Top 5 Songs (week starting 01/03)

Aha, didn't see this one coming did we?

Basically, since my Nokia Music account was fixed, I've been listening to a lot more music, and so I'm able to write you one of those lists you love oh so much. I originally had 10 songs this week, but decided that I really can't be bothered to write that much.

It's been a week of mixed emotions, so I've been listening to a lot of acoustic, "meaningful" (emo) music but I became happier and discovered a few new albums throughout the week. So it's all cool.

5. Jamie all over -Mayday parade

This song's been number one on this list in the past, I don't really have to explain it again. Mayday Parade are still one of my favourite bands, they take up my entire "depression" playlist, or at least they did, until the next song came along...

4. Maybe - Secondhand Serenade

I found this on Facebook, and it's a bit emo to say the least. They remind me a lot of Dashboard Confessional (not promising), they caught my attention, and I like them, 'nuff said.

Lyrics that I like:
"Maybe it's just me.
Couldn't you believe that everything I said and did
wasn't just deceiving?
And the tear in your eye,
and your calm, hard face
makes me wish that I was never brought into this place.

And someday, I promise I'll be gone.
And someday, I might even sing this song to you.
I might even sing this song to you.
To you, to you, to you..."

3. Mic check - Hadouken!

I was just planning on browsing youtube one day, and I found this on the homepage. I liked some of Hadouken's stuff so I decided to check it out. This is actually the video that led me to the top 100 youtube videos I posted earlier on this week. It's more of a tuney thing than a lyrical thing, I just really like the beat.

Cool lyrics:
"I wanna take your mind and soul,
right to the core
right to the bone"

Here, have the music video.

2. Baby, you wouldn't last a minute on the creek - Chiodos

If I'd have written this last week, this song would have been number one, and most likely the week before that as well. Their lyrics stand out to me more than other bands, I can't explain why, they just do. I won't post a video because Chiodos have horrible and disturbing videos (but if you want to find them, feel free).

My favourite lyrics from this track:
"Let's just stop,
drop everything,
(forget each other's names) forget each other's names,
And just walk away.

Turn around and head in different directions,
Like we never, it's like we never knew each other at all.
We said what we feel, then we stop ourselves,
And just walk away.
Never looking back,
Loving every second of it,
we just walk away.

This is probably the best,
not to mention the worst idea,
that I have ever had.

Ignoring what we've loved,
Overlooking what we've done,
No awkward silences, no hiding any truths
What do you say?"

1. The great escape - We are Scientists

Probably the liveliest song In my list this week. I got it stuck in my head at some point last week, for no reason at all, even though I hadn't heard it for months on end, strange things. The video is number 58 on my top 100 if you want to go find it (: I love it, I really do, so much I can't explain it.

Lyrics:
"I'm making my escape
Making my escape
Tell myself that everything's in shape
Everything's in shape
But me

How long can this take?
How long can this take?
Tell myself that everything is great
Everything is great
Well, how'm I doin'?

[Chorus]
I got a great idea I'm gonna wait right here I got a great idea I'm gonna wait right here While everything is adding up, up, up Everything is adding up, up, up

Breakin' both my hands
Breakin' both my hands
Tellin' me to take it like a man
Take it like a man
I can't

I don't understand
I don't understand
Please repeat whatever you just said
Nothin's makin' sense
Well, how'm I doin'?

Chorus

They're breakin' both my hands
They're breakin' both my hands
They're tellin' me to take it like a man
Take it like a man
Well fuck that

I don't understand
Said I don't understand
Said please repeat whatever you just said
Cause nothin's makin' sense
Well, how'm I doin'?

Chorus "

...So yeah, don't expect another list for a while because I can't really draw the inspiration to write about half of the songs in them when it finally gets to Friday. More importantly, I can't delve into why I like a lot of songs nowadays more than "good beat" or "lovely bass line".

I come from a poor family, we can't afford musical appreciation.

Catch up.

Today I had my interview to confirm my lesson choices for sixth form. Long story short, I'm in.

Seeing as this is some kind of life story thing, I'll tell you my results:

Maths: A
Science: A
English: C
English Literature: C
IT: C
Food Technology: C
Performing Arts: C(x2)
Religious Education: E

Also, I'll inform you of my musical tastes lately, the week before last my top songs were:

4. Murderland - I created a monster
3. Escape the Fate - Friends and Alibis
2.Chiodos - Is it progression if a cannibal uses a fork?
1. Chiodos - Lexington

And last week my top song was most definately Pessimist by Tat.

In the poker game you missed I came last (karolina took my out) but I later took over from James (he had to leave) to play for "the lads". I got my revenge on Karolina and just about got it even before the game was postponed until a few days later...The lads won (:

Crazy golf with friends standings:

1st: Emma - 67 strokes
2nd Me - 70 strokes
3rd Karolina - 73 strokes
4th Eleanor - can't remember
5th James - can't remember

Top golf and crazy golf with family:

top golf position: 3rd (out of 5)
Crazy golf position: 2nd - 63 points

And finally, on results day my glorious friends and I went bowling, here are the results:

Game 1:
1st: Eleanor (barriers)
2nd: Emma (barriers)
3rd: Karolina (barriers)
4th: James (no barriers)
5th: Me (no barriers)
6th: Tom (no barriers)

Game 2 (No barriers):
1st: James
2nd: Tom
3rd: Me
4th: Karolina
5th: Emma
6th: Eleanor

and we played a mini pool tourney:

Semi Finals:

Tom Black

Vs

James Ellwood

Winner:
Tom Black

Adam Batchelor
Vs
Emma Peters

Winner: Adam Batchelor

Final:

Tom Black
Vs
Adam Batchelor

Winner: Adam Batchelor ^.^

Now, do we feel up to date?

Top 5 Songs (Week Starting 03/08)

Has been a longgg week. Am glad to get these up (: Four of these are from my new warped tour album and the other is from another warped tour album, anyone who can guess without looking it up will get a prize (GUESS!). By the way, I've taken to putting my favourite favourite lines in bold :p

5. Let the Games Begin - Anarbor
This song came up pretty late in the week, which is why it's at the back. Is another of those cocky songs about people who think they can "get it", like my favourite song. Unlike my favourite song, this guy actually is getting it, even though the girl has a boyfriend :s (I have my suspicions about the guy in "the new black", my interperetation is that he just thinks he's cool, like me :p

Good Lyrics:
"It's a game, she's to blame
But who's keeping score?
I'm not in it to win
You can tell by my grin
That I've done this before
So let the games begin
Yeah, let the games begin "

4. We Both Know - Ivoryline
This was the first song I got hooked on from my new warped tour album, right from the first line. I was originally a bit iffy about the chorus, but I got into it quite quickly. not many lyrics because it was more about the attitude conveyed by the vocals and instruments :)

Good Lyrics:
"We both know you can't plan
Something as real as this
It takes more than plans to feel like this"

3. Pessimist - Tat
I love this song because it's so delightfully blunt. Probably one of the punkiest songs to hit my list in a long time. The lyrics are probably the best part of this song, so expect to read quite a few of them (:

Good Lyrics:
"A pessimist you can call me I'll be round,
To bring you down.
My friendship's overrated I've been crowned,
Queen for letting you down.
Give me your heart I'll give it back,
All battered and torn.
Cos' every silver lining has it's cloud,
Can I be yours?"

"[Chorus]
And I'll Sit on your face and say,I love you
And leave you the next day,
For someone who owes you,
And you...
Put you trust in me,
To discover no less than a twist in sobriety.
And when you need me the most,
I'll be pissed off my face or stoned and I'll be loving it.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
You can count on me,
Yeah."

"Here I am you prized and weighted catch,
I've been found faulty.
Just give me a chance I'll stab you in the back,
Please put your trust in me.
I am the itch you can't scratch,
Here try this dagger.
Put your trust in me,
Put your trust in me,
Put your trust in me,
Put your trust in me."

2. My Mannequin Can Dance - Matchbook Romance
This WAS the hot favourite for number one on my list. I started off this week in quite a spiteful mood before settling back into my better "holiday" mood. This song suited that mood very well, not because it's a spiteful song, just because some of the lines were exactly what I wanted to hear. Good lyrics, good tune, good song.

Good Lyrics:
"We're all eyes
And in my personal opinion
If we're not all you were hoping for
When you say my name
Say it like a curse"

"I saw your face in the magazine saying "I can't hear it"
All the girls all glittered and glossed
Screaming "we can feel you", can you feel me?
We'll die if we're not
In a corpse of conscience
Lie
These lies live a life
But don't lie to me"

"You're just chasing shadows
Show us some heart and confess your sins
We'll sing with arms closed
And you can tear us apart 'cause you won't break the skin

Just put on your face and..."

"I would love nothing more in the world
Than to watch you as you spill your guts. "

1. Two Birds Stoned at Once - Chiodos
Chiodos' third appearance on my list I believe. Quite impressive, because I only have three songs by them :) This song had me hooked from the start with some fairly epic violins, then unhooked me with some lovely screaming. I returned to the song a few days later and listened to it the entire way through, and it has some AMAZING lines. Chiodos always grab me with their songs because their style is like nothing else that I have. Awesome.

"so, here i am again.
both of my eyes so, open wide and gleaming.
blank stares, with races running only an inch behind.
sit back and watch the pavement get closer as it aims for your face.
as it aims for your face.

so step back, let me take over.
step back, let me take over.

can you hear the silhouettes?
the slim and dark figures.
rising like giants out of the shadows.
they're crawling out.
they're crawling out of our skin.

here i am again.
we build ourselves, where monsters used to hide.

so step back, let me take over.
so step back, let me take over.

and we're all whores, some of us just get paid.

oh, how we celebrate the mediocrity,
my feelings crawl the walls,
they crawl the walls, and finally fall,
they finally fall,
like empires and old loves.

can you hear the silhouettes?
the slim and dark figures,
rising like giants out of the shadows,
they're crawling out,
they're crawling out of our skin

(let me take over)
oh, how we celebrate the mediocrity
(let me take over)
oh, how we celebrate the mediocrity
(let me take over)
oh, how we celebrate the mediocrity
(let me take over)
oh, how we celebrate the mediocrity
(let me take over)"

Top 5 Songs! (Week Starting 01/06/09)

I'd just like to announce before I give you this week's list that I was wrong about You Me At Six, they haven't been top of my list twice, Save it for the bedroom came 3rd and 4th I think. This is possibly the closest list ever, 2,3 and 4 were practically inseparable :p

5. Foster - April Sixth

I've been listening to this song today because someone beat my score on it on audiosurf, I had a crack at reclaiming my throne earlier, my original score was about 61,000, this other score was 63,000. I was a bit sloppy originally because the only score on the list was roughly 4,000. I was ready, on my first run i picked up 66,000. But I didn't want it to stop there. There's an award the neither of us had picked up that adds 30% to your score, after about an hour, I had it and my score was 92,000. Beat that.

I like this song because it has emotive power, it talks about being a homeless child, and taking parents for granted, and it really gets to me.

Good Lyrics: "To all the rest who have a mother and father,
Who have given them a home and a name.
Would check before you walk away like you don't need them,
'Cause some of us would kill just to have them for a day."

"Cause I'm fine (fine).
Livin' in the back streets,
Holding on to all that's mine.
Home just hasn't yet arrived,
For me."

"And along the way in a different world
Of a different time of a different man
You would come into the better years
The best years of your life."

"Well,
We might lead in a different world of a different time (different time)
But all that matters is that I'm alive.
Yeah I'm alive."

4. A Letter From Janelle - Chiodos
Yes, that's right: Chiodos make their return to my list, with a song sent to me by Emily. This song is clearly about a guy who's in a relationship and knows he is being played. The chorus is really effective, I love it.


Good Lyrics: "move with me, move with me. move with me, move with me"

"[Chorus] Don't you think I could tell you were trying to
trying to make
a fool out of me
a fool out of me

Don't you think I could tell you were trying to
trying to make
a fool out of me
a fool out of me"

=2. Remember to Feel Real - Armor For Sleep

Yupp, it's official. This is the first time that there's been a joint number of any kind on my fantastic list. These two songs were just too good to be seperated. I've been listening to this a lot in the past week as an attempt to inspire a verse in my latest set of lyrics. Apparently, it's about a guy considering his life after he's died, and how everyone was different around him. I don't care, have some lyrics :p

Good Lyics: "Waste all your time with me
I know I'm a mess right now
Don't give up in me
I'd wait it out for you
Waste all your time with me
I know I'm a mess right now
Don't give up in me
I'd wait it out for you"

=2. Everchanging (Acoustic) - Rise Against

Why not the original? Because this is better. It's slower, and the guitar doesn't fight the vocals. Because of the guitar just giving a tune instead of trying to impress people, the lyrics come through a lot stronger, and hit you harder. It's about a relationship between a guy and a girl that's been going on for a long time, then suddenly the girl isn't sure and the guy leaves before the girl breaks up with him.

Good Lyrics:"in the face of change
is 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

have you ever felt the weight inside you
pulling away inside your skin?
and then something had to give

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

"now something has kept me here too long and you can't leave me if i'm already gone"

"make the same mistakes we're always hanging onbreak the promises we're always leaning onall this time spent waking up"

"now something has kept me here too long and now i'm gone... "

1. Come Right Out and Say It - Relient K

Yes, this is officially the first band to top my list twice! and within three weeks too! I'm so exited :p It came on earlier this week and I've been searching through all my Relient K songs since. But here it is. I can't find any explaination of this song on my lyrics site, so I'm gonna have a crack at it: It's about a girl who deoesn't talk straight and is just vague. Probably about her feelings for him, and he asks her to just "come right out and say it", even if he doesn't like the answer. How's that?

"I better rest my eyes, 'cause I'm growing weary of this point you've been trying to make
So rather than imply, why don't you just verbalize all the things that you're trying to say?
Thought this would turn out so well
But I'm beginning to see that instead, It's trouble
Into a pattern we fell,
Of prolonging the inevitable

Why don't you come right out and say it?
Even if the words are probably gonna hurt,
I'd rather have the truth than something insincere
Why don't you come right out and say it? (Come right out and say it)
What it is you're thinking, though I'm thinking it's not what I wanna hear

I better check my pride, because I was starting to think that I was onto something good
But things started to slide and I sit here in retrospect, understanding that I misunderstoodT
hought I could make up your mind
You had a decision locked up so tight, it couldn't be touched
Thought you were being so kind
By keeping your mouth sealed shut, rather than just opening it up

Why don't you come right out and say it?
Even if the words are probably gonna hurt,
I'd rather have the truth than something insincere
Why don't you come right out and say it? (Come right out and say it)
What it is you're thinking, though I'm thinking it's not what I wanna hear

And I'll try to guess what goes on in your head
'Cause in your mind, I just might find all those things you left unsaid
And I'll try to make you not regret anything
But later on, after I'm gone,
You'll wish that you had listened to me
Had listened to me

Why don't you come right out and say it?
Even if the words are gonna hurt, we're better off this way
Why don't you come right out and say, come right out and say
What I know you're thinking anyway

Why don't you come right out and say it?
Even if the words are probably gonna hurt,
I'd rather have the truth than something insincere
Why don't you come right out and say it? (Come right out and say it)
What it is you're thinking,
oh, what is it you're thinking?

Why don't you?
What if is you're thinking, though I'm thinking it's not what I wanna hear"

Top Five Songs (Week Starting 13/04)

Ok, I'm gonna be doing this every friday, the songs that I've been into most this week. I'm gonna count down from five to one, and write a little about each song along the way. So here goes, the very first top five songs!

5.Chiodos - The words "best friend" become redefined

I like this song because it varies, starts heavy, goes light, nice piano tune, gets heavy again, and unlike lots of songs like this, it balances!

Good lyrics: "Let me embrace you with this kiss, and together we'll float like angels"
"If your stomach feels weak then my work here is done"

4.The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Cat and mouse

I was listening to this song all the time at the start of the week. I just love the piano tune that goes the whole way through, it adds so much depth to the song.

Good lyrics: "You said, you said that you would die for me, you must live for me too"

3. A Change Of Pace - Weekend Warriors

A latecomer to my week, only been listening to it today and yesterday, it's got such a happy theme to it and that's all amplified by the chorus. It kept me in a really happy mood.

Good lyrics: "[chorus] This can't last forever, raise a glass together, doesn't get much better,
no better than this"

2. You Me At Six - Save it for the bedroom

It's just awesome, no one can deny it, and they're brits! I think the way the chorus is structured really gives off some feeling and the lyrics are amazinggg.

Good lyrics: "Keep your hands to yourself, you know these lips belong to someone else"
"So who's keeping score, on who is a whore, with you by my side, that look in
your eye"
"Save it for, save it for the bedroom, save it for, save it for the bedroom"

1. Escape the Fate - Situations

I think I have actually fallen in love with this song. I get an adrenaline rush like, every time i hear it. The way it's strucutred is so awesome, it's hard to find a song structured or delivered better. I love it so much, that all of the lyrics are my favourite, and I'm gonna post the entire song.

Good lyrics: "Situations, are irrelevant now,
She loves the way that I tease,
I love the way that she breathes

I touched her (ooh),
She touched my (ahhh),
It was the craziest thing,

I love the girls who hate to love because they're just like me,
A certain girl she took my hand and ran it up her thigh,
She licked her lips and pulled my hair I fall in love for a night

She can't behave, and I'm just a slave,
Don’t worry, I'll be gone when the morning comes

Darling, what is going on?
Honestly, that never happened, lying is your favorite passion,
Leave me, go where you belong,
Higher heels and lipstick napkins, dying is your latest fashion

The frustration, it's a regular thing,
I hate the ones who love to hate because they're just like me,
A certain girl she took her hand and put in my lap,
"It's way too full" she said, "Once you have me you'll always come back"

She can't behave, and I'm just a slave,
Don’t worry, I'll be gone when the morning comes

Darling, what is going on?
Honestly, that never happened, lying is your favorite passion,
Leave me, go where you belong,
Higher heels and lipstick napkins, dying is your latest fashion

I know you love to resist,
And all it takes is a kiss,
And you just love to hate me.

You know you love all the lies,
So don't act surprised,
That I just love to hate you.

I kissed your lips,
You pulled my hair,
It was the craziest thing.

I love the girls who love to hate.

(Whoa) Darling, what is going on?
Honestly, that never happened, lying is your favorite passion,
Leave me, go where you belong,
Higher heels and lipstick napkins, dying is your latest fashion

Darling (leave me) what is going on?
Honestly that never happened Lying is your favorite passion,
Leave me (darling), go where you belong,
Higher heels and lipstick napkins, dying is your favorite passion."

If you're interested in what I listen to at all, contact me and I'll send you these tracks (: