it's one of those songs...

[Grace]

do you know that feeling?

it's a bit complicated to explain and again it's a bit random, but do you know those songs that just randomly come on the radio while you're driving home from school/work and you feel like... the singer's talking directly to you?
what i'm trying to point out is that one suddenly realises how fucked up everything is. that one had a horrible day and just fought through it to get home and leave the world outside.
i know i've just expressed myself like a total loon, but i do not know how to put that feeling in words.

well, let's say... the whole day was just a huge rush and then at the end of the day you've got a few minutes for yourself and you realise things that happened, which you just couldn't see before because the day was so hectic and exhausting.

that often happens to me when i'm in the bathroom after a long day. i sit there listening to the radio and then random songs come on and they take me down. it's like ... smoking a cigarette - the healthier way. i look in the mirror and think to myself,"man, what am i doing? what is this all good for?"

three of that kind of songs that pop into my mind right away are Radiohead's "High And Dry", Azure Ray's "Sleep" and Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars".


oh fuck.
i cannot believe i just wrote so many paragraphs without actually expressing anything. :\

[Starlight]

In My Place is one of those for me.

It's my life in song.

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

i think i know exactly what you're talking about, grace.

but i seem to have the opposite happen more often: i hear a song in the morning, soon after i get up, and it tends to define the sort of day i'm going to have. sometimes it's really creepy how well my day fit the song i woke up to or heard very soon after getting up when i consider it that night.

[Briggins]

High and Dry has that crazy ability. I love the song. But sometimes I listen to it and I just kind of long for something or someone and really miss somebody.

[Space Cadet]

Yep, know exactly what you mean. I think it's universal. Unless you never listen to music at all... but even then it can be something someone says or a poem or something.

[yamfox]

X&Y (the song) did that to me when my copy of X&Y got broken in the car and all the sudden on the same day I turn on the radio and I hear "When something is broken and you try to fix it trying to repair it any way you can"I was sure that Chris was summoning a curse on me to try to make buy a new copy, and I ended up obeying. :dozey:

[Marisa]

One of those songs for me is "Kathy with a K's Song" by Bright Eyes. Absolutely mind boggling how thought provoking it is. "Tourist Trap" and "Smoke Without Fire" as well. Oh you know Grace! I got love for Mr. Oberst. :kiss:

[StephenG]

Yeah, mostly things by Radiohead, they work so well walking to college alone.

[thinker]

Efterklang - Step Aside


The song of my life.



www.myspace.com/efterklang

[Gitta Rensolo]

Bittersweet symphony


my song


definitely

it's funny how often they play it on the radio in the morning when my radio alarm turns on....and then I get pain in my stomach because I love it so much...

[Grace]

^ oh my, julia.
that's my a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e favourite, too! :nice:
i don't think there will ever be any song as good as this one.
it's perfect.
flawless.

[Fixed]

Yeah Bitter Sweet Symphony is a good call, that's my lifestory too pretty much.

Another Verve tune is as well, The Drugs Don't Work - watching someone taking drugs and medication that's supposed to help them and make them feel better, but realising that it's not helping them at all and that they're dying infront of you, that's heartbreaking, and Richard Ashcroft somehow managed to channel all of that emotion into one of the best songs ever written. Amazing. And the line, "All this talk of getting old, it's getting me down..." - really sums up the way I'm feeling. My my how depressing :P

[bart]

Muse Knights of cydlondia do that for me.....

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

bittersweet symphony is up there for me as well, but the one that gets me without question is "wonderwall." i can't even put into words how that song makes me feel, but every time i hear it i just have to stop what i'm doing and close my eyes. it can fit a perfect day so well (and it has for me, one day in particular), or it can be great for a blah day as well. but that opening guitar-strum gets me like no other song out there can.

[Grace]

i've gotta add "Beautiful Day" to the list.
i know i'm a bit too cheesy, but i want this song to be played at my funeral.
because... it might be a horrible, horrible day for oneself (well, it is my funeral. :dozey:), but somewhere else - at the other side of the world - there's certainly someone who just had the best day of their life.

what i wanna point out is that no matter how horrible we consider something might be there's still happiness and love somewhere else.

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

beautiful day is a good one too, but it has a bit of a special, sad meaning for me. i know exactly what you mean about it!

[Josh42]

Great thread, I get this feeling all the time.

And the thing about waking up to a certain song and how it affects your day/mood-I always set my alarm to a song that I WANT to define my day, it gives me a good mood and I think about the song all day. Days SUCK when I forget to plug in my iPod and I wake up to a big loud buzzing. :)

[Dorian™]

X&Y (the song) did that to me when my copy of X&Y got broken in the car and all the sudden on the same day I turn on the radio and I hear "I was sure that Chris was summoning a curse on me to try to make buy a new copy, and I ended up obeying. :dozey:


:laugh:

irony.


How did that come on the radio anyway?
it wasn't even released as a single :thinking:

[BostonSportsTD]

yes i know this feeling all too well...

amsterdam can penetrate me in my lowest moments like no other song... that was a weird choice of words but its just what it does to me. i also agree with beautiful day and i'd add karma police.

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

Great thread, I get this feeling all the time.

And the thing about waking up to a certain song and how it affects your day/mood-I always set my alarm to a song that I WANT to define my day, it gives me a good mood and I think about the song all day. Days SUCK when I forget to plug in my iPod and I wake up to a big loud buzzing. :)

i know exactly what you mean. but i like being surprised by which song i wake up to, so i've got a big long playlist of good songs to wake up to (NOT songs like "fix you" or quiet ones!) and it randomizes it for me. that's why i'm particularly surprised when the song i wake up to defines my day, because it was selected by that algorithm that randomizes your ipod and not anything else!