We're lying for a living
We're lying for a living

Don't you know who I am?
I'm the real thing with the low-key sensibilities
I don't need what I've got half as much as everyone covets it

Well if loving me is wrong,
Then god damn you do it right
Well if loving me is wrong,
Then god damn you do it right

It turns us on,
To turn you down
We're turned on,
To turn you down"

1. Finders Keepers - You Me At Six

Although all the other songs on my list changed this week, this song remained the same throughout, I love the way it's sung. It's amazing. I was listening to it on repeat for a while. It's the way they vary their songs so no two song is similar, it's great. Well deserved second number one for one of my favourite bands.

You've got a nerve
Giving me the cold shoulder
Giving me the twice over, that's not deserved.
And we'll talk, again when you're sober
You said I've got cold and our heat has gone
I wanna be your eyes so you can see what you've done
I wanna be your ears so you can hear everything that's been missing

Finders keepers
Will you keep me in mind
I like secrets
'Cause they keep me in line
Old habits die hard
But I'm too young to die

I guess it's a mess
That you make your bed
So why are we still laying in it
And I could barely sleep
I could barely eat
And it's been three whole weeks since I heard you speak
So hard to take that eight months was built to break
Oh I love mistakes
Especially ones you've made
(I bet you're sorry)

Finders keepers
Will you keep me in mind
I like secrets
'Cause they keep me in line
Old habits die hard
But I'm too young to die

Finders keepers
The whole thing is a lie
You won't find her
'Cause she's too hard to find
Take my advice and boy run a mile

And have another drink
And then think this one over
You dig yourself a grave every day you're sober
Do you see what I mean?
Have your best interest written all over me
I could never be what you need.

Finders keepers
Will you keep me in mind
I like secrets
'Cause they keep me in line
Old habits die hard
But I'm too young to die

Finders keepers
The whole thing is a lie
You won't find her
'Cause she's too hard to find
Take my advice and boy run a mile

And I bet you guess me right
(You guess me yes you guessed me right)
I bet you guess me right.

Top 5 Songs! (Week Starting 29/06)

This week's been a bit hectic really. I'm still on the spare, and I've lost another playlist so I'm gonna have to remake it (AGAIN!). So I made a really basic 17 song playlist to keep me occupied, am I bored of it, no, it's AWESOME! So before I write my top five (which is a real heavyweight list), I'd like to mention the other twelve:

Situations - Escape the Fate
Ashes, Ashes - Hidden in Plain View
Last Train Home - Lostprophets
Adalia - Madina Lake
Monsters - Matchbook Romance
Helena - My Chemical Romance
Misery Business - Paramore
Don't Bury Me . . . I'm Still Not Dead - Riverboat Gamblers
Face Down - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
All That I've Got - The Used
Save It For the Bedroom - You Me At Six
Under Pressure - The Used and My Chemical Romance
Miserable at Best - Mayday Parade

Now, are you sitting comfortably? Good. Then I shall begin.

5. The Fantasy - 30 Seconds To Mars

I used to listen to this song on repeat back when I first heard it, that's how much it threw me. I love 30 seconds to mars, I have their first album on CD (how retro am i? :P). There is a lot of contradiction to what this song's about, and to be honest, I don't care what it's about because it's just an amazingly mesmerising song.

Good lyrics: "do you live?
do you die?
do you bleed?
for the fantasy"

4. The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance

This song was one of the late comers to my playlist, I just thought "why not?" and here it is :p My chemical romance's songs used to have really powerful choruses, and I love them to bits. It's quite obviously about a dead relationship. He uses death as explanation quite a lot, for instance, he says "she dies", meaning the moment the lies were uncovered, she was dead to him. It's so powerful, check it out.

Good lyrics:"at the end of the world
or the last thing i see
you are never coming home, never coming home
could i? should i?

and all the things that you never ever told me
and all the smiles that are ever gonna hug me
never coming home, never coming home
could i? should i?

and all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me
for all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me
if i fall, if i fall down"

"and i remember now
at the top of my lungs, in my arms
she dies, she dies"

3. Everchanging (acoustic) - Rise Against

Yes, it's back! This song is in my list because after two days without a computer OR music, I woke up with this song in my head. It's because my life IS everchanging (in the most improbable ways) and my latest twist has left me staring "in the face of change" I just hope the rest of the line doesn't apply to me.

Important Lyrics: "In the face of change,
that's when she turned to me and said
"i'm not sure anymore"

"have you ever been a part of something
that you thought would never end
and then of course it did"

"and now the lines are drawn
is this feeling gone?
the best parts of this have come and gone"

2. Johnny Sniper - Enter Shikari

This song is one of my favourites, because it sounds so positive. There are two meanings: the title and the lyrics. The title is based on a sex education character who had a sniper rifle that fired condoms or "johnnies", whenever a couple were going to have unprotected sex he'd fire a "johnny" onto the end of his penis (just trying to be scientific) :p Good story. The lyrics are about saving the planet. Thought I'd be blunt about that, you'll see in the lyrics.

Good Lyrics: "So this is a quest to save the world,
And He'll always be here for another,
Another day, Another chance to rescue"

"Hey Johnny!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way...to save...the world!"

"This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive,
This is all i need to feel alive"

1. MakeDamnSure - Taking Back Sunday

The second band to get two number ones! woooo! This is from the album that I actually own (Louder Now, it's track 3, I know that off by heart) I've always loved it. This song very much relates to my life right now, in fact i used to listen to it before, it has ALWAYS related to my feelings towards a certain relationship. It's about a girl that the narrator likes, but he thinks that he's wayyyy out of her league...It's amazing how my life happens.

"You've got this new head
Filled up with smoke
I've got my veins all tangled close
To those jukebox bars you frequent
They're the safest place to hide

A long night spent with your most obvious weaknesses
You start shaking at the thought
You are everything I want
Because you are everything I'm not

And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)

I just wanna break you down so badly
I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way

My inarticulate store bought
Hangover hobby kit it talks
It says 'You, oh, you are so cool'
Scissor shaped across the bed
You are red, violent red
You hollow out my hungry eyes
You hollow out my hungry eyes

And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)
And we lay, we lay together
Just not too close, too close
(How close is close enough?)

I just wanna break you down so badly
I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way
I just wanna break you down so badly
I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way

I'm gonna make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No you won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
I'll make damn sure
That you can't ever leave
No you won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far from me
You won't ever get too far

I just wanna break you down so badly
I trip over everything you say
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way

I'm gonna make damn sure
I just wanna break you down so badly
I just wanna break you down so badly
In the worst way"