#songdump

02/22/2022 19:35

more than you know - Motherfolk

“doesn’t matter in the morning I wake up feeling the same”

“oh this evil’s taken hold of the best parts of everything”

goodnight chicago - RKS

“eighteen made you callous to the kisses that you gave/ a coarse exchange, a cause for blame, and I stood out in the rain/ you killed a man there, and I cried, but the rain masked the hurt behind your face/ by the way dear, we’re alive, and it hurts cause we survived it”

“goodbye love, and good luck in life, and goodnight Chicago, die with a smile/ you’d have loved her, loved her, but you won’t, you don’t know, no no no no no no/ don’t shut down on me now, don’t shut down on me”

“I killed a man to make you love me”

american hero - RKS

“my god, do you even know my name? are you changing up your mind over changes I never made for you? we are no more than we’ll ever be/ with heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe”

“I would do anything for you to love me”

“if you really don’t mind, take me as I am/ take me as I am, when you get a chance/ take your time, I understand, believe me when I say I carry all my sins”

“I’ll leave, if and when you want me to/ when and if I’ve haunted you, and if I miss you when you do not/ real talk, do you read f*ck-up in my walk?/ do you see f*ck-up on my face? do I mean anything at all”

“don’t say you love me if you do got nothing else to say to me when heaven is a dream and reality is fictional! fictional! Constantine and every host of christendom/ what carried them, buried them, with every last one of us”

michigan - Ed Prosek

“a hundred miles to Michigan/ oh, I’ve been staring at this broken road, I never thought would end”

“when redemption finds me, I’ll abide, but no matter how far I have fallen, you have never left my side”

“ooh/ you’ll never understand,/ you deserve so much better than me.”

“cause she’s a rambling soul, and I’ve been here before. she don’t know who I am. so I lie about my past, cause nothing ever lasts. I wish I was a better man.”

“and I won’t take another step, unless you’re standing here with me.”

1957 - Milo Greene

“it takes me away, takes me away, takes me away”

“you act like you don’t know me. my god, you tempt my anxious mind.”

“would it be much better if I knew nothing about you”

“I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go I…”

east chicago, IN - Michigander

“I hope that you found somebody to love you/ someone who lives in the same world that you do”

“but if you ever wanted to leave there, just know that I’ll be standing right here. so you can come on back to me. come on back to me”

“I’m driving home all the way from Chicago/ falling asleep as I pass through the time-zones/ so tell me what song am I/ cause I don’t like being blind-sided by you”

“it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter where I am. you know that I’ve got you… you’re all the rain and all the snow, it doesn’t matter where you go, you know that I’ve got you, you know that I’ve got you.”

all that and more - RKS

“my gal is a good one tells me she’s mine, wish I was better lookin, baby don’t mind. my gal is a good one tells me she’s mine”

“all I ever wanted was to make you happy, give you the truth. anything to make you love me any more than you do.”

“but you’re in my head, when we were in your bed. you said, you said, ‘yeah I’m so f*cking sorry for this.’ Lord knows if she goes, she’s gone! say you don’t mean that..”

“my baby’s a sailboat captain at sea, we don’t give a d*mn we do as we please, my baby’s a sailboat captain at sea.”

caves - Noah Kahan

“we’ve been running in place, whole year’s been one of those days. I know we’re close to an edge. I know we’re close to an edge. oh, I don’t wanna be blamed, I know you hate to cause to pain, I hope the silence will end”

“oh, and we hold onto this for whatever reason. oh, and we’re too far to fix it up”

“I wanna break this to you honestly: I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid. I’m afraid, I’m afraid, I’m afraid.”

“I know you’re ready to move on from me, but you stay, and you stay, and you stay. and we wait, and we wait til one of us caves.”

“long game but none of us win. afraid of shedding our skin. we keep on playing pretend. this fear’s a rope on our wrists. these years of life that we’ve missed. building a case in our heads.”

peanut butter waffles - Ryan Caraveo

“I’m always singing ‘bout my fickle feelings cause there ain’t no antidote. laying here in silence cause I cannot find the d*mn remote. even if I found it, I would probably just flip, flip, and flip. in the midst of August getting started on my Christmas list”

“I’ve been thinking bout you and I wanna go do something nice. I can’t take rejection and that’s why I pay the crazy price. if you ain’t ecstatic, I feel like I blew it big time. I’m a little manic, I just wanna see your big smile”

“nothing means more to me than when I hear that you’re proud of me”

“I know, there’s no in between, it’s either: high, low. you know how to balance, but I don’t. I wish I could finally just find home.”

oh ms. believer - TØP

“oh, Ms. Believer, my pretty sleeper. your twisted mind is like snow on the road. your shaking shoulders prove that it’s colder, inside your head, than the winter of death.”

“I will tell you, I love you. but the muffs on your ears will cater your fears. my nose and feet are running as we start to travel through snow. together we go”

“we get colder, as we grow older. we will walk, so much slower.”

“please take my hand, we’re in foreign land.”

shameful company - RKS

“was I born a stone, heavy to hold and cold in the hands that you left me to warm in the sun? was I born alone, or have I recently developed a propensity to push people away? am I okay with that?”

“take it any way you want to, she lit a fire in your head, standing with a flower in her hair, and alcohol plus information often makes it, complicated.”

“so you’ll hate me, make love, lately I’ve spend my days in daydreams waking you, me, saving every heartbeat, word, line that you ever gave to me, cause fair is a weather condition.”

“if you’re cold, go inside.. if you’re tired, go to sleep.. if you’re weak, come to me.. and find shameful company.”

Well, by the time I got round to writing this, it was actually closer to 8am, but such details are trifling when there's the chance to use a song title for a blog post that nobody will read... Anyway, time for another songdump, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBkO1LAlhI

Low - Especially Me

Ye gods, this is beautiful, in a really haunting way. Brooding, lamenting, 6/8 time (I think), so utterly spellbinding that I can't really form coherent sentences about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctDqQmr0v8

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Another slow, brooding song for dim-lit rooms in the middle of the night. It's Mazzy Star's biggest hit (well, I couldn't name another), and rightly so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QY3bxWX5Ik

Diagrams - Tall Buildings

Really, 'Black Light' is the song I'm obsessed with at the moment, but I already posted that, so here's another of my favourites from the album. It skips along, all angular and breathy vocals and handclaps. 'Tall Buildings' is a good name for it- the music puts me in mind of effortless hopping over rooftops, not that I've ever done that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTt79FZYwsI

Nine Inch Nails - Sunspots

I'm not a goth anymore, but have never got over my love for Trent Reznor. Though I find most of his lyrics faintly embarrassing, he has a knack for building incredible soundscapes. This, however, is just a catchy electronic/rock/I don't even know song, and one that seems to be rather overlooked on 2004's With Teeth (or was it 2005? I don't know, it was back in the days when I used to read Kerrang). I think I only really like this for that chorus. And the "Nothing can stop me now" - the album has so many references to The Downward Spiral. Although I've always liked Pretty Hate Machine the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU-nKvs-i_Q

Dark Dark Dark - Wild Goose Chase

I really, really like Dark Dark Dark. I think I like this song even more than The Hand, which I posted the other day. And I think this was used in the new episode of Skins? Which, by the way, I thought was rather a mediocre series opener, but I'm going to keep watching Skins til it finishes, because it is soundtracked better than ANY other TV show in recent years. The perfect mix of obscure, upcoming, and famous bands, each song handpicked to fit the personality of the character focused on in each episode. More than being cool, it...well, it shows the love that goes into the production of the show, and I think it's just wonderful that people care about what they're creating that much. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgiD6DLsmIY

Dennis Wilson - Dreamer

That bass, those horns, this is dark and sexy and funky and not much like the Beach Boys. There's a review of Pacific Ocean Blue, the album this is from, in this week's TCS, so I thought I'd give it a listen. I'll say one more time, THOSE HORNS. This is sex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583_nEvuRvw

Belle & Sebastian - Seeing Other People

If You're Feeling Sinister overtook The Boy With The Arab Strap as my favourite B&S album quite suddenly, some months ago. I'm just far more likely to listen to it all the way through without skipping any tracks, which I don't do with many records. Me & the Major is in my top 5 B&S songs ever (along with, and this isn't necessarily the definitive list, White Collar Boy, The Boy With the Arab Strap, Dress Up In You, aaaand Step Into My Office Baby, although the last one is mainly for the video). Anyway, the piano from this one has been going around my head for weeks now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjpbjCH5L0

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945

Frankly, if you aren't in love with In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, I don't think we can be friends. Fourteen years on, and barely anything can top it. I'm pretty sad that I can't afford to go to All Tomorrow's Parties, curated by Jeff Mangum. JEFF MANGUM, THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, JOANNA NEWSOM, THE FALL, A HAWK AND A HACKSAW AND ABOUT A MILLION OTHER BRILLIANT BANDS AND OH GOD IT'S AT BUTLINS. But I haven't got £170 to spare  :/

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLsvAxrdQeQ

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

The bizarre pronunciation of the first sentence of this song always made me sit up, because I thought he was saying my name. I love this album. I listened to it early one summer's morning, lying on the floor in his old college at Cambridge, alone while my friends went to, er, graduate, and I was pretty damn contented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJkQ55EQMo

Beth Jeans Houghton - Dodecahedron

So I hear she's going out with that crap guy from that crap overrated band. Who gives a fuck when she has a voice this lovely and such interesting songs? I'm going to sound like such a wanker when I say I've liked her since her 2009 Hot Toast EP, which I stumbled across quite by accident (it's not often I'm cool enough to like someone before they were famous/started fucking old rockers).