Music and Explanations

This is my last night to stay up late. But not really.

I figure I'll go over the first 10 of my TOP 25 tonight and save my complaining for later in the week. I know I'm going to be angry and what-not when I find out which of my profs suck.

I Might Be Wrong led me to buying my first Radiohead CD. I liked their previous songs, but I never bought their CDs. I heard this song on the radio and that was it. I like all of Amnesiac, so it was a good buy. I know I was in high school at the time. If you know me right now, but you didn't know me in high school, you missed out. Imagine myself turned up to 11. Either way, Amnesiac stayed in my CD player for a long time.

Orestes is just one of those songs that I could listen to for an hour straight. The song feels like a play with 3 acts. The setting is established, the mood is set, and the climax solves it all. Even if the lyrics suggest one thing, the tone presents a different idea. This was also played a ton during my high school years.

I didn't hear How To Disappear Completely until I was a freshman in college. I was very late on this song. It's calm, it's quiet, and it's straightforward. That's me. My freshman year was full of pressure and stress. I wanted to disappear. That's how I became attached to this song. Not to mention the various intruments working together to build a landscape. I imagine being in the center of a snow-covered forest.

Oh, this song is definitely about the woman I'll marry, should that happen. Breña is the 2nd to last track on Mer De Noms. This placing meant that if the CD kept me awake at night, this is the last song that would be stuck in my head. I fell asleep so many times to the last minute or so of this song. The main parts and the chorus mirror each other, and the song fades out with a gentle guitar solo. Greatness.

Lucky describes me too well. "Pull me out of the air crash...'Cause I'm your superhero..." I guess this is another song that talks about that one person you would do anything for. You know, the whole martyr complex thing.

Street Spirit (Fade Out) was another song I didn't hear until college. Again, my freshman year. It actually goes hand in hand with How To Disappear Completely. "Fade out again." And I like the guitar melody.

Just another song that describes me. Go With the Flow. I do what it takes to not cause a scene. I avoid arguments all of the time. I'd rather concede and move on. My group wants to go somewhere? Cool. I'll go.

Listen to this song, and you'll understand. How I Made My Millions isn't about money. It's about the person who completes you. The piano is smooth and the vocals are sincere. You can't do any better than that. Would be at the top if the recording were better.

I don't know if enough people understand just how creative A Perfect Circle is. Weak and Powerless is often interpreted as a drug addicts' problem. I hear the problems of being addicted to anything, drug or other. It can be addicted to a person, place, or and idea. I guess for me it would be an idea.

If you listen to the Amnesiac version, and then the live version, it's like hearing 2 completely different songs. The words are the same, but everything else is changed. Like Spinning Plates is great both ways. And hearing the crowd roar behind the song only makes it better.

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