As I was driving to work the other day I heard “Babylon” by David Gray and realized that I could hear that song a million times and I wouldn’t get sick of it. That caused me to reflect on the few songs I felt that way about. Songs where no matter when you came upon them, like an old friend, you would be glad to have them in your world.
Thus, I give you my “comfy as old jeans” songs list. Feel free to add yours on the comment section (even if it’s just one).
My (always being added to) list of comfy songs:
If anyone can guess the singer of this song, I will donate some money to the “you really need a life” foundation. (haha) It’s one of my all time favorite songs I re-discovered recently.
“Once we were lovers and now we’re not even friends. It was good to have you near me for awhile. When we made each other happy and we made each other smile.
And the worst part is that knowing that my castle in the sky fell apart and it’s too late to build it up … too late to try. You took every dream I planned on, every dream that tried to stay. Seems I always think about you most of all on a rainy day.”
I think some lines of songs are like poems. For example, this line from “Wish you were here” by Incubus is, IMO, just a beautiful visual: “The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket …”
From Vertical Horizon “Everything you want” is this line I like: ” … under skinned knees and skid marks …” (I like the “sk” alliteration there)
“Wanna put my tender heart in a blender, watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion … rendevous then I’m through with you … Eve6 “Inside out”
Anyway, just some nifty phrases there. Hope you all have a good weekend.
Love and light go out to my dawg Dave who lost his grandmother suddenly today. Big hugs to you, Davey.
TGIF y’all!
I’ve got to agree. I got burned out on a lot of bands for exactly that reason. However, there are a few Tori Amos songs that I would have a hard time getting sick of [‘Space Dog’ springs immediately to mind], and as overplayed as the Pumpkins’ ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ was when the single came out, that’s another one I can’t resist cranking up on the radio, even though I’ve worn out the tape and am gradually wearing out the CD. Same goes for ‘King of Pain’ and anything off Synchronicity, though not as strongly. And Metallica’s ‘One.’ I better shut up before I go through my whole CD collection. have a good monday :) ez
I’ve found that almost any song I can get sick of, eventually. For example I love Simon and Garfunkel but I simply can’t listen to it anymore … however good too much repetition makes it not so much not good as tiresome. The key is to go away from the song for a long period of time and then come back to it so it feel reasonably fresh again.
I know you don’t do classical music as a rule but I would agree that Beethoven’s Ninth is probably the best piece of music ever written. But I can’t listen to it more than about once a year because if I do I know it won’t be as special. It will always be top of the musical heap but for me to appreciate it as such I must distance myself from it.